When you need a basic, cheap cell phone this is it. It was free with 2 year contract. It has most of the functionality that you expect from a basic phone: speakerphone, silent ringer. Internal display can be seen in sunlight, speakerphone is excellent, ringer is loud. The phone is sturdy. It fell many times and still works. The only problem which I think is serious is that the battery is horrible. I bought 2 phones from verizon. First phone needed to be recharged every 18 hours the other could live for 2 days if you do not use the phonr. I brought the first phone to verizon but they said that 18 hour stand by time was good for the phone. After some alot of whining on my part they switched my battery and they turned out to be right. I experienced no change in battery life. Now one year into my contract I had to get used phones from my friends because both of my phones could not be taken of the recharger. Also it has poor signal reception (maybe because it does not have retractable antennae) It does not have battery eating extras like camera, bluetooth, mp3 player.