MOTOROLA V170 PREPAID TRACPHONE CELL PHONE
Not A Big Deal
Save your money.  The only selling features this phone has are the color video display and the polyphonic ringtones...big deal.  Who cares what the display looks like as long as it's clear and easy to read and as for the ringtones, you're just adding to the cacophony of annoyances in any given place where people insist on having cellphones with cutesy ringtones set at the loudest volume in the quietest places.<br /><br />My biggest complaints with tracfone lies with their website and the lack of a customer service telephone number.  The site is always slow, doesn't work with any other browser except IE and the cust svc #, while, once upon a time consumers were actually able to talk to a live Indian doing \\"tech support,\\" does not exist anymore.  If you have any kind of difficulties/issues, you are forced to contact tracfone via the website where you will then sit and wait for days until your email inquiry is acknowledged.  Notice I said \\"acknowledged.\\"  You get a reply letting you know your issue was received.  Then you'll wait another 3-5 days until someone actually replies to your inquiry.<br /><br />Tracfone was really convenient and really strove for consumer satisfaction at its debut...a girlfriend bought me a phone in '03 and I've been using it since.  But as tracfone has grown, its customer service has significantly degraded which seems to be par for the course with any given vendor.  The bigger/more profitable it becomes, the more the consumer gets the shaft.