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Need help choosing a Hi-Tech unlocked cell phone
HyperAquaBlast
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So I'm looking for a new phone. One of which is pretty whiz bang. I am with AT&T/Cingular since '05 and don't know if I'll benefit moving anywhere as I haven't really researched plans or pricing differences on other providers cause I know with AT&T i'll move up to unlimited data and media which will put me at about $70-80 a month from the original $40 basic plan.
I started off with Razr when that first came out cause it was slim and sexy and then I got the Sony Erricson w810i when that first came out before any carrier in the U.S. got it because I really wanted an all in one device i.e Phone/camera/MP3 player. When I bought that one it was obviously unlocked and all I did was slip my SIM card in and I was good to go on AT&T. Nowadays it feels clunky and the OS feels way outdated and I don't use the MP3 player anymore.
Now I don't know.
Right now what I am looking for is a Phone/camera/GPS/internet device. Music and video have been covered by my Zune which I don't mind carrying and is mostly for the car. I love having a camera on me at all times now for all improptu events and GPS or at least google maps would be a god send. Normal Internet would just be damn useful on the go.
Now when I got the w810i I could do all sorts of cool stuff with it but when a friend got one too when it became availble through AT&T so many things were locked and or branded. Like you couldn't use any MP3 you put on the phone as a ring tone which is simple and basic on my phone version. So if I got a phone through AT&T now like say an iPhone or Samsung Eternity is anything going to be fucked up? Also like a lot of people have told me to switch to Verizon since it has better coverage here in Virginia (I got Cingular when I lived in San Francisco) but I know for a fact that Verizon locks so much stuff on the phones with their OS's and make you buy stuff on their Vcast or whatever its called and I want to be free to do what I want with my device.
I don't know if a lot of the answers are going to be iPhone but something just irks me about what it is right now and what a new model of it could be in the future so I am apprehensive about the current model. And I just read about the Samsung Memoir which looks like what I would want but its with T-Mobile.
TL;DR Want a unlocked Phone/good phone camera/GPS and I am on AT&T. And I like researching on my own so if you just want to point me in the right direction on anything other the howardforums and cnet where I can read informative reviews for cell phones and service providers then thats cool too.
Thanks!
I started off with Razr when that first came out cause it was slim and sexy and then I got the Sony Erricson w810i when that first came out before any carrier in the U.S. got it because I really wanted an all in one device i.e Phone/camera/MP3 player. When I bought that one it was obviously unlocked and all I did was slip my SIM card in and I was good to go on AT&T. Nowadays it feels clunky and the OS feels way outdated and I don't use the MP3 player anymore.
Now I don't know.
Right now what I am looking for is a Phone/camera/GPS/internet device. Music and video have been covered by my Zune which I don't mind carrying and is mostly for the car. I love having a camera on me at all times now for all improptu events and GPS or at least google maps would be a god send. Normal Internet would just be damn useful on the go.
Now when I got the w810i I could do all sorts of cool stuff with it but when a friend got one too when it became availble through AT&T so many things were locked and or branded. Like you couldn't use any MP3 you put on the phone as a ring tone which is simple and basic on my phone version. So if I got a phone through AT&T now like say an iPhone or Samsung Eternity is anything going to be fucked up? Also like a lot of people have told me to switch to Verizon since it has better coverage here in Virginia (I got Cingular when I lived in San Francisco) but I know for a fact that Verizon locks so much stuff on the phones with their OS's and make you buy stuff on their Vcast or whatever its called and I want to be free to do what I want with my device.
I don't know if a lot of the answers are going to be iPhone but something just irks me about what it is right now and what a new model of it could be in the future so I am apprehensive about the current model. And I just read about the Samsung Memoir which looks like what I would want but its with T-Mobile.
TL;DR Want a unlocked Phone/good phone camera/GPS and I am on AT&T. And I like researching on my own so if you just want to point me in the right direction on anything other the howardforums and cnet where I can read informative reviews for cell phones and service providers then thats cool too.
Thanks!
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BTW most t-mo phones will work on AT&T if you unlock them (can find on ebay or craigslist, or go to a shop to unlock it).
You can also typically replace firmware on phones so that you can have unlocked features (like mp3 ringtones)...
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