Virgin Mobile Kyocera K9 Pay-As-You-Go Wireless Phone
Phone good for the money, battery issues can be overcome
I bought this phone about a week ago and so far I'm impressed.  The phone features are good, especially compared with the 5 year old model I upgraded from.  Phonebook is nice and stores all types of info for your contacts, tetris and knock-out games will help pass time if bored.  Phone is light and easily slips into a pocket without a big \\"bulge\\".  When I first charged the phone i experienced the same battery \\"issues\\" a number of people are complaining about.  I beleive the problem to be software and not the battery.  My phone charged the first time in less than an hour.  I thought that was weired.  I unplugged and re-plugged the phone back in but it still said it was charged.  I let it drain (it did in less than two days), charged again, this time it took a little under 2 hours (manual says it should take about 3).  I made a couple calls and plugged it back in.  It continued to charge for another hour+.  It's been running on the same charge for over 4 days now.  I think you just need to \\"trick\\" the phone software into letting it charge the battery more.  While this certainly is a difficiency in the phone, for the $50 price tag ($40 if you subtract the $10 of free service) and the phone features, what more do you want.  If you want the latest and greatest gadgets and doo-dads for free, go sign a two year contract that will cost you $1200 over the two years.  Now that's an expensive phone!