Motorola C139

Motorola C139 is a cellular phone designed and manufactured for Motorola by an Original design manufacturer. It addresses people with basic needs,[1] and has limited features.[2] This phone has been offered on AT&T's GoPhone service, TracFone, Cellular One, and Net10. It is primarily focused for prepaid plans,[3] and was claimed by a PC Magazine review to be the cheapest unlocked GSM handset.[4] The Motorola C139 is supported by OsmocomBB.

Motorola C139
First released2005
Mass85 g (3.2 oz)
MemoryUp to 100 names and numbers
DisplayTFT, 65K colors

Design flaws
A demonstration of the Motorola C139 screen glare, and unreadability with the backlight off.

This phone is designed so that the LCD screen is only readable with the backlight on.[5][6]

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gollark: Wow, people really do do ridiculous conformity things.
gollark: Or you can use something like syncthing, since they actually expose a filesystem.
gollark: I'm pretty sure Android devices just support plain MTP.
gollark: I also have a very trivial UDP to Discord bridge as a backup alerting system for someone.

References
  1. Motorola C139 (AT&T) Review
  2. Motorola C139 Specs & Features
  3. Entry-level Motorola C139 lands in Cingular's pre-paid lineup Archived 18 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine by Ben Patterson, infoSync, 11 July 2006, Accessed 3 October 2007
  4. Motorola C139 (Review) by Sascha Segan, PC Magazine, 14 March 2007, Accessed 3 October 2007
  5. Motorola C139 - Reviews by PC Magazine
  6. Motorola C139 Reviews (Phone Scoop)

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