Easyfone Prime-A6 4G Unlocked Feature Cell Phone, Easy-to-Use Clear Sound GSM Dumbphone with an Easy Charging Dock

Phone works great. I used a Tello SIM card with no problems. Love the charging station.

Well, EASYFONE isn't exactly accurate. I spent many hours trying to activate this phone. I had the miniscule nano sim card that is required, and it is just that: miniscule. Make that VERY miniscule? I must have dropped it 10 times. The instructions say to "insert it" and show a diagram of WHERE, but they don't say HOW. To anyone who is as ignorant as I am about such things, please stick something sharp and thin down in that metal "pocket" where the nano card goes, and lift it slightly, or like me, you'll struggle getting it inserted! I kept just laying it on top of that pocket, because it looked like that was where it went in the diagram. I'd put the back on and then discover that was WRONG. I defy you to remove that back 5 or 6 times like I had to, and have any thumbnails left. I finally wised up (?) and used a dull knife to slide in between the front and back to open it, and there were little pieces of the plastic all over the counter from cutting pieces when trying to prize it loose all those times.The phone is NOT easy to use, once you get it activated, (activating it is another whole ballgame, btw. That was fun... NOT!) I've spent hours trying to discover just how to make a call and type a text on the thing. Still not sure how either of those is done. I will say, the sound seems to be good and even with my hearing aids, easily heard.I use a p.c. and an iPad for hours every day, and have no problems with either. This phone is a very confusing, strange piece of technology, but I had to have it for certain tasks after my old cellphone became obsolete. It did everything, and never a problem till I couldn't use it anymore.Edit: I'm finally fed up with this NOT Easyfone, and am returning it. It wouldn't make even a simple call without problems--like letting Walmart know I was there to pick up my grocery order. Simply refused. Final straw was when I placed a call to a friend, and she said I sounded like I was underwater--and so did SHE! Then a few seconds later, the phone cut out completely and she had to call me back on my landline. Maybe it was just this phone or perhaps me, but I can't recommend this Easyfone. It's a piece of very poor, outdated technology--and seems to be a lot like the old Blackberry. 🙁

I found setting up this phone was not much of a challenge. It works with standard (Post Paid) SIM cards. My carrier is T-Mobile and operates perfectly. I purchased this phone for a senior relative and it shouldn't be much of challenge to make and receive calls on this device. The display is easy to read when dialing phone numbers. I pre-programmed several functions (i.e. Bluetooth and Contact Names/Numbers) that I feel is immediately useful. Internet access can be setup if that is the desire; however, you may find 3G a little slower than a common smart phone. Text messaging is available; however, you will have to master the number key input to accomplish this. I bought this phone simply for making and receiving calls. The Bluetooth function connects to any device with this technology (i.e. Telephone Handsets, Equipped Vehicles, Audio Equipment, etc.). I'm completely satisfied at this point and find this phone quite functional and easy to use for most seniors. UPDATE: The battery has a very short charge life. I called Amazon Customer Service and they immediately sent a replacement battery. This should resolve the issue and really appreciate their assistance in resolving my battery concerns.

Easyfone's functionally is unique because it combines the the old school functionality of a feature phone with some features to make it make it modern like 4g LTE, micro SD card and Bluetooth. This feature phone has no internet capabilities which is one of the special securities. But it could still get minor hacks through the SS7 Protocol Phone System like screen hacks and a shutdown the phone hack will turn into either a shutdown the mic hack or shut down the speaker or disrupts the speaker but for smartphones it just shut it down and the only way to override that is to get pair of wired earbuds with a mic to put it in the 3.5 mm jack. To help keep these minor hacks down you can when have too shut it down immediately which also reduces the chance of an illegal program from getting a trace. A feature phone can be turned off with the SIM card in it versus the smartphone. Because the smartphone has to be shut down and the SIM card is be taken out because it's standby mode it's still actually gets power .Bluetooth does work on the this phone but if you turn it on it can compromise the feature phone. Granted it has different Operating System than IOS or Android. It's Operating System is called an Interface. The feature phone will work with different GSM cellular SIM cards. The catch is to prevent cellular phone account erasings by not accepting cellphone providers app because that puts your phone account online to be erased. Only certain cellphone providers like AT&T (GSM) have two authentication to keep this from happening. Verizon wireless has three authentications but they're CDMA which won't work on this feature phone. The texting is still very old school , it's not like a smartphone. I wish I could find either a wireless keyboard or USB wired keyboard to override that to make it easier but I haven't been able find one yet that's compatible. It can send receive text including receiving picture text but it's very small you can only see it with a really times 10 powered magnifying glass or if you have a computer hook it up to a computer to go through its files. It does have a micro SD slot I haven't checked that one out. Also once in awhile they'll be a light clear screen saying it can't find files on the side of the screen All you have to do is pop one into the battery out and then put it back in and then it'll actually function again. That doesn't happen a lot. Yeah you can set up ring and vibrate but some of these phones once in a while it might be touchy and you'll be wondering why it won't ring you got to look for the icon if there's a speaker with a slash through it and then go in there and turn it back on with that occurs. It does have alarm clock alarm clock settings and they do work. It does have a phone book that you can put contacts into. You could read missed calls through the green phone icon. Certain types of metal siding buildings prevents you from making calls in, you have to go outside the building to get a signal. If you make a phone call and for some reason it says, "You're unable to make calls to this phone number." just hang up and just redial again and it'll just make the call so long it's not international. The FM radio does work. It just has to do a search and it just starts working or preset FM radio channels to be saved. There's an option to play in background and you can manually search channels also. It does have an SOS feature for elderly people. people. It has a future called human voice which reads out phone numbers to you. Now if you don't want that playing to so people here phone numbers make sure it's shut off. And settings you can always reset the date and time and settings, set language, set sound settings, display settings, call settings and it has a setting for network settings and security settings. Overall for for basic functionality it does work but it can protect you long enough till you can get portable internet and a portable internet phone number from Vonage if your smartphone you doesn't have Wi-Fi calling. Vonage does have a two authentication process to log in to its app to prevent account erasings. But but some smartphones have to wait for an update and who knows when the update will come. If you have Wi-Fi calling as a feature built into your smartphone phone then you can go to Ooma home Wi-Fi and get an app and have home Wi-Fi with with Wi-Fi calling. It's about abandoning the cellular providers SIM card because it has a lot of vulnerabilities and going to portable internet which you only have a data only SIM card which drops the the SS7 protocol system keeps the SS7 protocol attacks from happening.

Only two complaints.1. the FM radio has terrible reception. Tried multiple wired ear buds to no avail. I carry a pocket sangean radio on walks when I want to listen to local radio. Didn't really want to do that.2. the SOS (911 auto dialer) button keeps getting triggered in my pocket. There is no apparent way to disable this. Have come very close to dousing the entire button in superglue in hopes of disabling this. Will prolly just buy a different phone.