What phone for T-Mobile?

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Juliet L

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Well I plan to go with a T-Mobile To Go Gold Rewards plan. (Just don't use enough minutes to waste my time with a contract.)
I'm currently using Virgin Mobile. Until my Switch Back just stopped working, and after dealing with Customer Service. And then with there Rates. I'm just not impressed.

Okay,
I'll probably be going with a unlocked phone. (Not impressed with T-Mobile To-Go's Phone selection.
I'll set my phone Budget to $300 bucks.
A Refurbished phone is fine with me.

I have looked at hundreds of phones, and Reviews, Enough to drive you crazy. Came to the point were I looked at so many reviews. I started forgetting them and had to go back and look again.

Most important for me are:
Reception.
Voice Clarity.
Phone Volume. (Don't have the easiest time hearing through phones.)


Things I would like, but not important:
Camera. (I hardly use it so great pictures aren't required.)
Email Access.
Internet Access. (Again, nice. But I hardly use it.)


Phone usage will be mostly:
Important Phone Calls. (Again, need to clearly understand what people are saying, I find clients to get irritated when you ask them to repeat them selfs.)

And Text messaging. (A full keyboard qwerty keyboard would is nice, but most are too small for my thumbs anyway.)


Phones type:
Not really important.
But looking at many reviews I've found that very few flip phones perform as well as some of the Sliders, and Candy bars in the same class. (I do find this odd.)
Sort of fond of the Sliders though.


Phones I've been thinking about.

Samsung D900 (Heard good reviews, but also heard that it doesn't get great reception.)
Samsung D600 (Mixed reviews.)
Samsung D500 (Can't find much on it)

Nokia 6820 (Heard good things about voice quality)
Nokia 6810 (Mixed reviews.)

Nokia 7260
Nokia 7210 (Both sound good, but have hard to process reviews.)
Also heard about problems with the odd Button designs.

Nokia 6682 (Again, the reviews just seem to beat around the bush...)

Sony Ericsson W810i (Heard of static problems)
Sony Ericsson W550i
Sony Ericsson W600 (Having trouble finding any reviews on both)


Kyocera Slider Remix KX5 (Haven't heard no sure thing on this one, sounds good for the price though.)

Blackberry 7105t (Find these reviews a little odd. 7105t sounds good, but the 7100t sounds terrible... what's the difference here?)



As you can tell, I'm pretty much open to anything.
I just want a phone with good call quality. and I just wish reviewers wouldn't beat around the bush. It's like there scared to bash a phone.

"Heard static most of the time, but overall call quality was good"



Anyways I hope one of you can set me strait before I go insane...

Oh and I'm located in Northern Utah, if that makes a difference.

Thanks.
 
You should probably make sure that the provider has good coverage where you will be making and taking these important phone calls. You can have any phone in the world, but if the service is and signal is poor, you guessed it, the phone won't really matter.

I have a Sony Ericsson W810i, and I have used one for about 5 months now, and I have yet to hear this static that you mention. I can hear just fine on the phone, and the people I talk to can hear me. I have good coverage where I live though, so I am sure that is a big part of it.
 
Hey Thanks guys, I appreciate it. I looked into that phone, and I liked the Feature set. But it was the Review from Cnet that kind of turned me off.


We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900; EDGE) Sony Ericsson W810i world phone in San Francisco using the Cingular network. Overall call quality was satisfactory, but we noticed static and patchiness on more than one occasion. While the random fade-outs didn't last more than a second or two and could be related to the network, the phone's audio performance didn't quite measure up to that of its Walkman phone brethren. On their end, callers didn't report problems, but they could tell we were using a cell phone. On the upside, however, there was plenty of volume.
http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/sony-ericsson-w810i/4505-6454_7-31661177.html?tag=prod.txt.1

Especially because they usually have a great connection with Cingular in there test labs.

I know quite a few people on the T-Mobile service. and they say they have no complaints.
T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless (They quote on quote "Tied") both got the highest J.D. Power and Associates 2006 U.S. Wireless Regional Customer Satisfaction award for my area.
And I'm in one of T-Mobiles highest Coverage areas for utah.


I'll be sure to look into that phone deeper.
Thanks again guys.

So what do the rest of you think?

Thanks
 
Any thoughts on the Nokia E50 and the Nokia 3250?
They seem to be getting rave reviews, and a nice price too.
I noticed quite a few people here have them, So I figured I would ask.
Thanks
 
After going through several reviews, I decided to take your guys advice. And got a New Unlocked Sony Ericsson W810i.

Thanks for your help guys, I appreciate it.

Oh and don't think I won't hold you to your recommendation.

Have a good one.
 
Where did you get it from? And I don't think that you will be disappointed in this phone at all. It seems that most people that get one absolutely love it. My wife wanted to try my black one out, and now the phone is hers. I had to buy another one. She loves it. She can have all the pink themes in the world, and she does. She likes the menus, the overall layout of the phone, the feel of it, the screen, the Walkman part of it, pretty much everything. She says that calls are clear, crisp, and she can always hear, even when it is noisy.
 
Yeah, I ended up going through Ebay, got it brand new for $225.98 with three year extended warranty shipped to my door. With the Charger, Data Cable, Headset,, software, memory card and all that stuff.

I don't think I did bad. Guess I'm going to have to wait till it gets here to see.
Was the only one the guy had. So I'm hoping for the best.


Any suggestions on getting the T-Mobile Sim card? Should I go directly through T-Mobile or get it somewhere else?

Also any suggestions on protective cases? Phone will live most of its life in my pocket. And working in the automotive industry, my pockets get pretty beat up.


Thanks again.
 
$225 shipped is pretty damn good. Can you name the buyer? Just for future reference, in case of an emergency unnecessary phone purchase.
 
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