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F041 · 2005-08-23 11:22 am

My phone is so old that it doesn't connect with the cellphone towers anymore. I want to look for a new one, and my most important quality in a phone are: slimness. That aside, I also like great reception and an easily navigable menu. Camera/video phone is in the air now so please make recommendations both with and without then.

Finally, what is a good service plan for medium/light usage? My mum and I will share two phones so I hope for that sharing dealie we've used in the past. What is important to me is free (no roaming) calls from New York or New England to New England or New York.

Your guidance is great; thank you!

ScifiterX · 2005-08-23 12:07 pm

They've been running a similar topic in Unplugged but it's been a few days since anyone posted to it.

http://www.macaddict.com/forums/topic/68160

If having service is more important than having minutes or features, You could always try a prepaid like Tracfone, however if you tend to spend any real time on your cell I would not recommend it.

Marcus · 2005-08-23 8:56 pm

I just got a Verizon Moto V710. Great phone if your willing to spend a few hours hacking the smurf out of it to enable locked features.
I got a 256 MB transflash card for it and I can watch the entire Napoleon Dynamite movie on my phone. I can also make my own MP3 ringtones using SoundStudio and iTunes. I get free Mobile Web because I'm using a proxy server.
The camera takes video and pictures... decent quality.. not great. Great signal so far. Very loud speakerphone.

So basically... a cell phone is what you make out of it.

rufio · 2005-08-23 9:36 pm

How much are you willing to spend? The Motorola Razr V3 is ultra-slim, and motorola's generally have good reception, but they are expensive too. The Panasonic X800 is a very slim Symbian phone to look into, but it is almost more expensive than the Razr. Depends on what you want. The T-Mobile people tell me that Nokia and Samsung phones get the best reception on my network, and I would recommend T-Mobile to you, sure. I really like Panasonic's phones for some reason. Go to gsmarena.com and look at the 6 newest phone models. QVGA, 16million color displays with extra-long battery life. Get one of those!

Marc · 2005-08-23 10:06 pm

I dont like the Razr's buttons for as much as I like the looks

F041 · 2005-08-23 11:05 pm

I have heard good things about Sanyo reception.

yelowpunk · 2005-08-23 11:43 pm

The Sony-Ericsson K750i (aka the W800i)

Tri-band phone (works anywhere on Earth where there's service.)
Symbian OS (I think, I might be wrong)
Java-enabled
2 MegaPix camera with Carl Zeiss lens
MP3 and FM radio capabilities
Speakerphone
Compatible with Memory Stick Pro Duo cards as large as they come (2 GB soon)
Pretty high-rez screen capable of displaying like 265k colors or something
The same size as a T610 - it's actually a phone, not a PDA or Blackberry thing.
Looks hella-cool.

It's going to cost you (and me) $400-ish OEM without a contract, and probably $150-200 with a 2-year if your local shop has them. (But don't hold your breath unless they specialize in imported phones, as this one isn't available in the US just yet.)

The cool thing is that with some unlocking and flashing, you can get MP3s at full volume as ring tones to come out the speakerphone (as opposed to the 40-voice polyphonic stuff that's enabled by default.) Also, you can take pictures with the phone as you would with a regular camera (and they won't come out half bad, either, 2MP is enough to take good 3x5s) and then stick the pro-duo card in your computer/PSP/Sony projector/Sony TV/etc and watch slideshows and smurf.

I want this phone so bad... sad

-Tim

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