what kind of cell phone do you have?
we're gonna upgrade soon....
verizon....
tell me what you love/hate about yours
Crackberry Bold is chock full of awesomeness.
Of course the battery pull resets are somewhat tedious, but you only have to do it like once a month. There's probably some software-related cure that I haven't bothered to look up.
The Curve has been joy. The Blackberry trackball is a great way to get around. Touch is oh-wow until you need precision --
that's my stance, and I'm sticking with it. I love its
actual keyboard. Gmail integration is awesome, as is Google Search, Maps. The phone jack is (the correct) 3.5mm, the charging/connecting is (the correct) mini-USB. a
really cool desktop charging cradle is $19.95 at crackberry.com where you can also find a free battery pull app called "
QuickPull Free". Actually you could browse the whole Crackberry "free" section to see what software you can get for nothing: Pandora...
If I could do it over again I would buy a curve.
Gee, I have a basic Motorola V-series phone. Never used it for internet, games, or anything else save the alarm clock function. I do use a Blue Parrot headset, but that's all. I send less than five texts a year. It's a PHONE people!
I have all the other gadgets that do what I need better...laptop, iPod, alarm clock etc.
My blackberry is about 3 years old. It looks very ugly. Nothing stylish about it at all, but I love the qwerty keyboard. I love it that the screen is recessed by a millimeter or two, which keeps it from getting all scratched up like my iPod. It's got the thumb wheel on the side, which works well. It's not tiny, but it's small enough to keep permanently in my pocket.
I wish it had a camera.
I re-bought my Sony W580i. Unbranded, unbroken!
Music, camera, PC Synchronization, pedometer, oh, yeah and a phone.
No goddamn data plan.
Fuck you, AT&T. I'll keep my $25/mo plan.
I like Nokia phones. I have Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, cool phone, has unlimited music downloads.
Motorola Droid versus iPhone 3GS versus Palm Pre
Total cost comparison.
The Curve has been joy. The Blackberry trackball is a great way to get around. Touch is oh-wow until you need precision -- that's my stance, and I'm sticking with it. I love its actual keyboard. Gmail integration is awesome, as is Google Search, Maps. The phone jack is (the correct) 3.5mm, the charging/connecting is (the correct) mini-USB. a really cool desktop charging cradle is $19.95 at crackberry.com where you can also find a free battery pull app called "QuickPull Free". Actually you could browse the whole Crackberry "free" section to see what software you can get for nothing: Pandora...
second. I would add that it is smaller than most of the other crackberry's, and the print size can be adjusted to as large as you like, so it fits easily in my pocket.
Motorola Krave
Eh, I don't know. Texting isn't too easy...it's like the timing is off from one "button" to another, and when you turn it sideways to get the keyboard the "buttons" are just too small.
http://www.motorola.com/consumers/US-EN/Motorola-Krave-ZN4-US-EN.do?vgnextoid=e50e3eb01cabc110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRDGoogle is going to keep on winning and winning and winning. Android will be the way.
Google just announced this, GPS navigation with Google maps, and it kills:
[youtube]tGXK4jKN_jY[/youtube]
I passed the Verizon/Blackberry kiosk at the mall the other day . . . rather smugly fending off the phone pimps with one word:
iphone!
I'm keeping my Verizon Razr V3. Mrs. Levy was having some issues with hers and recently picked up a Samsung freebie. I tried one and returned it. My Razr has a metal case, a micro-SD slot, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. This is all I require of a phone at the moment, since I don't want to upgrade to a smartphone yet until a clear winner emerges and I decide the $30 month is worth it.
Nineteen dollar throw-away phone. Always buy phone cards, and always pay cash. (And look at the floor almost constantly.) Big brother can kiss my ass.
:D
Do I get the prize for the oldest phone still in use?
does candy come out of that?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355530,00.asp
the Eris Droid
by HTC....
would be free for me
Free free, or free with a data plan free? How much more does it cost than a razr over 2 years? I'm opposed to paying more since either of us can/do sit in front of a pc whenever we want to play with google or email.
yeah....looks like the data plan would cost me about a million percent more
YOU'RE SO SEXY WHEN YOU'RE PRACTICAL
Credit Bruce's post (#10). It's just too much money for a toy.
Currently I have a Motorola Razr. I hate it. But it was free. My old (and much loved) Nokia was just being too much of a pain: the battery wouldn't hold a charge, and getting hold of a new battery for it was proving difficult. So, given i was always difficult to get hold of, a friend of mine gave me her old phone (she was upgrading).
I hate that its menu systems are counter intuitive (options always seem to be reversed to me. So, the delete option appears on the left instead of the right.) I hate that its keys are fiddly. I don't like all those buttons on its side. It has a camera I neither need nor use. *shrugs* But it was given freely and it takes and makes calls and messages.
By choice I'd go for another Nokia. My last one looked not dissimilar to Monnie's phone in the picture she posted. The great thing about Nokias, at least the old ones, I know very little bout the newer shinier models, was that they were built to last and last. The one I had prior to my last one got run over by a car and still worked, other than having no screen. Couldn't send or read messages on it, but could still use it for phone calls. Used that phone for months after its car accident.
I like gadgets. I love my i-pod. I love my laptop and my swanky new superslim digi camera. But I like my phones simple. I don;t need it to play music, or to be able to take beautiful pictures. I just need it to take and receive calls and messages and have an alarm and calendar function. That's it. The only other attribute i need in a phone is for it to be sturdy and able to handle ill-treatment without having a screaming hissy fit and refusing to work.
I like my Razr, but it's showing it's age. The camera broke and that's the one "extra" that I actually want - so I want my new phone to have a good camera. The only other things I use/need would be the phone part and the scrabble game. If I can get that done for considerably less than the costs of a nice caribbean vacation every year, I'm sold.
Re: comparison in post #10: my iphone plan is about $1,000 less than what they show there (not including taxes, but I'm sure taxes aren't included there either).
For people who live on the 'net, as we do, a smartphone isn't a toy at all. Just as an example, it saved my sanity while I was in the hospital, by using the white noise generator application.
I have a white noise machine.
wtf is a white noise generator app? or indeed a white noise machine? Why would one want to generate white noise? I am lost.
Well it's not technically white noise... I have my machine set to 'crickets' most of the time. It drowns out the sound of snoring and/or silence so I can sleep.
I have a white noise machine at my bedside, and really prefer not to sleep without it. White noise (and other kinds of masking noises technically described with various colors) is like a fan--it provides a stable background noise which masks noises and distractions.
Selene was an early adopter of the Blackjack. She's had it three years, giving it hard use all the way. She's lost the back of it and the multifunction charger/data port is pretty much shot, so she's going for a new smartphone. I think she's got her heart set on the iPhone 3GS. She's played with my 3G for awhile now, and I'm pretty happy with it.
All of these smart phones just about kill you as far as monthly charges, though. Having portable data in the palm of your hand is *not* cheap. I pay nearly three times what my kids pay for their unlimited talk minutes, unlimited text and MMS messaging - $45 for them to $125 for me. My phone does lots of stuff theirs don't, but wow. Expensive.
That said, I've used the GPS and mapping function three times in the past two evenings, I use Twitter and Facebook pretty much daily, I've browsed up tons of useful info while out and about via the voice activated Google Search. So, yeah, it's expensive, but at this point I'd feel like I'd lost a limb if I had to be without it.
our phones cost $60/year :p
I just ordered a new one today. the charge isn't holding so well on my antique any more.
I'm getting an LG Flare :lol: for $25 ....but I'm getting a free car charger and headset with that :p
She's played with my 3G for awhile now, and I'm pretty happy with it.
.
Is
that what they call it these days?
our phones cost $60/year :p
I just ordered a new one today. the charge isn't holding so well on my antique any more.
Awww. Hate when that happens. I actually kept my beloved brick when I acquired this nasty razr. It's in a drawer as my spare phone. I'd still be using it as my main phone if it held its charge.
White noise - aka Rock 'n' Roll.
Anyway -
Samsung a237
Yup, it's cheap, and I don't have all the bells and whistles, but it does what I want it to do.
Make and receive phone calls.
That's what a phone is supposed to do.
Yeah, I'm with the BrianR/monster contingent my phone is just a phone.
Yeah, I'm with the BrianR/monster contingent my phone is just a phone.
Except when it's cigar?
Do I get the prize for the oldest phone still in use?
No. My dad uses a Nokia 3595, that he bought (really, really) used about ten years ago. I'd show ya a pic, but this old 'puter doesn't play well w/my camera & cards. He can't hear so well anymore, and the 3595 has a ringtone he can actually hear!
Nineteen dollar throw-away phone.
Me too, a "Go Phone," and I renew my minutes via debit card. It would be fine except I cringe a little every time someone texts me--20 cents per, argh.
No. My dad uses a Nokia 3595, that he bought (really, really) used about ten years ago. I'd show ya a pic, but this old 'puter doesn't play well w/my camera & cards. He can't hear so well anymore, and the 3595 has a ringtone he can actually hear!
he's not a dwellar so doesn't count :p
Awww. Hate when that happens. I actually kept my beloved brick when I acquired this nasty razr. It's in a drawer as my spare phone. I'd still be using it as my main phone if it held its charge.
A new battery will fix that.
Difficult to get hold of now. I cuold probably get one off ebay...I may just do that. Mind you, the speaker had started to get a little quiet too towards the end. Now that I think about it that was starting to be a bit of a pain.
Sears carries a motorcycle battery that might be the right size....
he's not a dwellar so doesn't count :p
Oh.
the thing with the really bottom-of-the-line phones is replacement batteries cost more than a new phone.
That's what i found with very old phones. A new battery for an old nokia is not easy or cheap to get hold of.
the thing with the really bottom-of-the-line phones is replacement batteries cost more than a new phone.
and that's probably not because the batteries are so expensive, but rather because the phones are so cheap.
right, but the new phone come with new batteries....
right, but the new phone come with new batteries....
Well, these new phones are sluts. They come with lots of things.
I don't we put as much effort in to house shopping as we have phone shopping this time.
Non-data plan phone choices are limited with verizon (and the lady at the store gave different choices than the man on the phone), but better than att at least, my sis just got a new phone there and there was only 1 option.
Jim just ran out to look at them in person again... I think we'll make a decision by the end of the week... maybe.
Pretty much have it narrowed down to the LG Versa, the LG Env3 and
maybe the Chocolate Touch.
LG Versa
and i see it shown with this keyboard thingee a lot:
LG Env3:
choc touch
You're goin with the Chocolate Touch, right? *blinks* I tried to say it in a way that didn't sound like a double entendre, but I think I snapped something.
dunno squat about 'em, but I've heard some bad things about the versa. There is a new company out there, been running a lot of ads recently, who makes a great one that is fine with verizon service.
I'm pretty sure about the env3 - the choc touch and the versa seem cheap and ready to break to me, and the touch screen thing seems iffy.
Oh yeh - the touch screen (even though it has a lock) gets scratched and makes phantom calls while in your pocket or purse. . . or so I've heard.
i wish they would let you test drive them for like 3 days first.
You're goin with the Chocolate Touch, right? *blinks* I tried to say it in a way that didn't sound like a double entendre, but I think I snapped something.
Only if I can get it in the brown.
i wish they would let you test drive them for like 3 days first.
At ATT you have 30 days to change your mind. Dunno about Verizon.
Definitely spend some time with the LG before choosing. The touch screen seemed slow and draggy to me.
Only if I can get it in the brown.
*grins* attaboy.
Making choices is hard. I know cnet has great reviews
and amazon too.
Jim, check out the phones by HTC.
A review of the env3 on amazon says
Worse, there is no way to transfer photos or videos to or from this phone with a USB cable. If you pay for a data plan, this is no trouble, since you can email them to yourself or post them to a website. But otherwise, you're stuck. There is a laborious process by which you can upload pictures from your computer onto a Verizon webpage, then send them as picture messages to your phone, but the picture quality is terrible, and this still doesn't get photos from your phone to your computer. It ought to work just like a camera -- plug the cord into your computer and transfer the pics -- but it doesn't. The only reason for this that I can imagine is that Verizon wants you to pay extra for a data plan, which just seems like a dirty trick.
If true, that's a huge concern... I can send a pic from my razr to my email now, why would that change? Is it about the phone or the provider? <clueless>
Only if I can get it in the brown.
So, you're a pegging aficionado?
i made another customer say she liked it in the brown today....and i had a witness this time.
Did you offer her an extra-thick cushion?
A review of the env3 on amazon says
If true, that's a huge concern... I can send a pic from my razr to my email now, why would that change? Is it about the phone or the provider? <clueless>
If you're sending a pic from your razr to your phone now, then I'd guess you already have a data plan and this would not be a problem.
I opted out of the data plan. But with my phone you can hook up the phone to a usb cable to the computer and just copy the pics from phone to computer.
No, until last night we had almost the most basic Verizon fam plan available - not even free texting. I could send pics like a text though, to another phone or my email.
But last night we impulse-bought 4 Crackberries (curve) with unlimited data plans from Sprint. It's like $20/mo more than we're paying now and the phones were BOGO/$50. I'm happy.
Yay! It's an awesome phone. Now... pay more money!
I love the charging cradle at the accessories store at crackberry.com. It's silver and has a lit BB symbol at the bottom. Worth the $19.99 to always have your phone charging, sitting upright at your desk.
The best bluetooth headsets I have found are from Plantronics. I tried many back when I had a job, and settled on the Voyager 520. Sure it's more expensive than many you can get... but it's comfortable, easy to slip on, and sounds good.
The Plantronics Voyager 510 is an ergonomic masterpiece.
Yay! It's an awesome phone. Now... pay more money!
Spreading the cost out over 4 phones makes it even more worth it. Woohoo! The kids are going to vomit with excitement, I can't wait.
Yay! It's an awesome phone. Now... pay more money!
I love the charging cradle at the accessories store at crackberry.com. It's silver and has a lit BB symbol at the bottom. Worth the $19.99 to always have your phone charging, sitting upright at your desk.
The best bluetooth headsets I have found are from Plantronics. I tried many back when I had a job, and settled on the Voyager 520. Sure it's more expensive than many you can get... but it's comfortable, easy to slip on, and sounds good.
Bluetooth headset = "I'm a dickhole" sign
"I'm a dickhole who doesn't run into other drivers due to phone confusion."
i should clarify.
it is my opinion that people that walk around talking on those things come off like TOTAL dickholes. use in cars is fine, and dandy......but take the fucking earpiece out when on foot mkay?
besides....just make sure your demo has bluetooth, and you won't even need one. duh
Has humankind really not progressed past the point that we need to hold little boxes up to the side of our head, thus taking up one whole hand and forcing us to participate exclusively in one-handed activities?
The kids are going to vomit with excitement, I can't wait.
There's a picture for you. :D
The kids are going to vomit with excitement, I can't wait.
I think I have an idea for your Christmas card....
I need help importing my contacts into this thingie.
Can't help with that, I just started over.
i'm good. downloaded my contacts from verizon's back up assistant into a comma delimited ascii file. finally figured out how to import them using the synch utility. 112 records was too many to put in by thumb.
now i can get some work done. nyuk nyuk
so....because we switched to Sprint, I get the NFL network on my phone. I am watching a live football game on my freaking phone. I can't even believe it.
this means that when the cowboys play the saints, I'll be able to watch it even if i get stuck at work.......and while i'm driving home. holy hell.
The Chocolate Touch is not good? I just got that for my brother. Hmm....