Kyocera Strobe-K612B Cell Phone User Reviews

Cons: The display stinks. no video. bulky.

Summary: I basically only use my phone for texting. I got my first one in Feb of 08 and I liked it alot until in April the screen started messing up. At first it would just freeze up for like sec, then it started distorting images. i was receiving texts upside down. And then the back light stopped working. So i got a replacement. Now (August 08) my replacement started doing the same thing. Except now both screens are black and since i cant see the screen i end up calling random people and dont know it. I've ordered another replacement but havent got it yet and its been 5 days. im angry at this phone. If it does this again im gonna have a good talk with Kyocera.

Cons: The screen connectors wear out easily, so it has about a year's worth of usage.

Summary: I am currently on my third model of this phone, and it's time for a new one. I got the Strobe on September 20, 2006. I'm sixteen years old, so you can imagine my delight with the Qwerty keyboard, fast texting, call clarity, internet access, etc. This phone was my pride and joy... until May rolled around. The screens stopped "talking to each other", and they both appeared blue, with no display. My mother is a technician, and the technical manager of a company who works on cell phones, towers that provide signals, etc. She looked at the phone, and then said that the connector between the screens was poor and had come loose. I got a new phone, of the same model, thinking maybe the first was just from wear-and-tear and poor handling of the phone. In July 2007, however, I dropped the phone in my pool. It was underwater for literally a second or two, and the battery quit working, and the battery wouldnt hold a charge. I got my third model of the Strobe, that month, and by May 2008, the screens stopped working again. This phone provides anywhere between 8 to 12 months of use. While I can still make calls, I can no longer see the display.
This phone is very convenient, but it's not worth it's short life.

Cons: Turns it self on/ off, freezes up

Summary: This phone is awful. i've had it since december, & i have already have to have 2 of them. they break easily, & have a lot of problems. the screen freezes up, the battery doesn't last for long, & it takes terrible pictures. it's good to text with, but the buttons are small.
mine recently just stopped accepting the charger.
so now i am stuck with a broken phone, completely disconnected from the world- for the second time..!
thanks a lot, kyocera. do not buy this phone.

Cons: Well, the phone gets scratched easily and horrible memory, and guess what..... NO BLUETOOTH!! you canonly eceive songs by message! But when you do receive a song you hear it all blurry and can not understand what you just received. Also the buttons in the outside DO NOT WORK! I try calling a friend and the phone just won't le me. I am sick and tired of this phone and do not have enough money to buy a new one. SAVE YOURSELVES! DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!

Summary: I have had this phone for about a year already and i hate it! Bluetooth is horrible and the phone is just too big and bulky. Pictures will come out wide when you open the phone, but if you take a picture with the phone closed, the picture will come out small and not good. Oh yeah, you can't talk on the phone while its charging. And sometimes, the phone changes your ringtone to a song that you recently heard. I'm doing this to help you. Don't Buy It!!!

Cons: Where to start...it restarts like it's a computer, you can't talk while it is charging, sometimes you have to adjust the charger in order for it to charge, it switches to roaming for no reason, kind of bulky

Summary: This is a good phone for texting other than that it is ok. It is small, yet bulky and the battery can go bad pretty quickly.I carry my charger in my purse when I go out sometimes.

Cons: bad reception, goes to anlog roaming A LOT, keys stick a bunch, horrible camera, takes forever to send a picture message, turns off and on by itself, bluetooth sucks on this phone, & internet(like MSN) locks and will not work with this phone

Summary: I hate this phone!!! DO NOT GET IT! you will hate it..you may think its cute and adorable at first but later you will HATE IT...I cannot stand it. and this is my 3rd one. cause alltel wont let me get another phone. Please save yourself GET ANOTHER TYPE OF PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cons: BulkY,Bluetooth enabled but,Not compatable with all other BLuetooth pda,pc,ect.

Summary: Thickness is necessary if you like to text. Outside keys manageable but a little small.Works well with Bluetooth but not compatible with OTHER Bluethooth PC, PDA, and Phones... not an issue if you dont need to interact with pc,pda. It's very bulky in your pocket but stylish. This phone is of very high quality and reasonably priced.

Cons: small outside screen, not bluetooth compatible

Summary: This is a phone for big texters, like me. Even though you've probably heard that a lot so far, it's true. That's all I looked for when I was buying a phone. "is it good with texting? Should I go with a razor (size over everything) or this Kyocera (texing over everything)?

If u luv 2 txt, go w/dis phone.

Cons: Just refuses to sync with bluetooth. No way to transfer photos or sound without sending it as an SMS. No data push. No ability to install your own applications.

Summary: I have this phone through Surewest. I was also assured that I could access and transfer my media files easily, and that bluetooth worked. NOPE!

The manual deliberately dances around this point- there is no way to transfer your media files off this phone without spending a lot of time sending via SMS. This is impractical when you get more than a dozen photos, or a long meeting recorded. Also, while other Kyocera phones support pushing a variety of file types over bluetooth, the ONLY filetype supported for push is VCARD. Yeah, thats what I want to do with a multimedia phone :/

Don't buy it if you are using Surewest, unless you really just want a basic phone with a nice texting keypad. The other features are worthless without the ability to easily offload the data.

Cons: where do i start? battery talk time, freezes up like it's crashing, can't talk when charging.

Summary: (1st one 8 months, 2nd only 11 days, 3rd and current one is only 9 days old) 1 month ago i would've said that i love it and wouldn't trade it for the world... was charging the 1st one and both screens went black..couldn't text of course or see my phonebook, incoming calls or surf the web... replaced it with another and 11 days later the replacement restarted on it's own and wiped out my entire phonebook along with pics and any other apps i had on it...i'm on my third and it freezes on a daily basis when trying to view or send pic text and restarts on it's own...the 1st phone did the same but not enough to bug me like this one...the first one also had a problem with the outside 7,8, and 9 keys..wasn't a prob since i use the QWERTY 99.9% of the time but when i took the first one back, evidently there was a 7, 8, 9 key issue with a lot of other ppls strobes...my phone is my baby so with all phones i've had, i take very good care of them...battery talk time is 3 hours unless you purchase the 6 hour extended battery...loved the camera features and that i can record something and save it and assign it as a ringtone instead of paying for crappy ringtones...i'm now impatiently waiting for the new samsung as i am very frustrated with my strobe and can't wait to get rid of it...