- Easy-to-use candybar-style phone for voice communication and text messaging
- Pay for just the minutes you use with no annual contract–easy refill via Internet or prepaid cards
- Speakerphone; calendar; stopwatch; FM radio
- Up to 4.2 hours of talk time, up to 480 hours (20 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, battery, charger, wired hands-free headset, user guide
Amazon.com Product Description
Stay in touch with all your contacts and keep your busy life organized with the Motorola Renew W233, and pay the way you want with prepaid and postpaid calling plans from T-Mobile Pay As You Go. A great choice for those looking for a simplified cell phone for on-the-go communications, the Nokia 1661 offers essential mobile phone functionality. It also features an FM radio (headset required), speakerphone for handsfree communication, calendar, phone book with storage for 500 contacts, and over 4 hours of talk time.
A no-frills communicator, the Nokia 1661 is a great mobile voice and text messaging companion. |
T-Mobile Pay As You Go Prepaid Service
T-Mobile prepaid plans give you wireless access with less commitment, so you can pay–and talk–as you go. With no annual contract, no credit check, and no monthly bill, prepaid plans are a simple, direct way to go mobile. There are many ways to conveniently refill your T-Mobile Prepaid Plan so that you can stay continually connected with the people who matter most, including using web2go directly from your phone, via the T-Mobile web site, or using refill cards available at over 90,000 locations nationwide.
With Pay As You Go, you get wireless service exactly how you like it–there’s no long-term contract, no credit checks, and no surprises. Add $100 in refills with Pay As You Go and you’ll become a Gold Rewards customer, which gets you 15 percent more minutes on all refills and your minutes won’t expire for a year after the time you refill.
You can also pay only $1.00 per day for unlimited nights and unlimited nationwide calling to any T-Mobile number. All other domestic calls you make are just 10ยข per minute.
T-Mobile includes the following services with this T-Mobile Pay As You Go phone:
- Nationwide long distance (including calls to Alaska and Hawaii)
- National roaming on the T-Mobile USA network
- T-Mobile web2go (free shopping for HiFi Ringers, MegaTones, wallpapers, and more; not available on all devices)
- VoiceMail, caller ID, call waiting, three-way calling
- Free e-mail address (10digitnumber@tmomail.net)
Additional services available for additional fees:
- Text messaging ($0.20 to send, $0.20 to receive)
- Picture messaging ($0.20 to send or receive)
- Download ringtones and wallpaper (prices vary)
- Download games and applications (prices vary)
- 411 & More directory assistance ($1.49 per call plus airtime)
- International dialing to over 150 countries (international rates apply)
- Prepaid international roaming rates
To keep your mobile number active, refill within 90 days after your minutes expire. After 90 days, your account will be canceled and you will lose your phone number. If you want to restart service after that time, you will need to activate new service.
Phone Features
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The candybar-style Nokia 1661 has a color LCD screen with a 128 x 160-pixel resolution and 65K color depth. It has a standard alpha-numeric keypad, five-way navigator, send/end keys, and two soft keys for navigating the interface. The phone has an internal 4 MB memory, which isn’t expandable. The internal phonebook can store up to 500 contact entries, with multiple numbers per entry and support for caller groups. Additionally, the phone displays the most recent 20 dialed/received/missed calls.
If you need text messaging capabilities, the 1661 has you covered as support is built-in for sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages. T9 predictive text entry, a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built-into the unit–a plus for text messaging users.
- Organizer tools: calendar with month view (up to 10 entries), clock, converter stopwatch
- Integrated speakerphone
- 2.5mm headset jack
- Ringtones: Polyphonic (32 channels), MP3
- SMS storage: up to 250 messages on phone
- Dedicated speaking clock key
- Vibrating alert
Vital Statistics
The Nokia 1661 weighs 2.9 ounces and measures 4.25 x 1.8 x 0.53 inches. Its 860 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.2 hours of talk time, and up to 480 hours (20 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS frequencies.
Nokia 1661 Prepaid Phone, Black
For $20, this is a bargain replacement phone. I put in my existing T-mobile SIM and it worked perfectly.
Pros:
-Bright colorful screen
-Slim
-Flashlight
-FM radio that works
Cons:
-People report they cannot hear me well.
-The keys are slippery, noisy, and hard to press. If you do a lot of texting, you may want a better keypad.
-FM radio require Nokia plug
Rating: 4 / 5
So my wife’s nice T-Mobile cell decides to quit 2 months before the end of her contract. Naturally, getting a replacement from T-Mobile was a big rip-off, they got you vs you got them when contract expires. So, I stumbled on this prepaid, and since the other review confirmed it would accept the regular SIM card from the T-Mobile cells, and with its $20 price, became a no brainer. Got it activated with its own SIM, then swapped in my wife’s original SIM card and vola, she got a working cell for couple months until she can get a real one.
Now, this cell is small, light, kind of cute, but has no volume adjustment (so little hard to hear the other caller), even thought they hear you fine. The other problem was the way it jumbled up the contact list that came on the old SIM card, (when a contact had more than 1 number, it ended up showing multiple name listing for each number, so John 1 was for work number, John 2 for Cell, John 3 for home …etc). Another issue is the reception, we always had full T-Mobile bars at our home, but this one was fluctuating between 1-3 bars, so it may prove to be a problem with dropped calls, lets see. Furthermore, wife complained about the keypad, sending a text message was a chore when compared with her old phone, but it still worked fine. Don’t expect blue tooth capability, but it did come with a wired head phone (useless for her since it is an insult to use it, lol). The charger had an odd port (not the standard USB, what is the problem with these manufacturers)????
Anything good?!! Well, it works, is stylish and is very cheap, so I stretched it and gave it 3 stars.
Rating: 3 / 5
Very nice basic phone. I think they’ve deliberately gone with a cheap-and-cheerful look on the side and back plastic to avoid looking too good next to more expensive phones. Shame, as the front is very clean and stylish.
For me it replaced the Nokia 1608 – the previous cheapo candy-bar phone from T-Mobile prepaid. This is a major step up and addresses everything I didn’t like about that phone. Very good high resolution screen showing plenty of text, keys which are much nicer to use (not perfect), it looks better and it’s very slim and unobtrusive in a pocket. It has a ringtone which isn’t an annoying tune, which is a major step up!
The keys could be easier to use – I wouldn’t want to try to use them by feel in a pocket, though they work much better than they look like they would. They also click a bit loudly, so any kids wanting to text unnoticed in the pocket in class will not like this phone.
Shame the radio doesn’t work out of the speakerphone speaker.
In case anyone misses it, ear volume is left-right on the 4-way, during a call.
If it dies when overcharged I’ll be back to change my review, but I assume the other reviewer was just unlucky.
Edit: I did see some wierdness when it refused to take a charge. I popped the battery out and in and all is well again. We’ll see.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this for 19.98 at [...], after my t-mobile phone died on me. I didn’t want to pay the outrageous prices that t-mobile was asking for any of their regular phones, since I plan to switch companies once my current contract is up. The chick at the t-mobile store told me I couldn’t buy the phone without paying the 50 dollar activation, but wal-mart had no problem.
I popped in my old sim card and it worked right away, no need to install the sim card that comes with it first or anything. The phone it self is basic, and kinda cheap feeling, but it was worth 20 bucks. Yes, the keys are sort of hard to use, but I don’t text a lot so it doesn’t concern me.
Overall though, it makes and receives calls, and will get me through the last 5 months of my contract. Mine actually came with a headset to use with the FM radio built in, which might come in handy if my Ipod dies at work or something. It also has a built in flashlight, but you have to press so many keys to get to turn on, you might be better off just using the key glow.
Rating: 4 / 5
This phone is such a good deal.I have used lot of go phones.But I find this one to be very convienent and user friendly.
The best low price phone.
Rating: 5 / 5