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What kind do you have?

What kind of phone would you recommend if I were to get a new one?

What kind of service provider do you go with?

What does your phone look like if you have the kind that can be doctored up?

Mine is a Nokia 6010.

I use T-Mobile/Cingular. I pay $55.45 a month for 600 minutes (that I never make my way through but is the smallest time allotment they have) and 400 text messages and Yahoo and IM Instant Messengers plus I can check my Yahoo Mail. Can't send an email though. I'm pretty happy with it. I'd like a phone that carries web capability but not enough to change my phone just yet.

I have a small collection of face and backplates for it but right now it is red with red and kind of an iridescent greenish-gold glitter. No surprise there, huh? :wah: The "wallpaper" on it is a photo of my current love interest. I fixed it so when I turn it on, the greeting says "Your Mom Loves You!" :-4 Because it makes me feel good to see that. I have special ringtones for everyone. My two best friends have "Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress") and "The Munsters Theme." My uncle gets the theme from "The Waltons." My dad, at his request, is "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." Everyone else I don't know gets "Love is Blue." It works out great because I get to avoid salespeople and bill collectors this way.

I always thought cell phones were unnecessary but I was so wrong. I can check my email on it too which keeps me from getting steamed when my computer goes on the fritz. :-6

So tell me about yours.

I have a Sony Ericsson W810i.

I pay £35 per month and I get 1000 texts and 600 minutes, and then I pay an extra £4.99 per month for my Gold Insurance.

It is on the O2 network.

My wallpaper is my three youngest, and my screensaver is my boyfriend. :-4 My call tone is Armand Van Helden - NYC Beat and for my boyfriend it is Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars, an my text tone is *knock knock* Anybody there. I did have a police siren which used to get people looking for it, especially my poor brother in the states when it went off in the car one day. :wah:

Seeing as it is a Walkman phone I have a number of albums on there.

Mine was designed by Jarmo Lehtonen, Senior Industrial Designer at Nokia (it's the 8210) and won prizes for rugged outdoor sports use in 2002. It ended up, in England, being called the builders' phone. It's effectively water resistant and it doesn't scratch easily.

I bought two of them off eBay last summer[1] for £20 each (so koan had one as well) and put a couple of £1 Orange pay as you go SIMs in them. They've had £50 between them in top-ups since, there's no monthly fee, charges apply to outgoing calls only. They store 10 messages, 20 most recent calls, 250 names and numbers and 4 days' worth of standby charge which is double what my previous and only other cellphone did.

What I like is that it does what I bought it to do. What I dislike is ringing anywhere with an automated hold system and being charged while waiting for a human to turn up, it's bad enough having to sit around like a lemon without having to watch the meter tick as well. That's unjustifiable.



[1] - and checked the Stolen Phone Register too, being as I'm proper in such matters.

Pink vk530 on vodaphone network, i couldent advise you on whats good & whats not, i just recycle my daughters old one's.

RedGlitter;637128 wrote: What kind do you have?

What kind of phone would you recommend if I were to get a new one?

What kind of service provider do you go with?

What does your phone look like if you have the kind that can be doctored up?


a) I don't have one.

b) Dunno.

c) Dunno.

d) "Doctored up"?

I have a Mobile phone, it's a Samsung flip phone, can't be bothered to look up the model. I pay £15 a month PAYG and get 500 free texts. Mainly use it for text messaging and Photos of Jade. It stores 200 text messages, I like to keep some memorable ones, the phone book stores 100 on the Sim card and 200 on the phone. All of the Sim spaces are used up and just a few of the phone.

I have a LG something or other, blue flip phone, had it a couple of years now but I love it, it takes pictures, not great ones but it does me:) I pay about £20 PAYG a month and that mostly goes on texts to my other half who infuriatingly has 1000 messages a month on his contract

We have Audiovox camera flip-phones. I think the plan cost us something like $50 per month with Verizon for 500 shared minutes, evenings and weekends free. Mine went through both a washer and drier at one point, and after a brief coma it worked just fine and still does although it's a bit scuffed.

The phones work fairly well as portable clock and alarm. The only true negative is that they ring. They'd be perfect if they didn't ring.

SpiderSam;637163 wrote: I have a Sony Ericsson W810i.

I pay £35 per month and I get 1000 texts and 600 minutes, and then I pay an extra £4.99 per month for my Gold Insurance.

It is on the O2 network.

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Snap! I had a motorola V3i upto a few days ago but I dropped it down the loo..(don't ask!) I chatted the bloke up over the phone and he put me up for upgrade a few months early.

I have a Samsung Blade, I love it! :-6

as for service, we've been with Sprint for YEARS and they're a great company to deal with. :-6

Do you pay for receiving calls in UK now? When I was there we only paid for outgoing calls. Found that a little hard to deal with here, don't see why we should pay for incoming calls too. Does anyone know of a network in US that does not make you pay for incoming calls? I'm currently with Cingular - excellent coverage here.

By the way, I worked for Orange in UK for a while - I think they are good network. :-6

ThePheasant;637323 wrote: Do you pay for receiving calls in UK now? When I was there we only paid for outgoing calls. Found that a little hard to deal with here, don't see why we should pay for incoming calls too. Does anyone know of a network in US that does not make you pay for incoming calls? I'm currently with Cingular - excellent coverage here.

By the way, I worked for Orange in UK for a while - I think they are good network. :-6


You still on commission :wah:

SuzyB;637324 wrote: You still on commission :wah:


:wah: No (wish I was) that was 12yrs ago - they could be cr4p now :wah:

My phone picked up Cingular when in the states most of the time. A couple of times it was T MObile. Did have a few problems but think that was more down to O2 network back at home.

ThePheasant;637323 wrote: Do you pay for receiving calls in UK now?Only if you're abroad with your phone when the call's made.

I got verizon samsung v cast phone.Its the top of the line one.It does everything. lol

I love my phone ( dont know the model humber lol)

I pay like 55-70 a month for unlimited free nights weekends and like 600 minutes

unlimited text and pics/videos.Not sure what I get charged for emails.

I have a Samsung Wafer and we are with Alltel. I have 1200 free minutes, free nights and weekends, and free cell to cell calls. Also have the my circle which can be either cells or landlines that you can call for free at any time. I'm not sure how much free texts I have. But my bill should run around 69.99 a month, unless I buy more stupid ring tones.

Bill Sikes;637180 wrote: a) I don't have one.

b) Dunno.

c) Dunno.

d) "Doctored up"?


Sorry Bill. That means made fancy...souped up. Some phones come with faceplates and backplates (front and back casing of the phone) that can be removed and replaced with ones with a different design or of a different color. You can even affix rhinestones to your phone.

I always use Nokia phones, cos they are by far the easiest to navigate around the menus. The one I have at the moment is a 6230i, and I'm on T-mobile UK