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Alright, opening this up to a larger audience. Opinions on these cel phones

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knave:
I also use AT&T and just got myself a RAZR V3xx and the wife a Nokia 6126 (I think).

We like our phones...Neither of us are hard core but my inner Geek wanted the Blackberry Pearl.  Alas they were sold out so I chose the RAZR.  After the fact I like it.  Calls are clear and the phone is easy enough to use.  Not as easy as my prievious Nokia candy bar phone though.  Battery life is ok on the Razr I charge it a bit more than once a week with moderate daily use. If I charge it twice I never have to worry about it at all.

I've only played around with the media fetures a bit but it's cool that it can play MP3's and video's.  The camera works surprisingly well as long as there is enough light.  I don't use the net on it at all.

I was on the fence about getting a flip phone but it's worked out fine.  I did get a snap on case and a leather belt holder for it.  The snap on case is great.  It was super cheap but protects the thin phone from all the abuse I will put it through. I havn't used the bluetooth yet but have heard it works well with a quality earpiece. 

One nice feature is the ability to use a standard mini USB cable to charge the phone or grab my photo's off of it.  Also nice to DL ringtones on my PC and put them on the phone for free. I'd like to know more about putting video on it but I really just use it to place calls so for that it does a fine job.  I'm glad I got it.

The Nokia I know less avout but it hasn't gotten any complaints.  It seems to work well and have good reception.  Interface is typicaly easy.  Wife seems happy with it so I am as well. 

After all this I suppose the Pearl would have been overkill for me.

shardian:

--- Quote from: knave on October 30, 2007, 01:17:43 pm ---
One nice feature is the ability to use a standard mini USB cable to charge the phone or grab my photo's off of it.  Also nice to DL ringtones on my PC and put them on the phone for free. I'd like to know more about putting video on it but I really just use it to place calls so for that it does a fine job.  I'm glad I got it.


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You have to convert video to 3gp format. It also tends to get considerable image artifacts in that format. That is why I stick with Southpark- less movement, less detail = better overall picture.

The motorola software pack will do the conversion, but it creates an overly bulky file size. I use  a prog called ImToo 3gp video converter. It works great, is quick, and file sizes are much smaller with no loss in quality.

Crax:
My wife has a KRZR.  Battery life is good and sound quality isn't bad.  It was easy to setup on the computer and it's pretty easy to sync mp3's to it through WMP11 and my wife can do it herself.  We bought a 2gb mini sd card for like 25 with shipping awhile ago so expanding the memory for more music is easy too.  She doesn't use bluetooth so I'm not sure on that.

shmokes:
I'm not sure on the bluetooth, but keep in mind that the vast majority of phones cannot do MP3s over the bluetooth headset.  They have to support A2DP IIRC, and most don't.  I've had two phones so far that had bluetooth, but if I wanted to listen to music I had to use wired headphones.  Amazingly, I think even the iPhone is this way.  It's retarded.  I have a set of bluetooth headphones compatible only with an iPod.  It's not like the Bluetooth spec is incapable of carrying high-quality stereo sound, but most phones just cripple the functionality. 

I do have to lock/unlock my phone before and after calls.  It just becomes second nature, though, almost like opening and closing a clamshell.  After you hang up, you just hold down the asterisk button for like three seconds and it locks it.  Tapping the asterisk then the call button unlocks.  You don't think about it.  Muscle memory takes care of everything.  With that said, though, I kind of hesitate to say that you'd like the Pearl more than the KRZR.  I definitely do, but my wife actually prefers the KRZR cos she doesn't use the calendar and she likes the clamshell formfactor more.  With a data plan, the KRZR couldn't do the BB Pearl's laundry.  But without that, the KRZR might edge out the Pearl strictly as a phone with basic multimedia functionality.  Certainly KRZR wins in battery life.  My phone has fine battery life.  I sometimes talk for many hours in a single day and I've never had it die on me partway through the day.  But realistically, I need to plug it in every night, while my wife's my wife's KRZR would probably do standby for two weeks, so long as you only made fifteen or twenty minutes worth of calls every day.

Check out the Sony Ericson phones too.  Their walkman phones are pretty sweet.  Next to the iPhone, they're probably tops for media.

shardian:
The Best Buy guy told me the V3xx would not allow me to listen to MP3's on the earbud bluetooth thing. I figured "Why not? I can hear the beeps of the phone while navigating?"
Sure enough, I can listen to MP3's or movies thru the bluetooth earbud.

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