7/9     Poll, enter your favourite/least favourite cell phone brands:
        Nokia: +6260 +8960 (love it!!!)
        Motorola: ---T720i (hate it)
        LG : Suprisingly good phones for not too much money.
        Nokia : Stop making tiny candybar phones!  Make some damn clamshells!
        Motorola: t720 was a steaming turd, but most have very good RF.
        Samsung: cheap, sturdy, long battery life, smallest flip phone
        Panasonic: 3-yr-old TX210, Can store multiple numbers and one e-mail
                addr under the same name entry.  Has just the basic functions
                that I need and no fancy stuff.  LCD can switch between green
                and amber manually as well as when it recognizes a caller ID,
                which was cool back then.  Ring tone is loud enough even
                placed in a handbag.  (My wife's Nokia isn't loud enough.)
        Motorola phones used to be great in the mid 90s. Then they started
           to suck a lot. Battery life sucks. GUI sucks. Everything sucks
           about it. Typical American engineering. Buy Nokia.
           \_ Motorola phones have been gaining some market share lately
              after a long decline.  The triplets (V300, V500, V600) seemed
              to be selling well.  Have you taken a second look lately?
              I work at Motorola, but I do systems, not phones.
              I still use my first phone, a clunky old cracked startac
              with a broken antenna which once fell into a river.  Ok,
              it was in my pocket when I jumped into the river to pull
              my canoe to shore.  So, you can see I don't know too much
              about phones, except what I read and heard.
              \_ When is the V710 going to be released? -me and 1 million other
                 people with no life.
                 \_ no idea, but if you use service from verizon, sprintpcs,
                    china unicom or kddi (japan), and the service sucks,
                    it could be because I've been slacking off.
                    \_ I have verizon and have great service.  I guess you
                       can call in sick next week.
        \_ I've dropped my Nokia candybar phone too many times to count. It's
           been stepped on, danced on, and juggled, and it still works. It's
           the Volvo of cell-phones: boxy, but safe.
           \_ Ditto here.  My 6310 has taken worlds of abuse, and still works.
              I miss usable bluetooth, though.  -John
           \_ the 8260 my gf had started failing all over.  I started
              scavenging my old 8260 to replace the speaker, screen, and
              finally, the base unit itself.  My gf is the ultimate test for
              phone durability.  The phone now has screen that goes away at
              times as well as the speaker.  But yeah, candybar style in
              general seem sturdier.  I doubt my sanyo clamshell will last
              a month in her care.
              \_ on the 82XX series, I found that slipping a small piece of
                 paper right above the screen seemed to fix the screen problem.
                 I love the Sanyo clamshell I just got so far, except for
                 small problem of dropped calls even with full signal.
        Motorola: t720 was a steaming turd, but most have very good RF.
        Samsung: cheap, sturdy, long battery life, smallest flip phone
        Panasonic: 3-yr-old TX210, Can store multiple numbers and one e-mail
                addr under the same name entry.  Has just the basic functions
                that I need and no fancy stuff.  LCD can switch between green
                and amber manually as well as when it recognizes a caller ID,
                which was cool back then.  Ring tone is loud enough even
                placed in a handbag.  (My wife's Nokia isn't loud enough.)
        Motorola phones used to be great in the mid 90s. Then they started
           to suck a lot. Battery life sucks. GUI sucks. Everything sucks
           about it. Typical American engineering. Buy Nokia.
           \_ Motorola phones have been gaining some market share lately
              after a long decline.  The triplets (V300, V500, V600) seemed
              to be selling well.  Have you taken a second look lately?
              I work at Motorola, but I do systems, not phones.
              I still use my first phone, a clunky old cracked startac
              with a broken antenna which once fell into a river.  Ok,
              it was in my pocket when I jumped into the river to pull
              my canoe to shore.  So, you can see I don't know too much
              about phones, except what I read and heard.
              \_ When is the V710 going to be released? -me and 1 million other
                 people with no life.
                 \_ no idea, but if you use service from verizon, sprintpcs,
                    china unicom or kddi (japan), and the service sucks,
                    it could be because I've been slacking off.
                    \_ I have verizon and have great service.  I guess you
                       can call in sick next week.
              \_ I love my two motorola v66 models (wife uses older one),
                 though after almost 3 years the battery is starting to fade on
                 one.  Wiating for them to top this model... maybe with upcoming
                 v1000.  Why are all the phones getting HEAVIER?? lament...
        \_ How are GUIs in LG and Samsung phones?
           \_ Haven't tried LG, but samsung's is better than sanyo.  But I have
              yet to see any other company make gui even comparable to nokia.
              \_ I dunno, there were quite a few things about my Motorola v120c
                 that I liked better than my Nokia 3160
           \_ I have an old LG VX1.  The GUI is a little clunky in some places
              but not bad once you get the hang of it.  It's also nice to be
              able to silence the ringer without opening the phone.  I've heard
              they improved the GUI slightly with the VX4400 and VX6000, but
              I haven't used one of those.
           \_ I like the GUI in the Samsung. The keys are so small that some
              times I hit the wrong one when I am browsing the net, and I
              have very small hands for a guy. But other than that, it is
              great I have a A530s.
        \_ I really like my LG phones. You should take a look at them.
           I had an old Nokia, their software (if you can even call it
           at that) is crap. Too many features to be desired (call
           with no caller id does not even record a time, no entry in
           missed calls, so frustrating) I then tried a Motorola
           phone, the 720 or something, its software leaves much to be
           desired, it's not bad, but just doesn't feel nice, the
           phone itself also feels kind of flimsy. Then I tried the
           LG-6000, boy, its software is almost perfect. I've been
           using it for 6 month now, and I can't really think of
           anything to complain about. They seem to have thoroughly
           designed every aspect of it, and it's very very nice. The
           hardware is nice, the software is first rate. It's a lean,
           mean phone that has everything you want in a phone. If you
           are looking for a PDA/phone combo, it's not it, but if you
           just want a good cell phone, this is it. You will not
           regret it. When UI is done right, it becomes 2nd nature.