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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / July 2003Best cigular phone under 300.00
Ok to be honest I really dont care about a camera in my cell phone (but if the best phone right now is a camera phone so be it) Im shortly changing service and live in the L A county area of so cal. right now Im with vermizon and gotten a dud vx 4400 . Whats the most reliable phone cingular offers now? Thanx please reframe form blant flaming , Im interest it which phones do and do not give good service . thanx Bob S. >Thanx please reframe form blant flaming , Huh???? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Replies are seldom read. Please reply in the group I'd say your best options are the SE T616, the Nokia 6800, 3300, 3600, 6200, or 6100, or the Samsung S307... i'd prefer the T616 or the 3300 personally. > Ok to be honest I really dont care about a camera in my cell phone (but > if the best phone right now is a camera phone so be it) Im shortly > changing service and live in the L A county area of so cal. right now Im > with vermizon and gotten a dud vx 4400 . Whats the most reliable phone > cingular offers now? Thanx please reframe form blant flaming , Im > interest it which phones do and do not give good service . thanx Bob S. > Ok to be honest I really dont care about a camera in my cell phone (but > if the best phone right now is a camera phone so be it) Im shortly > changing service and live in the L A county area of so cal. right now Im > with vermizon and gotten a dud vx 4400 . Whats the most reliable phone > cingular offers now? Thanx please reframe form blant flaming , Im > interest it which phones do and do not give good service . thanx Bob S. For reliability get the Motorola V60gi. No bells and whistles but very solid. Personally I would not choose any of the phones offered by the carrier and would go get my own phone, since I want an unlocked tri-band or quad band GSM phone. I'm sure that you are aware that your service quality will be considerably poorer on Cingular than on Verizon. Verizon has the best coverage in Southern California, while Cingular is in fourth place. So don't blame the phone when you are on Cingular. I agree with you that the LG phones are not very good. Your best bet for good service is to get a different phone on Verizon, or an AT&T TDMA plan. Visit my web site for more assistance. Steve http://socalcell.com 6590 has been pulled. There are too many teenagers wanting game-phones with color screens. 6590 has gotten a bad rap with extremely high returns all because it does not have a color screen. In spite of the fact that it is the best connecting cell phone made for Cingular, they have rejected the phone and are sending them all back to Nokia. sfbacellexpert@hotmail.com (sfbacellexpert) wrote in article <3bab8835.0307300732.70f7f901@posting.google.com>: > > Ok to be honest I really dont care about a camera in my cell phone (but > > if the best phone right now is a camera phone so be it) Im shortly [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Steve > http://socalcell.com >6590 has been pulled. There are too many teenagers wanting game-phones >with color screens. 6590 has gotten a bad rap with extremely high >returns all because it does not have a color screen. In spite of the >fact that it is the best connecting cell phone made for Cingular, they >have rejected the phone and are sending them all back to Nokia. The 6590i is still listed on Cingular's website as available for Chicago, IL, but they are certainly GONE as far as the West Coast is concerned. And it's too bad, cuz it IS a great phone. Small size, excellent battery life, great features, GSM 850/1900, and great reception; I love mine. Most of the other color phones Cingular phone offers (e.g., Nokia 3595, 3300, 6800, etc.) are garbage. The Nokia 3600, Samsung S307, Motorola T720 are nice though. I sure wouldn't mind getting a Nokia 6600 when they come out! >>6590 has been pulled. There are too many teenagers wanting game-phones >>with color screens. 6590 has gotten a bad rap with extremely high [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >I sure wouldn't mind getting a Nokia 6600 when they come out! I lost my last phone (a V60gi that I'd JUST gotten... neat little phone, but REALLY slow response, REALLY long time starting up, etc. I'd like a souped-up V60gi... maybe the V600 will be just the ticket?). So I got a 6590i... had most of what I wanted, and they had some in stock at the local Cingular place. Friggin' TINY buttons, though... I wish Nokia would stop designing many of their phones to look "cool" and instead take a clue from Sony-Ericsson and have functional buttons, nicely spaced, that you can find by touch. If it were a little faster and had better reception, I like the Sony-Ericsson T616. What I'm pissed about is how Cingular is crippling their phones, no longer selling ones that will work EVERYWHERE. The person in the store told me they had too many people saying they "lost" their phones, then selling them to people in Europe. Is that true, do you think? - Tim -- >I lost my last phone (a V60gi that I'd JUST gotten... neat little >phone, but REALLY slow response, REALLY long time starting up, etc. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >to look "cool" and instead take a clue from Sony-Ericsson and >have functional buttons, nicely spaced, that you can find by touch. The buttons on the 6590i are small, but I've gotten used to them. I like the small phones because they are much nicer to jog with clipped onto my side/back with a case. The larger phones I've had before (e.g., 3590, 5190, etc.) are too large/heavy for that type of stuff. I would borrow my wife's 8290, but that was always a pain. >If it were a little faster and had better reception, I like the >Sony-Ericsson T616. What I'm pissed about is how Cingular is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Is that true, do you think? Is what part true? I don't think Cingular ever sold a phone that worked "everywhere". There are too many standards and frequencies. A phone that worked "everywhere" would have to be quad-band GSM+dual-band CDMA+dual band TDMA+AMPS (excluding iDEN here). The closest thing Cingular has sold as being closest to working "everywhere" would be their tri-band GSM phones or their GAIT phones. I have noted that Cingular has changed from using 3650 (tri-band world GSM phone) to using a 3600 (dual-band USA GSM phone). Perhaps that's what they were talking about -- people selling their 3650s to people in Europe. Now I guess people that want to do that will have to go with ATTWS or TMobile who still sell the 3650s. >>So I got a 6590i... had most of what I wanted, and they had some >>in stock at the local Cingular place. Friggin' TINY buttons, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >5190, etc.) are too large/heavy for that type of stuff. I would borrow my >wife's 8290, but that was always a pain. I like the small phones, too, because I can carry them around without them bulging in my pockets. But even on that small phone, the call/end buttons are teensy, a couple of mm wide, and set right NEXT to the select/menu buttons, which are much larger. It's VERY easy to hit one of them instead. A little bit of separation, just a couple of MM, would have made all the difference. My thumbs weren't made for it. :-) >>If it were a little faster and had better reception, I like the >>Sony-Ericsson T616. What I'm pissed about is how Cingular is [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Is what part true? The part about why Cingular would stop selling tri-band phones. Which you answered, thanks. :-) Hard to believe the problem would be SO big that they'd stop selling those phones, though. - Tim >I don't think Cingular ever sold a phone that worked "everywhere". There >are too many standards and frequencies. A phone that worked "everywhere" [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >to people in Europe. Now I guess people that want to do that will have to >go with ATTWS or TMobile who still sell the 3650s. -- >>Is what part true? > >The part about why Cingular would stop selling tri-band phones. >Which you answered, thanks. :-) Well, they actually still are selling tri-band GSM phones here in California. In particular, the Motorola v60gi, the Sony Ericsson T306/T316/T606s, and the Nokia 6100. >Hard to believe the problem would be SO big that they'd >stop selling those phones, though. I wonder if it's just a thing with the Nokia 3650/3600? I have to admit, the Nokia 3650/3600 are NICE phones, except they are too stinking big. I'm looking forward to the Nokia 6600 with its BIG 65K color screen but SMALL size. |
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