Best cell phone(s) you've ever owned

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ITT: best cell phone(s) you've ever owned and why.



Nokia E61i
-incredible RF performance
-Symbian!
-thin but sturdy
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Siemens S56
-had a polyphonic ringer
-super small and light
-quirky but lovable
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Motorola V400
-played MP3 ringtones in 2003
-solid construction
-never once broke
-excellent color screen (in its day)
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Nokia 6200
-outstanding RF performance
-comfortable
-ultra-sharp display
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Samsung Blackjack
-3G in 2005 (no one else had it yet!)
-thin and light
-good keyboard
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Motorola Droid (current phone)
-still very powerful after a year
-best build quality ever
-r00t = custom ROMs, tethering
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In terms of reception and ease of speaking/hearing, our old Nokias (don't rememeber the model, but they had a little stub antenna) we had back in the 'nineties were very good.
Our current handsets are Nokias, and they are fine, but the old phones seemed to work better.
Also, my younger son had some sort of credit card sized baby Nokia for a time some years back.
It worked very well.
 
The old Nokias kicked [censored] when it came to RF performance. Their CEO said something to the effect of, "these are phones and we're going to make call quality and reception the top priority." I've had several Nokias that were always outstanding in that regard. Sadly no one seems to care about that anymore.
 
Best Phones:
Samsung U740 or Alias 1
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Samsung U750 or Alias 2
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Why? Because they were a regular sized flip phone that had a QWERTY keyboard, long battery life, well-made, and the OS did not crash.



Worst phone:
Motorola Droid
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This was the beast the replaced my first Samsung U740 and this was the beast that made me swear off smart-phones for another few years. This was the monster that made to downgrade back to a "regular" phone; Samsung U750. I've never had a phone that had it's OS CRASH and restart during middle of a conversations, fail at turning alarms on, and changing/disabling ring-tones that lead to missed calls. Verizon it going to get the Iphone soon. Oh, it's freakin' heavy too. I may have to look at that.
 
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My current iPhone 4 is definitely the best phone I have ever owned. If there's one reason, it is the retina display.

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And, an otterbox defender case solves most durability issues.
 
Originally Posted By: spasm3
motorola bag phone, no antenna near my head, 4 watts output, too big to carry around so i never had to answer it!!!
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I was going to say my Mitsubishi t250. It was primitive but you could get movie listings from the internet and it could make a call when everyone else's phone couldn't get a signal. Plus it was durable. I dropped that thing so many times I lost count. Battery lasted 6 years.
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Originally Posted By: dparm
The old Nokias kicked [censored] when it came to RF performance. Their CEO said something to the effect of, "these are phones and we're going to make call quality and reception the top priority." I've had several Nokias that were always outstanding in that regard. Sadly no one seems to care about that anymore.


I'm still carrying a nokia 6061 its probably almost 10 years old, works great ! But i only use 8 minutes a month!!!!!
 
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My old Blackberry BOLD 9000 was invincible. Best phone I've ever owned. And I've owned like 15 phones.

Currently have the Torch.
 
Originally Posted By: dparm


Motorola Droid (current phone)
-still very powerful after a year
-best build quality ever
-r00t = custom ROMs, tethering
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Yes 100 times over is my vote.
 
Originally Posted By: dparm

Samsung Blackjack
-3G in 2005 (no one else had it yet!)
-thin and light
-good keyboard
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I guess our experiences differ. To me, this was one of the worst phones I've owned. Windows Mobile implementation on this thing was so buggy, it made me pull my hair out on multiple occasions. Very slow, too. Keys and keyboard action very awkward, strange feeling (at least compared to a typical BlackBerry). It would freeze and reboot frequently. And the most annoying of it all: if it lost signal, like on a subway underground, it would not be able to recover it on the other end of the tunnel. You had to physically shut it down and restart it before you could make a call again. Add to that the most unintuitive user interface that ever came out of Microsoft. Everything required more clicks than necessary. By the way, Blackjack did not come out until early 2007.

OK, sorry about the rant. As far as best phones, I liked my old Nokia 6682:

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This was my first smartphone back in 2006. I remember it fondly. It's a shame the Symbian platform gets no love these days. This phone could do a lot of things back in the day, including running TomTom navigation. Alas, it's pretty slow by today standards.

Other than that, I was testing HTC MyTouch 4G last week and liked it quite a bit. Battery life is a nightmare though. Gotta carry a spare battery around.
 
Originally Posted By: spasm3
motorola bag phone, no antenna near my head, 4 watts output, too big to carry around so i never had to answer it!!!
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Almost my thoughts. I say bring back the Motorola DynaTAC.

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Nokia and Motorola used to make the best radios.

These days, the market is split into two segments. There are phone companies making good phones with awful computer functions (Symbian!). Then there are the computer companies with good software and really crummy radios.

Then there's the iPhone 4, which for the moment isn't very good at either.
 
Motorola SLVR.

That thing was thin, had outstanding battery life even over years of use, could take a BEATING, and never locked up. It was dropped in beer, in a toilet, carried around in soaked pants through the rain, it was thrown MULTIPLE times and generally abused like you wouldn't believe. No feature ever stopped working - the speakerphone and camera are still as clear as they ever were and I have no doubt it had another year or so left in it. At the time it was retired, it could hold a battery charge for three days at idle.

I needed something more technologically advanced, so I got a blackberry, but after all that, it's still my backup phone.
 
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Samsung Captivate
-first smartphone
-powerful with a custom ROM (flashed 10 or so different ones and haven't bricked it yet)
-sleek looking
-4" SAMOLED display
-thin
-durable (dropped it from 4' onto concrete with only a thin gel case on it and it didn't break
-my iPhone biased buddy likes it
 
Originally Posted By: cbear
I would still be using my Nokia 6160 if they didn't shut down the TDMA network.


I had a Nokia GAIT phone for a while since TDMA coverage was still so good!
 
Originally Posted By: asiancivicmaniac
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Samsung Captivate
-first smartphone
-powerful with a custom ROM (flashed 10 or so different ones and haven't bricked it yet)
-sleek looking
-4" SAMOLED display
-thin
-durable (dropped it from 4' onto concrete with only a thin gel case on it and it didn't break
-my iPhone biased buddy likes it


The first smartphone was called "simon" and was from IBM. This was in 1992, LOL!

And of course then we have Blackberry.
 
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