Cell phones and wireless providers
Well, my 1 year contract with Sprint PCS is coming up, and I am entertaining switching to something else.
My experience with Sprint PCS has been fairly good with one exception, the reception in my neighborhood is spotty. I get a lot of dropped calls, but I've been able to manage. The huge plus is that it has digital service in my old hometime where I travel a lot. I've also been very satisfied with my Samsung N200 phone. Long talk time, solidly built phone, and excellent user interface. Problem is, I want to drop my bare bones $30/month local SWB landline.
So I went to the Sprint PCS store and looked at the latest PCS vision phones (Samsung and LG) yesterday, and to my surprise, their user interfaces suck Microsoft Bob bad. The Samsung N400 is pretty much an upgraded N200 with a really bad interface. Another reason why I'm thinking of switching.
I've got some questions for users of the Sony Ericsson T68/T68m/T68i. How is the user interface? What is it like? I read a review they said it was slow. Is there a holster for it? If you used it with T-Mobile (nee Voicestream), how's the reception? How's the coverage?
Lastly any recommendations for phones and services? I don't that much over price, and I tend to like a good hunk of machinary over something flimsy.
My experience with Sprint PCS has been fairly good with one exception, the reception in my neighborhood is spotty. I get a lot of dropped calls, but I've been able to manage. The huge plus is that it has digital service in my old hometime where I travel a lot. I've also been very satisfied with my Samsung N200 phone. Long talk time, solidly built phone, and excellent user interface. Problem is, I want to drop my bare bones $30/month local SWB landline.
So I went to the Sprint PCS store and looked at the latest PCS vision phones (Samsung and LG) yesterday, and to my surprise, their user interfaces suck Microsoft Bob bad. The Samsung N400 is pretty much an upgraded N200 with a really bad interface. Another reason why I'm thinking of switching.
I've got some questions for users of the Sony Ericsson T68/T68m/T68i. How is the user interface? What is it like? I read a review they said it was slow. Is there a holster for it? If you used it with T-Mobile (nee Voicestream), how's the reception? How's the coverage?
Lastly any recommendations for phones and services? I don't that much over price, and I tend to like a good hunk of machinary over something flimsy.
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Anyway now I'm thinking of upgrading. I have AT&T with the el cheap-o nokia. It works fine. I've heard that AT&T has crap coverage on the east coast but where I am in flyover country it's okay.
The fscking head set pull out too much.
You think moving to a better phone will get you better signals or is it all in the location of the cell towers?
My main gripe is battery life. I hate when the cell is plugged into the wall and it still goes dead. I mean WTF is that?
You think moving to a better phone will get you better signals?</strong>
No. There will be some variability in phone reception, but my research tells me that is a crapshoot.
I just like a nicely designed piece of hardware, user interface included.
Actually, Cingular sounds great, because they rollover your unused minutes monthly.
i love it. i have the 6200 and the 6400 is right around the corner. if you need something now then look at the sanyo 4900 that has color and all things that the n400 has but with a nifty interface, the 6200 is similar.