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A reliable cell phone?
Ballman
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About a week ago, the battery in my phone started dying from a full charge twice a day on average. I called cingular (The NEW AT&T! 
), and even though my phone is only ~3 weeks out of warranty, they refuse to help me out without making me spend around $50 for a new battery or $110 for a replacement phone. Well, if I'm going to start spending money, I'll just go get a new phone. However, I'm going for simplicity this time. I got this razr on a promotional special, and not only do I not care about the gimmicks, I actually believe they make my phone harder to use. I was looking at the Nokia 2610, but I thought I'd ask around here to see if anyone knew of a better phone that combines simplicity with good reception, battery life, and durability.
), and even though my phone is only ~3 weeks out of warranty, they refuse to help me out without making me spend around $50 for a new battery or $110 for a replacement phone. Well, if I'm going to start spending money, I'll just go get a new phone. However, I'm going for simplicity this time. I got this razr on a promotional special, and not only do I not care about the gimmicks, I actually believe they make my phone harder to use. I was looking at the Nokia 2610, but I thought I'd ask around here to see if anyone knew of a better phone that combines simplicity with good reception, battery life, and durability. 
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Two week battery life, I've never had reception problems, and the thing seems to be indestructible.
Simple, sleek, sexy.
I have no idea how it handles however. It is cheap as fuck here though, my buddy got one with shipping for <40€.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
T68. Joystick stopped working in 6 months, repaired it, stopped working in 2 weeks. Said fuck it and ditched the phone.
T610. Screen scratched to infinity in a few months, incredibly slow, joystick stopped responding after a year.
K750i. Slow, good designed, camera positioning is clever, but the joystick stopped responding after a few months. Had it repaired, stopped working again. Had it repaired and a few weeks later it stopped working again. My friend with the same phone had his joystick stop working as well, but he bought another phone vowing never to buy something with a joystick again.
K800i. Screen scratched BEYOND infinity in a year, decent speed, great performance, horribly designed (the case is bulky and the camera sticks out on the back making it fat as an american pancake), joystick stopped working in a year and last week the fucking ear-speaker stopped working so now I have to use a) a piece of shit headset that falls out of my ears every minute or when I turn my head. I actually carved the earpieces with a knife to make them stay in my ears thanks to the new jagged edges. Or b) use the speaker phone, which works remarkably well, but it's not really a private conversation.
Another friend of mine that got his K800i the same time I did has the same problem with the ear-speaker, but he send it for repairs and the first time they changed the functional rear speaker, but upon sending it back they replaced the right one. It still works, save for the joystick UP motion.
So now I have a 450€ phone that fails to perform it's sole task, in just under a year. Built like a tank my fucking ass. Not to mention the older pre-sony phones I have had, also, shit.
But as long as they work (~1 year) they are good. On the inside. Too bad I'm a shallow motherfucker that prefers pleasing to the eye in front of "personality".
I have a Nokia phone that looks just like that phone (I bought it for a pay-by-minute thing) and it is very simplistic, but reliable. Very basic, but usable.
I had a Nokia 3585 for a few years. It was nigh indestructible. It hit multiple walls and floors at high velocities (even fell out a car window at 35 mph) and the most that was needed in the area of repairs was putting the battery back in, and snapping the faceplates back on. Never once had a reception problem with it. Could always coax just a few more minutes out of the battery. Usually if it shut itself off, I could turn it back on and get a few more minutes out of it.
That phone was a tank. It even got rained on and kept on trucking. Best was that it only cost me $0.99! I only switched phones when I got a new one as a gift. Nokia definitely makes solid phones.