Motorola C261 Phone Review

Here's a short, hands-on review of the Motorola C261 phone available from Tracfone. Check out the basic features and follow the links for some quick tips such as how to email those cool photos you take with your Motorola C261.

How to get it

You can take advantage of their current offer:

Buy a 200 minute airtime card for $39.99 and get a Motorola phone FREE!

or you can get it from a store like Walmart, Target, etc.

At your doorstep

The shiny new black (or red) phone will arrive at your doorstep so make sure someone is home to receive as it ships via courier service with signature required.

I ordered it just before Christmas so the box it came was gold with a red painted ribbon on it, which was a nice touch.

Basic features of the Motorola C261 phone

Camera

A VGA quality camera -- on the low-end but still usable for emailing pics or posting on your personal website, once you figure out how to extract the pictures from the camera -- via MMS messages to your email account.

Color display

Standard stuff. The display does turn off fairly quickly by default when your not using it to save battery life. You can adjust this time-out feature in the settings.

Speaker phone

This is cool. There is a big (for a cell phone) speaker in the back which really does provide enough volume for a speaker phone. Useful if your hands are busy at the moment or if you're on hold and listening to Muzak (and grinding your teeth as your minutes tick by).

Phone Book

The phone book has two kinds of contacts: number and email. This makes it easy when sending text or picture messages so you don't accidentally send to phone instead of email or vice versa.

Web browser - Bad

Forget this feature. Currently Tracfone only allows you to visit their sites via the phone's web browser. If you really need web access on your phone, pick another service.

Calculator

Very basic but easier to use than some other calculators on cell phones. You can add, subtract, multiply, divide and convert currency, and these basic operations are available from the ring-shaped button.

Alarm clock

The alarm clock is good as a backup when traveling.

Stopwatch

Okay, you won't be using this feature to see how long it takes you to do 10 laps, but it is actually kind-of-useful to keep track of how long you've spent on a task at work if you need to.

Notepad

Where you can write your quick reminders.

Should you get it?

The TracFone Motorola C261 phone is a pretty cool camera phone that still fits in your budget leaving time for the important things in your life. If you want the option of taking pictures with your prepaid cell phone then you should try this one out.

You can check out the latest bargains on the C261 and other Tracfones.

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