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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 04:21 PM
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Cellphone and service

Out of these three which one offers the best service and phone??
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 04:26 PM
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Nextel and Sprint have merged, although I have Nextel and a friend of mine has Sprint and I still get much better service than he does... might just be the phone though... Nextel phones hold up through abuse.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 04:28 PM
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I have Nextel too. I wonder how the merger is going to affect us.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 04:38 PM
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I'm on Cingular and have yet to travel to a place where I wasn't able to get any service.

Not sure what you mean by "best phone"... but I have a Nokia 3025 (or so)... and it's decent. Check out epinions.com...

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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 04:43 PM
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I like my verizon phone. I have yet to have a bad signal area (except IN my house). I never liked sprint's coverage or nextel's they have no network... They rely on someone else's and then charge you through the nose for roaming.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 05:13 PM
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I know, I know. Cell phones are convenient, time savers, blah, blah, blah.

But I still hate the damn things.

 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 07:37 PM
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I use Sprint, and have this big ol brick of a phone, the SCP-7200. I love the phone, it's been dropped, kicked, thrown, dumped in the water, and survived it all. Unfortunetely, it does melt pretty easy, as I found when a hot piece of slag got in my pocket.
Personally, I think all services are lame, so I got one that had a phone I liked. It's outlasted my old phone by almost a year.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Traxxis
I'm on Cingular and have yet to travel to a place where I wasn't able to get any service.

Not sure what you mean by "best phone"... but I have a Nokia 3025 (or so)... and it's decent. Check out epinions.com...

STan
Yeah, this GSM stuff is the real deal. Best service I've ever had. My phone is a Motorola V551.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 07:56 PM
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Im leaning towards Nextel cause they have a phone I really like. but now Im checking out Alltel
Originally Posted by Ford_Six
I use Sprint, and have this big ol brick of a phone, the SCP-7200. I love the phone, it's been dropped, kicked, thrown, dumped in the water, and survived it all. Unfortunetely, it does melt pretty easy, as I found when a hot piece of slag got in my pocket.
Personally, I think all services are lame, so I got one that had a phone I liked. It's outlasted my old phone by almost a year.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Traxxis
I'm on Cingular and have yet to travel to a place where I wasn't able to get any service.
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Then you haven't been to my county, because Cingular has no service here at all. When my buddy Steve comes up to visit from the Bay Area, he can't get a signal anywhere.

My boss just switched to Verizon and his signal drops out all the time. Sometimes he sounds like he's talking underwater.

I have TracFone, which hitchhikes onto the strongest signal. Around here that seems to be USCellular. -TD
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 08:20 PM
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I have Nextel but it is company paid so the bill does not matter to me. The i730 phone has held up pretty good for me (construction).
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 08:23 PM
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None of the choices, therefore I can't vote.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 09:50 PM
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Alltel here. Been w/ them for almost 2 yrs. I get good service, no signal at my mother's but nobody's phone picks up at my mother's!
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 09:51 PM
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Cingular is the only one that gets any coverage out to our house, although you still have to be outside or stand near a window to make a call
 
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Old Jul 11, 2005 | 10:13 PM
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Verizon. I have a signal almost everywhere I go, except in the deepest valleys around here. Every time we go camping, at all different spots, my friends are constantly asking to use my phone...because Im the only one with service!
 
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