better off with tin cans & some string...

[theevilnub]

Sometimes I just want to hurl my phone as fast & as far as I can into a wall so that it disintegrates into a bazillion little shards. The only thing I like about it is the texture of the rubberized surface on the outside. Otherwise it's the most counterintuitive, frustratingly useless piece of shit to ever come from Finland**!

**By "Finland", I

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[theevilnub]

Back East I had Verizon (nee Bell Atlantic) until Nov. '05. Verizon was great back East but out West, at the time, calls kept dropping no matter where I went. I wanted a new phone & also Verizon's plans were a lot of money for not that many minutes so I switched to T-Mobile. T-Mobile's service wasn't as great as Verizon's back East but not terrible, & the plan was ideal. I went Samsung when I made the switch & it was a basic phone but reliable & easy to live with. Had that for a couple of years & went Nokia & it's been crap ever since. Calls still dropped in the house with the Samsung, but it's SO much worse with the Nokia... many times I have trouble just dialing out in the first place. Dennis has T-Mobile & he has issues with dropped calls as well... though not as much as I do. When a free phone becomes available, I'm going to make the switch. And then when my stupid contract is up, or at least to where I can early term without penalty (or a negligible one) I'm going to look to ditch T-Mobile altogether... for all the reasons mentioned but also because I've never been impressed with their phone selection. Ever.

[ciddyguy]

One thing to be aware of is that cheap phones are, well, cheap and often drop calls more than better phones, and are often clearer too. That's what the sales guy told my Mom when she upgraded her phone last fall. She has a samsung slider from T-Mobile and it's much clearer than the previous phone, Samsung I think as well ever was and it was a freebie at the time (2003). She's had no problems w/ dropped calls and I know of others that have used T-Mobile with little to no problems and in fact, I am considering getting on w/ them in a creative development type of position for they are growing at their main campus where I work to better my income and all that and may have to switch but I have Verizon now and thus the Juke and I've been quite happy w/ Verizon for the most part and have been w/ them since 2003. I was an early pre T-Mobile user when I was with Voice Stream in 1999 as T-Mobile bought them out.

[theevilnub]

The Samsung I had was a rather cheap phone, but it performed rather well. I'll also need a phone with a certain degree of heft as I tend to drop them on occasion.

[ciddyguy]

The 120E that I had as my cheap phone was one of the worst phones Motorola ever made according to reviews and such.

Not the clearest, poor display, the green backlight was pretty bad, the indiglo blue was much better though neither were fantastic (monochrome at that), very basic phone, no games that I recall.

Anyway, the Juke is worlds better in the phone department and it's not dropped calls yet and I can text to some extend.