Comments on: Sic transit cellular

By: quakerinabasement

quakerinabasement — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:11:51 +0000

First your iPod and now your cell phone? Are you related to my father-in-law?

By: pseudonymousinnc

pseudonymousinnc — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:57:32 +0000

The form factor on the eNV2 is nice. It’s a solid piece of kit. The battery life is good. The UI is weirdly unintuitive, though I suppose if you’re used to its idiosyncracies, that’s less of an issue. The OpenWave browser is painfully shit, and Vz locks out Opera Mini. The Vz software setup in general is locked-down shit. If it offered less than it pretends to offer, and the calling-side UI were better worked out, it would feel like a better phone.

By: heydave

heydave — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:03:38 +0000

LG Envy through Verizon here.

Has 2 meg camera that had been surprisingly useful (documenting outdoor woodworking without prior planning) and fun (”Normalcy is Boredom” was scratched on the timbers of a shelter in a park nearby.
Micro SD card that has a bunch of tunes on it that I’ve yet to use with ear buds.
Great phone, great device for texting via either the front keys or the inside QWERTY keyboard.

All I needed but more that I’ve enjoyed.

By: warrenterrah

warrenterrah — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:57:52 +0000

Kyocera here. It’s a bar phone. I don’t want a flip and I don’t want a slider. Just give a freaking bar phone. So I got myself a Kyocera that opens up for a qwerty keyboard but I don’t have to open it up. I am SOL now though because all Alltell has now for a bar phone is a cheap flimsy LG that looks like it’ll fall apart in a month. But I love my Kyocera. I keep on looking for another Kyocera like mine because I want a back up when this one falls apart. No such luck so far.

By: xpurg8d

xpurg8d — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:48:45 +0000

If you’re rotating the dial from right to left, you’re not using a telephone. The dials always work clockwise.

I know this fascinating bit of information because I used to teach telecommunications technology to government agencies. And also because I’m old. See? Those whippersnappers got nuthin’ on me.

By: urizon

urizon — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:34:02 +0000

I find the Blackberry Curve easy to use. It synchs well with Outlook, so I can do my planning on the desktop, rather than punching those little keys. It doesn’t do streaming media, however, which is a bit of a drag; but I understand that the newer Blackberry models will, or already do, include this feature.

Whatever you do, don’t by a Treo. I would take mine out into the back yard and hit fungos with it, but it might put a dent in my baseball bat.

By: TommyCorn

TommyCorn — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:27:40 +0000

I also have a Blackberry Pearl and I am very happy with it. I especially like the tethered modem capability. You really can surf anywhere with a phone signal (backroads in Idaho this summer, worked great). Download speed with 1XEV is about 1 MB (Northern Virginia), upload pretty awful (28-56 kbps), but I don’t upload much. If the keyboard is too small, the Blackberry Curve has QWERTY.

By: MaryCh

MaryCh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:16:38 +0000

Nice lead — WCPWCB? [What Cell Phone Would Camus Buy]

For minimal attachment, and because me and mine were too cheap/poor to buy and waited until father-in-law took pity, I recommend the $50 ATT buy minutes as you go variety. It even has a couple of games, and can be switched from ring to vibrate, for those late night when you haunt some Clean Well-Lighted Place.

By: lukeness

lukeness — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:26:21 +0000

Go with Credo Mobile and help progressive causes!

By: fardelsbear

fardelsbear — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:40:35 +0000

I have some Samsung thingy from Ebay for $12.50. Slipped in my SIM card and it purred like a kitten. Works great as a phone and I don’t really need anything else.