Featuring the new ClearVision display, the Motorola FONE F3 leverages revolutionary Electrophoretic Display (EPD) technology to provide users with a large, high-contrast screen that is viewable even in bright sunlight. Designed for even the newest phone users, the FONE F3 is equipped with a newly redesigned user interface that is easy to learn, easy to use. With voice prompt instructions in local languages, a large readable font size and an icon-based menu, the handset is self-explanatory at every step. For pre-paid customers, the FONE F3 automatically reports the status of their pre-paid account after each call or message, allowing consumers to stay in control of use and expense. The FONE F3 includes the features every user wants such as polyphonic ringtones, speakerphone and long-lasting battery life. Duel Antenna: internal Alarm Clock Speaker Phone High Contrast ClearvisionTM Display Dedicated phone book key Single jack for power and headset Talktime: up to approximately 500 minutes Bands: 850/1900 Standby Time: up to approximately 300 hours
Combining Motorola's sleek design sensibility with intuitive and easy-to-learn functionality, the nicely affordable Motofone F3 slides easily into your pocket. Functional and fashionable, the Motofone F3 is designed to keep you in close communication with your friends, family, and business associates via voice and text messaging. It features dual-band GSM connectivity (850/1900 MHz), speakerphone, a clock with integrated alarm, and up to 500 minutes (over 8 hours) of talk time as well as up to 300 hours of standby (over 12 days). This unlocked cell phone does not come with a SIM card, and it requires that you provide a SIM card for usage with your selected service provider.
The super-slim Motofone F3 features a unique electronic ink display with large, easily readable characters.
Phone Features This candybar-style phone measures just 0.35 inches (9mm) thin, and it has a unique Motorola ClearVision display that helps to increase the battery life of the phone. The changeable electronic ink display (electrophoretic imaging film) is easy to read in bright sunlight or dimly lit environments from virtually any angle--just like paper. Additionally, the display is plastic, lightweight and ultra-low power, making it ideal for mobile and power sensitive applications by eliminating the weight and breakability of glass used in LCD displays.
The text display contains only two lines of six characters each, and it shows a digital clock when there's no activity. Combined with a flush-fitting keypad and dust-resistant design, the Motofone F3 is especially durable in active everyday use.
The Motofone F3 offers a redesigned user interface with voice prompts to guide the you quickly and easily through menu navigation, messaging, and other functions. In addition, graphical icons visually demonstrate the menu features as well as network status and battery strength. For pre-paid customers, the Motofone F3 automatically reports the status of your pre-paid account after each call or message.
This phone allows you to store contacts only on the SIM card (for 250 entries), and it provides a view of the last 20 dialed/received/missed calls. The layout of the numeric keypad resembles Motorola's SLVR phones, and it includes a large navigation pad as well as send/end keys and two soft keys. Above the display are bars showing signal strength and battery life. Other features include:
High-volume for call clarity in loud environments
Embedded polyphonic ringtones in eight voices
Ability to download ringtones
Silent vibration mode
Speakerphone
Vital Statistics The Motofone F3 weighs 2.4 ounces and measures 4.5 x 1.85 x 0.35 inches. Its 750 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 500 minutes of talk time, and up to 500 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 GSM frequencies.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
80% great for me, minus 20% for limited text display:
I really like this phone for its price, sound quality, style, battery life, clear display and signal strength. The only drawback for me is the limited text display. Reading contact info and text messages takes a lot of scrolling, it has a one-line display, sometimes showing only six characters at a time. Skip it if you do a lot of text messaging. Can you give your contacts short names, like "JohnSM" instead of "John Smith"? If you can live with that limitation, this is a real bargain.more info
Do not buy it!!!!:
It is not really unlocked. At least for my order. I brought this one to T-mobil, ATT and Sprint storys, the sales said this one is not unlocked at all. Can not find the seller and any contact information. Too bad, waste $40.Motorola Motofone F3 Unlocked Cell Phone--International Version with No Warranty (Black)
NOT AS ADVERTISED: Locked to TIGO, interface in Spanish only, could not be reset or unlocked by Motorola or Amazon techs:
I was very disappointed, and returned the product. My F3 was delivered locked to TIGO, and set in the Spanish interface mode. It was not unlocked, as claimed in the description.
I tried it with two different known good SIMs that worked in other Motorola phones, from ATT and GO. Despite the best efforts of Amazon online cell phone people, Radio Shack cell techs, and online Motorola cell phone people, we could not figure out how to do a master reset, or to unlock it, or even to reset the... more info
Locked by Tigo:
This isn't an unlocked phone. It costs money to unlock it. If I had known, I would't have bought it. After I paid to unlock it I still wasn't satisfied. It couldn't import all the numbers from my old card correctly. I tried to type in my address book manually but that didn't work correctly either. The phone looks really nice. I wish it wasn't buggy and that it had been advertised correctly.
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