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Motorola Motofone F3 Unlocked Cell Phone--International Version with No Warranty (Black) | 
| Brand: Motorola
Category: Wireless
List Price: $89.99
Buy New: $28.99
You Save: $61.00 (68%)
New (4) from $28.99
Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 54
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone Accessory
Batteries Included: Yes
Battery Type: NiCAD
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 3.8 x 2 x 0.9
This has everything you need and everything you dont need.
MPN: motorola f3
Model: F3
UPC: 689076296908
EAN: 7503003647171
ASIN: B0013A7KMW
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Unlocked dual-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/1900 frequencies | | • | Durable, flush-fitting keypad; large electronic ink display is easily viewed in direct sunlight | | • | Embedded polyphonic ringtones; stores up to 250 contacts | | • | Clock, alarm, speakerphone, SMS messaging | | • | Up to 4.5 hours of talk time, up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time |
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Product Description
Featuring the new ClearVision display, the Motorola FONE F3 leverages revolutionary Electrophoretic Display (EPD) technology to provide users with a large, high-contrast screen that is viewable even in bright sunlight. Designed for even the newest phone users, the FONE F3 is equipped with a newly redesigned user interface that is easy to learn, easy to use. With voice prompt instructions in local languages, a large readable font size and an icon-based menu, the handset is self-explanatory at every step. For pre-paid customers, the FONE F3 automatically reports the status of their pre-paid account after each call or message, allowing consumers to stay in control of use and expense. The FONE F3 includes the features every user wants such as polyphonic ringtones, speakerphone and long-lasting battery life.
Duel Antenna: internal
Alarm Clock
Speaker Phone
High Contrast ClearvisionTM Display
Dedicated phone book key
Single jack for power and headset
Talktime: up to approximately 500 minutes
Bands: 850/1900
Standby Time: up to approximately 300 hours
Amazon.com Product Description
Combining Motorola's sleek design sensibility with intuitive and easy-to-learn functionality, the nicely affordable Motofone F3 slides easily into your pocket. Functional and fashionable, the Motofone F3 is designed to keep you in close communication with your friends, family, and business associates via voice and text messaging. It features dual-band GSM connectivity (850/1900 MHz), speakerphone, a clock with integrated alarm, and up to 500 minutes (over 8 hours) of talk time as well as up to 300 hours of standby (over 12 days). This unlocked cell phone does not come with a SIM card, and it requires that you provide a SIM card for usage with your selected service provider. 
The super-slim Motofone F3 features a unique electronic ink display with large, easily readable characters. | Phone Features
This candybar-style phone measures just 0.35 inches (9mm) thin, and it has a unique Motorola ClearVision display that helps to increase the battery life of the phone. The changeable electronic ink display (electrophoretic imaging film) is easy to read in bright sunlight or dimly lit environments from virtually any angle--just like paper. Additionally, the display is plastic, lightweight and ultra-low power, making it ideal for mobile and power sensitive applications by eliminating the weight and breakability of glass used in LCD displays. The text display contains only two lines of six characters each, and it shows a digital clock when there's no activity. Combined with a flush-fitting keypad and dust-resistant design, the Motofone F3 is especially durable in active everyday use. The Motofone F3 offers a redesigned user interface with voice prompts to guide the you quickly and easily through menu navigation, messaging, and other functions. In addition, graphical icons visually demonstrate the menu features as well as network status and battery strength. For pre-paid customers, the Motofone F3 automatically reports the status of your pre-paid account after each call or message. This phone allows you to store contacts only on the SIM card (for 250 entries), and it provides a view of the last 20 dialed/received/missed calls. The layout of the numeric keypad resembles Motorola's SLVR phones, and it includes a large navigation pad as well as send/end keys and two soft keys. Above the display are bars showing signal strength and battery life. Other features include: - High-volume for call clarity in loud environments
- Embedded polyphonic ringtones in eight voices
- Ability to download ringtones
- Silent vibration mode
- Speakerphone
Vital Statistics
The Motofone F3 weighs 2.4 ounces and measures 4.5 x 1.85 x 0.35 inches. Its 750 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 500 minutes of talk time, and up to 500 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 GSM frequencies.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 116 more reviews...
 If you need no-frills, this is a well made phone December 4, 2008
I purchased this on another website for a friend of mine who needed a cell phone without a camera, and without bluetooth due to corporate policy... The phone is not bad, except it does not do predictive text, and the menus aren't the most intuitive.. only has to charge the phone twice a week. Realize this phone was designed for some abuse and in places where electricity avalibility and tempratures/climate may be a problem (it does not use LiON or LiPoly due to the heat hazard). Sometimes it doesn't see incoming voice mails as avalible but other than that its a solid little no-frills well built calling device for GSM.. also the manual is avalible on Moto's website in english.. (its more of an instruction sheet)...
 80% great for me, minus 20% for limited text display December 3, 2008
I really like this phone for its price, sound quality, style, battery life, clear display and signal strength.
The only drawback for me is the limited text display. Reading contact info and text messages takes a lot of scrolling, it has a one-line display, sometimes showing only six characters at a time.
Skip it if you do a lot of text messaging.
Can you give your contacts short names, like "JohnSM" instead of "John Smith"? If you can live with that limitation, this is a real bargain.
This is a really great phone. It is not a web browser, not an iPhone, camera or Blackberry. It's a phone.
 Do not buy it!!!! December 1, 2008
It is not really unlocked. At least for my order. I brought this one to T-mobil, ATT and Sprint storys, the sales said this one is not unlocked at all.
Can not find the seller and any contact information.
Too bad, waste $40.Motorola Motofone F3 Unlocked Cell Phone--International Version with No Warranty (Black)
NOT AS ADVERTISED: Locked to TIGO, interface in Spanish only, could not be reset or unlocked by Motorola or Amazon techs November 28, 2008
I was very disappointed, and returned the product.
My F3 was delivered locked to TIGO, and set in the Spanish interface mode.
It was not unlocked, as claimed in the description.
I tried it with two different known good SIMs that worked in other Motorola phones, from ATT and GO.
Despite the best efforts of Amazon online cell phone people, Radio Shack cell techs, and online Motorola cell phone people, we could not figure out how to do a master reset, or to unlock it, or even to reset the interface language to English.
Totally a bad experience and a waste of time.
Locked by Tigo November 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This isn't an unlocked phone. It costs money to unlock it. If I had known, I would't have bought it.
After I paid to unlock it I still wasn't satisfied. It couldn't import all the numbers from my old card correctly. I tried to type in my address book manually but that didn't work correctly either. The phone looks really nice. I wish it wasn't buggy and that it had been advertised correctly.
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