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J0SH
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posted 01-29-2008 03:25 PM
    
I'm sure most of us would consider the phones we were using last time we did this to be ancient paperweights.  Anyone pick up one of these gizmos? I was pretty anti-iphone, mainly due to the price, until I actually saw one. I was quite impressed. I picked up a broken one on ebay for around $200 and opened it up and reseated a loose cable and now it works perfectly. I unlocked it so it can be used on GSM carriers besides AT&T as well as run third party apps. -------------------- I am.
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AcidWarp
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posted 01-30-2008 10:04 PM
Nokia 6275i Here. Decent I guess. I only got it because I needed an actual plan, and a new phone. Oh, and the mp3 player is actually alright, so i use it for that now too.-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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grumpy
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posted 02-02-2008 02:12 PM
i have the sony ericsson w580i http://i.expansys.com/i/b/b147472.jpg i upgraded from the w810i so far i like it a lot
i upgraded the memory to 4 gigs. I mainly use this phone for listening to music at work. I didn't want to carry an mp3 player and a phone. i can rock music for around 10 hours before it starts going low on batteries (beeping). it does support a2dp so u can use bluetooth stereo headsets for music, but IMO, the quality deteriorates quite a bit.
i use these at work http://www.bluetomorrow.com/images/stories/motorola-s805-box.jpg 17hrs listening time. I like to keep the cord in when i can (non-bluetooth config). Their really is a huge difference in song quality. there are lots of free games to download too. -------------------- 
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WillyTrombone
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posted 02-07-2008 10:02 PM
I used to have a samsung a900. It was usable. I really liked the flip-open design, substantial size when flipped open, the large, bright, clear, and sharp screen, and the speaker's clarity. I didn't like the miserable battery life (about 32 hours standby or up to 2 or 3 hours of talking), the borked t9word implementation (I could figure out how to add words and even worse, how to select diffent words that might have the same numerical 'spelling'), the web browser that they really tried to sell the phone on couldn't handle even slightly complex sites like myspace and most webmail systems like yahoo, being a sprint phone, there's no sim card and no way to transfer ringtones or java apps directly to the phone in way that they could be used by the phone, the plastic case was white with a black coating rather than black plastic, and began showing wear in a matter of weeks, the direction buttons were almost as bad as the xbox and dreamcast d-pads, it had no speakerphone functionality even though it had a loud speaker for mp3's, andthe camera would take mirror image pictures most of the time
(it was on pivot to allow you to always see the screen whether you're snapping a shot of yourself or something else and the software would flip the image to try to accommodate that but it seemed like it always did it wrong.)Anyway, it went for a ride through a washing machine a few months ago so I got a Sanyo VI-2300 to ride out the rest of my contract before I completely swear off sprint. I consider their miserable web-browser along with additional $25 monthly fee to use the "phone as a modem" to hook it up through my PDA to use the web in the way they advertise the phone as being capable of doing a classic bait-and-switch scam. Not to mention that over the life of the contract, they've increased the text message prices twice. It was originally 10 cents, then 15, and now 20. 20 cents for 160 characters. Assuming 24 kbit/s voice compression, that's like $25000 for the same amount of data as a one hour call. So screw them. Oh man, it feels just like old times. I miss bitching to you guys. =D -------------------- signature
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Cacophonous
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posted 02-07-2008 10:25 PM
I went from a Windows mobile Treo to a RIM Blackberry Pearl. Love it. More like a phone that does everything else instead. Super easy to use as a phone. Running Blackberry Enterprise Server syncing with Exchange 2003.  -------------------- ...
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AcidWarp
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posted 02-10-2008 11:20 PM
I almost got the a930, I went with my Nokia for the 10day standby. It's also not a flip, I can't stand flip phones.-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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AcidWarp
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posted 02-18-2008 06:25 PM
OMG, Headstone!-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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AcidWarp
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posted 02-25-2008 07:07 PM
I live 3 blocks from RIM-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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AcidWarp
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posted 03-20-2008 05:09 PM
Sadly no, I can't help you get a RIM job; I know they are expanding though. They're right next to the U Waterloo, and they took the IQC building (institute for quantum computing).You could try applying for a RIM job, they're probably looking to pick up some new people. Penis. [ 03-20-2008: Message edited by: AcidWarp ] -------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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