Mine is hanging on by a thread its wires. It's a Samsung SGH-E315 and it sucks. Help me pick a newer model, Kossacks.
This is not my first cell phone but it is the same model. When the first one got soaked I bought another Samsung, a black SGH-T309, as an emergency and I hated it. One of the buttons was fiddly and it didn't have the 'Birds' ringtone that I still use. I went back to the E-315 when it dried out. Then it got stolen and I had to go back to the black one. I still hated it and bought a Beat which I then lost and had to go back to the black one. That's when I bought this one on Ebay. It looked brand new and basically works well enough to use. The antenna is about to break off though and a replacement is due.
My very first cell phone has been lost to the mists of time. I got it when I was living outdoors for a few bucks and it had three really cool features. It was my first Li-ion flashlight, it had a clock, and it could dial 911, a feature that I used once. That was it. It got less useful when I smashed it in the door by accident. It could still dial 911 and it still worked just fine as a small flashlight. I never had service for it and modern cell phones, in my limited experience, do not give the time without it. Meh.
My provider is T-Mobile and I do the pay-go thing. I really have no reason to change providers and their service coverage is as broad as my needs. Unless someone in the comments is able to convince me that I really should switch then I am looking for a GSM phone.
GSM carrier frequencies
GSM networks operate in a number of different carrier frequency ranges (separated into GSM frequency ranges for 2G and UMTS frequency bands for 3G), with most 2G GSM networks operating in the 900 MHz or 1800 MHz bands. Where these bands were already allocated, the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands were used instead (for example in Canada and the United States). In rare cases the 400 and 450 MHz frequency bands are assigned in some countries because they were previously used for first-generation systems.
That bold thing is the problem and I just discovered it yesterday. From my first link:
This close cousin of the E316 and E317 trades GSM 850 for the 900 band, offering world roaming capability.
What the fuck was T-Mobile doing selling a phone with only one working frequency? I am not a world traveler and it was a free phone with contract. World travelers were buying RAZRs. I wanted one then and they are still being made. I can buy one brand new for less than a hundred bucks and they come in orange. Or I can spend about twenty bucks and get another E-315 and it's tempting. Or I could get something else.
I do not need and will not pay for a mobile data plan this year so most smart phones are right out. I'm not planning on using it to stare at pics or vids and I already have cameras. I do not need a game machine. I do not have an MP3 player and that would be the killer feature that gets me out of the RAZR. Do you have a phone with an MP3 player that you like the sound of? Let me know in the comments. I plan to buy on Ebay and my budget is about a hundred bucks.
I have MP3s so I need a phone that I can load from my computer and the place I would really like to listen to it is the car so it would be really nice if it had a 3.5mm stereo jack.
Crud. The second poll option is An ORANGE RAZR V3