I need to replace my phone. It's a dinosaur that has served well enough, but is now unreliable. I'm missing calls -- some of them important.
I don't want fancy. I don't care about camera, or text messaging, or email, or surfing, or games, or even fancy ringtones. It doesn't need to be pretty or cool looking. I just want a phone.
Small has become important, but that's not really an issue, because EVERYTHING is smaller than what I've got. My strong preference is for a clamshell (flip) model. Being able to put it on vibrate is important. Good battery life is important. Reliability is CRUCIAL.
The entry level phones have all the features I need or care about. My problem is this. I've checked out what phones are available from our carrier (Telus), and done some research on the web about specifications, and I was pretty much decided that the LG 3200 was going to meet my needs to a T and I didn't need to look any farther.
Then I started looking at third party reviews. It's a mixed bag, I'll tell you!! The editorial stuff speaks in glowing terms, and those users who like the phone speak in glowing terms. But there are a good many users who don't like it -- or rather have had bad experience with it, sometimes after thinking they liked it a lot -- and they are positively venomous. Not only that, but the problem they complain most about is the phone turning itself on unasked -- a problem I have experienced with a previous phone. GRRRR!
When I look at comparable phones from other manufacturers that are also available from Telus, I really don't see much to pick and choose. The feature sets are the same, and the comments are much the same too, although one of them I saw was being berated for getting too hot. Oh, thanks!
I'm inclined to still talk to Telus about this phone, because it offers what I want, without sticking me with a bunch of features I don't need, and because I like the feel of it in my hand. I want this phone to be the right one. I'm also well aware that too often, it's only the unhappy person who gives feedback about a product, so it's entirely possible that there are bags and bags of people out there using this phone and perfectly happy with it, who simply haven't said that.
Now, my two questions: Does anyone have this phone? What do you think of it?
Well, that's two isn't it. OK, I have a third: Remembering that I'm really not interested in paying for features I don't want, what other phones can you recommend?
All input appreciated.
I don't want fancy. I don't care about camera, or text messaging, or email, or surfing, or games, or even fancy ringtones. It doesn't need to be pretty or cool looking. I just want a phone.
Small has become important, but that's not really an issue, because EVERYTHING is smaller than what I've got. My strong preference is for a clamshell (flip) model. Being able to put it on vibrate is important. Good battery life is important. Reliability is CRUCIAL.
The entry level phones have all the features I need or care about. My problem is this. I've checked out what phones are available from our carrier (Telus), and done some research on the web about specifications, and I was pretty much decided that the LG 3200 was going to meet my needs to a T and I didn't need to look any farther.
Then I started looking at third party reviews. It's a mixed bag, I'll tell you!! The editorial stuff speaks in glowing terms, and those users who like the phone speak in glowing terms. But there are a good many users who don't like it -- or rather have had bad experience with it, sometimes after thinking they liked it a lot -- and they are positively venomous. Not only that, but the problem they complain most about is the phone turning itself on unasked -- a problem I have experienced with a previous phone. GRRRR!
When I look at comparable phones from other manufacturers that are also available from Telus, I really don't see much to pick and choose. The feature sets are the same, and the comments are much the same too, although one of them I saw was being berated for getting too hot. Oh, thanks!
I'm inclined to still talk to Telus about this phone, because it offers what I want, without sticking me with a bunch of features I don't need, and because I like the feel of it in my hand. I want this phone to be the right one. I'm also well aware that too often, it's only the unhappy person who gives feedback about a product, so it's entirely possible that there are bags and bags of people out there using this phone and perfectly happy with it, who simply haven't said that.
Now, my two questions: Does anyone have this phone? What do you think of it?
Well, that's two isn't it. OK, I have a third: Remembering that I'm really not interested in paying for features I don't want, what other phones can you recommend?
All input appreciated.