Buying a new cell phone

[I-Hate-Hulse]

IF you're going outside major cities, I'd take Bell / Telus in a heartbeat as the Rogers / Fido coverage network just isn't as good, particularly in Northern Alberta.

I hear Bell has some stupid 24 month time span for Hardware upgrades now. That sucks, It used to be like 12 months. Telus makes you ride out your entire length of contract!

[FireFly]

Originally posted by I-Hate-Hulse@Jul 23 2005, 10:06 AM
IF you're going outside major cities, I'd take Bell / Telus in a heartbeat as the Rogers / Fido coverage network just isn't as good, particularly in Northern Alberta.

I hear Bell has some stupid 24 month time span for Hardware upgrades now. That sucks, It used to be like 12 months. Telus makes you ride out your entire length of contract!

If it's a one year contract, we make you wait until within three months, if it's a 2 year, and you don't spend much/month, (>$50,) same thing, otherwise it's within 6 months of the end of your contract. Phone are worth a lot of money, and they are highly subsidized to make them affordable in the first place. A company can't just be giving away free phones to all it's clients every year and expect to make money.

[Bill Bumface]

With my moto on Rogers I always seem to get better reception than people with Telus, especially downtown.

Never been deep south with it yet though..

[Tower]

Originally posted by icarus@Jul 21 2005, 07:44 PM
I'm hoping to someday soon purchase a new cell phone.# I want a fancy one.

My current cell phone only transmogrifies morse code and is the size of a shoebox.
I don't have a digital camera.
I don't have an IPOD.

So ideally my new cell phone would essentially solve all those problems.# It would have a pretty good camera, store and play lots of MP3's, and make people think I am from the future.

Does anyone know of such a device?

I can help you if you want. What are you looking for? There are 2.0 MP camera's out there. You can go to

Howard chui

He tests and scores phones. My opinion STAY AWAY FROM MOTOROLA! I do this for a living currently.... No I'm not a dealer.

[Heaton]

LG VX 8100 >*

[kermitology]

Originally posted by Tower@Jul 23 2005, 12:17 PM
He tests and scores phones. My opinion STAY AWAY FROM MOTOROLA! I do this for a living currently.... No I'm not a dealer.

Really? I've had three straight Motorola phones and I love them.. My buddy used to work for Telus and he only used Motorola. My T720 is a beast, it's taken a licking and kept on ticking. One of the Motorola's I had got thrown in the washing machine inadvertantly and still worked for 6 months after.

[Bill Bumface]

Agreed, I've had an Erickson, Nokia, and a Moto. The moto has been by FAR the best.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Try and wait until Xmas if you can. The telcos usually ahve some great deals on in that period. Never understood why - who gives a gift that keeps on giving via a $50 a month charge?

[Mango]

Originally posted by hulkrogan@Jul 23 2005, 01:13 PM
Agreed, I've had an Erickson, Nokia, and a Moto. The moto has been by FAR the best.

Agreed. I've had 3 Nokias, and now 1 Motorola. Although the Nokias weren't too shabby, nothing compares to a Motorola.

[calgaryred]

If you like phone that do practically everything but wash your dishes than I would suggest the Motorola 710, I also like the new Motorola 265.

[greerb]

palm one Treo 650

[Tower]

Originally posted by kermitology+Jul 23 2005, 07:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (kermitology @ Jul 23 2005, 07:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Tower@Jul 23 2005, 12:17 PM
He tests and scores phones. My opinion STAY AWAY FROM MOTOROLA! I do this for a living currently.... No I'm not a dealer.

Really? I've had three straight Motorola phones and I love them.. My buddy used to work for Telus and he only used Motorola. My T720 is a beast, it's taken a licking and kept on ticking. One of the Motorola's I had got thrown in the washing machine inadvertantly and still worked for 6 months after. [/b][/quote]
K here is MHO on Moto.

I'll use cars as an analogy - Toyota and Honda - great cars, last a long time, you pay for every extra (Air con, Cruse) These are your Samsungs, nokia's (Even Sony erricson now)

Then you have a GM - Buy our car and we will through in Air tilt and cruse! - this is moto.

My issues are 1. the speakers - not speakerphone just the speakers - they are too quiet, your in a car/mall good luck hearing the person on the other end. Also they a cheaply made. Put a samsung X426 with a V220. Ohh a camera! Ya it's an entry level camera phone RUUUUN! The build quality is a no brainer. Samsung is just built better.

With motorolla you are rolling the dice. I'm waiting till they get better quality and more consistant phone manufacturing. If you know what you want in a phone I can direct you better. Most phones if they get wet. Keep them off till they are dry. The worst you can do is get it wet then power it on. You'll fry it.

Things to remember - Telus/bell CDMA (Very small network world wide)
Rogers Fido - World wide and more tech friendly