Need Advice on new Mobile Phone
Nextel has finally pissed me off. They are apparently gradually replacing their towers and connectivity in favor of Sprint PCS connectivity. Gradually my reception in areas I live, work, and play is getting worse and worse with Nextel.
I am very sad by this, because they are about the only mobile phone company that apparently shares my priorities: a phone is a phone; not a camera, not a pda, not a dance partner; just a phone. However a phone should do full-duplex speakerphone, and store a lot of numbers for me to call, and the device should be rugged. Nextel gets all that; but if I cannot reliably make calls going forward, I am done with them.
This puts me in a tight spot. I love my venerable Motorola iDEN i90c. Full-duplex speakerphone, 2 lines, 256 numbers stored (I could use more), standard 2.5mm headphone jack, and it just plain works. Yeah, bluetooth would be nice to have in my Prius for even better hands-free mode… yeah longer lasting batteries would be nice, so would a larger stored numbers list… I don’t need a camera, I don’t need it to be a PDA, nor a calendar, nor have colors, nor IMs, nor SMS, nor GPS navigation. I just a phone that continues to work well.
Anyone have recommendations out there for a good solid phone that just plain works?
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on November 26th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Scott,
i’ve got a Verizon phone you can carry around for a bit to see what kind of signal there is in the ‘hood.
it’s a VX-4400b
b
on December 10th, 2006 at 11:51 am
We share like views on phones (’cept I kinda like the camera for quick silly pics)–I’ve got a friend from the Players who works for Sprint/Nextel. Want me to pass your comments along (unattributed, of course) and see what they respond with and/or recommend?
-Kate
on December 11th, 2006 at 8:04 am
Hello Kate, I sure would like to hear what your friend thinks. I’ve found the phone I want to get (Nextel i580); but not sure I want to sink any more money into Nextel if they are vanishing in a few years.
On the other hand, discovered that at least some of the problems in reception are not with my phone, but with my wife’s Cingular connected Moto Razor phone… several calls from our VOIP line dropped off exactly the way I thought my Nextel was dropping… has to be her Razor. Price one pays for pointless features I guess.