I Want A Flip Phone.
Scythe
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
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<div class="IPBDescription">Which should I get?</div> I want to get a new mobile phone when my old 3210 packs it in. I'm looking at getting a flip phone of some description. Here are my criteria:
<ul><li>NO CAMERA. Worthless feature as I already own a digicam. It just adds cost. If it's no extra than it's a non-issue.</li><li>Colour screen. Would be nice, but not essential.</li><li>Some kind of "to-do" list. Preferably a calenderish thing.</li><li>Not look like a brick. *cough*nokia-flip-phone*cough*.</li><li>Decent battery life.</li><li>Not too expensive.</li></ul>
There was talk a while ago of a phone that could run MAME. That would be fairly cool. ^_^
Any of you fellow forumgoers especially happy with a flip-phone purchace? Know ones to steer clear of?
--Scythe--
<ul><li>NO CAMERA. Worthless feature as I already own a digicam. It just adds cost. If it's no extra than it's a non-issue.</li><li>Colour screen. Would be nice, but not essential.</li><li>Some kind of "to-do" list. Preferably a calenderish thing.</li><li>Not look like a brick. *cough*nokia-flip-phone*cough*.</li><li>Decent battery life.</li><li>Not too expensive.</li></ul>
There was talk a while ago of a phone that could run MAME. That would be fairly cool. ^_^
Any of you fellow forumgoers especially happy with a flip-phone purchace? Know ones to steer clear of?
--Scythe--
Comments
- colour screen (4096 colours, bling)
- buttons you can press (unlike the older Ericsson T series flip-phones)
- has alarm/timer/stopwatch/calculator/<u>calendar</u>
- polyphonic ringtones (bling)
- stupidly easy to use (I only read the manual for the chinese input)
- infrared data transfer (you can order a data cable as well, if IR isnt enough)
It's fairly small, light and lasts most of the week on battey (and it doesnt look like a brick a la Nokia 7200)
Mine cost me about AUD $230, but I got it in Hong Kong so it's probly a bit more expensive in Australia, and you probly wont get the Chinese input support (like you need it)
<a href='http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=au&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_loader&php=PHP1_10095&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10095' target='_blank'>click here for the win (link to official product page)</a>
EDIT: I forgot to mention, voice quality is awesome.
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PH34R
EDIT: I forgot to mention, voice quality is awesome. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hey I notice that on the website they list "infrared support" on the specifications page. Does this mean it has support for Bluetooth Wireless? I just got a PDA with Bluetooth for my birthday and I was trying to see if any company sells phones that I could use bluetooth with so that I can access the internet on my PDA.
Cold-NiTe: infrared != bluetooth. If that phone had bluetooth it would be almost perfect (except, I hate orange keys...)
I want bluetooth cause I want one of the cool handsfree devices D:
the Z600 and quite a few other Ericssons have bluetooth, as do a lot of new Nokias (not sure about motorola and other brands, I'm happy with SE so i stick to them)
EDIT: also the T610/T630 is really popular atm, it has bluetooth and a camera but it's not a flip-phone
Cold-NiTe: infrared != bluetooth. If that phone had bluetooth it would be almost perfect (except, I hate orange keys...)
I want bluetooth cause I want one of the cool handsfree devices D:
the Z600 and quite a few other Ericssons have bluetooth, as do a lot of new Nokias (not sure about motorola and other brands, I'm happy with SE so i stick to them)
EDIT: also the T610/T630 is really popular atm, it has bluetooth and a camera but it's not a flip-phone <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ahh right, my mistake. But then what do they use the infrared port for then?
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Also I am kinda worried about how fast the bitrate will be with the set up I am trying to get. I mean how fast can it be; using a cellphone to connect to the internet on my pda?
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Anyway sorry for the thread hijack, it is just hard to find people who know these things that aren't the ones trying to sell you the phone.
Why do you want a smartphone?
- NES Emulation
- Atari 2600 emulation
- Gameboy/Gameboy Color emulation
- Some of the faster ones can even do SNES emulation!
- Plays MP3's at suprisingly good audio quality
- Plays WMV/Divx/AVI/Mpeg w/ the right software!
- Can take a SD card to extend storage to whatever you want (I got a 128MB stick, but 256MB ones are cheap)
- Hooks up to your PC via USB cable for data transfer (and also charges the phone)
- Any WAV file can be your ring tone. mine is "I've seen things". :)
- And more! This phone pwns me.
:D :D :D
Mega Man 2 really makes the wait for a table at a good resturant not so bad anymore. And you might even find yourself getting upset that you just got Spider Ball and you're interrupted over a silly thing like placing your order.
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My phone is the <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=57200' target='_blank'>Motorola MPx200</a> but to be honest I can't really recommend this one. Just recently I'm starting to have battery problems and AT&T sucks. A lot. And now its obsolete w/ the MPx220 w/ newer specs and stuff. But the good news is there are dozens of other Smartphones out there, so you can pick what you like!
For the non-believers:
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads//post-10-1072322593.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
(Blurry pic due to my crappy photography skills. The image on the phone is crystal clear)
Did you get Metroid for it? Did you get Metroid for it?
Honestly, having it on a phone just pwns.
BTW, I don't know about the infra-red thing, but if I remember right, the majority of Hong Kong phones don't use Bluetooth, unless they all use it. But what I do know is that our school's laptops don't have BlueTooth adapters or BlueTooth anything, including the infra-red sensors.
How I know? We borowed it for our school project to do work in it.
For mobile internet you're looking at 9.6, 14.4 or 28.8kbps for a Circuit Switched Data conenction (where the phone pretends to be a modem) - it's expensive and slower than an arthritic carrier pigeon <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
GPRS is the New Thing and it doesnt to my knowlegde have a set speed - on normal phones though I think it's about the same as dialup (think about 40kpbs connection with a high ping) - it'd be fine for doing email and a bit of browsing (or instant messaging, for the win) but it's painful for anything else. I think 3G is similar, just with a crapload more bandwidth - I don't know however since I've never really looked into it.
- NES Emulation
- Atari 2600 emulation
- Gameboy/Gameboy Color emulation
- Some of the faster ones can even do SNES emulation! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was happy with my phone, until you posted this. Now I'm as jealous as all hell.
SNES emulation on my phone...I can dream. Chrono Trigger on a mobile phone would be so cool, since it seems they aren't going to release it for the GBA.
- NES Emulation
- Atari 2600 emulation
- Gameboy/Gameboy Color emulation
- Some of the faster ones can even do SNES emulation! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was happy with my phone, until you posted this. Now I'm as jealous as all hell.
SNES emulation on my phone...I can dream. Chrono Trigger on a mobile phone would be so cool, since it seems they aren't going to release it for the GBA. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good lord, having it so handy might finally convince me to FINISH Chronotrigger. What an incredible phone.
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Still, I must strive for high speed wireless internet. Thanks for your help codeman! Perhaps I just have to give it time.
i wonder if i could convince him to let me put that stuff on there <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
You should see the outside of my flip phone. It looks like it has been battered many times over by a hammer. I've dropped it a lot of times and it's been dented. If that was not a flip phone it would have been f***ed by now.
<a href='http://www.phonescoop.com' target='_blank'>http://www.phonescoop.com</a>
They list the vast majority of phones and various services that they can be used with. I believe even some international ones, such as vodafone over in england.