On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, James McDonald wrote: > David Bandel wrote: >> On 9/25/06, Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 18:31 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: >>> >>>>> From: "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> >>>>> Anyone have any recommendations on good cell phones? I'm looking to >>>>> replace mine (its almost 5 years old). >>>>> > I have had 3 phones in the last 3 yrs. > > Motorola T60 (may have wrong mod number here) CDMA phone. > Poorly programmed non-intuitive and lacking features such as send > business card. Navigation of the address book was painful > Kyocera Slider > Difficult to use failed twice due to buggy programming. Poor built > quality > I have had several Kyocera's and I will never buy one again. Cheap > and nasty trying to mimic the features of a decent phone and failing > miserably. > Nokia 6255 > Although I'm not a fan of flip front phones this phone has been my > favourite of the three. > The nokia gui is a lot more intuitive and feature rich > Flip front provides a nice big screen but I'm not one to use it. > Synchronizing desktop calendar, contacts works will however alarms > from my calendar tend to go off at 12:01am of the day they are set for. > Wife loves that feature > > My favourite phone at the moment is the Nokia 6230i and if you drive a > BMW it's one of the phones they sell a car cradle for. > Good business phone - Tri-band GSM etc. Has bluetooth, office > application integration and works well. No weird bending folding bit's > to wear out and break.
Thanks to all for the feedback. I ended up going with a Motorola V630 to replace my 5 year old, TDMA Nokia something-or-other. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
