From: "Mark" 

I have this Motorola E815 http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=663
which I added the heavier duty battery too (with a thicker replacement back
panel to accomodate it). I've taken a few, very few, pictures, but other
than that just use the phone and have no complaints.

I'll probably upgrade to this Motorazr maxx Ve
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=1024 this summer under the
"new every two" plan. 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:46502bac{at}w3.nls.net...
> I've downgraded my phone. I used to have communicators, such as the Nokia
> 9300, or other high-end models, but I've grown to dislike them. They're
> heavy, bulky, and generally not as good as a phone as some of the simpler
> models. I also found that while at first all the doodahs (calendar,
> browser, extra apps etc) were very cool, eventually I just stopped using
> them because I carry a laptop around often enough that it made no sense
> using sucky versions of the real apps on a  device that was slow and
> clumsy to use.
>
> Currently I have this model:
> http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=341 . I get looked at funny
> because of it sometimes, but it's a damn good phone with nothing extra on
> it; excellent battery life; super easy to use and I can even open a beer
> bottle with it!
>
> IMO, the general design flaw is that a phone is a phone is a phone, so
> adding every single bell and whistle in it just makes it less of a phone.
> The first new feature which I'm interested in is the built-in navigation
> (gps + map software) in the N95 model
> (http://www.nokia.fi/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_126492), but that's just because
> I am a hopeless navigator on my own ;-)
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Randall Parker"
>

> wrote in message news:464fce91$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I'd like to have a techie discussion on what to want and avoid in
>> cellphones and, more generally, what is wrong in the general philosophy
>> of cellphone design.
>>
>> Do you think any of the cellphone makers stand out as particularly astute
>> in UI design?
>>
>> Do you want more or fewer buttons on your cellphone and which functions
>> are critical to have on separate buttons?
>
>

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