The rumors have been floating around for a couple of weeks about new TracFone models, and now the TracFone website (Net10 as well) is showing the Samsung T301g, Samsung T201g, and Samsung 101g on the phone activation page.
The TracFone Samsung T301g is a slider phone, which the rumors say should have a camera. According to a compliance document filed with the FCC, it should also have bluetooth.
The TracFone Samsung T201g is a clamshell flip phone, while the TracFone Samsung T101g is a standard candy bar phone. The T201g FCC page and T101g FCC page both point to the same compliance test document, which makes me wonder if they are basically the same phone in different form factors (pure speculation on my part).
None of the phones are not actually for sale yet, so I don't have any pricing information, but I'll order one of each as soon as they show up on the order page so that I can do a full detailed review.
Update: The Samsung TracFone T101g and Samsung TracFone T301g are now released! Reviews coming soon.
Update 2: The Fone-Review Samsung TracFone T301G review (part 1) and Samsung TracFone T101G review are both posted!
It will be interesting to see how these new Samsung TracFones stack up against the current batch of Motorola TracFones and LG TracFones!
hey i talked to tracfone today. The samsung t301g will be released on monday march 16, 2009. The features they told me it would have is a camera, bluetooth, texting, and fm radio. Price the lady hinted at around $50.00
Posted by: Dan | March 11, 2009 at 07:36 PM
How can I download the ringtone of my choice for the Samsung T201g from Net10? Net10 made it look like I could download whatever ringtone I wanted and could surf the web. Both of these are not true.
Posted by: Matt Anderson | May 25, 2009 at 09:35 AM
You've touched upon something that I mention in all of my TracFone phone reviews.
They used to say that the phones had internet, but now they say this:
"Buy Ringtones, Graphics, News, Weather, Sports and more using Airtime Minutes"
They don't mention, however, that you can only buy ringtones from TracFone or Net10, not from anywhere else.
Technically, you can get midi ringtones. I talk about this here:
http://www.fone-review.com/tracfone-ringtones.html
Posted by: Keith Tyndall | May 25, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Although it may not still be possible to do this, I was able to save my minutes by sending ringtones to my cell phone using regular INTERNET and regular EMAIL.
The email address that Net10 users would use to email themselves ringtones via text message uploading to their phone depends on the carrier they have. (Each carrier has their own special text messaging/email address).
It also depends on your location, because Net10 uses different carriers. I have several custom ringtones now, and it took approx. 3 minutes out of my minutes to upload to my cell. :)
Posted by: JaneDoe | June 09, 2009 at 05:16 PM