What kind of phone do you have?
What service do you use?
What kind of package do you have?
I currently have a Samsung SPH-N200 in silver. I think it’s a great phone. Very small, flip phone, 6 lines of text, web browsing, text messages, lots of ringers, great battery. Before this, I had the Samsung SCH-8500 which is the one they show in all the Sprint PCS commercials. My new one is thinner, more lines of text, etc - but the 8500 is a fantastic phone. Thumbs up to Samsung for the N200.
I use SprintPCS service. I do get dropped calls every so often but fairly rarely (1-2 a month?). I called Sprint about it and they gave me 30 minutes of credit so at least they recognize it as a problem.
SprintPCS works for me because I’m rarely in a rural area. They have nationwide coverage so I can call (without roaming) from D.C., Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco, Boston, etc - at no extra charge. However, if I’m in a rural area, even if it is only 20 minutes from my home, I’m in roam and will pay extra. Because I’m rarely anywhere that is in roam, I have never been charged extra. The packages are cheap and the website allows you to do everything you want (pay bill, check usage, get a phone manual, etc.). I can dial from my phone to Sprint and instantly check my minutes (*4) and it won’t use my minutes.
Currently, I get:
350 anytime minutes
2150 evening and weekend (starting at 8 p.m., ending 7 a.m.)
for $39.00
How about the rest of you? Any recommendations or otherwise?
I’m on SprintPCS, too. I still have the Samsung 3500, which appears to be the forebear to your N200. I see from the picture on the Sprint website that they still haven’t done anything about the fact that the antenna is an inch too long to fully retract into the body of the phone, which is my only real complaint about the phone itself. Damn, that poky little thing hurts when you bend wrong!
I forget what my service plan is, but it’s good enough that I disconnected my home phone some time ago and haven’t had a second thought.
Tibs, I’m on the same plan as you, though I’ve lately been going over on daytime minutes. I’m waiting to see whether that continues–last month might have been an unusually high usage month, y’know–to decide whether to upgrade to a plan with more minutes.
Sprint seems to have some weird dead spots–my phone will occasionally go in and out of service range sitting in the same spot. Though that might just be my phone, I don’t know. On the whole, I’m pretty happy with the service.
My phone is the Qualcomm/Kyocera TP-1100, and it’s the cutest little thing ever. It’s an itty bitty flip phone, about 3½" long folded up. I love it.
I have an old Nokia 239, which I’ve had for at least five years now. I think about replacing it with a new one, but I just can’t bring myself to do it when there is nothing wrong with the old one.
I use Telus, a major provider in Western Canada.
My package is a pay-as-you-go. I find that it’s perfect for me. I don’t use my phone regularly. It’s more of an emergency thing. I don’t want to be locked into a plan, and a ton of minutes would go unused if I had them.
I don’t think it’s just your phone, Geobabe. Mine does that all the time. Some are very predictable. There’s a weak spot in the service on one particular block of one particular road here in Charlotte that almost every time makes my phone do that little “beep-beep … beep-beep” thing when it loses and then reacquires the network. Others are much less predictable.
I just got my first mobile phone. It’s a Siemens C35i WAP phone. I use the One2One pay as you go plan. I rarely use the phone, so the ‘pay as you go’ plan is the best for me. I picked One2One because with it I can check voice mail for free, the others charge for it.