design flaws I've ever be hit with) that the belt clip attached with a metal
grip - but that grip was clipped in to the PLASTIC back of the phone. So
the first time you put any stress on it (like getting out of a car with the
phone wedged) it rips of part of the phone's back leaving your $6 belt clip
perfectly intact.
Bad industrial designers, BAD!
The new phone doesn't seem to have any capacity for a belt clip. I'd like
one, but it'll have to be a holster. First thing tho: I've got to buy my
wife a new faceplate (she wants purple) - we've both got the exact same
phone now and I keep grabbing hers. ;^)
Jim Davis
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From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:58 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: cell phone best deal?
> I agree - which is one reason why I went with the Nokia -
> although this one
> is a tad larger than even my old Nokia. A lot of that is
> the screen tho:
> nice, big bright and useful.
> Still - I can see the desire for small. Having to carry
> around a brick 24/7
> for several minutes a day use isn't fun either. Were the
> hell are our Dick
> Tracy two-way wrist communicators! ;^)
Well we often do as much (the brick for a few minutes a day) with our
laptops. :) Though I think the cellular industry by and large is
really missing that "happy medium". I think the Motorola I have is in
that happy medium vicinity -- most of them are just way too small
imho. As for Dick Tracy, yellow rubbers asside, I got out of the
habbit of wearing a watch a few years ago and at this point I think
it's one habbit I'd prefer not to get back into. :)
Though I found that I can't use the plastic belt-clip for the
Motorola. If I get something for it it's got to be the leather case
that encloses it completely (at which point I think I prefer my
regular pockets), 'cause my new car, nice as it is, is pretty small,
and when I have the phone on a plastic clip it either interferese with
my seatbelt, or I snap the clip in half when I sit down in the
driver's seat. Good thing they're cheap.
> Jim Davis
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> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:02 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: cell phone best deal?
> Actually the size of modern cell phones really annoys
> me...
> The Nextel phones tend to be on the large end in terms of
> size, and I
> could still stand for the Motorola i60c flip phone to be a
> tad larger.
> Not much, just about a centimeter or less would be about
> right.
> Anything smaller than what we have (and I have yet to even
> see
> anything larger), just annoys the hell out of me when I'm
> trying to
> hold it up to talk. I'm only 5'3" so my hands are
> reasonably small,
> and it makes me wonder what people with really big hands
> are expected
> to do when the phone isn't much larger than a suppository.
>> We just got new phones and a two year contract for AT&T
>> Wireless - we got
>> the new Nokia 3650 phone (camera, Bluetooth, Infrared,
>> Symbian OS, SD Memory
>> slot, web access, etc) for $50 each (after $250 in
>> combined rebates) and got
>> the middle "Family Plan" - $39.00 month for 500 shared
>> minutes, 1000
>> mobile-to-mobile minutes, free nights and weekends and
>> lots of extras.
>> There are also cheaper family plans.
>> They also have the Sony-Ericson phones for free with
>> contract - not quite as
>> many features, but all of the flashy ones (Camera,
>> Bluetooth, etc) and it's
>> a much smaller phone to boot.
>> Jim Davis
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>> From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:47 AM
>> To: CF-Community
>> Subject: cell phone best deal?
>> hey i am a newb to cell stuff.
>> my wife wants us to get 2...
>> not sure what the best deal is for people who don't talk
>> too much...
>> any comparative sites.
>> i like virgin pay as you go deal.
>> but there coverage is spotty.
>> _____
>>
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>
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