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26 March 2007

Any Opinions about This Phone? I currently have one of those Nokia candy bar phones (the 6010) and have had it for 2 years and can change, cheap.→[More:]

I am close to getting the above one, based on cnet reviews, and thought that I might ask all of you about it.

Any phone I will end up with will be the lower-end, non-Blackberry type.

Any and all opinions and recommendations are welcome.

Oh, I have Cingular, basically because most of my coworkers have it so it's free to talk and work pays me a stipend for the phone, even though technically it's mine (their answer to people running up personal minutes and company phones).

post by: danf at: 17:26 | 8 comments

Damn, I could have SWORN (just did) that I used the MI button!

posted by danf 26 March | 17:28

My standard response to mobile phone handset questions: buy a Nokia. I have never had trouble with one, but had nothing but trouble with every other brand I have bought.

You did use [MI] - maybe you are losing your mind?

posted by dg 26 March | 17:32

You did use [MI] - maybe you are losing your mind?

One of our benevolent mods would like for me to think so.

Plus, I am falling prey to all the bells and whistles I don't need on a phone. The main prob with my current phone is that I can't see the display very well, and have trouble reading it on the "fly."

Plus, chicks don't notice it much.

posted by danf 26 March | 17:37

Nokia, if you're staying with Cingular --> AT&T. Nokia micro-code works substantially better with much of the Cingular network in the Southeastern U.S. which is still transitioning from CDMA to GSM, and still using old 850 band gear from former AT&T network days in some areas.

Cingular/AT&T is very, very slowly building out their GSM network. Nationwide completion, once scheduled for 2010, has been slowed substantially, as competitive pressures have dropped in the consolidation of the last several years. They're not even giving estimated dates for 100% nationwide 1900 band GSM any more.

So stick with multi-band legacy phones that can interoperate well with the old 850/900 bands, if you want the widest coverage while traveling. A friend of mine from Memphis can't get her Treo 650 to work here in Jacksonville reliably, whereas my Nokia 6010 works fine here, throughout Alabama,Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. LC phones which work fine on Cingular in Atlanta don't work worth a darn here, either.

posted by paulsc 26 March | 17:54

LC = LG, of course.

posted by paulsc 26 March | 17:55

... maybe you are losing your mind?
One of our benevolent mods would like for me to think so.
Gee, I can't imagine who that would have been ;-)

posted by dg 26 March | 18:38

LGs mobile phones are baaaaaaad. BAAAAD.

At least the low-end ones. I have no idea about that one.

posted by Memo 26 March | 19:56

... have trouble reading it on the "fly."

Maybe you should keep your phone a little closer to your eyes, hmmmm?

posted by rob511 26 March | 20:40

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