Phones

[ksmith]

You're getting a new cellphone. What features would you look for? Which features did you think you'd use that you wound up not using? Which features have proven more useful than you thought they would?

Long story short--I have to upgrade my phones. My current phones are a couple of old candy bars, a Nokia 8200? 8600? and an even older Ericsson. I think I could text with the Nokia if I wanted to, but I never felt the need. I pretty much just use them to make calls.

One of my accounts is an old AT&T Free2Go plan that I have to convert to a Cingular pay as I go plan. They offer a bottom of the line phone, which is likely all I need. But if there's something cool and useful to be had...?

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[juliabk.livejournal.com]

I don't use mine for anything other than making calls. The new phones I got when I added the kid to my plan allow you to select a ring tone for the people in your phone book. I haven't done that yet (shoot, I haven't switched to the new phone yet) but kid has and she loves it. That's pretty much it. I can see the value in a camera phone but have no burning desire for one and text messaging is not only way too expensive but hard on the joints. ;-):-)

Oh, there is the standard stuff like missed call logs and phone mail and all, but I see no reason for anything fancy.