Kyocera Slider Remix KX5 / Slider Sonic
Average Ratings
Awesome Phone
I absolutely love this phone!! This phone is easy to use and i can actually hear the people on the other end. i go through alltel for service and am not sure if carrier makes a difference but this is by far the best cell phone i have ever had, and i have been using cell phones for the past 11 years. a friend of mine has a razr and he likes my phone more than his own !!!!
BUY THIS PHONE!!!!!
KX5 Slider / Bluetooth
Sydney Australia: NOV 22
Just bought my sixth mobile; I've had AMPS and CDMA850 phones only, several different brands.
Last one was a LG800W, I got three years of beating the daylights out of it...
This phone impressed me enough to buy it.
And getting me to part with $ is not easy... I've been cruising the sellers shops for a new handset for about 6 months....
When I got it home, I was even more impressed, it came with a 256mb micro-SD in the box, hands free (blue tooth) and wired hands free as well... all in the package.
Pros: looks like it means business. good color and contrast in the screen, solid feel to the slide, lots of stuff built in.. as is the norm these days.
Menus everywhere...
Cons:
No desk charger (in my version) just a travel charger.
Stubby antenna. I prefer the pull-out type, long distances here require a good signal.. and internal/stubby antennas don't always perform well..
Menus everywhere... Careful when you change settings! Change one thing at a time, and live with the result before changing anything else... my screen doesn't blank for about 2 minutes now, and I cannot remember what I did to make it do that!!!! (and I have it set to seven seconds...)
Cons not just for this particular set:
Hard to get a decent cover/holster for a phone that slides.
....I have a menu option of saving photos to the phone or to the card, but I am led to believe I cannot transfer videos or MP3's via blue tooth...
THE ONLY THING that would be an absolute bonus is if the makers would put GPS software into the handset so the phone would replace a handheld GPS..
Dissapointing
Although this phone has one of the nicest paint jobs, it does not add up. There are a few things that I do not care for on the slider remix. First of all the 1.3 mega-pixel camera it claims to have has no better quality than the nokia 6255i. The 6255i I was impressed with, however the Kyocera claims to be much more high quality, but with no result. The other thing that bugs me the most is the way people sound on the other end of the line. They sound very hollow compared to other Kyocera's that I have sampled. Also, to make things a little more complicated, Kyocera has a line of accessories from video game controllers to docking stations where you can play your MP3s, but there are just two games preloaded and do not justify the game controller, and to get MP3s on and off you have to go through so much time and effort, it's just easier to not mess with it.
why is everyone hating???
maybe this phone does not work well with Verizon or Alltel but it works very well with Cricket. you should not judge any of these mulitcarrier phones to harshly, because different carriers have different things. Verizon is just way to strick with what you can and can not do with their phones . i have used many phones with Cricket and have not had any realy problems with them .
ALLTEL Kyocera KX5
I've been with Alltel for over four years and I've had about four different phones from them. They had this phone advertised for $129 with a two year contract. Since I love my plan I went ahead and purchased this phone. The KX5 has been by far the best cell phone I've used. Great looks aside, this phone works well. The call quality is great and the signal strength is excellent.
I did not buy this phone for any of the thrills it advertised. I mainly wanted decent battery life and a good size screen to see my incoming calls. Once I started to use it I found that the features turned out to be fantastic. I'm not one for listening to music on my phone but when I tried the media player I couldn't believe how well MP3's played. I'm also not a big cell phone camera user but the few pictures I have snapped with this little phone have been of great quality.
The phone came with a great belt clip and USB data cable to connect to my PC. A nice set of earphones was included as well as the software drivers. Everything I needed was in the box.
Kyocera has a winner on their hands with this little gizmo.
Returning my Slider Sonic
I just purchased and am now returning the Slider Sonic (The Kyocera KX5) after finding Virgin has disabled the transfer of photographs from the phone to a computer over the provided USB cable. This was, I believe, a thoughtless business decision to wrest a few more pennies for phone-only photo transfer at a cost of a $250 sale. After a two hour conversation with Kyocera support it became clear that Virgin took away (locked out) the existing file transfer from internal memory to the transflash card. When I e-mailed Virgin about this decision, they replied with the misleading statement:
It wasn't so much a business decision that made the phone unable to transfer pictures to the computer but a hardware limitation. Anything stored in the Transflash card, such as videos and MP3s, is transferable
to the computer via the USB cable. Pictures taken by the camera do not get stored in that memory, but in the phone's internal memory, along with ringtones, contacts, games and wallpapers. The internal memory of
the phone is inaccessible via the USB cable because of the way it's set up. I apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.
Matthew R.
Virgin Mobile USA
Itâs inaccessible because of the way itâs set up because of the way Virgin Mobile set it up. Nice logic, Matthew. Support at Kyocera can transfer photos, ringtones and files from internal to transflash memory but Virgin Mobile customers canât. So, I canât recommend the Virgin Mobile Slider Sonic.
Great Phone Recommended to anyone
This phone is the greatest phone Virgin Mobile has ever sold. First off the signal is very good. My aunt has a phone by alltel and she kept loosing her signal in the country but I continued to have all my bars. I love the loudness of the ringtones (my ringtones blast over everyone elses). I dont know if this is with every phone like mine but my battery could be very low one minute then go back to full and stay there. AAAAAAAA++++++++++
Not happy with it
I got this phone 3 months ago, i did a little research on it and thought it looked like a good buy. The only things that were good about the phone was the clear screen and pictures, and the good service. Some of the bad things were- The mp3 sounds very bad if you listen to it outload. Mine shutdown all the time, if it closed the slider to fast it would shut down also. You cant record things and set them as a ring tone.
You cant download any music onto the phone unless you buy the chip for it. Mine froze a bunch of times also. I just dont think that this was a very good phone.
The absolute worst phone I have ever owned
I got the slider remix a couple of months ago...I thought it would be a decent phone, but I was wrong.
-It is cheap and plasticy.
-It does not slide good at all.
-The personal setting options are terrible
-The text messaging system it has is the worst I'v seen...it doesn't some of the basic english words and once you save a word to the dictionary it saves it for about a day and forgets it.
-When you slide the phone it scratches the keypad.
-It lasted about 3 months...now it won't charge.
-Gets terrible reception.
-Pictures are grainy.
-Randomly shuts off.
-Randomly viberates.
-The bluetooth on it never worked.
-No vibe/ring.
-Battery life not great.
Ok, if u like crapy cells
Ok first when I saw this phone I was so excited to get it from Cricket! well here are my pros and cons
PROS:
-its a slider
-the ringtones are ok
-You can instant message with it
CONS:
-the camera is a 1.3 mp but a VGA looked better! in the dark it looked like there is nothing but lines.
-i could only instant message on msn and yahoo, I prefer AIM because most of my friends have it.
-the Internet is so limited.
-I cant participate like in little things like Message A if you think its this and that.
-And I could receive or send a picture to a preapaid phone or recieve pictures from a t-mobile phone, it would always say " We are currently not participating in the event" message.
-And after 4 months, the wouldn't work when I called someone, I had to Put on speaker to hear what ever the hell they are saying, I haven't droped only once but it was still working after that.
-And the speaker quality wasn't great at all
- the Antenna fell off easy
- and it freezes 24 7.
I am not a person who is very picky but this phone was just bad, thats why I am switching to T-mobile am going to get the Samsung T719!
