I'm keeping my Verizon Razr V3. Mrs. Levy was having some issues with hers and recently picked up a Samsung freebie. I tried one and returned it. My Razr has a metal case, a micro-SD slot, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. This is all I require of a phone at the moment, since I don't want to upgrade to a smartphone yet until a clear winner emerges and I decide the $30 month is worth it.

Nineteen dollar throw-away phone. Always buy phone cards, and always pay cash. (And look at the floor almost constantly.) Big brother can kiss my ass.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/...63043b.jpg?v=0

:D

Do I get the prize for the oldest phone still in use?

does candy come out of that?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355530,00.asp

the Eris Droid

by HTC....

would be free for me

Free free, or free with a data plan free? How much more does it cost than a razr over 2 years? I'm opposed to paying more since either of us can/do sit in front of a pc whenever we want to play with google or email.

yeah....looks like the data plan would cost me about a million percent more

YOU'RE SO SEXY WHEN YOU'RE PRACTICAL

Credit Bruce's post (#10). It's just too much money for a toy.

Currently I have a Motorola Razr. I hate it. But it was free. My old (and much loved) Nokia was just being too much of a pain: the battery wouldn't hold a charge, and getting hold of a new battery for it was proving difficult. So, given i was always difficult to get hold of, a friend of mine gave me her old phone (she was upgrading).

I hate that its menu systems are counter intuitive (options always seem to be reversed to me. So, the delete option appears on the left instead of the right.) I hate that its keys are fiddly. I don't like all those buttons on its side. It has a camera I neither need nor use. *shrugs* But it was given freely and it takes and makes calls and messages.

By choice I'd go for another Nokia. My last one looked not dissimilar to Monnie's phone in the picture she posted. The great thing about Nokias, at least the old ones, I know very little bout the newer shinier models, was that they were built to last and last. The one I had prior to my last one got run over by a car and still worked, other than having no screen. Couldn't send or read messages on it, but could still use it for phone calls. Used that phone for months after its car accident.

I like gadgets. I love my i-pod. I love my laptop and my swanky new superslim digi camera. But I like my phones simple. I don;t need it to play music, or to be able to take beautiful pictures. I just need it to take and receive calls and messages and have an alarm and calendar function. That's it. The only other attribute i need in a phone is for it to be sturdy and able to handle ill-treatment without having a screaming hissy fit and refusing to work.

I like my Razr, but it's showing it's age. The camera broke and that's the one "extra" that I actually want - so I want my new phone to have a good camera. The only other things I use/need would be the phone part and the scrabble game. If I can get that done for considerably less than the costs of a nice caribbean vacation every year, I'm sold.

Re: comparison in post #10: my iphone plan is about $1,000 less than what they show there (not including taxes, but I'm sure taxes aren't included there either).

For people who live on the 'net, as we do, a smartphone isn't a toy at all. Just as an example, it saved my sanity while I was in the hospital, by using the white noise generator application.

I have a white noise machine.

wtf is a white noise generator app? or indeed a white noise machine? Why would one want to generate white noise? I am lost.

Well it's not technically white noise... I have my machine set to 'crickets' most of the time. It drowns out the sound of snoring and/or silence so I can sleep.

I have a white noise machine at my bedside, and really prefer not to sleep without it. White noise (and other kinds of masking noises technically described with various colors) is like a fan--it provides a stable background noise which masks noises and distractions.