What type of phone do you have?

[scrambledeggs]

Just curious as to popular phones around the Escapist. My guess is they'll either be really crap old Nokia's from the 90's or iPhones. Everyone seems to have an iPhone these days.

I myself have a HTC HD7.

 

[Fanta Grape]

Old crappy Nokia from... five years ago? Dunno. Everyone insists I get a new one but I always say, "If it can call someone, it's doing it's damn job."

 

[infohippie]

I have a Google/HTC Nexus One. Lovely little pocket computer that can also make phone calls. I can't stand iPhones, I don't like how heavy-handed Apple is with their customers & I'm not too impressed with iOS itself. When my Nexus One finally dies, I'll be replacing it with another Android phone, whatever one is the new Google flagship phone at the time.

 

[trollnystan]

I have a... *checks* ...Sony Ericsson W810i. Bought it from a friend of mine several years back when she got a new phone. It doesn't always receive calls or SMS - that could be my provider though - and it sometimes shuts itself off. It won't read the memory card either sometimes.

Can you tell I want a new phone? =P

 

[EHKOS]

LG Cosmos Touch. It's nice and does what I want it to do.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I don't even fucking know.
Sagem or Samsung or some other thing starting with an S, whatever.

It's actually fairly new, only about a year or two old. I didn't have one for ages and got one reduced to like fifteen bucks for signing up with my current phone company. It has proven surprisingly resilient for a cheap piece of shit.
It calls and does texts and that is all I want from it.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

A mobile phone....okay, it's a Samsung Jet S8000.

 

[Phorkias]

I myself have a HTC HD7.

Same

 

[Sir Boss]

Nokia flip phone from about 3-4 years ago, it does it's job, no reason to upgrade

 

[Eleima]

Just curious as to popular phones around the Escapist. My guess is they'll either be really crap old Nokia's from the 90's or iPhones. Everyone seems to have an iPhone these days.

I myself have a HTC HD7.

From the 90s? *giggles* Do you remember what mobile phones looked like in the 90's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones#Second_generation:_Digital_networks]? Don't think there are a whole lot of those around anymore, especially considering a phone's average life expectancy is about 2-3 years nowadays.
Back on topic, I have, surprise, surprise, an iPhone 3GS. I know, so unoriginal right?

 

[ScrubberDucky]

The kind that gives me radiation poisoning and is big as a cat. Oh yeah. Kickin' it old school.

 

[scrambledeggs]

Just curious as to popular phones around the Escapist. My guess is they'll either be really crap old Nokia's from the 90's or iPhones. Everyone seems to have an iPhone these days.

I myself have a HTC HD7.

From the 90s? *giggles* Do you remember what mobile phones looked like in the 90's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones#Second_generation:_Digital_networks]? Don't think there are a whole lot of those around anymore, especially considering a phone's average life expectancy is about 2-3 years nowadays.
Back on topic, I have, surprise, surprise, an iPhone 3GS. I know, so unoriginal right?

I have a Nokia from 1998, this is a picture of it here:

[img=http://m0.ttxm.co.uk/images/galleries/mobile/retro/originals/nokia5110.jpg]

It's my backup phone for when my new phones that die in, like you said, 2 to three years, do eventually die. I love it to bits because I get back into snake 1 every time I revive it. It has braved 3 trips into the pool.

 

[erbkaiser]

My personal phone is an old Nokia brick, a 6233. It's survived more abuse than an ugly orphan.

I also have a Blackberry from the job. Mostly use this one since I am sort of on call all the time.

 

[rmb1983]

iPhone 4. I'd wanted an iPhone since they first hit the market, but went through some issues with one provider when I was younger, so was stuck dealing with another that didn't offer the iPhone. I eventually got myself an iPhone 3GS once Bell provided them, and ended up with a 4 last Christmas as part of a deal to get my mother a new phone (re: my "old" one).

While plenty of people have negative reactions to the iPhone, and there's a couple limitations I'm not thrilled over, I don't bother jailbreaking it, and given my professional life, it's been an excellent phone. It does everything I want it to, and can do a fair bit more, so it was a damned good investment, in my book. Prior to that, some soddy Samsung flip. I wasn't all that much of a cell phone person until my career demanded the accessibility, and now I'd find myself hard-pressed to go without.

 

[C95J]

HTC Wildfire, although I would like a new phone really.

 

[Lizardon]

We get new phones every two years on my families plan and pay them off over the course of the two years, then get new ones.

The problem is that they don't work. They are, I think $700 phones (or they were at least a year and a half ago) and they never worked properly. They could browse the net, get TV, take great video and pictures, but they wouldn't let us answer or make calls. And by the time the company listened to our complaints and stopped telling to try turning the phones off and on again, the warranty had expired...

So I said fuck this a bought a $50 phone that's never let me down yet. It's a LG GU290f.

Best phone I've ever had.

 

[Eri]

iPhone 4. I'd wanted an iPhone since they first hit the market, but went through some issues with one provider when I was younger, so was stuck dealing with another that didn't offer the iPhone. I eventually got myself an iPhone 3GS once Bell provided them, and ended up with a 4 last Christmas as part of a deal to get my mother a new phone (re: my "old" one).

While plenty of people have negative reactions to the iPhone, and there's a couple limitations I'm not thrilled over, I don't bother jailbreaking it, and given my professional life, it's been an excellent phone. It does everything I want it to, and can do a fair bit more, so it was a damned good investment, in my book. Prior to that, some soddy Samsung flip. I wasn't all that much of a cell phone person until my career demanded the accessibility, and now I'd find myself hard-pressed to go without.

Are you me? Aside from the carriers/old phones being different, this is pretty much what I was going to type.

 

[MorsePacific]

T-Mobile G2 by HTC. I'm pretty sure it's called the Desire Z in Europe, but I could be wrong about that.

By far the best phone I've ever owned.

Edit: Decided to include a picture.

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