What kind of phone do you have?

[nikki1920]

I got a Motorola v180 as an early birthday present. Its small, which is something that I will have to get used to. I loved my Nokia 3595. The new phone's manual is not very user friendly, the rings were hard to locate and leave much to be desired (can I get a plain ring, please? lol) and the menu set up is a bit confusing. I'll let ya'll know the final outcome in a week or so. lol

sistergreek pointnclick: do you switch back and forth btwn the phones?

[pointNclick]

Originally posted by nikki1920

sistergreek pointnclick: do you switch back and forth btwn the phones?

Yes I do. Every few weeks or so, I end up playing musical phones :-). I am happy with my new LG phone so I'll keep using it for a minute.

Luckily, my service is SIM based. So all I have to do is switch out my card and insert it into any phone compatible with my provider.

[nikki1920]

duh.. lol.. I'd forgotten about that little card thingie.. lol..

[pointNclick]

LOL, no problem sistergreek.

I do love the ease and portability of my SIM card. It's the best!

[Bamboozled]

I bought this phone a couple of days ago and it's just too much. I think I've mentioned on here that I'm opposed to reading user manuals, so this clearly isn't the phone for me. There are just too many features. Does anybody else have this phone? I have a couple of questions for you.

TREO 650

[The1calledTKE]

Originally posted by Bamboozled
I just bought this phone a couple of days ago and it's just too much. I think I've mentioned on here that I'm opposed to reading user manuals, so this clearly isn't the phone for me. There are just too many features. Does anybody else have this phone? I have a couple of questions for you.

TREO 650

I own the cingular version

[2DISCRETE4U]

I just got this phone on Monday!! I love it!

[btb87]

Originally posted by btb87
I want THIS puppy!



Sleek, beautiful, and EXPENSIVE!

Only $519 with a 2-year Cingular contract. Hopefully by the time I can upgrade my phone next year, it will have dropped $469 dollars. . .

Okay, I still wouldn't mind having this, but since I've been spoiled with Nokia phones, I think I'll wait until their new flip phones come out through Cingular toward the end of the year. Nokia phones are pretty universal as far as programming them goes.

And the razr phones have dropped in price. Now I think they're a bit over $350 with a 2 year contract.

TKE, you said you have this razr phone. Did you get rid of it, or you have this as well as the TREO 650?

[DC_Zeta1920]

Nextel i860

[Rudey]

Originally posted by btb87
Okay, I still wouldn't mind having this, but since I've been spoiled with Nokia phones, I think I'll wait until their new flip phones come out through Cingular toward the end of the year. Nokia phones are pretty universal as far as programming them goes.

And the razr phones have dropped in price. Now I think they're a bit over $350 with a 2 year contract.

TKE, you said you have this razr phone. Did you get rid of it, or you have this as well as the TREO 650?

Go to amazon.com and you can buy it for $150 with a 1 year contract I believe.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...eless&n=301185

-Rudey

[The1calledTKE]

Originally posted by btb87
Okay, I still wouldn't mind having this, but since I've been spoiled with Nokia phones, I think I'll wait until their new flip phones come out through Cingular toward the end of the year. Nokia phones are pretty universal as far as programming them goes.

And the razr phones have dropped in price. Now I think they're a bit over $350 with a 2 year contract.

TKE, you said you have this razr phone. Did you get rid of it, or you have this as well as the TREO 650?

the treo is my work phone, the v3 razr is my personal.

[The1calledTKE]

Originally posted by btb87
And the razr phones have dropped in price. Now I think they're a bit over $350 with a 2 year contract.

Actually it is $299 with a two year in Atlanta anways.

[The1calledTKE]

Originally posted by Rudey
Go to amazon.com and you can buy it for $150 with a 1 year contract I believe.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...eless&n=301185

-Rudey

True... but warrenties and what not are different than if you buy it at a retail store. If your phone dies and you bought it on amazon you would have to go through amazon to get a new one or go to motorola. A retail store only deals with phone's bought from retail store. If they are bought from a agent, amazon, best buy, ect... they are not covered at the store. The respective place you bought it from would be. I believe it works this way with most if not all phone companies.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by The1calledTKE
True... but warrenties and what not are different than if you buy it at a retail store. If your phone dies and you bought it on amazon you would have to go through amazon to get a new one or go to motorola. A retail store only deals with phone's bought from retail store. If they are bought from a agent, amazon, best buy, ect... they are not covered at the store. The respective place you bought it from would be. I believe it works this way with most if not all phone companies.

Not true.

No matter what, when you purchase a phone you receive a warranty through both the provider as well as the maker of the phone.

Why do I know this? Because I have dropped my phone. I have put my phones into washing machines. I spilled beer on my phone. My phone fell into the ocean off of Key Largo. My phone just randomly stopped working. I have had more replacement phones than anyone else I know on Cingular, AT&T, and T-Mobile.

They all provide you with a replacement phone of the same model over night to you for like 10 bucks or several days later from the manufacturer for free. I lied about the water damage 2 times and pretended I had no idea what was wrong with the phone. And after the first replacement, they don't even charge you the $10 bucks to overnight it to you

Oh and I've bought my phones on Amazon.com, buy.com, and through a bunch of tiny local retailers. I have found that the local retailer sell you at higher cost and the phones aren't always sold as new.

-Rudey

[The1calledTKE]

Originally posted by Rudey
Not true.

No matter what, when you purchase a phone you receive a warranty through both the provider as well as the maker of the phone.

Why do I know this? Because I have dropped my phone. I have put my phones into washing machines. I spilled beer on my phone. My phone fell into the ocean off of Key Largo. My phone just randomly stopped working. I have had more replacement phones than anyone else I know on Cingular, AT&T, and T-Mobile.

They all provide you with a replacement phone of the same model over night to you for like 10 bucks or several days later from the manufacturer for free. I lied about the water damage 2 times and pretended I had no idea what was wrong with the phone. And after the first replacement, they don't even charge you the $10 bucks to overnight it to you

Oh and I've bought my phones on Amazon.com, buy.com, and through a bunch of tiny local retailers. I have found that the local retailer sell you at higher cost and the phones aren't always sold as new.

-Rudey

That sounds like insurance not warrenty. Personal damage would not qualify under warrenty. Cingular does not make the phones. The motorola, nokia, ect.. do. Cingular sells the phones to companies like amazon and best buy. Hence they become become in charge of the phones they bought from cingular. Companies make their money from these phones by selling the calling plans and features which Cingular pays for them. So say Amazon or Motorola would be have to deal with it. Now if certain companies have deals with a company like cingular to provide warrenties then I can see that. Best buy, ect ... may use the same warrenty service as cingular or any other company as well.
Usually when someone comes in a retail store they will direct the best buy people to the warrenty number or send them back to best buy or the agent they bought it from. It would not be replaced at the retail store. Most people use the warrenty number now anyways and don't know what company is providing the warrenty.