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Given the low price, I generally like most things about this phone except for one small - but huge - problem: Any time you miss a call or get a text, the phone emits an insistent "beep" every several seconds until you push keys to make the beeping stop. It doesn't matter if you put the phone on "vibrate" - it still emits that "beep" until you acknowledge the text or missed call. Unless you put the phone on full "silent" mode, there is literally no way to turn off that alert. It is not an optional setting. Yes, at first I couldn't believe it either, but after much frustration trying to find a magic "no beep" setting, I confirmed with multiple sources including payLo's phone tech support that it is not optional. The beep will happen. No big deal? If the phone beeps, just push a key, right? Yes... but no. If you own this phone, you will either answer all calls and texts immediately or the "beep" will become the background soundtrack to your life. The phone insists that you acknowledge every message, every call, every voicemail, every notification. It doesn't care if you are sleeping, if the phone is out of reach across the room, or if you are having an important conversation... you will have to get up, pick up the phone, and ask it to stop beeping. God forbid you are trying to sleep and somebody sends you a friendly text. The phone will not let you rest until you have "acknowledged" the text. That little beep is the Chinese Water Torture of phone features. By the time the beeping interrupts your sleep for the third time in a night, you will have developed an unhealthy rage against all forms of communication. As a result, you will start to hate the people who text you at inconvenient times and especially at night. If somebody calls you when you cannot answer, you will curse them like you curse the chirping of a smoke alarm with a low battery. It's that annoying. Sure you could turn the phone off every night, but then your alarm will not ring to wake you up in the morning (though, confoundingly, the alarm will ring at full volume even if the phone is set to full "silent" mode - was that the designer's idea of a sleep-enabling workaround?). It's obviously not practical to have a phone that you must turn off or put into "silent" mode all the time; you will not know if anybody is trying to reach you, which is half the point of having a phone in the first place. I am sincerely surprised that a company as good as Samsung would build in such a horrible little feature... and then give you no way to turn it off. I wanted to like this phone. Sadly, after having this phone for less than a week, I had to go through the hassle of finding a new handset. For the most part, everything else about the phone is pretty good or at least a reasonable compromise for the low price. It's a shame that one little "feature" had to ruin it.