AT&T Prepaid - AT&T GoPhone Samsung A157 No-Contract Cell Phone - Black

I believe this cell phone is great to use for calling and receiving phone calls. Do not expect much from a basic phone, for the price that you paid for it.

I needed a phone to send my grand daughter for when she comes home for the holidays, and this phone was a great price and serves as a great phone for her for the limited time she will be in the states.

Had an older AT&T phone that was acting up for my 85 yr old mother who is out of state.. When I got to town I went to the AT&T store.. no help .. since I thought it might be a battery problem. Went to Best Buy and to my luck an AT&T employee with some knowledge told me about this phone... that I could drop the SIM card from the current phone into this phone and not change anything about my AT&T service on my 3 cells. My mother loves the phone... SIMPLE.... all she needs and easy for her to operate... A WINNER

I bought this phone to be a simple, easy to use phone to replace a slider with a menu that was difficult to navigate. You don't have to use the SIM card for the prepaid plan that comes in the package. I just took the old SIM card out of the old cell phone and put it into this new phone, and that was all it took to switch the service for the old cell phone number to this phone. Something awesome that discovered is that is phone changes on a standard microUSB cable, so if you already have a Kindle charger, it will work for this phone also! It was very easy to add items to the "Go To" menu for quick access to make it silent and to check voicemail. The only thing I don't like about this phone is that it doesn't have a screen on the outside. When a call comes in, you have to open the phone to see who is calling. Not much of an issue for me. It does have a default setting that when you open the phone during an incoming call, you can choose to answer or decline the call. It does not automatically answer when you open it. Nice compact phone that slides easily into pocket or purse! I have been very happy with it!

Some people use their phones for internet, for music, for video games, for e-readers. For those who want a cell phone for just... phone calls... this is it. Simplicity abounds. Real buttons to press. Press the numbers in the proper sequence, and, presto! Your call goes through. I needed a simple phone for my elderly mother. This phone also permits speed dialing for additional ease of use. At first I gave her a ZTE smart phone, but that apparently was too smart for any of us. ZTE took Android to a new level of user unfriendliness. This Samsung does some fancy stuff like internet and texting, but it's really made for phone calls. If it wasn't for this user-friendly design, I would have had to purchase my elderly mother a "jitterbug" and forego my ATT service. I am appreciative that some companies have recognized that not everybody wants all the bells and whistles of a smart phone.

I bought this phone for my mom whom only talks on her phone, she doesn't text or get on the internet. she loves this phone because the numbers are so large and the back light makes the numbers easy for her to see. This phone doesn't have any extras, no camera and no bluetooth. But if you only want a phone the volume is good, easy to see the numbers and easy to use.

This is a great basic telephone for occasional travelers. the only con i can think of is that i signed in for a prepaid telephone plan that allows me to make unlimited phone calls plus unlimited texts for 2 dollars a day and they take that from the money you put on the phone only the days you use it, but (and i think it is a big but) i could not find a plan that included also unlimited internet usage, that would have been useful. any way, i it was great to have a telephone when traveling abroad as i don't live in the states. for me, it was a great purchase.

This is a nice, very inexpensive phone for those of us who just need something basic for phone calls and text--there's no video. The biggest problem is that the highest volume for the ringtones is not very loud, so I miss a lot of calls.