Help Choosing Cell Phone

[RebelDogg 10+ year member]

Okay, I want to get a new phone. I don't really know much about cell phones and there are about eleventy billion trillion of them, give or take a few.

To give you some example of how out of it I am with cell phones, I was amazed that this "new" one that I got a couple years ago had COLOR SCREEN! And could play songs I downloaded as a ring tone! And it's got a camera. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif

Anyway, my Premier 980bt HU has a cool little hands free thing. My phone can use it, but I can't transfer my address book or use the automatic connect feature. For that reason alone, I'm willing to drop $2-300 on a good one (Less would be better!).

Here is all I really want: Bluetooth that can do ^the above with my HU.

A good camera (as good as I can get on a phone) Video would be cool, but not necessary.

USB (which I assume I can use to add ringtones or transfer pics to/from comp)

LOUD. I drive a loud truck for a living and I need to hear it ring and be able to hear people talking to me.

And lastly, speaker phone.

That's it. I don't care about going online or texting or anything else. I barely talk on my phone, honestly. I have a 450 minute plan and I use maybe 1-150 min a month. If I talk a LOT.

I'd like for it to be the flip open/flip closed type. Mostly because it seems like the open faced ones (like Blackberries) would get all scratched up in my pocket.

Anyway, thanks for any suggestions. I'm going to go to a Cingular store soon and look, but I don't trust sales people. And there are so many online, I just don't know... I'd like to go in there and say "Let me see the Chocolate Razor Blueberry flip phone... pod... imac... thing."

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[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

Blackberry Pearl, Palm Treo, Blackjack II

I dont know of any Flips with the features you want, also you can get cases or screen protectors

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

i got a Samsung SYNC I will sell ya $65 shipped OBO

 

[djeazie 10+ year member]

I like my Blackberry Pearl. Has a terrific camera, mp3 ringtones, etc.....

 

[RebelDogg 10+ year member]

Craigzter:

Hmmm... if you still have it in a few days, I'll PM you. I may want that if it's in decent condition. Got pics? Just want to make sure it's not all scragally. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Honestly, I don't know how the whole buying things on a message board thing works... I'm a bit leary. Not saying your a scammer, just that I've never done it and am naturally delicious. I mean suspicious.

 

[pcolasfinest 10+ year member]

a razr should do all of that.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

I have the blackerry Pearl 8100. Is a nice phone and got it dirt cheap.

If you are a member of Sams club, you can get a killer deal. I only paid 30 smacks for my phone, well 2 of them as I got my wife one as well. Is loud, has a ton of features and can't say a bad thing about it. Is also nice and small to fit in a pocket, not like a lot of those smartphones out there, that are all huge and shit. Takes nice pics for a phone and if you are worried about scratching it, they have cases for them.

I have it through T-Mobile, which is decent. I lose calls from time to time, but no biggie. I have only had it less than a month, but very happy with it so far.

700anytime minutes

Free long distant/roaming

Unlimited text/ pics and what not.

Internet

Basically all the goodies you can get and paying 79 a month......well 90 with taxes, lol!

 

[Brassler07 10+ year member]

lg vu.

 

[sqhertz 5,000+ posts]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=319785 ? lol.

its not a blackberry or a windows phone , but it works and has everything you listed. specs are in the link there.