Gambit7

I look for durability in my phone, as well as practical usefulness. None of the above phones have any durability whatsoever... they're nice phones, but not my cup o' tea.

This is the phone I have:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5140-review-4.php

While everyone else's phones take a dump and they're standing in line at Cingular begging for an insurance replacement... I'm chillin with a phone that has lasted me years. I've never even had a sticky key.

I walk in the rain with it, ski with it, do hard manual labor with it, drop it, sit in a steam room, go fishing/boating with it, dowse it with water, I'm a freediver and use it as well (obviously not underwater) and it's still just as new as when I bought it. Everyone who sees my phone asks me where to get one (many of these folks have palms, iPhones, etc.).

It has a flashlight, level, digital compass, camera (of course), world capability, a net browser, and PTT capability. IMO, that's all one should need in a phone, along with durability. It does other stuff like temperature and sound level also.

I'm not a fan of combining 50 different features into 1 phone. If I need a computer I'll bring a laptop. MP3 player I'll use my Ipod. If I'm in love with texting I'll get a 2-way. Fact is, there is no one device that can do the job as well as separate ones. And if it breaks after you fart on it, all those nifty features become useless.

-my 2 cents

p.s.
Good luck finding a 5140 in stores though. Retailers dont like selling them because it's usually the last phone customers buy. If you DO find one, you're very likely to pay full price for it (even if u buy a plan). Regardless, it's worth it. If you find one on Ebay grab it. They're hard to come by. My father (who's a phone whore) actually bought 2 of them and has never bought another phone since.

p.p.s.
If you're kind of a couch potato or desk-jockey type (you're not active physically) then this phone might not be for you. However, everyone finds themselves getting wet or dropping their phones and this is the only one I know of that stands up to those 2 things.

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that is not true. A2DP is very rare on a cellphone. getting stereo through BT on a phone is not easy. the BJ and Q are both exceptions.

The BT GPS thing is also not possible with most phones as they do not have software built for them to interface with it.

On a sidenote, the BJ is just a larger samsung clone of the Q

Q = .45" thick - "World's thinnest smartphone for 2.5 years...." FTW!!!!!
BJ = .5" thick.. and slower - pwned.

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mentholated

I stand by my original statement.

peardog

Have you seen this ugly beast..
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-GzOne-Ph...324976&sr=1-44

or's it's sibling:
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-GzOne-Ph...324976&sr=1-47

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Apophis

The Treo 700wx looked really nice, but when I was playing with it and navigating through the system it just felt slow. The Samsung i760 just seemed fast. It is considered a smart phone and I did get the unlimited data plan, in addition to that, I pay the $10/month to enable the tether feature. That lets me connect it to my laptop and get broadband speed connectivity on my laptop from pretty much anywhere.

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Apophis

That was my position up until about a month ago. I had a normal RAZR V3m and I only needed to make calls. I got the smartphone due to my new job and it gives me the ability to deal with some administrative stuff for TG when I'm not at home. If something dies and I'm away from a computer for hours, it's nice to be able to fix it remotely. If it wasn't for that, I would still have my plain ol' phone.

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Apophis

That's a pretty cool phone. Absolutely something I would have made good use of in a former life. These days the combination devices are far more useful to me. I can't go into my work with a cell phone, pda, laptop, and MP3 player. They won't allow it. Having a relatively small phone that can give me some level of functionality is FAR better than having none. It's been a lifesaver for me on numerous occasions already, but I don't think having a level would have helped me much. Not unless it supports SSHv3 and can shuffle a 1.7GB file between two servers.

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UnDeaD77

ATT seems to be the best service here in TX, what would you recommend off the list of phones they offer? Smart/PDA or any of them?

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Gambit7

It's a Casio and it's Verizon... doubly-icky

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IanTheRed

Chocolate 2 is the best phone I have ever had.

Then again I had crap phones before lol.

SuperDudeBT

Trooper, it looks like you are strictly going with Alltel, is that right?

Trooper

Yeah ive been a customer of theirs for a while and all of my family is with them. Plus they have better service then verizon ATT or nextel, in my opinion

UnDeaD77

Largest company eh? I can't even get them in Fort Worth,Tx?

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xTYBALTx

Just get an iPhone and check the TG forums from anywhere.

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Trooper

Never said they where the largest, just said they have better service where im at then the rest. And considering they use sprint towers as well as their own, makes for a nice network.