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Apr. 10th, 2007 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danceboyShort version: what phone should I get that works on the T-Mobile network?
My cell phone is dying. I have a motorola startac from 1999, and it's been in decline for some time, but the audio has started to cut out when it's fully open.
I've been planning to switch to T-Mobile for some time (mostly because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ricevermicelli uses them).
So my question is, what phone can I get pretty much now, that works on T-Mobile, that is a decent phone?
Web would be really nice. PDA abilities are a plus, but not if they harm the phone-ness. I've been looking at the Blackberry Pearl, but it looks very first-generation. I've had Palm pdas since forever and I really like them, but Palm seems to have given up on PalmOS for the Treos.
Despite the above, of the phones that T-Mobile will currently supply, I'm leaning towards the Pearl, but torn by the Motorolas (Krzr, Razr v3t, i, a, b, c,...) as they are smaller, and probably better as phones.
Does anyone have opinions? I'm not deeply attached to getting the phone through T-Mobile if the right thing exists somewhere else.
FWIW features having been designed badly tends to bother me more than features missing. As an example, most phones have an alarm clock feature, but it's still a rare phone that can be set to not ring when called, but ring at the alarm. And I think it's still a non-existant phone that can be set to not ring when called until the alarm (because sleeping until your alarm goes off is apparently not something that phone designers do?). This lack is why I have a separate alarm clock.
My cell phone is dying. I have a motorola startac from 1999, and it's been in decline for some time, but the audio has started to cut out when it's fully open.
I've been planning to switch to T-Mobile for some time (mostly because
ricevermicelli uses them).So my question is, what phone can I get pretty much now, that works on T-Mobile, that is a decent phone?
Web would be really nice. PDA abilities are a plus, but not if they harm the phone-ness. I've been looking at the Blackberry Pearl, but it looks very first-generation. I've had Palm pdas since forever and I really like them, but Palm seems to have given up on PalmOS for the Treos.
Despite the above, of the phones that T-Mobile will currently supply, I'm leaning towards the Pearl, but torn by the Motorolas (Krzr, Razr v3t, i, a, b, c,...) as they are smaller, and probably better as phones.
Does anyone have opinions? I'm not deeply attached to getting the phone through T-Mobile if the right thing exists somewhere else.
FWIW features having been designed badly tends to bother me more than features missing. As an example, most phones have an alarm clock feature, but it's still a rare phone that can be set to not ring when called, but ring at the alarm. And I think it's still a non-existant phone that can be set to not ring when called until the alarm (because sleeping until your alarm goes off is apparently not something that phone designers do?). This lack is why I have a separate alarm clock.
