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Getting first "feature rich" phone, can't decide what to compromise
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Posted by: archcommus

My first and so far only cell phone I've had is a basic Kyocera KX414 with pre-pay Verizon for over 2 1/2 years now. This fall I'll be moving into my own apartment without a land line so I'll need a more robust/cost-effective plan than pre-pay, which means I'll be getting a normal plan with free night/weekends, IN texting, and all that.

Anyway, obviously I'll be getting a new phone with this, which means my first phone with significant features, and I really can't find any that matches everything I'm looking for, so I have to compromise somewhere. Where should I begin.

Well, I never take pictures so I haven't bought my own digital camera. So it'd be nice to have a phone that took good enough pictures with flash to help me continue to avoid buying a camera until I'm out of college. Well, it seems the only ones that have a 3.2 MP camera are over $300, and even the ones with a 1.3 MP don't seem to have flash. I also don't own an MP3 player for a similar reason as not having a camera, so a phone that can play music okay and can hold at least a few hundred MB of songs would be nice as well. However I'm not sure how easy any of these phones would be to put music on them. I also hate flip phones pretty much. The only ones I do like are very thin ones like the RAZR. So I've been considering that, or for a non-flip, the SLVR, which I really like except for its crappy camera.

And finally, there's the issue that some phones just have stupid quirks that I might not know about until I buy it. For example, I was considering the Samsung SCH-a930, until I heard from a friend who owns it that it CAN'T save custom words when using T9. So every time I want to curse or say a friend's name or whatever in a text, I have to type it out manually. That basically makes the phone worthless right there.

So, suggestions? What feature should I give up here? I'm currently really tempted by the SLVR just due to looks.

Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Irse

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Originally Posted by archcommus

My first and so far only cell phone I've had is a basic Kyocera KX414 with pre-pay Verizon for over 2 1/2 years now. This fall I'll be moving into my own apartment without a land line so I'll need a more robust/cost-effective plan than pre-pay, which means I'll be getting a normal plan with free night/weekends, IN texting, and all that.

Anyway, obviously I'll be getting a new phone with this, which means my first phone with significant features, and I really can't find any that matches everything I'm looking for, so I have to compromise somewhere. Where should I begin.

Well, I never take pictures so I haven't bought my own digital camera. So it'd be nice to have a phone that took good enough pictures with flash to help me continue to avoid buying a camera until I'm out of college. Well, it seems the only ones that have a 3.2 MP camera are over $300, and even the ones with a 1.3 MP don't seem to have flash. I also don't own an MP3 player for a similar reason as not having a camera, so a phone that can play music okay and can hold at least a few hundred MB of songs would be nice as well. However I'm not sure how easy any of these phones would be to put music on them. I also hate flip phones pretty much. The only ones I do like are very thin ones like the RAZR. So I've been considering that, or for a non-flip, the SLVR, which I really like except for its crappy camera.

And finally, there's the issue that some phones just have stupid quirks that I might not know about until I buy it. For example, I was considering the Samsung SCH-a930, until I heard from a friend who owns it that it CAN'T save custom words when using T9. So every time I want to curse or say a friend's name or whatever in a text, I have to type it out manually. That basically makes the phone worthless right there.

So, suggestions? What feature should I give up here? I'm currently really tempted by the SLVR just due to looks.

Thanks a lot.

As someone who likes photography, I would give up the camera and buy a point and shoot that cost under $200 and would blow any camera phone out of the water. Probably lot easier to get pictures off the card too. Check Techbargains for good deals.

Posted by: archcommus

Thanks, you're probably right that's the feature I shouldn't be too concerned about. I still would like something that can play music decently if I ever decide to put a few hundred songs on it. Could the SLVR do this pretty easily? I do not use iTunes, just have regular MP3s that I playback with Winamp.

Any other downfalls to the SLVR? I just really like how it looks, more so than most of the flip phones. I read it doesn't use T9, though.

Posted by: Irse

Do a Google search and read as many reviews that you can about any phone that you are interested in.

Posted by: benchmade42

all depends on how much you are willing to spend and if you are about to switch to GSM, what is your budget? I suggest checking these phones out if you are gonna go GSM if not then forget bout it

$200-250 <-- get w700,w810, N70

$260-320 <-- get K800,K790, W850

$350-420 <-- N73,N80

Posted by: Mark Larson

I would recommend the Razr Ve Maxx, but its kinda expensive right now. I don't know about the camera quality, but it has a 2 MP camera with autofocus and music capabilities.

But I'd steer you away from Verizon big-time and towards T-Mobile or Cingular, with the Sony Ericsson W810i, a really good handset with great camera and mp3 player.

Or the best option is Sprint SERO with a Samsung m620 UpStage phone. Kick-*** phone with a kick-*** plan.

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