Cell phones: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why?
- 7/3/07 3:41 PM
Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 7/3/07 3:41 PM
Apple
LG
Motorola
Nokia
Palm
Pantech
RIM BlackBerry
Samsung
Sony Ericsson
Other
Make sure to tell us why that specific phone manufacturer you voted for stand out above the rest.
Thanks!
Preference for Motorola
by jhacker - 7/4/07 1:27 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have owned several brands of cell phones. They include Audiovox, Nokia, LG, and Motorola. The one I usually come back to is Motorola. I've found that at least in the models I've owned, Motorolas tend to have the best call reception and sound. Also, they're very easy to buy accessories for. I believe Motorola did release some ugly and poor quality phones in the early 00's so I stayed away from them. LG is not bad in my opinion and I would purchase that brand again also. The brands I've had bad experiences with are Audiovox and Nokia. I wouldn't touch those with a 10-foot pole.
dissagree hate motorola love nokia
by ashrodd02 - 7/4/07 2:09 AM In reply to: Preference for Motorola by jhackernokia new breed of mobiles has left me in awe,
the ability to multi task on the n series and how everything is
calibrated and works together so well.
this has shown me an opening of easy to use mobiles of the future
motorolas however, have left me in disappointment. exept for their sexy design. it just seem ashame to me when people go buy the in the shops
and only see what it looks like and not how it works (very poor).
there navigating isn't logical, and as clean as the nokias.
peace
So many cell phones so little time!
by mm2kanda73 - 7/4/07 1:45 PM In reply to: dissagree hate motorola love nokia by ashrodd02I have had numberous cell phones over the years. I love Nokia! And sadly just moved back to the west coast and went back to Cingular/AT&T (they can never make up there minds) and they have virtually no Nokia options. It made me sad! I now have a Moto Razr XX something something. Can this thing die any quicker??
I have had SE, Samsung, many many many Nokia's even had a blackberry Pearl. Nokia's have always gotten great cell signal for me, so easy to use, generally pretty darn sturdy.
And as for those who voted Apple as there favorite phone... umm lets see you've had them for not even a week?? Pfft! I can't even break in most shoes in a week. And in the long run many of those of those had gone back to bite me in the ass (or the backs of my heels :P)
I'm sorry but that is not the kinda money I want to spend for something that breakable, that new, that many glitches, that much drama and so theft worthy!
I totally agree....
by cobalt anubis - 7/13/07 5:39 PM In reply to: So many cell phones so little time! by mm2kanda73Nokia N80 is my 3rd Nokia after two Moto's. I love my Nokia's and was happy to depart from Moto.
Well, my experience is that I like both Motrola and Nokia.
by CarlosFr - 7/8/07 5:10 PM In reply to: dissagree hate motorola love nokia by ashrodd02With a small preferrance for Nokia. Eventhought I have some difficulties with the sound qualitly of the Nikia MP3, but it is satisfactory when I ride on the bus home and I do some silent sign alone. They could improve on the quality of their MP3. Of course what I truly bought was as a cell phone and not an MP3 device. I now own a Nokia 6255i, and I am inlove with it eventhough my phone technician have tried to get me to purchase Motorola Raz. I guess I should follow his suggestion, but I have humboly stayed loyal to my 6255i, eventhough IT has new models and it has been updated over and over again by Nokia itself and other phones manufaturers like the one wekk and half old IPhone (hype and all).
I find both Motrola and Nokia have my vote. I have owned couple of GLs V300 as backup and have had very little difficulties with them and I think it is excellent quality also.
I have not owned anything else, so I am a bad example of tech saavy kind of guy. I guess I should go for one of those other more TECH perfect phone, but I let everyone else pay for the inovation and I buy them a year later for half the price when all the bugs and difficulties have been purchase by those people with a lot more money than I.
Count one more for Motorola
by chaibacca - 7/4/07 5:15 AM In reply to: Preference for Motorola by jhackerI just went through another round of intensive cell-phone shopping and ended up choosing Motorola again, as had two years back. A huge factor was the proprietary connectors and dongles required by other phones to connect a USB cable and/or charger. Except for the Nokia 5300, every one I looked at required a proprietary USB connector plus a prorietary power plug, and some wouldn't even charge from a USB port when connected to a computer. I don't want to have to carry around a specific USB cable and charger for each electronic device (phone, camera, MP3 player, etc.), I want only to have to carry one standard mini-USB cable and/or charger that is easily replaceable (and CHEAP) if it gets lost.
One would think it costs a company more to design a proprietary connector for power and data, and many consume considerably more space on the phones themselves, so why do they do it? Well, many don't supply a data cable with their phones. They sell them separately, for list prices up to... get ready for this: $50! You can buy them on eBay and elsewhere for much less, but I'd prefer to reward companies that show a little more respect.
While I agree with other reader's comments about software, specifically that Motorola s/w has its ups and downs, I also find M's phones offer very competitive call quality, generally far superior speakerphones, and most of them are quad-band.
One more choice
by davideo - 7/4/07 7:30 AM In reply to: Preference for Motorola by jhackerEasily the most popular answer, if offerred, would have been: NONE
Choice - None
by abubakar_uet - 7/4/07 8:29 AM In reply to: One more choice by davideoI totally agree - that's why I checked "other"
Unfortunately, only the Sprint signal is picked up in my apartment, and not in every room. My phone used to be a Handspring Treo, which was replaced with a Palm, which was upgraded when it broke to a Palm 600. I don't like it. When there are phone problems, Palm says talk to Sprint, Sprint's web page refers me to Palm. When it broke the last time, Sprint said I should use my insurance to replace the phone. No way. That insurance is if I drop it or something like that. The fee includes them fixing the phone if it breaks because of something not related to what I did to it. If I use the insurance, it costs me $50 - if they fix it, I don't have to pay. It took many calls and going to the store and waiting on a huge line to get them to fix the phone.
Last week, when something broke, I was hoping to get an upgrade to a new phone - but they streamlined their lines, and actually fixed it in under 10 minutes from my entrace to the very busy store! Maybe Sprint is learning something from all the complaints.
Cell Phones
by rajavesw - 7/4/07 1:56 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have owned Nokia, Motorola, LG, and Samsung.
Out of all, I like Nokia for very easy menu navigation, long battery life (relatively) good signal pick up (where LG G3100 is so bad on this). Spares / reparability / accessories too add in to this list.
I have Motorola's F3 (the cheapest of all), the usablity (Menu &SMS) is so bad. But it stands good for other aspects like signal pickup, clarity, battery life, sleak, etc.,
Loyal to apple??
by _sorrow_ - 7/4/07 1:59 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
How can the current 9% be loyal to Apple, they just put out their first phone! If you're claiming loyalty, does that mean that in 2 weeks if you HATE your iPhone you'll stick with it, because your loyal?
It's like saying your loyal to eating some kind of food that you like the idea of, but you really have no idea if it will make you sick or not.
who cares
by ehallspqr - 7/4/07 7:59 AM In reply to: Loyal to apple?? by _sorrow_Isn't it obvious? Because after just a few days most intelligent, open minded people can see this is the best smartphone ever put into production. We all know Apple people will love this thing and Windows people? Well, they will continue to grind their little Ax of envy. Don't worry, uncle Bill is coming out with his own iphone copycat device called "icommunicator" and then all the MS faithful can run out and buy that like you did the "ipod killer" Zune. Oh wait nobody bought the Zune.....
iphone=smartphone???
by uberryan - 7/4/07 11:11 AM In reply to: who cares by ehallspqrthe last time I checked the iphone wasn't a smartphone.
7) It's not a smartphone: As much as Apple wants you to think their "open application development" using webapps is actual apps, it's not. You can get some stuff done using webapps and Safari, but as of right now, support sucks. Until people start developing apps specifically customized for the iPhone's quirks, you won't be doing anything super fancy. And of course there's no way for you to get "real" Cocoa-based apps onto the iPhone.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/buyer.s-guide/wait-ten-things-you-should-know-before-you-buy-an-iphone-274432.php by jason chen
It's semantics
by ehallspqr - 7/5/07 4:02 PM In reply to: iphone=smartphone??? by uberryanThere are plenty of phones that can do far less than iphone that are called smart phones. For the sake of argument let's just call it a super enhanced multi-media phone. In all fairness Apple has taken a lot of the work out of finding and installing aps to run on the phone. Rather the concept is, you do all the work on your Desktop at home and then just sync/download it all into your iphone. Right? And there are some aps written for it already. Search on the web. You have to really dig around but their out there. People are and have been working feverishly to catch up. The popularity caught people by surprise and the secretive nature of it's development have slowed the effort down but now everyone is jumping on the band wagon and support for this device will grow. It was the same story with the Treo when it first came out. Now you can get anything that you want. I suspect most people with be using iphone to surf the web and for multi media. Email, texting and even the phone work seamlessly. It's good at what it's designed for. Business users get the latest Treo, Pocket PC or carry your laptop around. Me I want to play on my handheld.
Smartphone-Apple? 2 words that do not belong together
by jeeplikens - 7/11/07 12:59 AM In reply to: iphone=smartphone??? by uberryanI agree uberryan.. Anyone who thinks the whyPhone is inovative needs to check into rehad. Touch screen? My PDA does that. Makes phone calls. Yep, my Sanyo does that very well. Streaming video, watching LIVE programming? Yep, my Sanyo SCP-7500 evdo phone does all that. The phone is only as smart as the user. So guess those iPhones are feeling pretty dumb about now..
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