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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