I can relate.

When the girlfriend calls, I may as well superglue the phone to my ears.

BTW, she has a Motorola V262, and I will say, That phone SUCKS. It's been through 5 batteries. I told her to get a v323i as I've used that one and it works pretty good.

What about a Samsung E250? Are they reliable? Are slide-phones in general reliable?

My guess is that it will be reliable, as determined by how much care the user takes of it.

Eg, with my sons, I wouldn't go that route, everything they touch tends to break.

If the user carries it in a protective holster, it'll probably be quite reliable.

More moving parts, more fidgeting, more droppage, equal more breakage.

Diminish any adverse factor, reliability increases.

;)

This comes as news.

http://phorium.wordpress.com/2007/08...royed-a-v323i/

Poor thing never stood a chance. *sniff*

My father's Nokia 3410 was pretty tough (but i don't want one of them, too lacking in features). It survived being dropped in a pot of cold water(turned off), he just disassembled it and sat it in front of a fan for a few hours and that was it. He also dropped it on the ground a few times, once on a cement floor, but in the end all that happened was the text buzzer (not the actual speaker) broke.

I tried reviving it to no success, and now, I'm without a phone because my mom took mine.

First my laptop (indirectly her fault) and now my phone (very much her fault).

I'm going to suggest that she gets a friggin' nokia. She's been through a LG, two Kyocera's, and now four motorola's.

Me? One nokia (which I replaced because I wanted a flip-phone), two motorolas (First was a v262, which I lent to a friend, who broke it, then a second v262 which I gave to my girlfriend on my mom's recommendation, which is how I got the RAZR).

If I had known the v262 was trash, I'd still have my Nokia 2270.

Far and away, the consensus of opinion on this thread is that those Finns know their Fones.
:D

I got a Sony Ericsson K750i for £59 in a sale. Should i run the battery flat, then charge it, or charge it first? The man in the shop told me to charge it for 6 hours, but I'm not sure if i should run it flat first, as it probably came wih some charge in it.

I have a W300i and I ran it absolutely flat then recharged it.

This is my older son's razr, which lost a hinge/connector from the side, and became loose, tearing the ribbon which connects the circuitry from the keypad to the display.

[IMG]http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6803/mgrazrfu3.th.jpg[/IMG]

Wee Guy, we've not had problems just immediately charging the phone's batteries upon purchase.

My wife has a RAZR and constantly complains about the stupidity of the interface and the hard time it has receiving a signal. She just hates the thing for whatever reason, but that's just one persons opinion, right?

iPhone, there, it's been said.

As for a good phone for cheap, I'm a fan of Nokia except for the one I currently have (3220). Odd that I should get the only Nokia I know of that truly sucks.

I have a few friends who have the Samsung t619 and they all really enjoy them, they have a nice screen and are good at catching a signal. As for durability...well, all my friends have only had them for a month, so not much I can say in that vein.

I also was irritated with the razr's interface, but I suppose I've become accustomed to its idio(t)syncracies, and now I'm hardly annoyed at all.

Since I'm in the market for a new phone, I was thinking about this one:
http://www.metropcs.com/phonesdetail.php?code=n2865