Motorola Motofone F3 Candy Bar mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs


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Score: 4.2/10

128 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

This Mobile Phone has no outstanding positive points. It scored very poorly on features. “Fantastic battery life, iconic looking, thin. designed for the very basic user.…” Anonymous verified purchaser View all 128 real customer reviews

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Real customer reviews

128 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
38% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (127)
Battery life6.1
Design4.8
Ease of use4.3
Features3.1
Value for money (at time of purchase)3.1
Overall rating4.2
Basic text and chat user (3)
Other (124)
 

*not all purchasers provided a score or review

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Mikey”

+ Fantastic battery life, iconic looking, thin. Designed for the very basic user. Don't forget, this was designed for third world markets. But ideal for a reserve"glovebox" phone, or for the elderly with sight problems

- Texting very difficult, especially sending. Do not buy this if you text

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Feb 2008

Score 10.0/10

Andy, Stirling

+ Its a perfect 'phone for people who only want to make calls and send texts
Very slim
Big screen

- Text is very large so lots of scrolling needed to read any messages
Instruction booklet is not great

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jan 2008

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Frustrated mobile user”

+ Excellent Signal where my samsung could not find a signal

- Hard to use. very basic.

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Feb 2008

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It is basic but as a "pick up and use" phone is works well. It's light, slim and compact and looks pretty smart too. It isn't all singing and all dancing but for a practical phone it was great value for money.

- navigation and text messaging aren't the easiest!

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Jan 2008

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Slim design good for pocket storage and is lightweight

- Almost impossible to text both send and recieve which is a shame because if it was a good texting phone it would be superb!

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Jun 2008

Score 4.0/10

Jason, Crawley , “like small compact stuff”

+ Slim, compact, light and good battery life

- Screen was awkward to read text messages on. A bit too basic.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 May 2008

Score 3.0/10

Ian, Ashford, Kent

+ It was very inexpensive

- No user manual, difficult to use e.g. change ringer volume

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Jan 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “A basic user”

+ Small and compact

- Took a bit of time getting used to navigation

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Dec 2007

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ very simple in theory, large keypad and display. talking navigaiton.

- very difficult to use this very simple phone!

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Jun 2008

Score 7.0/10

Ian, Ashford, Kent

+ It is a good phone for those who don't want all the gimicks and software. I bought this phone for my Mum as she only wanted a mobile phone to make a call. She didn't need text messaging or camera.

- It only came with a 'noddy' guide which it made it laboursome to initially set-up.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Dec 2007

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ As it's been reviewed in many places it's supposed to have a great battery life and this was the selling point. The design is just OK - quite slim and the keys are not too bad either.

- Terrible software - extremely difficult to navigate and lacking many simple features. I wanted a spare phone to make & receive calls, send the odd text message and withhold my number while making calls (as this was my spare phone - didn't want to confuse receivers who might have my original, permanent phone number). Most of these simple things were not possible. Secondly it is too big to carry around. It's quite slim but very wide and long. For the lack of features it should've been much smaller.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

pauline, liverpool

+ it is easy to use and is excellent as a back up phone

- has none

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jan 2008

Score 5.0/10

helen, chichester

+ the price

- found the phone very hard to use

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Jan 2008

Score 10.0/10

tony, anglesey , “honest report”

+ good and easy phone

- none

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Apr 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ easy to use

- texting

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 May 2008

Score 7.0/10

Terry, Glasgow

+ Very small --- looks good -- great battery life

- Infuriating to text with -- accessing / changing settings a pain.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Sheena, Paisley

+ A great phone for the money. Does exactly what it says on the tin, makes phone calls and that's allI wanted teh phone to do.

- none

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

David , port talbot

+ the price

- very difficult to use in fact so bad it has never been used

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- get this phone out of the market

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Dec 2007

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very basic and simple - used as an emergency 2nd. Phone

- text graphics could be clearer

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Nov 2007

Score 7.0/10

Barbara, Hove

+ Excellent for Calling. Good sound quality and battery. Use for backup phone.

- No good for texting or anything else. Just a speaking phone with good battery life

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Jan 2008

Score 1.0/10

JAMAL, WALSALL

+ there is nothing good about this phone

- EVERTHING

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jan 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ easy to use small and compact.

- Very poor battery charge. Only lasts one day.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Jan 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “I'm not really impressed ”

+ slim/compact structure

- poor software systems

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Jan 2008

Score 7.0/10

Liz, Hull

+ easy to use. just a phone

- no gadgets

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

kevin , maesteg

+ Reviewer left no comment

- too light, tacky, plastic disposable. its like a childs toy. does what it says on the tin but has a horrible display. waste of 10 pence let a lone asking price...

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Feb 2008

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to carry

- To simple. A phone from yesteryear!

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 May 2008

Score 5.0/10

Steve, Hertfordshire

+ Good value for the price & incredible battery life.

- Difficult to use,

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Jun 2008

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ cheap

- you can only see 6 characters in text messages

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Oct 2007

Score 2.0/10

Sally, Hinckley

+ The battery life was long. Very cheap.

- Poor navigation. Menu not clear. Limited text functions.
I have now got rid of the phone and purchased a Motorola Rzr

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Jul 2007

Score 2.0/10

Jim, Oxford

+ Cheap.
A good punishment for a teenager who loses phones!

- Not at all intuitive. Clunky looks, display. Too basic even to be really viable.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Oct 2007

Score 7.0/10

Jeanne, Stourbridge

+ Thevery competative cost.

- The instructions

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Aug 2007

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ A simple low cost phone designed to to make and receive phone calls. It can also send and receive text but the display limits its use.
The display features large characters which are easy to read without glasses and can be read in the brightest of daylight

- The display has to mix upper and lower case letters in order to display text

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Jul 2007

Score 9.0/10

Gwen, Swansea

+ Excellent for someone like me who just wants to make ohone calls and nothing else.

- The text writing is not easy ro read you have to scroll across I preferer down.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Dec 2007

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Its lightweight and slimline.

- The phone is difficult to use, the screen is hard to see and navigating the phone is hard.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Dec 2007

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Large text, simple to use, slim design

- No features. At all. Too simple for me.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Jan 2008

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Simple to use. Looks good.

- Inneficient battery- does not hold charge for more than a few dayseven when not used.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 Jan 2008

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ cheap

- fell apart after 1 day

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Nov 2007

Score 3.0/10

Raymond, Belfast

+ Slim

- Difficult to master (text-based) interface.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Jan 2008

Score 2.0/10

Grazyna, Plymouth , “Orange Plymouth Grace”

+ honestly? not many... average battery life... and average design - this is the best in the phone. I don't even use this mobile as emergency...

- :) everything... hard navigation, there is nothing to navigate, almost impossible to write or read a text message... and a lot more

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Nov 2007

Sandeep, London

+ Design

- Everything else

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Jan 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “no”

+ quite easy to use

- lettering when emailing too large.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Mar 2008

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “53, female, IT-literate”

+ simplicity and large text display

- battery life, not displaying whole words, voice saying what feature is selected.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Feb 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Large display. Good for use as telephone. Ideal for the "older" person!

- Not easy to text due to large display on screen.

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purchased 02 Jan 2009

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “overpriced”

+ I very simple and its just a phone.

- expensive compared with newer phone that are avaliable

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purchased 08 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ an inexpensive small phone ideal for my father-in-law to use not complicated

- the size of the text on the screen is too large

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purchased 05 Jan 2009

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Free from feautires i would not want to use.

- text messaging was almost impossible- screen only displayed about two words at a time.

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purchased 02 Jan 2009

Score 2.0/10

allan, chorley

+ battery life

- apart from the battery everything else about the phone i found was dificulte to operate.

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purchased 12 Jan 2009

Score 1.0/10

allan, chorley , “Basic text and chat user”

+ there are not any

- i found this phone dificult to use the quality of the text messages i received was awful the letters were to big and you had dificulty in reading them overall i found this phone awful to use.

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purchased 12 Jan 2009

Score 2.0/10

Anon, Bracknell

+ Very simple phone

- Absolutely no extras, just call or text.

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purchased 02 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

kelly, leeds

+ cheap

- you get what you pay for very basic

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purchased 03 Jul 2007

Score 10.0/10

William, Preston

+ Compact,easy to operrate,ring tones very good.Overall a very good phone.
I would recommend it.

- Phonebook,somtimes can be hard to access.

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purchased 28 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Slim

- Just about everything else

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purchased 08 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

Syeda, London

+ None.I feel riped off

- Text messages really strange! Sone time the letters are capital in the middle of the words.

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purchased 04 Aug 2007

Score 10.0/10

William, London Pimlico

+ Very Easy to read(poor Vision) LOUD ( Poor Hearing)

- Due to poor battery connections from battery to contacts in phone
Intermittent operation (easily fixed)

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purchased 04 Aug 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ easy to use

- no predictive text

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purchased 12 Oct 2007

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Looks

- phonebook

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purchased 16 Aug 2007

Score 10.0/10

Helen, Sheffield

+ Big Text, easy to use

- sound quality

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purchased 10 Oct 2007

Score 5.0/10

Tarsam, London

+ nice small . large display

- navegation and on/off key plus key lock

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purchased 03 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Cheap

- Not easy to navigate and the letters on the screen are too big. So its very hard to read and type messages in full.

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purchased 21 Oct 2007

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Design

- Features

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purchased 24 Oct 2007

Score 4.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very slimline and light

- Pretty much everything else

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purchased 06 Dec 2007

Score 2.0/10

J Mistry, London

+ It's a very basic phone, and I should have looked at the features more closely before purchasing the phone. This has been a bad purchase and I wish I could get a refund as I am not going to use it or give it to my children to use. It is the worst design I have ever since.

- Everthing about the phone is useless

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purchased 21 Dec 2007

Score 2.0/10

mohamed, birmingham

+ Reviewer left no comment

- no screen light to see what you are typing, very poor phone.

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purchased 21 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

ian, romford

+ cheap

- not easy to use.

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purchased 12 Dec 2007

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ the good points about this phone is its battery life.

- everything i do not like this phone much.

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purchased 09 Nov 2007

Score 6.0/10

John, Portsmouth

+ Easy to use, compact.

- Often Craches.

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purchased 09 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Dan, Bordon, Hampshire , “Danxx”

+ the phone looks like a toy made for kids to play with. the good point is that it has good sound quality

- looks like a toy made for kids

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purchased 07 Jan 2008

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ None!

- Everything. Poor design, poor software.

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purchased 21 Dec 2007

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Product Features

3G No
Touchscreen No
Type Candy Bar
Band Dual
EDGE No
WiFi No
Screen Resolution (pixels) 240x320
Bluetooth No
XHTML Browser No
WAP No
FM Tuner No
SatNav No
MP3 ATRAC Playback No
Operating System Proprietary OS
SAR (W per kg in 10g) 0.13
Memory Card Slot No
Camera No
Weight (g) 70
Talk Time (hours) 4.5
Standby Time (hours) 300
USB Port No
Dimensions (mm) 114x47x9
Video Recorder No
Java No
Mobile TV No
Instant Messaging No
HTML Browser No
Phone book capacity (names) 100
Colour Blue
Release Date 1 May 2007

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