TCL FLIP Pro Voice & Text Only

Linda · 2 days ago

have had this phone for less then 6 months. The phone cuts off in the middle of a call at randome times.Went to the verizon store and they could not do anything to help. they changed the sim card, no help. called tec support and was on the line for almost 2 hr, they could not help.Lleast dependable phone I have ever owned. Would not recomend this phone to anyone.

aninkling · 9 days ago

First, on the volume control on the side- this is the same as any other phone. If someone has muscular control or has cognitive issues then the volume control might be a problem. The phone is what you would expect for the price and maybe a little more. It has a C-connector, so charging is fast and the phone can be connected to another device to access the phone's public folders. It has a separate microSD slot, so, through the C-connector, you have access to the data on that as well. I would strongly advise getting a microSD chip. They are inexpensive now and are important to essential for some things you might want to do with this phone. It has wifi calling, which is important when the signal is not strong at your home. It has FM radio as well. You just need a 3.5 headset. or Bluetooth. It has Bluetooth. Bluetooth allows phone to phone transfer (only useful when you have a microSD chip), which can be essential when setting the phone up. Bluetooth also allows connecting your phone to your home internet phone (eg, OOMA). Or a bluetooth headset. It has a camera. Set storage to the microSD chip. Two things that make lower the score on this phone. Transferring contacts to this phone is a real problem. Unless you know a trick, you will need to reenter all your contacts, one by one. The trick involves using the microSD card, but I will leave it at that. The other problem is that the phone is shipped with spelling correction turned on by default. If you try to enter a name of person, good luck! The spelling correction control is called "Use Predictive" and it is located in an obscure place: Settings.Personalization.Input Methods.English.

Linda · 2 days ago

have had this phone for less then 6 months. The phone cuts off in the middle of a call at randome times.Went to the verizon store and they could not do anything to help. they changed the sim card, no help. called tec support and was on the line for almost 2 hr, they could not help.Lleast dependable phone I have ever owned. Would not recomend this phone to anyone.

aninkling · 9 days ago

First, on the volume control on the side- this is the same as any other phone. If someone has muscular control or has cognitive issues then the volume control might be a problem. The phone is what you would expect for the price and maybe a little more. It has a C-connector, so charging is fast and the phone can be connected to another device to access the phone's public folders. It has a separate microSD slot, so, through the C-connector, you have access to the data on that as well. I would strongly advise getting a microSD chip. They are inexpensive now and are important to essential for some things you might want to do with this phone. It has wifi calling, which is important when the signal is not strong at your home. It has FM radio as well. You just need a 3.5 headset. or Bluetooth. It has Bluetooth. Bluetooth allows phone to phone transfer (only useful when you have a microSD chip), which can be essential when setting the phone up. Bluetooth also allows connecting your phone to your home internet phone (eg, OOMA). Or a bluetooth headset. It has a camera. Set storage to the microSD chip. Two things that make lower the score on this phone. Transferring contacts to this phone is a real problem. Unless you know a trick, you will need to reenter all your contacts, one by one. The trick involves using the microSD card, but I will leave it at that. The other problem is that the phone is shipped with spelling correction turned on by default. If you try to enter a name of person, good luck! The spelling correction control is called "Use Predictive" and it is located in an obscure place: Settings.Personalization.Input Methods.English.

Jgei · 21 days ago

I can’t believe this is the only option Verizon has to offer for a flip phone. I had to replace my 84 year old dads 12 year old flip phone with this because of the phase out of the 3G system. He wanted another flip phone and this is the only choice. I had read the poor reviews but thought it didn’t be that bad…. Well it is worse!!! He has had it for two months and has issues daily. Volume buttons are easily accidentally turned down then he doesn’t know he’s getting a call. If his hand covers the bottom of the phone just the slightest you can not hear him talk, just noise. Some days it will connect to his truck Bluetooth some days it won’t. Very I unreliable…. Just a few days ago in an accident situation he could call but he couldn’t hear anyone answer. Thankfully he just talked and said what was going on so we could eventually find him. I took the phone to the Verizon store and they said the volume was turned off during calls!!! How does that even happen!!!! Unfortunately when I told them all the issues the response was “sorry”…. They should be ashamed to even offer such junk that most likely goes to the elderly to use. I’ve since upgraded him to the cheapest iPhone and things are much better. Save your self the money time and aggravation and skip over this piece of junk completely!!!

Prag · 4 months ago

While calls can be blocked for specified numbers found in the Contact folder, it's useless for blocking predator callers who use a different Caller ID number (almost always a non-working number) for each call. Because the telephone companies fail to stop these fraudulent calls from non-working numbers, the only solution for parents who are trying to protect their children is to restrict calls so that the phone rings only when the caller ID matches a number in the phone's Contact Folder.

Momsphone · 4 months ago

Bought this phone for my 85 year old mom and it broke within the year. Verizon made her buy another..it broke in the very same spot within 6 months...Verizon again didn't stand behind the junk phone they sold us. Shame on Verzon for selling this phone to seniors.

JWMc · 4 months ago

Worst phone I have ever owned. Shut down 4-8 times a day requiring battery removal. Absolute junk. Got a replacement which was just a s terrible.

Prag · 4 months ago

My old Samsung Gusto 3 was a much better flip phone. Not only was it more intuitive to use, I was able to restrict all inbound calls to only those listed in Contacts. While this setting is typically set by parents for their child's phone, it also ends up blocking ALL unsolicited (fraud/robo) calls as well. Verizon went to great lengths to verify that these kind of security settings were available. Every other cheap phone I ever had included these Child Lock features. However, when I received the phone, it did not have any settings that would allow the call restrictions I needed--Verizon misrepresented the product. The only reason I did not return the phone is because of the excessive restocking charge. Thanks Verizon--for nothing!

T2017 · 5 months ago

I, too, was forced to by a new phone with the phase out of 3G. The entire experience cost about $130 to get a phone that works considerably less well than the one I had two weeks ago. I agree with others that this phone feels like a rip off--sadly fewer features that my old Verizon flip phone that was 10+ years old. In fact, I am planning to move to another network from Verizon after 20+ years because I feel so frustrated by this experience. Today's pet peeve--if a text is going to a group, the fact that is being sent to multiple people isn't reflected anywhere in the text. Again, even my 10 years old flip showed clearly that a message was coming from a friend to both me and another friend. When different people respond, they are filtered to different text chains so it is unclear what sentence each is responding to. It is nuts--again, this was solved 15 years ago and they couldn't figure it out now?

Richard · 5 months ago

About every other call this phone will do a restart during the call. am making my second 50 mile trip to verizon store to try to resolve this, don't have much hope of success.

LFW1 · 5 months ago

Instruction are almost zero