recomend me a cellphone

[Dubb]

Ok, my 2 year verizon/v60i contract is almost up, I'm gonna need a new one at the end of april.

I've been happy with verizon's coverage, but willing to look elsewhere if the price/phone is right. The v60i has also been great (went through the wash and still worked) at least right up until I broke the antenna. I jerry-rigged a working solution, but I will need a new phone.

Qualifications for phone:
must be durable/well made. no cheap plasticy crud.
not too expensive, but will pay for quality
I like the flip-phone style of the V60i
My laptop has bluetooth. if I could get internet through my phone without crazy extra fees, it'd be nice.

Qualifications for plan:
minimal minutes (have 300 + free nights/weekends now, I use maybe 150 of the daytime minutes a month)
cheap
ease of expansion - my relationship could potentially be long distace starting in the fall, so my "minimal minutes" thing could turn into "lots of minutes". But nothings concrete at the moment.

go!

 

[her209]

SprintPCS because they have the Free and Flexible plans.

 

[lizardboy]

Cingular w/ Motorola v551. Great phone, rollover minutes rock. I got mine from this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1529361&enterthread=y

I've only had the phone a week but it seems solid. Bluetooth works well with my headset, haven't tried it for anything else.

 

[EvilYoda]

V6...I almost want to sell my V3 for that little clam thingy.

so shiny.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Dubb
Ok, my 2 year verizon/v60i contract is almost up, I'm gonna need a new one at the end of april.

I've been happy with verizon's coverage, but willing to look elsewhere if the price/phone is right. The v60i has also been great (went through the wash and still worked) at least right up until I broke the antenna. I jerry-rigged a working solution, but I will need a new phone.

Qualifications for phone:
must be durable/well made. no cheap plasticy crud.
not too expensive, but will pay for quality
I like the flip-phone style of the V60i
My laptop has bluetooth. if I could get internet through my phone without crazy extra fees, it'd be nice.

Qualifications for plan:
minimal minutes (have 300 + free nights/weekends now, I use maybe 150 of the daytime minutes a month)
cheap
ease of expansion - my relationship could potentially be long distace starting in the fall, so my "minimal minutes" thing could turn into "lots of minutes". But nothings concrete at the moment.

go!

verizon has no additional fees for you to use their cell phones as modems on your laptop. it just comes off your minutes. you will get between 40 to 60 kbps access.

i have the motorola V710 w/ a bluetooth headset. loving it.

strong recommendation if you don't mind spending a bit of money.

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Dubb
Ok, my 2 year verizon/v60i contract is almost up, I'm gonna need a new one at the end of april.

I've been happy with verizon's coverage, but willing to look elsewhere if the price/phone is right. The v60i has also been great (went through the wash and still worked) at least right up until I broke the antenna. I jerry-rigged a working solution, but I will need a new phone.

Qualifications for phone:
must be durable/well made. no cheap plasticy crud.
not too expensive, but will pay for quality
I like the flip-phone style of the V60i
My laptop has bluetooth. if I could get internet through my phone without crazy extra fees, it'd be nice.

Qualifications for plan:
minimal minutes (have 300 + free nights/weekends now, I use maybe 150 of the daytime minutes a month)
cheap
ease of expansion - my relationship could potentially be long distace starting in the fall, so my "minimal minutes" thing could turn into "lots of minutes". But nothings concrete at the moment.

go!

verizon has no additional fees for you to use their cell phones as modems on your laptop. it just comes off your minutes. you will get between 40 to 60 kbps access.

i have the motorola V710 w/ a bluetooth headset. loving it.

strong recommendation if you don't mind spending a bit of money.

really? when I was shopping last you had to buy a special card + pay an extra $10 a month.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Dubb

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Dubb
Ok, my 2 year verizon/v60i contract is almost up, I'm gonna need a new one at the end of april.

I've been happy with verizon's coverage, but willing to look elsewhere if the price/phone is right. The v60i has also been great (went through the wash and still worked) at least right up until I broke the antenna. I jerry-rigged a working solution, but I will need a new phone.

Qualifications for phone:
must be durable/well made. no cheap plasticy crud.
not too expensive, but will pay for quality
I like the flip-phone style of the V60i
My laptop has bluetooth. if I could get internet through my phone without crazy extra fees, it'd be nice.

Qualifications for plan:
minimal minutes (have 300 + free nights/weekends now, I use maybe 150 of the daytime minutes a month)
cheap
ease of expansion - my relationship could potentially be long distace starting in the fall, so my "minimal minutes" thing could turn into "lots of minutes". But nothings concrete at the moment.

go!

verizon has no additional fees for you to use their cell phones as modems on your laptop. it just comes off your minutes. you will get between 40 to 60 kbps access.

i have the motorola V710 w/ a bluetooth headset. loving it.

strong recommendation if you don't mind spending a bit of money.

really? when I was shopping last you had to buy a special card + pay an extra $10 a month.

I believe that's for their broadband over wireless or whatever it's called. In theory, you can use there office connect kit (~$40) and use your phone as a modem. I thought the speeds were closer to 28.8k days though.. could be wrong.

My friend used a cheapo cable from ebay and dialed in w/o a problem (sprint). I have a cable from ebay as well.. but it was the wrong cable, doesn't see my phone as a modem, so I couldn't try it.

 

[Dubb]

do the phone companies ever haggle? Pretty much the plan I want would be along the lines of 200 anytime minutes and unlimeted nights+weekends. to get unlimited N+W on cingular is $50 a month. I was hoping to find a $30 or $35 plan. If I could get verizon to trade $10 a month for 250 anytime minutes I'd get a v710 and be set. I just don't want to pay $40 a month for 3x the anytime minutes I need. I'm already paying for 2x what I need.

 

[MidasKnight]

Cingular ..... find a deal to get that Motorola V3Razor ! Or TMobile and get a V600 ....

 

[fireontheway]

Originally posted by: lizardboy
Cingular w/ Motorola v551. Great phone, rollover minutes rock. I got mine from this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1529361&enterthread=y

I've only had the phone a week but it seems solid. Bluetooth works well with my headset, haven't tried it for anything else.

Good,very nice display,take good pics for a small phone.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: lnguyen

Originally posted by: Dubb

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Dubb
Ok, my 2 year verizon/v60i contract is almost up, I'm gonna need a new one at the end of april.

I've been happy with verizon's coverage, but willing to look elsewhere if the price/phone is right. The v60i has also been great (went through the wash and still worked) at least right up until I broke the antenna. I jerry-rigged a working solution, but I will need a new phone.

Qualifications for phone:
must be durable/well made. no cheap plasticy crud.
not too expensive, but will pay for quality
I like the flip-phone style of the V60i
My laptop has bluetooth. if I could get internet through my phone without crazy extra fees, it'd be nice.

Qualifications for plan:
minimal minutes (have 300 + free nights/weekends now, I use maybe 150 of the daytime minutes a month)
cheap
ease of expansion - my relationship could potentially be long distace starting in the fall, so my "minimal minutes" thing could turn into "lots of minutes". But nothings concrete at the moment.

go!

verizon has no additional fees for you to use their cell phones as modems on your laptop. it just comes off your minutes. you will get between 40 to 60 kbps access.

i have the motorola V710 w/ a bluetooth headset. loving it.

strong recommendation if you don't mind spending a bit of money.

really? when I was shopping last you had to buy a special card + pay an extra $10 a month.

I believe that's for their broadband over wireless or whatever it's called. In theory, you can use there office connect kit (~$40) and use your phone as a modem. I thought the speeds were closer to 28.8k days though.. could be wrong.

My friend used a cheapo cable from ebay and dialed in w/o a problem (sprint). I have a cable from ebay as well.. but it was the wrong cable, doesn't see my phone as a modem, so I couldn't try it.

nope, their speeds are much higher than that. at best it actually gets up to like 70 kbps.

the one with the card gets 300 kbps but only in certain cities and it's $70.00 / month for unlimited service. but that's with the card. if you use your phone, no additional charges.