Kyocera DuraXV LTE E4610 Verizon Wireless Rugged Waterproof Flip Phone (Renewed)

Simple Affordable Durable
I’d resisted upgrading to new cell phone for years until Verizon dropped 3G. To replace my old phone, I wanted something simple and easy to use and without all the bells and whistles. My needs are simple: I make calls and take calls. I don’t send email, surf the web, do banking, text, or store contact info and family photos on my phone, I have computers with full sized monitors and keyboards and (gasp) a rolodex and secure digital photo storage.The pluses: large keys, durable, waterproof, affordable, uncluttered with apps, not susceptible to being hacked.The minuses: outdated manual for the unit I bought with several maddingly vague or untrue directions about basic functions, sparse ringtone choices.All in all, this phone is a find.

Very Disappointing
This phone was a major downgrade from my previous Kyocera phone. Right away I knew it was a downgrade since they used a cheap plastic for the top part of the flip phone whereas the previous flip phone was completely covered with a strong rubber-like material.The operating system is also a disappointment with it being rather unintuitive and overcomplicating very basic things. It’s even missing very basic and important features like being able to add people to your contacts directly from their text messages.The disappointments don’t end there. For a rugged utilitarian phone, the battery life is laughably bad. I could charge it until completion and it will be down to 50% before the end of the day and practically dead by the end of the next day – and this is with me not using it at all! I have mobile devices from 10 years ago with better battery life than that. I replaced the battery with a new one by Kyocera and it is literally just as bad.On top of all that, it makes random sounds as it charges. So I can never charge it as I sleep.There is just nothing good about this phone. It seems Kyocera has really gone down the tubes.

My sim card got locked
It’s a quite a good condition nice phone.However when I put in my tracfone sim card got lacked When I put them inside and then when I Changed to the US mobile White sim card Which is under the T mobile network I have some service issues the data wasn’t work.

Alright, But Not Great & Lacks Basic Accessibility Features
This phone was purchased to replace a Kyocera DuraXV Plus because Verizon finally decided to kill off the far more reliable 3G towers in the area. One would think – and expect, frankly – that the LTE version of the same model phone would be at least as good as, if not superior to, the original. But unfortunately, no.Since this phone is for my dad, who needs quite a few of the now-defunct accessibility features, that’s more than a little infuriating. In fact, it’s downright obnoxious and there’s nothing that can be done about it because replacing the DuraXV Plus with another non-LTE version isn’t allowed due to that one being a 3G-only device.Features now missing or gripes not present with the normal DuraXV Plus include:* The battery gets concerningly warm for just sitting there doing nothing with the phone closed and screen off! You’d expect it to be room temperature or colder, like the previous phone, but nope. And that’s with wifi and cell data off!* Battery drains FAST, far faster than the DuraXV Plus that’s a few years old and has seen heavy usage.* Lacks the “Smart Sonic” receiver technology, making calls less clear and harder to hear in handheld mode. Considering this phone was purchased for someone who’s hard of hearing and doesn’t use a hearing aid, that’s a significant downgrade.* The user interface is a garish white instead of a sleek gray, causing eye fatigue and further wasting limited battery life blaring the display at blinding white.* There is no option to enable “escalating ring” so you’re up a creek with no paddle if you happen to be someone with varied hearing loss or who works in environments with variable background noise that impacts the hearing loss. Just gotta blow everyone’s eardrums out from the start and annoy everyone in the area instead of having the ringtone gradually get loud from a reasonable starting volume.* You also can’t set volume for anything independently. There’s “master volume” which is literally everything from ringtone to message alert to call volume, and then there’s keypad tones. Again, this is very annoying for someone with varied hearing loss who needs customized volume levels for different tones.* There is no ability to have the phone read out ONLY the name of who’s calling. It’s all or nothing: read every bloody thing hovered on the screen, or read nothing. Better get to downloading unique ringtones and desperately trying to remember which one means who, unless you’re okay with every move you make on your phone being announced to the people around you.* You can’t change the font size per screen or per function, like you can in the non-LTE DuraXV Plus. If you want the numbers dialed to be large, you also have to use garishly gigantic contact names, menu item names, etc. Same if you prefer one thing to be small; you better be prepared for EVERYTHING to be tiny.* Settings are needlessly rearranged, not logically organized, and overall just an absolute pain to navigate vs. the logically arranged and well organized options in the normal DuraXV Plus.* You can’t rearrange the items on the menu to fit convenience, preference, or need.* The speakerphone button is no longer a dedicated button on the keypad; it’s on the opposite side and shared with the camera button. A microphone/voice command/dictation type button replaces the speakerphone shortcut.* You can’t turn the flashlight off with the shortcut button set to turn it on (and there’s no option to set a separate one to turn it off). Seriously. It’s an on button only, and you have to read the screen to find the “turn flashlight off” function. What kind of flashlight has an on-only button instead of an on/off?!* There seems to be no way to turn off “threaded” (aka, smartphone) view for text messages. Having messages take up only a small portion of one side or the other of a tiny basic phone screen is a NIGHTMARE.* The battery cover is extremely difficult to get off without feeling like you’re breaking it, and even harder to get on because the lower portion wants to stick out further than it should.* There’s also something unnerving in general about a supposedly waterproof/rugged phone having “charging contacts” on the back battery door – aka pieces of metal that allow direct access to the batter to “charge in a dock”. There’s some concern about potential harm coming to phone or user if, say, a damp hand is used to grasp the phone! I’m sure that’s just general worry and I would hope it’s not possible, but it is unsettling all the same.* The antenna seems to be far weaker than the normal DuraXV Plus and a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone. Placed in the same location, the DuraXV gets one bar of 1x and 1 bar of 3G. The smartphone gets two bars of 3G. And the DuraXV LTE struggles, jumping between no signal at all and 1 bar of 1x. It seems to latch onto 3G the most often, but that’s a moot point now. (Why Verizon would be so short-sighted as to kill off 3G in an area that has next to no 4G signal is beyond me, but this phone’s weaker antenna certainly doesn’t help the situation any.) When placed in a part of the home with 4G available (only one bar) on a smartphone, the DuraXV LTE remains on 1x a majority of the time and only occasionally finds the 4G.* You can’t disable VoLTE. Yes, this will be a moot point after 3G is truly killed off (unless 1X remains; they’ve been unclear about that), but it’s a HUGE problem while there’s still 3G available in an area. VoLTE means that if your call is made over that half a bar of 4G it’s barely clinging to and you move your head slightly, your call will drop. It also means that sometimes it takes 5 rings from the other person before your phone will ring at all, because you were sitting there between 4G and 3G or 1X. Welcome to dropped and missed call Hell; there are no return trips.Overall, I’m extremely disappointed in Kyocera for giving this phone the same model name as the far superior DuraXV Plus. This is along the same lines as Samsung’s insistence upon naming the ultra-powerful flagship phones and the cheap prepaid phones the same thing (Galaxy). I expected the same standard of quality and an upgrade, but instead I’ve unwittingly given my dad a terrible downgrade that he’s now stuck with.Not that there are much in the way of options for non-3G basic phones that can withstand moisture and shock, though. Everyone’s moved on to fragile smartphones that cost a fortune and break if you look at them funny – terrible for someone who works with heavy machinery and is frequently out in the elements while needing to have a phone available for emergencies. (And I say that as someone who loves my Galaxy Note 9 with its terribly fragile screen and can’t imagine ever using a basic phone again without it driving me insane! That just isn’t suitable for EVERYONE, and I’m capable of recognizing such.)If you live in an area with decent 4G signal, and don’t need the accessibility of the features I’ve mentioned, this may very well be a nice little phone for you! I’m disappointed, but I wouldn’t say it’s a bad phone – just one which doesn’t even hold a candle to the 3G model of the same name.