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hey I'm Nate with CNET today we're talking about the t-mobile seven six eight it's a $72 flip foam that's gonna be best for folks on a tight budget we'll start with the good things um call quality it's pretty good actually I know I tried the phone out in San Francisco and in parts of Oakland and the call quality was always pretty good you could always you know hear people clearly in people whether I was having people you know in the Bay Area or on the East Coast they said you know they could hear me clearly and that's pretty much kind of video at least there was a time when that was the primary purpose for a smart phone but we'll get to that in a minute the phone also has an FM radio which I thought was a pretty cool addition and it supports up to 32 gigs of micro SD storage in an expandable slot right underneath the battery so that's also really great if you want to carry in your own music around unfortunately that's pretty much all that's great about the phone the keypad for example uses old-school t9 texting which makes send things like sending text messages or emails a kind of miserable experience which is not that great because the phone does offer 3G connectivity and there is a web browser it runs the Opera Mini web browser so while you can't technically get online and check your email and things like that with the phone because of the keypad you aren't really ever going to want to there's a two megapixel camera but it's a pretty terrible camera and the video camera is also pretty terrible but here's the thing it's a $72 phone on one of t-mobile's cheapest plan you get unlimited talk and text and no data caps and no contract assigned for 40 bucks a month that means over the course of two years you're spending about 43 bucks a month for unlimited talking and unlimited testing I guess I wouldn't recommend testing on this phone but if you're looking to spend relatively little on a phone just so you can keep in touch with your family and your friends you just want to make voice calls you don't really care about apps or browsing the internet or sending lots of emails or things like that the t-mobile seven six eight actually isn't a terrible deal I'm Nate Ralph thanks for watching you