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Nextel/Motorola i580 rugged phone available

I have dumped Sprint/Nextel service, which leaves me with a very good phone I no longer need. So, would anyone like a Nextel branded Motorola i580?

This thing is rugged. Toughest multimedia flip phone on the planet. You can literally throw it out a 6th story window and expect it to be fine. It can even survive being dropped in up to about 4′ of water! It does MP3s (2GB SDmicro card comes with this phone), photos (1.3MP crap phone camera on it), full-duplex speakerphone (awesome sound quality speakerphone I might add), uses standard 2.5mm headphone jack, but also has bluetooth for car/hands free operation and headphones.

I have two wall plug chargers for this phone (one for work and one for home) that come with it. I also have MobileAction i580 USB Handset Manager (v9.2 software and USB dongle/cable for Windows). MobileAction cable lets you tether your phone to a PC if you have a data plan with Nextel, and even if you do not you can back up the contact list, music, photos, and videos to your Windows PC (so far as I know it only works with Windows). The external LCD on my i580 has stopped working, but the internal one with the color screen is fine. The biggest gotcha is that this phone only works with Nextel and iDen…. so make sure you get good Nextel signal in your area.

All this for the exciting price of one meal, one beer, or one back-rub… any takers?

Update: the i580 has found a new home already.

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