A new candy bar phone enters the prepaid arena: Kyocera K126C. The phone is a dual band CDMA Tracfone and has a black and white display. The phone has some interesting features like color filter and has a solid speaker phone. The price range is very much similar to the Motorola C139 but Kyocera K126C scores much better than the Motorola contender .The phone also sports some features which are omitted from the C139.
Some Interesting Features:
- The phone is basically a nice compact and sturdy phone having the following dimensions: 104 x 46.5 x 16.5 mm. Kyocera K126C has a pretty light weight only weighing 2.68 oz or just 76 gm
- The screen is compact but serves the purpose and has a resolution of 96 x 64 pixels, the phone doesn’t have a colored screen but the screen is pretty good and has features like color filter which makes it clear.
- The phone is brimming with handy basic features like the Alarm, Calendar, Calculator, Stopwatch and World Clock and also has an interesting feature called the tip calculator for people visiting the restaurant frequently.
- The phone has caller groups support which is an added feature .Phonebook can store up to 200 contacts which quite a lot considering the compact size of the phone.
- The battery of the phone is Li-ion 900mAh and is quite good considering the phone talk time is up to 3 hours and the phone delivers a Standby time of 220 hours that is about 9 days which is excellent by the phone standards.
- Considering the texting features of this phone, they are quite good, normal text input is but natural there, apart from that the text input the phone also sports a dictionary, it is not exactly the T9 but EZI texting is very much similar.
Some downsides of this cell phone:
- The phone is basically an “emergency Phone” and can’t be used for everyday usage cause at the end of the day the phone is very basic and may not be interesting to some.
- The usage of the phone actually depends on how much one really needs the CDMA phone with a wide roaming coverage. Meanwhile this phone can act as a emergency phone for a travelling GSM user.
- The battery might look really good but once you combine the Talktime and the Standby time, the battery starts dying out really quickly.
Basically, the Kyocera K126C is a good travelling emergency phone which has a good battery life. Most of the features it packs score over the Motorola C139 so if you want a better phone, it is advised you go for the Kyocera K126C.
