Need CDMA cellphone advice!!

Im being switched to Verizon and I cant find a good CDMA network phone thats any good!


Any of you guys like your phone? what should I look at?

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c [...] oneId=2345

There u go. The only 2 things i don't like about it is it's a little fat and it has a short battery life. i can get about 1.5 days out of it. 1 day w/ bluetooth enabled.

For what? 802.11x?

I like the phone, but considering the phones home is in my pocket, it just seems a bit too fat. Thanks for the suggestion though, lookin forward to highspeed internet on my 190x100pix phone

I have a novatel S620 card (sprint service), and use it a lot. I can't wait till the whole alltel sprint roaming actually works. They announced it back in july, but they're still working out the kinks. I can roam on alltell, but can't be authenticated yet. I'm in full on 1xrtt, but it's faster than dial-up.

Supposedly they make a repeater that fits in your car. You have your external antenna mounted on your vehicle and then amplifier in your trunk and the internal antenna in your vehicle. I think the antennas have to be at least 5' apart to work correctly. Supposed to help out in fringe areas, and increase battery life because you're phones doesn't have to try as hard to find a signal.

Well after about 3 days of looking the Samsung SCH-i730 looks like a winner. It does not have a camera which may work out fine, although I wanted to record video . http://reviews.cnet.com/Samsung_SC [...] ml?tag=sub

Im not sure about the PDA of it, but the phone is still small, and I can play all my favorite handheld games on it. Well i suppose i can sell it if i dont like it... Personaly, im happy with my little 30$ nokia, but doing more is alaways cool as long as the phone knows its a phone.

Other then no camera, I would apreicate any objections people can think of before i jump.

There is a batery upgrade that improves that quite abit, i think to 240 minutes. But ya 120 is ugh. I dont use bluetooth so at least i wont worry about battery drain.

Basically they just piggy back another battery onto the one.

on the wireless repeater:

it's not actually working yet. i've noticed them testing it (ie, my phone will go from EVDO to 1x every once in a while while sitting at my desk). the whole city is supposed to be online all at once by the end of the year.

so no point in the wireless repeater. but thanks for the suggestion. :-)

Dr. put me om Ambien today... So I'm testing it for a month & then I go back to see if I want to stay on it....

How's it working? That stuff works miracles for me.

Be warned that it's addictive. I don't care what the f'ing commercials say. I hate myself for it, but I can't sleep without Ambien anymore. It's not one of those "OMG, I gotta have my Ambien or I'll flip out" addictivnesses... it's just I can't fall asleep without it. Well... I can, but it takes forever. But it still doesn't have any narcotic side effects. You won't see any folks out there killing people for Ambien.

Anyways the benefits far outweigh the addictive qualities IMO. I never have trouble falling asleep anymore.

You suppose this war in the East involving terrorists might be over a good nights sleep and not oil?

hey man, did u check out that LG Chocolate? I just read a review of it on Cnet, they really liked it.

http://reviews.cnet.com/LG_VX8500_ [...] ml?tag=sub

I'm very, very attracted to it.

*contemplates getting one*

My work put that phone on the ban list because its a ipod with a built in cell phone

U R so fone-gay.

Take it back. You should still be with in the 14 day trial period.

Been testing one for a few weeks on our network, nice, but it did something that I don't like in that the format on my microSD card doesn't allow me to access it from my laptop or work computer (happened with a Nokia I was using too a while back).

My personal phone is still the Kyo, but the Chocolate is a nice phone for someone not wanting full Smartphone, and IMO it's better than the Razr, despite my preference of Clamshell designs.

I think the chocolate will sell very well for LG.