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Despite this phone's marketing to our beloved and often forgotten senior citizens, as a twenty-something I was interested in buying this phone for its advertised simple functionality (it's not a camera, an iPod, or a Gameboy; it's a phone). Most of the phones sold with pay-as-you-go plans are often the trashiest models with poor craftsmanship and half-working so-called "features", making it hard to find a good simple phone that just makes calls, sends and receives texts, has a recent call list and address book. The Snapfon is that hard-to-find gem of simplicity. Although it's not perfect, it's been my favorite of all the "non-smart" phones I've owned (which have included several Nokia and Motorola models, and even the Razr). Here are my favorite aspects: +Unlocked phone worked instantly with my T-mobile pay-as-you-go chip. No stupid unlock codes. +Battery life is long. +Screen lights up even in locked mode to illuminate the time. +LED flashlight works well. +Big buttons are nice to use. +Much lighter than your average brick phone. Here's what was keeping it from being a 5-star review: -Menu flow is too linear, making some actions seemingly dead ends. Cancel and delete both share the PWR/NO button, making some parts of the navigation dead-ends. -There's no way to do actions like browsing through the menus or turning on the phone silently while still having it in vibrate mode for calls or texts. Switching the phone to "silent mode" turns off all types of alerts and noises, including vibrate. -There's no free preview of text messages. Most other phones I've used let you preview the text message from the inbox which made it possible to read short messages without actually opening them. For using Google Voice text messaging, knowing who sent a text message is only possible by opening the message to see the header, which is a drag. -I can't figure out how to delete an unread text message. The option to delete only seems to be accessible after opening a text message, but which fortunately allows you to clear the entire inbox while deleting the one being read. Feature needs tweaking. -It's nice that the buttons are nice and big, but they seem to get pressed easily in the pocket. Hopefully the SOS button won't accidentally get pressed. -You have to directly enter a contact in the address book rather than typing in a number on the front screen and saving it, adding a name later. -While less features isn't necessarily bad, it's a little too expensive for how little it does. -FM radio really necessary? Whatever. Features wished for: :? An alarm feature. :? USB connection to transfer contacts from computer address book (and maybe custom ring tones, but low priority). :? Bluetooth hands-free set compatibility. Bottom line: Pretty satisfied so far, despite phone's short-comings. More how simple phones should be. edit: Apparently my point about the chirps and noises while in vibrate mode or silent mode wasn't very clear, because got a personal call from ezONE telling me how to set the phone to vibrate. To be clear, the phone has a vibrate mode, but the buttons still chirp when you press them.