Just as planned my cellphone is self destructing as the upgrade period approaches. I can only talk using the speaker phone now. Time for a new phone. Anyone have a recommendation as to which phone to get? I don’t need any fancy internet capabilities. Bells and whistles are nice but not necessary. My wife recently got the Chocolat and hated it, she sold it on Ebay and reactivated her old phone. So that one is out.
Please, Verizon only. I am not interested in changing companies. My choices are limited to the phones that are offered by Verizon for their “free” upgrade. I know that limits the responses here. If this doesn’t help then there is always the dart board to help me make my choice.
I reupped with Verizon last weekend, and my free (after-$40-rebate) phone is the LG vx8300. All I wanted was a **free ** phone that will make a freaking phone call. This one supposedly takes video & still pictures, does something with music, text messages and acts like a cell phone.
It does function as a cell phone, but I have no interest in the other stuff, so I can’t tell you anything about it.
Tell the kid at the Verizon store what you want. I wanted FREE, I got free since the rebate has already been applied to my bill, per my request. I’m happy.
I got the LG5300. Tri-mode was important to me because I live in a low population density area, and there are a LOT of places where there is no digital coverage, but analog will still work. It has a VGA resolution camera, which I wasn’t looking for, but turns out to be quite handy. It has bluetooth as well. In all, it seems to work well, and the battery life is better than my old LG2400 (uses exact same battery, so I now have a spare).
If you don’t keep the bluetooth mode on the RAZR constantly activated, it will last a good long time. Mine usually lasts 2 days without a charge with moderate use. If you must leave bluetooth on, the battery will barely last a day. But since you just want a phone with no bells and whistles, it should be fine.
I HATE our LG phone, and can hardly wait to get rid of it. It’s been replaced three times, but we still have the same problems with the microphone that were present in the first two. Our other phone, an old Kyocera, works much better. I’ll be looking at brands other than LG when our time comes to upgrade in May.
YIPES! I clicked on your link and I have that phone. I got it in November of 2005. I got so excited with all the other stuff it would do that I never did check out the symbols on the front “cover.” Music, huh? Does it use up your time to listen?
I need to find my manual. I can’t believe this.
One of the benefits of being old is having surprises like this all the time.
I do love this phone, but it does a lot of things.
Heh, I started a similar thread (though targeted to a specific phone) just a few days ago.
On Thursday I got a free upgrade to a Motorola KRZR K1m: $150 online price, minus $50 online discount, minus $100 credit via “New Every 2” program = free phone. I did the upgrade online, and the phone arrived yesterday. It’s a very cool phone! Because it was free I went ahead and got a car charger for it, and also got a 1GB microSD card for extra storage space. It’s been less than 24 hours, but so far I’m really glad that I upgraded – even though I liked my Samsung SCH-a670, and only really upgraded because I could (and, ok, there was a tiny crack in the old phone’s case). There are already some things about the KRZR’s interface & display that I like better than the Samsung’s.
As I’ve mentioned in previous threads, I hawk phones out of a kiosk inside of Costcos for a job. We sell Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile.
My default phone reccomendation is the Motorola v325/v325-i. A good sturdy triband phone with a good screen, nice large buttongs, a camera, and GPS location. The v325-i includes Blutooth capabilities. Other than GPS and bluetooh, it’s a pretty basic phone, and finding it cheap won’t be too hard. We like selling them because they have the fewest returns out of all of the phones we sell.
A good site for looking up phones, or comparing phones side by side is Phonescoop.com. Here’s a link to the phone I just suggested.
