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well, thought id start a topic about cell phones... (almost) everyone has one, but all i ever really hear is people bitching about their phone/coverage/ect.

so lets hear what everyone is sporting, Handset/Carrier/Coverage wise and your personal opinions about what you have, and what you would recommend

ive got an Older Blackberry 7230, the voice service is decent, no speakerphone or bluetooth and not too loud, but i can useually make out everything i hear on it, the full internet is great(when i pay for it) this model uses a scroll wheel which is very convienent, but it gets a little sticky sometimes.... after alot of use... I have T-mobile and i cant complain about the coverage, best thing about the phone is the FULL keyboard which makes it the greatest TXTing phone ive ever used.....

I'm not a very pro-cell phone person (read: I hate them and think people should learn to wait 5 minutes to get home and phone people from there instead of running me over because they're not paying attention to the road to tell their buddy about that huge fart they made in the lunch room at work.) Though I have a question.

You have a cell phone. You can phone someone and talk to them. So... what's the point of sending an ambiguous text message? :S

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I like my wife having one. It gives me some piece of mind that if she needs me and can't get to a regular phone (flat tire, ect...) that she can reach me.

We roll with Verizon. It has some "dead spots" in our town, but overall the coverage is very nice.

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I rock Verizon. I never really had any other option, my family has used Verizon for mobile since long before they were called Verizon, and the In plan pretty much means we can call 80% of our families for free at any time. There really are no such things as dead spots where I live, either, for any network, so no big deal.

I think using a phone for texting or websurfing is asinine, personally. I don't ever text anyone but Neal, and there's very little point in using the web for it given the sites I use. I DO sometimes get on AIM via my phone if I'm at a bar or something and need to try to keep tabs on something at the office.

I use it in the car, sure. It's really convenient on my long commute to maximize my use of time. But I always do it hands free. Follow the law, boys and girls.

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My parents bought me a cell phone for my birthday this past January. Otherwise, I'd never end up owning one, since my husband hates the concept and we don't really have the money, anyway. I just use it for its intended purpose...talking. It's capable of pictures and mp3s and stuff...some Verizon model. Shrug.

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I picked up a Motorola Razr V3 recently, and it's great fun. I mean, as long as it can phone and text people, I'm fine, but it's so cool to hear Ash Like That whenever I get a text message.

Living here, I've got a choice of a massive TWO service providers, JTGSM and Sure Mobile. I'm with the former, and I'm just on the simple pay-as-you-go service, buying top-up cards. I only spend about £5 a month on my phone, which isn't bad at all.

I don't know what I did before I had a mobile phone, I couldn't imagine living without being able to phone up a friend and find out where they are, all that sort of thing. I don't use my phone half as much as a lot of people I know, but I certainly rely on it.

I caved in when they came out with that ESPN phone last year. Too bad it didn't last. When it went over, I switched to my Fiance's family Cingular plan. It's a much better phone in terms of coverage and whatnot, but now I can't watch PTI while walking down the street.

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Cingular. It's nice, but I don't get service in my school, which is really a pain. People who get sprint are luckier, there's a sprint tower right on top of our school.

Some people here mentioned text messaging and personally find it really useful. I use it when I don't want to actually start a full converstion with someone and just tell them one little piece of info, or when it would be rude (or stupid) to be talking on the phone in front of people, or if I'm just trying to be quiet.

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Virgin Mobile for me, cause it was the cheapest thing I could find. It's a nice deal cause it's pay by the minute and half the time I have my phone turned off. Means I pay maybe twenty five bucks a month on average.

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Recently switched from Sprint to Verizon. Ah, well, since November. In terms of options, plans, and customer service I don't really see a huge difference, and I didn't expect one. Nor is there much of a change in interface. Regardless, Verizon is the best coverage for these parts, which makes it the winner.

I have the Samsung A990. It's my baby. It's sleek, sexy, near-perfectly sized, and inexcusably over the top. 3.2 megapixel camera phone? Why would such a thing exist? I don't know, but it makes me giddy like a school girl.

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I used to have Nextel. After Sprint bought out Nextel, I stopped getting a signal at my house, the only place I can use it. I don't carry it at work and I don't answer it when driving. I'm nowhere else.
I never use it anyways. No one calls me on it and I call everyone I need to on a landline. It's only purpose is as a minutes cushion for when my mom and brother go over their minutes. I'm stuck in this contract because after I told my mom to cancel my phone because it's a waste of money, she renewed it for three years.

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My phone is a Cingular LG, and it's worked fine for me. I think my service used to be AT&T, but then there was a merger with Cingular or something, I dunno the politics of it.

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Working with my nice little Motorola V3i Razr. It serves its purpose well as my secondary communication device. I'm not much of a texter though... I'm in that group of people who never saw the pros behind it to make it much of a habit. Personally, I'd rather be phoned the old fashioned way, then be forced to reply to something somebody typed with their thumbs (and if you knew most my friends, you'd know why).

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i find txting to be WAY easier to get a quick message across, well for me anyways. if a person is in a crowded place ( bar, lounge or concert) its easier to send messages that way than trying to yell into your phone. ive done both tho. I have a Sanyo Katana right now and im not feeling it...i used to have a Palm Treo 650. That phone was pretty decent if you could get past the palm os. If anyone decides to go the Treo route. get a 700wx or higher and get the window OS. way more stable. easier to use. and you can use messenger on the go. That will be my next phone. Or maybe a Moto Q. i dont really need a smart phone but its just really nice to have sometimes

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I have some generic Nokia phone on a cingular plan......that's what I've had for the past 5 years or so

I never had a cell phone until the second half of my second semester of my senior year of high school. When I started college last fall, we didn't have land lines in the dorms, but they gave us all cell phones but I just continued to use mine because giving my actual cell phone number out lets people get ahold of me when I'm home.

I competely underestimated how much I would use the damn thing. It was extremely convienent for me in college because if I had a land line, I would never hear it because I was NEVER in my room. So I love cell phones because of their convienence and the fact that I don't have to remember any goddamn phone numbers.

Although it's extremely rude, I've used text messages in class. Aside from that, I've used them randomly. They have their purpose. Getting short messages through is a good use of them, like "plans changed meet at 5 instead of 4" is a good use of a text message. I'd rather send that than call and say "'sup' 'sup' 'hey we're meeting at 5 instead of 4' 'ok' 'ok...bye?' 'k bye' " but that's just me.

I have a samsung type of cell phone on a t-mobile plan. its good for a first. I would have had a verizon plan but the company screwed up on my sisters bill (she got the phone for me) and they charged her extra. she used her phone for 4 days, found a problem, sent it back and when they sent her a bill, it was about $120, when she did not even use it for a month. that bill is about the price for 2 months on the plan that she was on, not 2 days!

so now on the t-moblie plan I get free nights and weekends and free texting, not to mention talking to friends for free if they too have t-mobile as their plan.

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