What phone do you have?

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I don't have a personal cell phone, but work pays for my Blackberry Storm. It's pretty slick once you get used to it.

Wife has a G1 through t-mobile. I wanted to get her an iPhone, but didn't want to mess with jailbreaking it and seriously F AT&T wireless.
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I got Sony Ericsson K800 , its couple years old.

I am looking for a phone for web browsing, I would buy the iPhone but I am not sure . There are too many limits , jail breaking and more. How about the Droid? Any advice?
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Some dirt cheap Verizon Motorola that came free with my plan :D
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kingmohd84 wrote:I got Sony Ericsson K800 , its couple years old.

I am looking for a phone for web browsing, I would buy the iPhone but I am not sure . There are too many limits , jail breaking and more. How about the Droid? Any advice?



I think I am going to go buy a Droid today so I'll let you know. :D
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A cheap Nokia that rings lound, big buttons to type messages and it works. Nothing fancy.
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I have a phone.

It's purple, and has little buttons from 1-9, *, 0, #

there's a green one to send, and a red one to stop.

I can call people on it.

It does what phones are supposed to do.

Yes that's a jab at iPhones and a lot of other super-fangle nonsense cellphones that do SO MUCH, and then fail miserably in the design of the 'phone' aspect of the whole deal. I don't have anything against the micro-pc platform in the consideration of the use as a micro or portable computer. But they aren't phones, they're computers with a really crappy phone application installed.
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lordofduct wrote:I have a phone.

It's purple, and has little buttons from 1-9, *, 0, #

there's a green one to send, and a red one to stop.

I can call people on it.

It does what phones are supposed to do.

Yes that's a jab at iPhones and a lot of other super-fangle nonsense cellphones that do SO MUCH, and then fail miserably in the design of the 'phone' aspect of the whole deal. I don't have anything against the micro-pc platform in the consideration of the use as a micro or portable computer. But they aren't phones, they're computers with a really crappy phone application installed.


my phone app works just fine. the only thing it has difficulty with is automated telephone menu systems, but if i need to pay a bill or something, i just get online and pay it anyway (which i can also do on my phone). i think that's a small price to pay for something that saves me space and is basically a do-all for just about everything i need when i'm out (google maps, google, wikipedia, ebay, craigslist, shopsavvy, GBA/NES emulation, youtube, panda throwing, bubble popping, fake cigarette lighting, etc).

i feel like people with free/basic/flip/whatever phones denigrating the benefits of a smart phone just haven't had the opportunity to use one extensively yet. i was the same way, perfectly happy with my samsung t509, then i got this thing, and i could not imagine how hard it would be for me to adapt to the forced regression. not saying it's necessary, but it doesn't make it any less useful or important in my life.


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I have a southwestern bell freedom phone. It has a number pad, * and #, a redial button, and some memory buttons, but I've never used them. It plugs into the wall and cost me all of $0.
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as it comes to apps, and extra features. I whole heartedly understand why people like them. But everyone constantly defends a pretty shitty phone interface.

Hand that phone to any high productive person who needs just that... a phone (not a pda, not an organizer, when they just need a phone) and sweepingly I hear horrible things.

Example, my whole family are truck drivers. You'd think a PDA phone would be awesome for a truck driver. All those little goodies for them. And most of them love the idea of all the cool apps they could use.

But then a problem... the act of making a phone call in the truck becomes a fucking nightmare. It just isn't user friendly to that extent.

With my phone I can make a phone call with out looking at it... I can dial away and hit send with out taking my eyes off of what I was already doing. A PDA phone, no, can't do that.

And there are tons of jobs where this all just doesn't work out. Yet the people who use it defend their phone application in the portable pc like it's just damn good. But it's not. Everything is pretty kick ass, the companies need to fix THE PHONE part of the phone. The IMPORTANT part. It's the part that gives its fucking name!
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