Review: AT&T Quickfire
The Quickfire is positioned as a surefire messaging device. Does it live up to that billing? Mostly.
First, the Quickfire does very well when not open. The messaging department is well designed and lets you open your inboxes and compose messages easily without the need for the QWERTY keyboard. Any time you need to enter information or text, a software T9 keypad appears and it works quite well. As with many phones, there is a shortcut at the top of the messaging center that starts a new message.
When the phone is held sideways in the landscape orientation, the menu becomes all about messaging, with separate buttons for SMS, Email, IM and your contacts. This is a nice gesture.
Composing messages is a snap, and the Quickfire's software lets you easily insert media to turn an SMS to an MMS. Using the options key also lets you insert symbols, emoticons, and make adjustments to the way the messaging application behaves.
The Quickfire's real drawback is that it doesn't offer threaded messaging. For a messaging device, this is just a no-no. So many other devices offer it, that I find its absence here a real drawback.
Other than that, the Quickfire's email and IM services are on-par with what is offered by other feature phones. The software looks identical to that of other phones offered by AT&T, and having the QWERTY keyboard to keep up with conversations can be a godsend.
AT&T Fires Off Four Messaging Devices
Hands On with the TCL Stylus 5G
iPhone 15 Series Goes All-In on USB-C and Dynamic Island
iMovie Makes it Easier to Create Polished Videos
iOS 16 Revamps the Lock Screen
PCD QuickFire
