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...?

Comments

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Like Julia, my teenager uses lots more features than I do. I use texting and calling, and that's it. I have a fancy phone/PDA (I won it) but like most wireless connect devises it runs through fuel like a Hummer so I only use it to test our webpages at work (which is why work is paying the monthly charges). My regular can't-live-without PDA is smaller and lighter than the combo and does more, so I have no incentive to change. And for a walk around the block it's easier to just carry the tiny cellphone (older Motorola flip up that, golly, reminds me of a certain TOS communicator).