better off with tin cans & some string...

[theevilnub]

Sometimes I just want to hurl my phone as fast & as far as I can into a wall so that it disintegrates into a bazillion little shards. The only thing I like about it is the texture of the rubberized surface on the outside. Otherwise it's the most counterintuitive, frustratingly useless piece of shit to ever come from Finland**!

**By "Finland", I

Comments

[westcbear]

Ah Nokia. I had one too, a Nokia phone, and boy was I happy to get rid of it two weeks ago.

[theevilnub]

I got this phone probably back in June... & by August I realized it was shit. And the cell company, being who they are, won't qualify me for a free replacement until I've suffered this device a little longer.

To say nothing of the service, which was marginal to begin with (at least around the house) & pretty much has gone downhill since the new phone, though I live in an area where the signal is supposed to be strong.

[theevilnub]

Oh & also... the little spaces between the buttons pull at my beard hairs. *ouch!*

[ciddyguy]

Ah Nokia, I had the 5460 back in 1999 and liked it enough then, then changed carriers to Quest and had the Kyucara slim phone tri mode, worked pretty well until I shut the hood on it, cracked the LCD and popped the battery out and had to unscrew to reseat it, it lasted until I got to LA and dumped the phone for the carrier was only good in WA St and Portland.

Now I have a Samsung Juke and it's a decent phone but the form factor is so, so but is a nice MP3 player and I have a national carrier that I like, the worst phone was a crappy Motorola free phone I got in 2003, one of the best is a Moto E815 w/ current carrier, had a great camera phone, expandable memory via Micro SD (formerly Trans Flash) memory card but I lost that phone and didn't have insurance so hence the Juke when I became eligible for a new phone at discount. Have had it about a year and a half now.

My next phone is going to be more text message friendly at the very least.

[theevilnub]

Back East I had Verizon (nee Bell Atlantic) until Nov. '05. Verizon was great back East but out West, at the time, calls kept dropping no matter where I went. I wanted a new phone & also Verizon's plans were a lot of money for not that many minutes so I switched to T-Mobile. T-Mobile's service wasn't as great as Verizon's back East but not terrible, & the plan was ideal. I went Samsung when I made the switch & it was a basic phone but reliable & easy to live with. Had that for a couple of years & went Nokia & it's been crap ever since. Calls still dropped in the house with the Samsung, but it's SO much worse with the Nokia... many times I have trouble just dialing out in the first place. Dennis has T-Mobile & he has issues with dropped calls as well... though not as much as I do. When a free phone becomes available, I'm going to make the switch. And then when my stupid contract is up, or at least to where I can early term without penalty (or a negligible one) I'm going to look to ditch T-Mobile altogether... for all the

[ciddyguy]

One thing to be aware of is that cheap phones are, well, cheap and often drop calls more than better phones, and are often clearer too. That's what the sales guy told my Mom when she upgraded her phone last fall. She has a samsung slider from T-Mobile and it's much clearer than the previous phone, Samsung I think as well ever was and it was a freebie at the time (2003). She's had no problems w/ dropped calls and I know of others that have used T-Mobile with little to no problems and in fact, I am considering getting on w/ them in a creative development type of position for they are growing at their main campus where I work to better my income and all that and may have to switch but I have Verizon now and thus the Juke and I've been quite happy w/ Verizon for the most part and have been w/ them since 2003. I was an early pre T-Mobile user when I was with Voice Stream in 1999 as T-Mobile bought them out.

[theevilnub]

The Samsung I had was a rather cheap phone, but it performed rather well. I'll also need a phone with a certain degree of heft as I tend to drop them on occasion.

[joezer]

I've only had Nokia's over the years and not a problem with any of them. Only reason I've had a few is changing aesthetic tastes...

[theevilnub]

A friend of mine got a Nokia & he seemed happy with it, which inspired me to give it a shot. Seems unlikely I'll get another.

[bouncercub81]

Lesson of the day: Anything made in China is bound to frustrate, injure or poison you.

Make sure the tin cans and string don't come from China too...

[theevilnub]

Unfortunately this means new small appliances for the kitchen are off-limits. Dennis & I had to give up on purchasing a waffle iron for his sister Christmas '07 because we simply couldn't find one not made in China, & she was adamant about it not being from China.

This is not to say that all waffle irons are made in China... but it seems you have to live in Europe to buy one made in Europe.

[bouncercub81]

It is an unfortunate circumstance that most of the world's small electrical appliances are made in China.

To be fair, a huge proportion of electrical appliances in Europe are also made in China. It is only recently (about 4-5 years ago) that some European companies have started to pull their factories out of China simply because China was fucking up the quality and workmanship of their products (no surprise there).

As for Dennis's sister, it's gonna be hard if she still persists in her quest for appliances not made in China...but admirable nonetheless!

[theevilnub]

And now they're going to start exporting automobiles. Eek.

[theevilnub]

I've considered the Razr, but I need my phones to have more heft to them. Plus, for all it's thinness, the Razr leaves a rather large footprint when it comes to square area. I tend to carry my phone in my front pants pocket & when I sit down I'm sure something like the Razr would dig in.