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Silent Requiem

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I everybody! I'm in the market for a new phone. I'm thinking of getting a PDA type phone for a few reasons & would like some advice on a phone to fit my needs.

I drive a step van, you know the big white aluminum box on wheels that delivers to your house. Well, It can get really loud in there with the wind & general noise from the truck. I deliver in a rural area & go down lots of dirt/gravel roads. I need to be able to hear the thing & need it (or a case) to resist the dirt.

Here's what I want:
1.) Bluetooth - with stereo headset
2.) Radio - Prefer FM as it's free but will consider sat.
3.) Web access - to lookup addresses
4.) Play mp3s and be able to hold say....512MB
5.) Good keypad - I've got fat fingers lol
6.) Loooooooong lasting battery - I'll be listening for about 7-8 hrs a day, closer to 9hrs in Nov - Jan 1. Holiday Rush

I use the phone very little, w/current sprint service on a family plan with my mom I think we use less than 200 mins a month combined.

Basically I use the company pc for address lookup in the morning if there's an address I don't recognise, an arm band radio & mp3 player for music & phone for... well, the obvious. I want to get this down to one device. Know what I mean Vern?

I'm also a cheap penny pincher, so if it costs too much I'd just keep doing what I'm doing.

Any thought? TIA for any help.
 
I'd like to, but If there is a better deal I might switch. My contract is over with them anyway.

One more thing. When listening to music (mp3s or sat) does that eat the equivalent of talk time or stand-by time on the battery?
 
Don't look at the "better deal". You need to look at where you use the phone and make sure the carrier you pick has coverage. Even if the phone is free, if you don't have coverage when you need it, it is much too expensive. Pick the carrier then the phone/plan.

Anything you do on the cell eats battery unless it is plugged in to a power source - i.e. cig lighter.
 
Well I'm saying I'll look at the better deal between those who can give the service I need obviously. My contract is up with sprint & although they seem to have the best service price, with the Sprint Power Vision Access Pack that has unlimited data, I don't want to limit responses to only one service if there is a better phone.

As far as the battery question I meant will it eat battery at talk or stand-by speeds?
 
Battery solution: Use a car charger.

My i730 is an awesome device, but the battery kinda sucks. If I was doing that all day, I'd need a car charger.

By the way, look at the Samsung i730. Verizon has it for $100.
 
an FM Radio? Not a lot of phones have that function...

Umm Possibly a
Sony Ericsson P1 (Smart Phone)


Has all your functions.
- Stereo Bluetooth
- Opera Web Browsing (802.11 wireless technology)
 
P1 is triband, so he might have trouble roaming onto 850mhz. It's also only got euro UMTS(useless here) and GPRS, so it might be a bit slow to look up addresses. Trust me, if it was built for the US I'd want one
 
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