ZTE Essenze

Well was really excited to get this phone great price great deal online. love nokias but lets try something diff. (had nokia 1006 yeah pretty basic)
Pros-
lite weight sturdy has lots of apps and features.
ChatLink GPS Navigation Pocket Express and so much more.
Has Camera
Mobile IM, bluetooth (able to "grab" multiple files at a time instead of being transfered to your phone one by one)
Love that it has 60 Mb of storage space and is USB compatible. (dont need that many songs on my phone i dont live by it, but 30 or so songs is cool enough.)
all in all it was pretty cool
Speakerphone works great havent had faulty dropped calls yet

Cons-
can't get on yahoo from this phone! says it's not supported. sucks as bcuz on my old nokia 1006 i had access to everything. weird because they're both using metroweb, probably just different browser.
Sometimes you can't view the pics if you use the 640x480 and the highset quality!
It will say exceeds viewing size or some crap
but ! It only happens sometimes and on the same pics. Weird sometimes i can view them sometimes i cant.
i heard the laylo was worse with the pics thing tho so i cant complain when you wanna debate on cheap but decent phones

Worth buying it online. it comes out practically free.
not worth ending up paying 70 someting in store.
Might as well go with freeform. few friends can't complain bout it.

I bought this phone 2 weeks ago and now the screen is white ugh. I hope when I take it back today I dont have any problems

I bought one of those ZTE Essenze from the metropcs located in meijers at 13 and john R on December 17, 2009 at about 4:30pm. I bought the phone when I was on lunch at work ,I would say at about 4:30pm or later.
The guy rambled on about how what a "BAD MOTHERF##KER" this phone was, so I bought is for $106. I left work at 11pm when I got home I went to bed. The next day I woke up at 10:45pm, I didn't have to be to work until 1pm so I watched a movie. I left for work and grabbed my new phone and put it in my big front pocket. I started to cupping candy at work and decided to text my friend, and what do you know the screen wasn't working it was all white. so I decided to take my phone back to get my money.I punched out for lunch and went up to there counter in meijers, I waited in line for about 22 mins because the women behind the counter was talking to another customer. I showed some one else that was waiting in line the phone and how it broke within less than 24 hours, The woman behind the counter finally asked "WHAT DO YOU WANT" I was like look at the phone, She picks it up and takes it out of the case and saw that the phones screen was all white, She instantly said did you drop the phone I said no, then she said so you sat on it, I said no it was in my front pocket which are huge and not tight. she said nothing after that, then I asked can I get my money back for the phone i do not wish to trade back for the same crappy phone I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! she tells me i need to have the case and everything that came with it so i tell my boss I'm taking a long lunch I go home and get my box and every thing that came with it including the crappy phone. When I got back to meijer the guy that sold me the phone was in there, once i showed up he started tell me the same thing the girl did, "YOU DROPPED IT OR SAT ON IT " I Said no I did not , but after about 30 mins of him telling me it was me and something about "What did god break your phone, did I break your phone, we don't have a button that breaks your phone or something like that, he started to piss me off I figured he was cussing so I started to cuss. Then he told me to get out of here before i do something to you, I was THINKING WHAT IS THAT suppose to mean ??? IS HE going to hurt a customer ??? I walked away pissed off I called my dad and told him about it he came up at about 7 PM I took my break and went with him, my dad was talking nice at first but the guy wouldn't listen to my dad too, he told my dad they just came out 8 days ago its new there in nothing wrong with this phone and never will have any problems, hes a tech he said i know this phone is good, My dad asked what kinda of crappy phone are you selling if it breaks within 12 hours of owning it with out me abusing or sitting on the phone. the guy just wouldn't give up and admit the phone was the problem not the customer. my dad told him you don't give a sh*t about the customers do you and he said nope i don't give a shit about customers,He said about 2 times, the funny thing about that a few other customers were in line looking at the guy as he said it. he told my dad there's nothing he can do for us and said something about a some office that wasn't there, that could help up.
I would say never get this phone and never trust metropcs, they are con artist, they act nice when you are handing them $106 but one you have a problem they don't do anything for you and threaten you on top of all that, I don't know if metropcs corporates care but I do so Im calling customer service tomorrow and sending a letter to corporate asking for apology for all the trouble and for the guy threatening me. I don't think meijer would like to here about metropcs customer service, because meijer is a friendly store that is big on customer service, they take back anything even apples with bites taken out of them NO QUESTIONS ASKED. metropcs has something like that but they don't really care about the customers and wont give your money back even after asking a thousand question and accusing the customer that it is his fault and there is no way the phone has problems, and on top of it threaten the customer, but don't let me discourage you from buying the phone buy your on your own after owning it.

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