Tracfone C261- decent if you want a very basic phone.

by Miriam Warren
(Tulsa Oklahoma)

I got the Tracfone Motorola C261 for my son. He is 11 years old, and since I wanted him to have a basic, bare-bones phone that was prepaid so I could keep track of the minutes, I thought this was a good choice.

The first Tracfone which I had selected for him did not include a camera, and he really desperately wanted one, so I was thrilled to find this model! It has a perfectly decent camera and in fact I've been very surprised at the photo quality. He took a photo of our dog which might be as good as anything I have taken on my Blackberry. He does not like the fact that it's rather complicated to send photos to other people, but as I told him , he has a camera after all, and that is what he asked for!

The phone has good sound quality, pretty easy to operate, and it performs all the basic phone functions quite well. Internet on this phone is just really not possible( very much difficult to do), but I prefer it that way considering it's for an 11 year old! The speakerphone is VERY good, better in fact than the speakerphone on many higher priced phones. All told, a good basic phone, especially as a starter phone.