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The RAZR strikes me as a good boy phone because it's nice and flat for slipping into your pocket. Other phones cause a bulge, don't they? Also, any phone the comes with a free iPod has to be OK.

I have a Samsung D500, which is a great handbag phone - easy to grab from amongst the old bus tickets, lip glosses and other assorted junk.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

vic has a RAZR and hates it with a passion, terrible interface on it and just..... not nice at all.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

in that new airplane show 'the loop', the main guy has a sidekick. for some reason theyve gone to the trouble to insert the sidekick sleep mode sound effect whenever he ends a call. its odd and distracting.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

viva la RAZR! I got mine today. Still charging. It looks really pretty in black when it's closed. I don't know why they thought they wanted to put that silver keypad in there though. If it had just black keys it'd have been the best phone evar. Also: I'm still charging it so i haven't used it yet.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link

They look very flimsy but then all clamshell type phones look flimsy to me.

― robster (robster), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I almost got one of these phones yesterday, but didn't when I realized that it didn't have the appropriate jack to line out and record conversations for interview transcription. I can't imagine why they wouldn't have that jack, because it's the same jack for any basic cell phone headset.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

"vic has a RAZR and hates it with a passion, terrible interface on it"

is that true of all motorola phones - i HATE mine. tho mine is a cheap piece of crap too, which doesn't help

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

probably - it's just damn ugly and clunky (the interface that is) I don't like the keypad either, feels like it should have Victor Kyam advertising it.

and the battery life?? appalling

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link

My flatmate used to moan about her Motorola and tell me it couldn't do obvious things that every phone ought to be able to do. I never really believed her, then my colleague at work moaned in a similar way about her (different) Motorola. I have come to the conclusion that they are rub.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

(I like the look and size of the RAZR, though)

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

we still can't work out how to make the bloody thing ring for longer before going to voicemail!!

oh yeah, it's a pretty object, a bit like a Starck citrus squeezer - looks great, is piss poor in operation.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Motorolas suck. If we were all into Motorolas we'd never have discovered how to text. Goodbye, Moto!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

my nokia is ok, i make telephone calls on it, sometimes. and, also, sending a txt is quite simple

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

almost bought a razr last month when replacing my (coughs) 7yr old phone. glad i didn't after reading this. got a 2fr1 samsung deal.

it works.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i know three people who have returned razrs due to serious defects (no battery life; no display after a few minutes; phone unable to store any info). that was enough to scare me away from them, although these were all first wave purchasers so perhaps things have been fixed up a bit.

I have a Samsung D500, which is a great handbag phone - easy to grab from amongst the old bus tickets, lip glosses and other assorted junk.

otm. in fact, i got mine because i saw madchen's and liked it so much.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

My friend Carlos has a lovely new chrome Nokia which brings me out in I WANT.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I was sad to finally let go of my Nokia loyalty but there seemed to be nothing on offer that was remotely up to the spec of my new Sony Ericsson.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

You had a nokia loyality?? thats like having a microsoft loyality. v. queer. maybe its different in the UK.
i dont know where you peeps are getting your razrs. the battery on mine lasts a good 3 or 4 days and although i only make a few calls on it a day, i sure mess around with it a lot. The keys are fine for me. Maybe its a problem for the chunky fingertipped. i dont know. i do tend to use my fingernails when dialing. Also, they arent flimsy at all. ive dropped mine in a carpark and stood on it twice and its just fine.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

i have now sent two txts with the RAZR. i am happier with it now that i'm getting used to the spacebar not being the 0 key. I still haven't figured out how to put a fullstop after a word though (i seem to have to put in a space in between!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Nokia is VERY popular here - a lot of people HATE clamshell phones and Nokia basically looked and worked best until the Sony Ericsson phones came out. But I want a Carlos nokia.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I have a Nokia loyalty. It's just every other phone I've tried has a really annoying menu/interface, but then I haven't tried that many. I had a Samsung for about 3 days, but I hated it and replaced with, yes, a Nokia.

I haven't tried a Sony Ericsson though. My first phone was an Ericsson, but that was pre-Sony.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I've no problem with clamshells, but the Nokia interface always seems very consistent and ergonomic. Over manufaturers' menus seem a bit all over the place, design-wise.

But Nokia seem to have dropped the ball in terms of spec development.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

From what I've seen of Samsungs, they seem to mimic the Nokia interface quite well.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

btw jon what app do you use on yr mobile to browse ilx?
-- Sterling Clover (s.clove...) (webmail), March 24th, 2006 12:02 AM. (s_clover) (later) (link)

the reason i ask being i downloaded opera mini and it handles cookies supereasy.
-- Sterling Clover (s.clove...) (webmail), March 24th, 2006 12:27 AM. (s_clover) (later) (link)

a warez'd Doris Browser -- my phone is *just* too RAM-poor for Opera. Doris is ok though.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

there's an "opera mini" as well as an "opera mobile" -- the former uses a free proxy for webpage reduction (if you trust it) and so can run speedier and on less powerful phones.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

oh this thread said everyhting i said over on the other thread

to recap:

-nokia have best menu logic
-nokia stoped making decent phones
-clamshells are horrible
-all phones look horrible (lol apart frmo RAZR)
-silver phones, chrome whatever DIE DIE DIE stop it please for the love of god just make them black. why should black be some weird more expensive ltd edition idiosyncrasty rather than standard!??!!?

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Why do people hate clamshells? I like that they protect the phone and save you from having to lock the keypad?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Still the most usable phone I've had (oh how I loved that scrollwheel thing):

http://www.handydetails.de/images/nok-7110.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Laura lost her RAZR last night.

Sterling, I am retrying installing Opera Mini now and it looks like it works if I do it over GPRS rather than pushing over Bluetooth. YAY!

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway this article has a good CHEAP phone profiled.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

er i dunno. i just hate them for some reason. i dont like the idea that opening the phone answers it automatically, but i cant remember why i think that. ive been drinking a lot recently

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

oh god, it is a J2ME app ... so fucking slow... the interface is WORSE than Doris also. No contextual menus :(

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Ambrose, it is hard to find a black phone in a crypt of a handbag. Clamshells and slideys = war with crumbs at some point. Much as I like it, that lovely onyx black tends to get gubbins on it too. Silver phones that look and feel like a smaller version of a TV remote are COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. I loved those deep, rich red Nokias that everyone had circa 2000. Presently, that only leaves the chrome, which matches other choices (I don't wear gold, ever).

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i appreciate that i dont suffer the handbag problem, as i am actively pursuing testicular cancer/low sperm count by having my phone dangling aroudn my crothc in my jeans pocket

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

has anyone removed and painted a faceplate?

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

this was my old phone nokia 8310
http://www.wijkman.nl/gsm/i1643996-54.jpg

worked really well for the past 3 years which is part of the reason why i never bothered to upgrade. it was just so easy to do everything with one hand (which you can't really do so easily with any clamshell ones). i can't quite wrap my thumb far enough i think to text one handed on the RAZR (in case i want to have a wank whilst i text)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

actually it's not the width mainly but because it's all flat, so i have to really make sure i get the right button and can't do it by feel as well. also. i have to work out a way to hold it so that i don't get fingerprints all over the little screen at the front.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

it was just so easy to do everything with one hand (which you can't really do so easily with any clamshell ones).

Ah yes - that makes sense.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Motorola have had consistantly awful user interfaces all through their lives. Early razrs didn't have t9 which is shocking in this day and age.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Why is T9 called T9? It's not a very catchy name. Is there some company called T9 making loads of money and hating prawns and collieries?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah ha.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, well they aren't called T9, I forget the name, but they get a fee for every phone with it installed.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

so anyway what should i use as my mp3 ringtone? currently i have beyonce's "check up on it" but i don't like so much.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i've been on "pon de replay" for months now and i love it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

You boys.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i can't do mp3 ringtones on my phone so i'm limited to what T-Mobile offers me, and it's the best one i've found. what i really want is a man's voice barking "hey! hey! hey! hey!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

You're not limited to what T-Mobile offer you, though. You should be able to download midi files from anywhere (or mmf files or something, if you have a funny phone)

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll admit i haven't looked into it very hard.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

the best ringtone is justus kohncke "elan (dub)"

the nokia 8310 is the best phone i think in terms of looks, use etc. why do they always get rid of the good stuff and replace it with crud

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

mine has a bit where you can take the back picture off and insert your own. i used this picture i took of i-787

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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mine now plays the music of when you get the invincibility in super mario bros.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i have verizon and we don't have SIM cards (or at least, no phone I've ever had with them has had one). what determines whether or not you have a SIM card? Carrier or phone?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Carrier; I think only GSM carriers have them?

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

you are right. how annoying.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm cell-phone illiterate, so here's a question: is it possible to custom-create one's own ringtone? There's a bit from Topography of the Lungs that I'd like to have my next phone splat at me.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Some phones have ringtone creators on them. It's rather fiddly.

With others, you could make a midi file or mp3 file (depending on what your handset can play) on a computer and then transfer it to your phone either by USB cable or by hosting it somewhere on the web and then pointing the WAP or other browser on your phone at it. If you have such things.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I use a wav file I bluetoothed as mine

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

ok dudes, i dropped the razr in the toilet, and im not really all that sorry.

i need a new verizon-capable phone. id like to pay $150 or less (on ebay), but suggest irrespective of price - is anyone super-pumped about their phones? i hated the razr because it was too wide, the button response was poor, the camera had no flash, and it was really vulnerable to water damage (i got a replacement once, when one drop got into it and it blew up). any ideas?

― 69, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Hurrah, I finally got round to replacing my razr! D

on't think you'd be interested in my replacement though, it's quite bulky, though it does have a flash, it's a sony ericsson K800i. I learnt my lesson, the only concession I made to looks is that I got the brown one!

― Vicky, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

pete my phone was free from verizon. it's fine.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Nokia_6215i/4505-6454_7-32041929.html?tag=pdtl-list

― Mr. Que, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

hahahah suckers

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link

I have a Razr. I got it free and it's adequate but has some irritations. That said, i only switch it on about twice a week. I hate phones.

― admrl, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I like my RAZR, apart from the camera having no flash. Although it take me a while to get used to the texting and searching processes.

― Anna, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

jon i've heard you talk shit about verizon? or cdma? i don't remember, but what's the issue?

― gff, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Best thing about the "RAZR"? The fact that it led to the name of the newer "KRZR"!

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link

theres the RIZR now too. Two Verizon phones ive been diggin on lately are the LG 8700 (its stainless steel!) 6315i.

― chaki, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

The RAZR is the worse successful phone ever. Verizon deliberately cripples phones (and is CDMA iirc) so you guys won't even get to see your RAZR's bluetooth not work right!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link

but you can watch shakira on vcast!

― chaki, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Fresno's ROCK Station

― libcrypt, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link

BUT WAHT IS RONG W/ CDMA?? this is question.

I kno Vzn cripples fons, I have a Moto 815 which is a bit bulky but performs really well (an ANTENNA how QUAINT) and was the last generation of their phones to have a Moto UI instead of the mandated cross-manufacturer VZW one that they all have now. This means I can send myself little mp3s in a txt and the phone can save & use them as ringtones, something totally verboten now and forevermore.

Apparently CDMA is only in use in S.Korea as well, and the entire planet is on GSM? Except for, what Germany, which is TDMA? (T-Mobile in this country) how long can that last?

― gff, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link

I lost my RAZR on holiday. It was a good thing. Horrible phone.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link

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