Help - Looking for SMALLEST possible phone

The Samsung SGH-U100 is easily the smallest phone on that list.

It will be somewhat limited in NAM due to the lack of the 850 MHz band though.
 
Speaking of 900mhz... if I use AT&T, and my phone doesn't have 850, but is triband, will I be able to use it in major metropolitan areas at least? I have a big phone that does quad band, but I don't like having to leave it in my car when I go to a club. I'd rather have something like the aforementioned birth control pill box to clip on my jeans or something.
If I can get Ok coverage without 850mhz, that opens up my options a lot as far as small phones go.
 
its really not a good idea to use triband. you will probably get service but it wont be as good as it should be. and it really all depends. some markets might have gsm running all on 850mhz. some markets are a mix, where 1900 fills in the gaps between 850. you might as well try it out and buy a new phone if service sucks.
 
I saw a link a few weeks ago for detirmining where you can get certain frequencies, but I couldn't view it from work. Of course when I was looking for it from home I couldn't find it.

I'm not big on buying it and selling it if it doesn't work. I'm lazy about that stuff, and I know it will just sit on my desk instead of me selling it until it is obsolete. I have 4 sprint phones, and a metroPCS phone sitting in a drawer under my desk, and 3 perfectly good computers in my closet. I'm a packrat with technology for some reason.
 
If you are on AT&T it's always safer to get quadband or triband w/ 850Mhz. Generally the 1900 band is used for metropolitan areas and the 850Mhz band is used to cover rural areas because it has better range, but more often than not they simply overlap and having both bands will give you the best coverage.

Even if you had a T-Mobile phone, which uses 1900Mhz band, they have a roaming agreement with AT&T to use their 850Mhz spectrum so you can roam for free anywhere in the US on AT&T's network.

You should just recycle or give away your old stuff. Most of my family are using phones that I once owned. =p
 
Touche, but That would require me doing something... my phones right now are seperated from any chargers they may or may not have, and I don't have to dig for stuff if they are just going to sit. :)

Well like I said, I'm basically looking for a clubbing/go out phone. I don't mind my PDA phone for everything else, it's just hard to stuff in a pair of jeans along with my ID. So if 1900 band would cover me when I'm in downtown, that'd be cool. Unless of course some guy kidnaps me and takes me to a rural area... then I'm screwed. Of course, he'd probably realize my phone was not really a birth control pill box, and take it away. :)
 
I had a Samsung P310 myself. Without the extra case with built in extra battery...it was SUPER tiny. Reception was its weak point however...and I eventually let it go.

Crazy small phone though...and a lot of fun to use.

RIDE
 
Haha, why does it even have a camera at that point? I totally missed that. I thought it was a 2.0 megapixel camera. That's actually the only feature that is important to me on a small phone, because I'd like to take pictures while I'm out and about. Oh well, the search continues. :)

Edit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2V0N2TUSVs looks pretty awesome. no camera, but god that's tiny.
 
Pink phones are for chicks. :P

Phones w/ a Xenon Flash Camera are the best for clubbing and bar hopping because those places tend to be dark. The Sony Ericsson K790a/K800i was one of my faves. I also like the Nokia N82. Too bad they didn't put out a NAM 3G version, because I'd be all over that.

Although it wasn't exactly tiny, the Nokia 8801 turned a lot of heads when I took it out.
 
There are various brands that manufacture devices that can loosely be described as mobile phones, and have all the right specifications listed, but do not work very well at all. Either that picture is blurry, or the phone really looks like that -- either way, I would take it as a good indication of the quality of product that you can expect. :-)

I had a VK Mobile 2020 for a few hours. While some people on North American carriers found that it worked well enough, I found that the incoming and outgoing audio was very weak. There were also numerous firmware glitches and no manufacturer support. I sent it back and got a similarly tiny Samsung P300, which remained my favourite phone until the first-generation iPhone. The P300's successors, the P310 and Armani models, are listed on that link of smallest phones.

You mentioned earlier that you want something that you don't have to leave in your car when you go clubbing, but were afraid of the reception issue without 850MHz. Well, it can't be any worse than not having the phone on you! :-) I can say that the tiny "card"-sized phones are a boon to have on you when everyone else is fumbling to find a secure place to store their bricks, which most other phones are by comparison.
 
The samsung is really expensive for a phone that I'll only use 1-2 times a week though. I think I'll likely get the Funker f503, or the Pantech C3b. Both of those phones are tiny, and relatively inexpensive, and they come in pink=win. :D
 
The Armani is expensive, but the P300 and P310 should be cheap now. They are no longer new models.

In terms of using them during social occasions -- these are major attention-getters, much like the iPhone was last year. Most people have still never seen them.
 
I knew the c3b needed a faceplate. sorry I didn't clarify. :P

I can't find the Samsung p310 for less than $300, let me know if you know of somewhere to look that I don't. There's a used p300 on ebay for $100 atm, but it is scratched up. The c3b can be had for around 60-70, and the funker f503 is $130 new.
 
I'd hate to resurrect a thread this old, but I had a small cheap go phone I was using for a while, and it broke, so I'm looking yet again for a small clubbing phone. My Pantech Matrix is too big to fit in tight pockets! D: I was thinking of buying a Samsung x830 unless anyone has some other suggestions.
 
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