Which Cell Phone and Provider ?

Which phone and provider do you folks use? For me, I have a Motorola v60i with Verizon Wireless. I recently purchased an AudioVox CDM8600 to use with Verizon as well, however I'm somewhat dissappointed with it. I'm not sure whether or not I'll keep it or not.

I use a Nokia 1260 cellular telephone with AT&T Wireless service. Don't know whether it's GSM or digital or analogue or what.

Verizon does seem to have the best national coverage. I've had a number of Motorola phones and am through with them--all kinds of problems with the battery charging systems. I've been pretty happy with the now-creaky Nokia 5185. I've also used the Kyocera 21xx series which is nice in some ways--though it has some design errors I consider it ok. And the Lucky Goldstar LG510 series, I don't like very much and would say stay away. Finally since this is CPF, the Kyocera K7 looks interesting: it's a cheap phone with a built-in LED flashlight. But I haven't tried it and don't know if Verizon supports it. What's wrong with your Audiovox? That's a small V60-like flip phone, right? I thought it looked nice in the store.

I have a Motorola C333 with Verizon. I tried it in the town I am moving to and it worked fine. The town is way up the hill around 1800 feet and I was going to change services if signal strength was low from the mountains/hills blocking the signals.Verizon has a giant area of no to poor coverage in east central Kentucky.The next test will be on one of the local Tennessee lakes I am moving to the area for,and if it works there I am a happy camper.

I've had personal experience with Verizon and Cingular. The sound quality on Verizon is far superior to Verizon. My friends have also had Sprint which has horrible coverage here in Connecticut.

As for phones, I find Nokia and Motorola are fine. I used to work for a company that leased the first Audiovox phones (Back when cellphones were over $1,000.00)and they sucked then. Not sure how they are now but I see that Verizon carries fewer models of them now.

BTW: I know that Cingular sound quality is not phone related as my SIL has the same phone (Nokia 5100) with Tracphone that my wife has. The Nokia with TRAC sounds great.


Chris

I've hade Verizon for over nine years now. With their coverage and package content, I have no intention of ever changing. Just got a new Samsung scha-530. It's very small and digital only. Haven't had any problems with it. It even came with a spare extended life battery.

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Hi Nascar, I have Nextel now (work phone) and I wouldn't recommend it.

Actually, I need to get new cell service soon myself. Anyone down here in the New Orleans area have any opinions on Verizon? It's either them or ATT non GSM service. I hear that the ATT GSM service down here is awefull.

I'm currently looking at the LG VX6000 phone with Verizon.

Non GSM ATT has great service down here I have been with them for 4 years (It's my wifes phone) and have no complaints, but the non GSM phones are all pretty basic. Also, Verizon has more minutes for the dollar offered.

i don't personally have a cellphone, but based on my friends who use them, if i were to get one i would go to Verizon or Virgin Mobile.

ATT Wireless and Nokia phone.
phone is ok, ATT Wireless sucks. for the life of me i cannot get them to straighten out the mess they created when they did not properly bill me in the first place and then double billed (twice in the same day). over 4.5 hrs fooling with it and still no resolution.

I strongly recommend staying away from ATT Wireless.

GSM coverage in the US is generally terrible except in big cities. Virgin Mobile uses the Sprint network which is ok but not really great. They do have the cheapest prepaid plan I've ever seen for very occasional users (just 7 bucks a month for about 30 minutes, but extra minutes are on the expensive side). They start charging for completed when you hit the "send" button which means if the phone spends 5 seconds connecting to the network, then the other person's phone rings for 20 seconds, then you spend 10 seconds saying hello and giving your name, and you then spend 30 seconds saying you're at the train station and giving the address so the person can pick you up, that adds up to 1 minute and 5 seconds so you get charged for 2 minutes. Unfortunately that is a very typical cell phone call. Verizon starts charging when the other person actually answers, and the extra 30 seconds makes a significant difference. (Neither carrier charges you if there's no answer).

I've had cellphones since 1984 when I engineered the digital landlines for the first installations in the Seattle area (NewVector Communications was the first, CellularOne was the second).

I've had service with all major carriers in the area and had many brands of 'phone (NEC, Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, etc.) and curently I'm running a Sanyo 4900 (with a Samsung N200 as backup) in Sprint PCS.

My first cellular portable (Motorola) was like carrying around a car battery in both size and weight, now days size appears to be limited by usable screen and control sizes.

Service still sucks outside the metropolitan areas, and sometimes inside them ...



(Prior to the "cellphone revolution" I had mobile phone service, also. The "head" was mounted under the dash on the center hump and the guts were in the trunk, and about the size of the average Samsonite suitcase. The tranceiver was a 100 watt output tube type unit, and there were six channels available for the entire western Washington (state, not black hole) area. Yes, that means only six people could use their mobiles at the same time. Mine was a "dial" set and I could place my own calls - many were "manual" and had to use an operator. The antenna was about four feet long.)

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Which phone and provider do you folks use? For me, I have a Motorola v60i with Verizon Wireless. I recently purchased an AudioVox CDM8600 to use with Verizon as well, however I'm somewhat dissappointed with it. I'm not sure whether or not I'll keep it or not.


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Are you not satisfied with the phone or Verizon?

I love the Verizon + v60i combination. I was just curious as to what others are using.

Recently got a Moto T720 phone, and it crashes frequently, bluescreen-of-death style. Sometimes requires a power-down to revive it, sometimes it reboots by itself. It is the most unstable phone I have ever used. And the ringtones stink.

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I've been with verizon for years also. The only time I ever had a problem was on 9/11/2001, couldn't get a call throught at all, but then again no one else could either.
I've had nextel, 50% calls dropped at random times. Driving down the road it would beep as it went in service, beep as it went out of service, beep in, beep out, repeat many many times.
I've known people with Ameritech (SBC) and Sprint and they always borrow my phone when theirs won't get a signal.

My current service provider AT&T Wireless for my primary/business mobile phone. I can and do use, depending on the known coverage and need for data, a couple of different phones... In areas of good GSM coverage, I use a Nokia 7210 or a Nokia 3650. In "iffy" areas, I carry a Multi-Band Siemens S46, which works on both AT&T's newer GSM network and the TDMA (aka, the older "Digital" network.)

I travel nationwide, and am quite happy with my AT&T Wireless GSM (and TDMA) coverage. I travel in California (SF to San Diego), Ohio (Dayton to Columbus), Michigan (Detroit metro area), NewYork (Manhattan to the Bronx to LI), New Jersey and Philadelphia (form Philly to Atlantic City), Maryland (Baltimore down to DC), Florida (Palm Beach down to South Beach), Texas (Houston/Dallas/San Antonio), and Arizona (Scottsdale), Las Vegas (though coverage deep in the bowels of the casinos gets sketchy).

I use Sprint and a Samsung A460 flip phone. I have kids and relatives in San Diego,Texas, and Virgina and we have Sprint's unlimited Sprint to Sprint calling for $5.00 each. Not a bad deal...unlimited anytime calling.

I have Virgin mobile and it's actually as cheap as $6.66 a month prepaid. You spend $.25 a minute for the first 10 minutes of each day and then you spend only $.10 a minute. If you make the odd call it's great. Low costs and you can add money to your account on the phone itself. What It means is that you only have to put in $20 every 90 days but can put in more if you need it. It includes free long distance and no roaming. I use the audiovox cm8500 flip phone and is the only reason I have a cell phone, just a bit more than a pager. A person could actually talk for 185 minutes on $20. You don't have to pay much if you make the odd call, but that's all I use it for anyway. How many people that don't have a cell phone would get one if they knew it was only going to be as little as $6.66 a month. One could actually make 26 one minute calls a month for that figure.

Well heck, my 2 yr contract with ATT is expiring in about a week. I've been doing my own share of checking and I'm still not sure what I'm going to do.

I haven't heard anything good about audiovox from anybody, but nobody says why, they just say stay away from it.

When I got my current phone (Panasonic Alure) two years ago ATT was the best carrier with Verizon right behind them (that was from 2 different stores that support several carriers and my brother who is on his phone as a salesperson 14 hrs a day) Now however I've talked to at least four people that say ATT -GSM needs alot of help, it's still way too new.

I hear alot of unhappy people with broken attennas with Moto's V60series and T721 (?)

I don't want a picture phone! Seem like all the phones I like have cameras.

I'd keep eveything the way it is but my Panasonic Alure started acting real funny about 3-4 weeks ago. It shuts off on it's own, push a key and it goes into vibrate mode all by itself, screen will blank. Can't power up and have to remove battery to reset it. I bought it a new battery and it still does all these things. Now here is the real weird thing, a woman at work said her boyfriends cellphone started acting funny about 3-4 weeks ago. I said really what kind does he have and I showed her mine, she said it's the same as yours! Coincidence or what?

GregR

I am currently using T-Mobile with a Nokia 3595. Just upgraded from a 3390. Next month T-Mobile will get cancelled & Cingular will get my business. I have had way too many problems with T-Mobile & their customer service generally doesn't care &/or can't fix it.

Andy