Net10 Motorola V176 Review

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Motorola v176 Reconditioned Cell Phone, 300 minute airtime card

Motorola v176 Reconditioned Cell Phone, 600 minute airtime card

The Net10 Motorola V176 was one of the best deals on a prepaid flip phone. When you bought a $60 Net10 airtime card, you got a free reconditioned V176 which included 300 minutes free and sixty days of service upon activation. When you activated the 60 minute card on top of that, you got an additional 600 minutes and 120 days of service. That gave you a total of 900 minutes of airtime and 180 days (about six months) of service. At $60, that works out to just $10 a month for the first six months.

The Motorola V176 was a basic, reliable phone that has been phased for some newer models. In case it is still available in some areas, I've left the rest of the review below mostly as is:

What You Need to Know

The V176 is a lightweight phone weighing about 3 ounces.

Battery Life

The phone has a standby time of 12.5 days – almost two weeks. In reality, you may be able to go about a week before recharging it if you don’t use it much. The maximum talk time is 6 hours or 720 minutes which would cost you $72, so you probably don’t need to care about this.

It’s a Net10 phone. That means . . .

You get 10 Cents per Minute or less on all Calls

All domestic calls cost 10 cent or less per minute. (However, your effective initial rate drops to 7.5 cents per minute if you take advantage of the deal mentioned above.

And Cheap International Calls

International calls to over 60 destinations cost 15 cents per minute. And, in fact, if you’re more comfortable in another language, the V176 is a multilingual phone. You can set it to English, Spanish, or French.

Text Messages

Text messages cost 0.5 minutes to send or receive. This is not bad. If you really send a lot of text messages, you could try some other providers which offer text messaging packs, but be aware that your overall cost could shoot up by quite a bit.

V176 Features

As a basic prepaid flip phone, the Net10 Motorola V176 has many of the expected standard features.

For example, you can pick the recipient of your call or message from the

250-Entry Phonebook

Whether you usually call or text, you can store up to 250 contacts in the V176’s phonebook. This capacity is so-so these days, but most people still don’t make full use of this feature.

The handset has a color display and a hands-free speaker phone.

Other standard features include voicemail, Call Waiting and Caller ID.

Voicemail

Net10 voice is easy to set up and pretty convenient. You do get charged airtime but the whole process is pretty efficient so it’s not too bad.

Call Waiting and Caller ID

Call waiting and Caller ID are standard features that, just like with a landline phone, makes your life a little easier.

A Few Extras

Though it’s a basic phone, you can still get a few extra services for your Net10 Motorola V176 such as . . .

Ringtones and Graphics

You can buy ringtones and graphics from the Net10 web site, if you’re not satisfied with the ones included on the phone.

News, Weather and Sports

If you’re really into the news, need to check weather alerts, or a big sports fan you can sign up for these data services using your airtime.

Alarm Clock

Last but not least, is the humble alarm clock. If you’ve been burned more than once by a hotel’s unreliable alarm clock, using the Net10 Motorola V176’s alarm clock as a backup can save your skin.

Manual

If you want to know more, check out the Net10 Motorola V176 Manual(pdf).

Net10 Deal

You know you DON'T want to

pay a monthly bill,

pay for extra features you don't need

covered by an expensive long-term contracts

Then you could choose Net10 and pay only

10 cents a minute for all your calls,

get a

free flip phone with your airtime purchase,

and get another

300 minutes free upon activation.

Just grab this offer to get 900 minutes of airtime and a FREE Motorola phone for only $60 at Net10.com

and don't forget this: Get $3 off on any phone or accessory $19.99 or more with coupon code 34567

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Change language of Motorola V176
I need to set my phone to English, and I dont know how.

Net10 V176 a pretty decent affordable phone!
I bought this phone (Net10 V176) about 6 months or so back and it is a great mobile phone for those of us who don't need or want to live on the phone all ...

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I love my phone - have had it for several years - but somehow the display on the inbox and outbox for messages is now displaying the phone number instead ...

Net10 V176 acceptable in almost every aspect. Not rated yet
This is an entirely capable, basic cell phone. Call quality is decent, and people on the other end can hear me fine. Net10 uses AT&T's network, and I've ...

My grandmother loves the V176 Not rated yet
I bought my grandmother this Motorola V176 phone as a gift about a month ago. She is getting up there in age, and needed a phone to use, god forbid she ...

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