Kyocera DuraXV LTE E4610 Verizon Wireless Rugged Waterproof Flip Phone (Renewed)

Excellent Seller, arrived on time, exactly as decribed

Like the phone. Problems transfering contact or adding contacts. Verizon transfered contacts and now it takes forever to find them. alphabetical order one way but also entered another way Add new contact, same thing. never know where to look or where contact is at. double all of them. I will try going to another Verizon store other than company owned and get it straightened out. for instance look for Bob Smith, enter as BOB Smith under B. Look for it and it might be under S or B or under a middle initial . Just not like I had. I want to enter Bob Smith, go to B and there should be Bob Smith, nowhere else. Can't hang up with flip if on speaker.Cna't go to contacts while on phone. someone calls and needs the number of one of my contacts, I have to hang up and call back. Old flip phone did all of this. Probably just need to talk with specialist.

I really like this phone. It does exactly what I wanted it to do, make calls, send texts, play Podcast's, pair with my blue tooth headphones, but I really held a lot of weight in the "rugged" claim. Mine arrived with no screw housing for the battery cover on the back. The screw freely spins and won't lock down because there is nothing to catch on the other end. This means that if you drop the phone the back cover will pop off and most likely the battery. The back cover's water proofing gasket was also broken upon opening the back cover for the first time in the Verizon store. Definitely not living up to the rugged claim. The battery lasts just about a day, which if fine for me, but not the 3-5 days you may expect from a flip phone that you're not really doing anything with all day. The ability to put music and Podcast's on it was very simple and slick for a flip phone. Web browser is functional, but there isn't a way to have active GPS as you go with directions read out loud to you. You can pull up Google Maps, but you have to be able to read them and follow the directions. This also wasn't a problem for me, but something I was curious about. Speaker phone is super loud, which is nice. Call quality in general feels really good. For some reason mine has been attempting and failing to update for the past 3 or 4 days. I love the side button that you can program for whatever you want. As a default it is set to be a "Push to Talk" button, but I changed it to turn on the flash light, which I found comes in handy a lot. It handles group texts, most emojis, picture and video messages well. The camera isn't anything special, but it looks as good as pictures and videos did around 2009 or so, which was fine at the time. My conclusion: I really like the phone. Because of all the hardware and updating issues, I'm going to return this one, and buy a brand new one from Amazon. So far they've handled the return process really well. I'm supposed to be getting an email with a return shipping label in the next couple days.

These are great phones if your wife doesn't put it in the deep freezer in a bag from Walmart where you can't find it for 2 weeks... these are great phones if your wife doesn't put it in the washing machine for a full 1 hr cycle, yes these are great phones if she doesn't leave it on the kitchen counter where the cat can scoot it into the trash can and after several days of looking for it you realize tomorrow is trash day I'd better go thru the big trash can outside one more time and get lucky and find it, I've had the same phone for several years and yes they are rugged but there's some things they just can't stand up to. I do highly recommend this phone....

This phone was purchased to replace a Kyocera DuraXV Plus because Verizon finally decided to kill off the far more reliable 3G towers in the area. One would think - and expect, frankly - that the LTE version of the same model phone would be at least as good as, if not superior to, the original. But unfortunately, no.Since this phone is for my dad, who needs quite a few of the now-defunct accessibility features, that's more than a little infuriating. In fact, it's downright obnoxious and there's nothing that can be done about it because replacing the DuraXV Plus with another non-LTE version isn't allowed due to that one being a 3G-only device.Features now missing or gripes not present with the normal DuraXV Plus include:* The battery gets concerningly warm for just sitting there doing nothing with the phone closed and screen off! You'd expect it to be room temperature or colder, like the previous phone, but nope. And that's with wifi and cell data off!* Battery drains FAST, far faster than the DuraXV Plus that's a few years old and has seen heavy usage.* Lacks the "Smart Sonic" receiver technology, making calls less clear and harder to hear in handheld mode. Considering this phone was purchased for someone who's hard of hearing and doesn't use a hearing aid, that's a significant downgrade.* The user interface is a garish white instead of a sleek gray, causing eye fatigue and further wasting limited battery life blaring the display at blinding white.* There is no option to enable "escalating ring" so you're up a creek with no paddle if you happen to be someone with varied hearing loss or who works in environments with variable background noise that impacts the hearing loss. Just gotta blow everyone's eardrums out from the start and annoy everyone in the area instead of having the ringtone gradually get loud from a reasonable starting volume.* You also can't set volume for anything independently. There's "master volume" which is literally everything from ringtone to message alert to call volume, and then there's keypad tones. Again, this is very annoying for someone with varied hearing loss who needs customized volume levels for different tones.* There is no ability to have the phone read out ONLY the name of who's calling. It's all or nothing: read every bloody thing hovered on the screen, or read nothing. Better get to downloading unique ringtones and desperately trying to remember which one means who, unless you're okay with every move you make on your phone being announced to the people around you.* You can't change the font size per screen or per function, like you can in the non-LTE DuraXV Plus. If you want the numbers dialed to be large, you also have to use garishly gigantic contact names, menu item names, etc. Same if you prefer one thing to be small; you better be prepared for EVERYTHING to be tiny.* Settings are needlessly rearranged, not logically organized, and overall just an absolute pain to navigate vs. the logically arranged and well organized options in the normal DuraXV Plus.* You can't rearrange the items on the menu to fit convenience, preference, or need.* The speakerphone button is no longer a dedicated button on the keypad; it's on the opposite side and shared with the camera button. A microphone/voice command/dictation type button replaces the speakerphone shortcut.* You can't turn the flashlight off with the shortcut button set to turn it on (and there's no option to set a separate one to turn it off). Seriously. It's an on button only, and you have to read the screen to find the "turn flashlight off" function. What kind of flashlight has an on-only button instead of an on/off?!* There seems to be no way to turn off "threaded" (aka, smartphone) view for text messages. Having messages take up only a small portion of one side or the other of a tiny basic phone screen is a NIGHTMARE.* The battery cover is extremely difficult to get off without feeling like you're breaking it, and even harder to get on because the lower portion wants to stick out further than it should.* There's also something unnerving in general about a supposedly waterproof/rugged phone having "charging contacts" on the back battery door - aka pieces of metal that allow direct access to the batter to "charge in a dock". There's some concern about potential harm coming to phone or user if, say, a damp hand is used to grasp the phone! I'm sure that's just general worry and I would hope it's not possible, but it is unsettling all the same.* The antenna seems to be far weaker than the normal DuraXV Plus and a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone. Placed in the same location, the DuraXV gets one bar of 1x and 1 bar of 3G. The smartphone gets two bars of 3G. And the DuraXV LTE struggles, jumping between no signal at all and 1 bar of 1x. It seems to latch onto 3G the most often, but that's a moot point now. (Why Verizon would be so short-sighted as to kill off 3G in an area that has next to no 4G signal is beyond me, but this phone's weaker antenna certainly doesn't help the situation any.) When placed in a part of the home with 4G available (only one bar) on a smartphone, the DuraXV LTE remains on 1x a majority of the time and only occasionally finds the 4G.* You can't disable VoLTE. Yes, this will be a moot point after 3G is truly killed off (unless 1X remains; they've been unclear about that), but it's a HUGE problem while there's still 3G available in an area. VoLTE means that if your call is made over that half a bar of 4G it's barely clinging to and you move your head slightly, your call will drop. It also means that sometimes it takes 5 rings from the other person before your phone will ring at all, because you were sitting there between 4G and 3G or 1X. Welcome to dropped and missed call Hell; there are no return trips.Overall, I'm extremely disappointed in Kyocera for giving this phone the same model name as the far superior DuraXV Plus. This is along the same lines as Samsung's insistence upon naming the ultra-powerful flagship phones and the cheap prepaid phones the same thing (Galaxy). I expected the same standard of quality and an upgrade, but instead I've unwittingly given my dad a terrible downgrade that he's now stuck with.Not that there are much in the way of options for non-3G basic phones that can withstand moisture and shock, though. Everyone's moved on to fragile smartphones that cost a fortune and break if you look at them funny - terrible for someone who works with heavy machinery and is frequently out in the elements while needing to have a phone available for emergencies. (And I say that as someone who loves my Galaxy Note 9 with its terribly fragile screen and can't imagine ever using a basic phone again without it driving me insane! That just isn't suitable for EVERYONE, and I'm capable of recognizing such.)If you live in an area with decent 4G signal, and don't need the accessibility of the features I've mentioned, this may very well be a nice little phone for you! I'm disappointed, but I wouldn't say it's a bad phone - just one which doesn't even hold a candle to the 3G model of the same name.

It's a quite a good condition nice phone.However when I put in my tracfone sim card got lacked When I put them inside and then when I Changed to the US mobile White sim card Which is under the T mobile network I have some service issues the data wasn't work.