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Main Forums => Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap => Topic started by: Demosthenes on June 16, 2004, 12:24:54 PM

Title: The phone I'm getting
Post by: Demosthenes on June 16, 2004, 12:24:54 PM

Since my wife and I moved (back in October), my mobile phone is pretty much useless at our house.

It's a good phone... it's a Nokia that is only three years old.

Unfortunately, my provider's service area has a massive dead zone right outside of the St Cloud area (in the center of which our house is located :().

Pretty much every other provider we have access to for mobile phone service has better signal strength in our area.

Needless to say, I'm switching.  I'm going with a Sprint PCS plan that is actually going to be a bit cheaper than what I'm currently paying, and will offer me better service pretty much everywhere.

I was looking at the various phones Sprint has (http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/PhonesAccessories/AllPhones.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1459267&CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_SCID=ECOMM&CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_PCode=None&CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_cartState=group&bmUID=1087405799023&navTemplateName=ALL_PHONES_TEMPLATE&navTemplateText=All%20PCS%20Phones) for their service, and the one I think I want is this one:  click (http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/PhonesAccessories/PhoneDetails.jsp?navLocator=%7Cshop%7CphonesAccessories%7CallPhones%7C&selectSkuId=samsunga620&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1476015&CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_SCID=ECOMM&CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_PCode=None&CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_cartState=group&bmUID=1087406041787)

Holy crap that's a long link.  I wonder if that will work?


EDIT:  Yup, apparently so.

Title: The phone I'm getting
Post by: hackess on June 16, 2004, 12:33:10 PM

Nice!

Title: The phone I'm getting
Post by: MISTER MASSACRE on June 16, 2004, 04:59:10 PM

After going through an Audiovox and an LG (not that one!), I've finally settled on a Nokia 3586i (http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3586i) (I think that it's it...). It gets decent reception everywhere I go--most noticeably my office, a feature at which the LG fell short--and is pretty.

If I had to pick one downfall, it's the lack of adjustable headset volume. Can't hardly hear nothing in noisy areas. Not that I want to be the dink gibbering away on my phone in public anyway, but still.