It's about time someone made a phone that works well as, well, a PHONE. I miss my old StarTac dearly. I'm really tired of phones designed for 12-year-old girls with all the extra crap that gets in the way of actually making a phone call. The external buttons on my old phone could make a call in a couple clicks without even looking at the phone. Now everything is menu driven (even voice dialing takes WAAAY too much intervention to confirm everything.) I couldn't care less about taking pictures, or movies, or texting or for god's sake, browsing the web? I want to talk. It's all exacerbated by the hideous software the carriers load on top of the interface. The person responsible for the unusable menus on Verizon phones deserves to be shot.
The phone companies need to learn that there are LOTS of places that don't allow camera phones. Try getting into a federal building or any courthouse with one. They'll make you go back to your car to dispose of it. Lots of employers don't allow them either. Verizon offers ONE phone without a camera, a Blackberry.
I welcome a phone without one, and one without an external display, which might be the most moronic development ever, when it's positioned in a belt clip right at door knob, desk corner and countertop height where it's easily cracked. Geez, when you're actually working onsite somewhere the last thing you want to be doing is digging in your pocket or extracting your phone from some stupid protective pouch to answer the phone.
The old StarTac was bulletproof and survived MANY multistory drops to concrete at a construction site without ANY damage. My RAZR was destroyed after being bumped off a desk onto carpet. BOTH screens cracked, and it crashes a lot too. Have to take the battery out to restart it.
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It's about time someone made a phone that works well as, well, a PHONE. I miss my old StarTac dearly. I'm really tired of phones designed for 12-year-old girls with all the extra crap that gets in the way of actually making a phone call. The external buttons on my old phone could make a call in a couple clicks without even looking at the phone. Now everything is menu driven (even voice dialing takes WAAAY too much intervention to confirm everything.) I couldn't care less about taking pictures, or movies, or texting or for god's sake, browsing the web? I want to talk. It's all exacerbated by the hideous software the carriers load on top of the interface. The person responsible for the unusable menus on Verizon phones deserves to be shot.
The phone companies need to learn that there are LOTS of places that don't allow camera phones. Try getting into a federal building or any courthouse with one. They'll make you go back to your car to dispose of it. Lots of employers don't allow them either. Verizon offers ONE phone without a camera, a Blackberry.
I welcome a phone without one, and one without an external display, which might be the most moronic development ever, when it's positioned in a belt clip right at door knob, desk corner and countertop height where it's easily cracked. Geez, when you're actually working onsite somewhere the last thing you want to be doing is digging in your pocket or extracting your phone from some stupid protective pouch to answer the phone.
The old StarTac was bulletproof and survived MANY multistory drops to concrete at a construction site without ANY damage. My RAZR was destroyed after being bumped off a desk onto carpet. BOTH screens cracked, and it crashes a lot too. Have to take the battery out to restart it.