Kyocera Milano Pro Reviews

There are two basic selling points to the Kyocera Milano: 1. It costs just $29.99 on contract; and 2. It has a keyboard and Android. That's it, though. While the Milano is a good voice phone, has good battery life, and a great keyboard for pecking out messages, it excels at little else. The slower processor, low-res screen, and diminutive feature list make for a slow phone that doesn't look great or offer much. This underpowered phone runs native apps poorly. Hardcore gaming apps? No way. The camera software has great features, but is slow and takes horrible images. In the end, if you're looking for the most basic smartphone and don't plan to use it for much more than calling and messaging, the Milano could work out for you (but then so could a feature phone). If you want more from your device than the basics, I highly suggest you pony up a little bit more cash for a phone with a bit more horsepower. Sprint offers plenty for $99.99, several for $49.99, and even some for free.

Even at $30, the Milano is a tough sell. The price may attract buyers who are new to smartphones, and the handset's call quality and battery life are pretty solid. But the tiny amount of internal storage and the truly terrible display will turn off a lot of people who want to use their phone as a media device. If you're looking for a budget phone with a slide-out keyboard and nothing more, the Milano will satisfy your needs nicely. If a keyboard isn't a big factor in your smartphone purchasing decisions, I recommend spending $10 to $20 more and picking up a Nexus S 4G instead.

The Kyocera Milano is certainly an affordable entry-level Android phone, but Sprint customers have better options available to them.

The Kyocera Milano is an inexpensive Android phone with a nice QWERTY keyboard, but that's not enough to make up for all its shortcomings.

The Kyocera Milano is not a perfect phone by any means. For starters the screen is very poor by just about any standard, which is a big component of the user experience. The processor is a mere 800MHz and memory is just half a gig. All of that said, for a budget smartphone it runs fairly smooth and has a great keyboard for tapping out texts and emails. Smartphones are no longer just for the sophisticated and the suits, and this phone is squarely aimed at the teens and tweens who want a bit more from their messaging device but don’t want to spend a lot of money.