I am looking for a new phone as I am giving my crappy motorola c650 to my sister. I am in the Houston, Texas area and will also be going to Austin for college and such later in the fall. I basically already have a plan as I am just adding an extra line to my existing service plan for T-mobile so any GSM enabled phone should be okay I think. So far all I've been looking through have been the T-mobile phones at mobiledia for q4 2005 and up. Then I started searching for non-provider specific phones that are GSM and the list gets pretty long and I need some help narrowing my choices down. Here is what I am looking for:
1. Must have expansion slot (microSD, miniSD, MMC, anything), for MP3s and videos.
2. At least 1.3mp camera with decent day and night shots. Also it should have a decent video capture with sound and no time limits.
3. Good overall phone specific performance (the usual)
4. Less than $250. Cheaper is preferable.
Anyway, when I do a feature search, I get a good number of results, a lot of them PDA or smartphone, that definitely exceed my price range and I can't filter them out. So I need some suggestions. So far I have the samsung t609 on my list and a few others I've forgotten. The t609 sounds good but the battery life may be an issue for mp3 playback.
1. Must have expansion slot (microSD, miniSD, MMC, anything), for MP3s and videos.
2. At least 1.3mp camera with decent day and night shots. Also it should have a decent video capture with sound and no time limits.
3. Good overall phone specific performance (the usual)
4. Less than $250. Cheaper is preferable.
Anyway, when I do a feature search, I get a good number of results, a lot of them PDA or smartphone, that definitely exceed my price range and I can't filter them out. So I need some suggestions. So far I have the samsung t609 on my list and a few others I've forgotten. The t609 sounds good but the battery life may be an issue for mp3 playback.