Cell phones: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why?
- 7/3/07 3:41 PM
I Vote for SANYO
by Clemmie3 - 7/4/07 2:51 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Over the years of the Cellular era, I have had a few each of Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, and several Sanyo's. I also 'made the rounds' of carriers in the early years - now in my 8th year as a loyal Sprint customer.
Of them all, I have settled on SANYO as being the most durable, having the best signal retention, and the clearest talking. Also have the best Keyboards - backlit keys, good positive contact when pressed, and excellent durability. Sanyo is not always the lead innovator on new features - but when they 'catch up' (usually pretty quickly), they tend to get it 'right the first time' more often than the others. And they're always ahead of ME on useful features.
I currently have a three-line package, served by two Sanyo's and a Samsung (which was a freebie). As soon as the Samsung ages enough to qualify for Sprint's upgrade credit (a few months away), it will be replaced with another Sanyo...probably the new Katana-II.
Sanyo #1
by chows2175 - 7/4/07 6:01 AM In reply to: I Vote for SANYO by Clemmie3I agree that Sanyo is the best. I bought a Sanyo as my 1st and have had 7 since.Of course that limits me to Sprint service.
Flip versus brick, privacy versus public speaking.
by MegsL - 7/4/07 3:20 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Other people never seem to mention this, but I prefer flip-phones! The other kinds - e.g, Nokias, which are technically excellent I know - leave me with a feeling that I have no privacy. Talking to the air, while holding a tiny "other" phone just to my ear, I feel I'm making a public speech to everyone within earshot.
My present flip is a Motorola V3 but I chose it for its shape, not for any other quality. Flip-phones seem to be getting rarer and rarer. Does nobody else have my difficulty with the others? - Meg.
Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why
by catkenobi - 7/4/07 3:32 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I voted Samsung. My husband still has the Motorola that we started with, mine quit on me so I went with another brand. Besides features, the Samsung has never let me down. Sometimes while talking to my husband, he loses signal and not me. Does't matter where we are either. My daughter also has a Samsung and she likes it.
I had a Samsung, but...
by sharee100 - 7/4/07 6:55 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why by catkenobiI had a Samsung I600 with windows mobile with Sprint. I was unhappy with Sprint and switched companies. My Samsung did not have a sim card, so I had to buy a new phone with new carrier. I liked my samsung. Big screen and it was a flip phone.
LG, NOKIA
by dodnsa - 7/4/07 3:45 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
IN THE PAST I USED NOKIA; I NOW USE THE LG BOTH OF THESE CELL PHONES HAVE A KEYBOARD LOCK.
I'll never buy a GPS Phone; I don't want to be monitored by a govt. agency.
I chose "other" because that is the only rational choice.
by patmcclung - 7/4/07 4:02 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It is hard to see how an inanimate object can generate "loyalty". I have three Siemens phones, which I purchased because they're cheap and well engineered. I spent a few hours learning how to remove the "network locks" on them, which are, in my opinion, a travesty.
I have one LG phone, because I wanted a flip-top. Cameras are cameras, and not phones. Phones are phones. Music players are music players. Video players are video players. GSM locators are GSM locators. Put them all together and you get a big, expensive pile of crap.
cell phone yeah right
by beyondtoday - 7/4/07 4:04 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
To tell the truth I have not time for mobile phones I find them to be one of the biggest time wasting devices we have in our lives today. how many time have you seen a worker on a job instead of working they are on the phone. instead of watching the road they are on the phone instead of getting to class they are on the phone instead of paying for their shopping you guessed it were waiting on them to get of the phone. and if that is not bad enough then you get the bill well what a rip off that is compared to the cost of a local call from a lan phone or made over the net
Thanks for your time
HTC!
by dono721 - 7/4/07 4:20 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have owned Motorola Phones (good Phones), Nokia Phones (like them too), and HP (Mobile messenger 6515) but I love HTC. The HTC Advantage is a "Big" thing to use as a phone but the features are unmatched... the 900 model before that was in that same category but the new HTC touch.. which I love.. is small.. has windows Mobile 6.. and a touch interface that isn't so far from that IPHONE everyone wants....
HTC Definitely
by Bobby312 - 7/4/07 5:09 AM In reply to: HTC! by dono721I have an HTC Apache, better known to Sprint users as a PPC6700 and to Verizon users as an XV6700. It is a very versatile smartphone with all the features including wifi, Windows Mobile 5, mp3 player, camera, etc. It fits what I use a cell phone/PDA for which is more PDA than making or receiving phone calls but it does that too. I'm waiting for the HTC Vogue to come out with Verizon as the carrier. It will be my next smartphone.
I voted Samsung
by BeaverBill - 7/4/07 4:27 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles but it does what I bought it for. I have many friends who really struggle with their phones but my little plain, Jane Samsung has proved to be a dependabel tool.
Nokia has been vera, vera good to me
by redanman - 7/4/07 4:27 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I started my experience with a flawless Nokia car phone for my wife years ago when I personally had a Motorola Brick (Me and Gordon Gecko) Those were the expensive, non-nostalgic Old Days - 1986, paid $2200 for that Brick - for all you newcomers getting free phones. I switched to Nokia personally after my useless Star-Tac POS (My Colorado carrier did not have much Nokia fully portable in the old days) so I've been in this a long time, kiddies. I am an old fart 56-year old, not some techie.
I am an unabashed Nokia fan. Proud new owner of the E61i - multitasking, WLAN, Quadband GSM unlocked from Nokia Flagship NYC about $450. Also uses primitive pre-digital and advanced 3G (supporting video calls) if the USA ever enters the 21st century. Supports something like 7 e-mail boxes including Enterprise and Blackberry (downloadable, free). Download Adobe documents, Excel, Word, quality 2 M camera (N95 has 6 if you want that) has music player, but can't take movies on Airplane (Is that supposed to be a bummer?). E61i has up to 2 Gig removable card (Haven't needed it yet)
By the way, how many songs do you need on a frickin' phone?
Unlocked GSM is the standard as far as I am concerned. Not having to deal with Apple's arrogant, snotty staff - "priceless." (Since this poll is probably tied to the release of the iP(od)hone.
So why?
#1 Quality
#2 Durability (Even my teenage daughter never killed one - destroyed covers seemingly monthly, dropped repeatedly, everything but drowned one)
#3 Range of styles: I now have 4 Nokia GSM phones all working as well as the day I received them (All but one unlocked and easily). I also have one from work.
#4 Service: Have had very little need, but new Flagship Nokia store staff in NYC is A-OK with me
#5 Connectivity - here, there and everywhere
#6 True World-wide use - everyone from abroad visiting always has a new Nokia I can slip my SIM into and try!
I guess I am not a fan, I'm a junkie.
redanman
I agree
by paulmedina - 7/4/07 6:08 PM In reply to: Nokia has been vera, vera good to me by redanmanI've tried out a few different cellphones, Motorola, LG, Samsung but by far the best I've used have been Nokia phones. Each Nokia model I've owned (over the past 10 years) has worked well consistently even when dropped numerous times.
I have always managed to get reception with Nokia phones where others fail. My friend and I both are Cingular/AT&T subsribers. She and her daughter each have a Motorola RAZR flip and neither can hardly get a signal in her house. I never have a reception problem in her house.
The Nokia menus are the easiest to use out of all the other brands I've owned. I have to say though that the menu/navigation on Apple's iPhone looks very intuitive. HOWEVER, what is up with the non-removable battery! Would you seriously consider being without your phone for more than a week while you wait for Apple to replace your battery? Even if you can get it replaced at an Apple store or authorized service center I feel sorry for any phone junky who has to wait for that. Definitely not usable for business. I can see being without your music for an iPod but not without your phone. I can hear the voice mail greetings now "I'm sorry I can't take your call right now. My phone is being serviced. Please leave a message and I'll call you back in 2 weeks...".
Motorola's call lists sucks. It only allows 10 last call entries. If you get 11 calls but 2 were from the same person you only see the last 10 calls. If of the eleven the person who called twice was the first call in the list the eleventh call pushes that person's call off of it. On a Nokia phone you see 1 entry for the person who called you twice but you can see the number of times that person called and the date/times that person called by opening the entry. In effect, if the same person calls you say 5 times in one day you only see 1 entry in the list with the number of times that person called which leaves you 9 more call entries to fill in the list.
I now own Nokia's N Series N95. Yes, paid full price but I don't like getting locked into carrier contracts any more. If I get tired of AT&T I can switch to any other GSM net. OK, no touch screen like the iPhone but it can do everything else (music, internet, e-mail with attachments, picture, video, etc). Plus it has a removable microSD card, currently 2gig but I've read an 8gig will soon be available. The battery is user replaceable. It locates WiFi hotspots on the fly (no configuration needed) and very easily. It has support for 3G, currently unavailable here in the U.S. but who cares! I can walk into any hotspot and download at 54g speeds. Its OS is upgradable, supports Java, Flash, etc. Can access any e-mail account, has a 5mp camera, and plays and records outstanding video. You can even play the video directly to your TV via the phone's video out. Including your powerpoint presentations. Oh, and not for anything but the GPS on it is great. I downloaded the map for NYC, and it showed me all the subway stations, restaurants, hospitals, museums etc. near me. It does turn by turn and you can have it do voice for an extra fee. Download a VoIP app and get ready to make free calls over the net. It can also do video calls but have to wait for 3G for that. Last but not least, you can listen to FM radio if you get tired of your music collection.
SE
by vulcan5978 - 7/4/07 4:31 AM In reply to: Poll: What cell phone manufacturer are you loyal to and why? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Having owned several sony ericssons (t610, k700i, w800i), an ancient phillips, a motorola (v3) and a nokia (3310) I can say that the sonys have been the best. The only fault Ive ever had with the sonys are that the middle joysticks tend to get a bit unresponsive after a while. The motorola was simply rubbish with a complete lack of features, and the nokia was a good phone for its time, but not anymore!
Sony Ericsson
by Mobius914 - 7/5/07 3:36 AM In reply to: SE by vulcan5978Ive used Nokias Motorolas and now i own a k800i.
It is the best phone i have ever owned and i can only think of one or two flaws such as the joystick and the poor alarm application
I liked the personalizations on the nokia systems (N73 and such) but only my SE had the design and camera and features and price i craved
Now if only they will integrate a walkman with a cybershot...
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