Hey all,
I’m in the process of looking for a new mobile phone. I currently have a Sony Ericsson k700i which was great at the start but the battery runs low really quickly and the more memory it takes the slower it gets and the joystick keeps sticking! Nightmare. I usually go for Nokias but am open to persuasion.
So, what phone do you have and what do you recommend?
Cheers
Ben
I’m sorry; neither is good.
I have to disagree with clover there… it really is all a matter of balance. Balance as in, where you would like the strength of your phone to be proficient in the most. It’s a very simple matter of “what do you use your phone for?”
You might want to try out the new Samsung D500, it appears to be the best there is out there right now… or is it?
Yes of course.
I was thinking about Motorola, but the Samsung one looks interesting.
Homing pigeon…that’s what I use. I’ve never owned a cell-phone.
Its funny though because most people who have a cell phone didn’t buy it because they needed it. They bought it because it is a cool looking gadget with a lot of useless digital shit- pictures and games and internet connects…yeah right, like I’m going to type a post on a fucking phone pad.
So they buy it, and then they make sure that they are always talking to someone on it, so to look important…business like…especially while driving or waiting for a cheesburger at McDonalds.
And then you got the ones who are constantly running through the stored numbers in the phone, over and over again. Note to those people: the same numbers are in their today that were in there yesterday. Trying to look like James Bond in a public setting only fools so many people. I am not one of them.
But the young kids especially. They love them:
“Like, omhgod, Tracy? Hi, its Tina, I’m at the Tasty-Freeze with Johnny and Tim. We’ll be there in ten minutes, k? Bye.”
Two minutes later…
“Tracy, hi, its Tina again. You know I can’t believe Steve asked Kimberly to go to the movie tonight! Wasn’t that brave? I think Steve is cute!”
Two minutes later…
“Oh, and Tracy, tomorrow we’re going to Jen’s house to rap presents for her mom’s birthday, do you wanna come?”
Six minutes to the destination…
One minute later…
“Tracy, hey. We’re five minutes from your house. I’ll talk to you when we get there.”
One minute later…
“Tracy? Sorry, its me again. Where should we park? Behind your dad’s truck? Okay, be there in a sec. Bye.”
Whatever you do, Ben, get a phone that looks the coolest, with a bunch of otherwise useless shit that you would never use if your friends weren’t around with their phones to make you jealous.
detrop
detrop,
Clearly you are the coolest for not even owning a mobile phone. Maybe one day I will be as cool as you and then I’ll go into bars and beat people up. 
Motorola Razor - Don’t know why, but I like the advert. Get the black-chrome one. Kewl.
Like Détrop, I don’t have a mobile phone, I use the old system of pre-arrangement, trusting people to be where they say they are going to be, and keeping my word.
Mind you, saying that, I’m usually either late, or drunk before everyone else arrives. 
Like Detrop and Tab I don’t own one, and the only one I did own was stolen within less than a month.
I generally rely on my memory to help me remember what to say to people, rather than phoning them up all the time with momentary, inane chatter.
Motorola girl here. Motorola razr V3 in (special edition) black. There’s something ever so sexy about a flip top phone.
But seriously, the reception is really clear and the phone works which is really what you need. Also may as well get something that looks beautiful. I’ve always advocated the use of functional art.
Check it out.
direct.motorola.com/ENS/web_prod … ctid=29302
A
Who needs a mobile phone for inane chatter, when we’ve got ILP…?
Ben, the guy in the mosh-pit lunged at me and my lady friend without our consent, so he got what was comin’ to him. I simply moshed him back…only with the force of a bolt of lightning.
Lessons are often learned the hard way. I’d bet today that guy keeps his moshing to himself and his buddies.
Meanwhile in outer-space…
Ringggg…ringgggg
“Hello?”
“Ben, what’s up lad? Its Tommy. Care to join me and the blokes at the pub for some ale?”
“I can’t just yet, I’m trying to find a new data base for my philosphy forum. It keeps getting hacked.”
“Bloody hell! Just forget about it, Ben. Philosophy is dead anyway. Why do you persist on keeping the forum?”
“Well, there’s this guy there named detrop, and he’s like the greatest philosopher I have ever known. He beats up skin-heads and fights demons on a daily basis. We call him Constantine, like the dude in the movie. Anyway, thanks for calling me on my ultra-fabulous phone…I look pretty cool using it. I’ve even got the head-set so I can look like the dudes on Star-Trek.”
“Okay, well, if you change your mind, we’ll be at the pub.”
Click.
You see, this is why I look up to you so much.
Well, at least you suggested I had friends. No-one is called Tommy in England but the rest is vaguely accurate.
Interestingly enough, whenever the forum gets hacked I go out drinking, either out of celebration for having fixed it or frustration from not being able to.
Besides, I try to steer clear of bars just in case I end up wrestling with a bouncer and screaming in his face some shit like “don’t fuck with me man, I’ll fucking kill you, Arghhhhhhh!!!” and then people will start thinking I am cool, which I am not.
god? no…
pinball is dead…
-Imp
Nor in Australia. I wonder - who is this Tommy chap?*
Detrop? 
James
[size=75]*Is he perhaps the mysteriour Pedro T. - who is said to be the Kaiser Sosay of the philosophy world?[/size]
Hey!
Does anyone know where to find a good symposia?
You’re tickling me with that Ben. I can’t wait to find out what you have in store.
Also, The Detrop encounter was good stuff. I only got a cell phone about a year ago, a PDA really, and it has cut down on the amount of stuff that I have to carry. I try to stay off of it as much as possible as I enjoy quiet time.
Ben, you should consider a PDA. They are great if you’re going to use it. They aren’t very sleek though and sleek is cool, but a thick PDA can be geek chic, so it’s up to you.
Godammit, Ben!
I was affraid, dude. I thought those guys were gonna kick my ass. What was I supposed to do?
“Excuse me, Mr. Bouncer, but I should like to inform you that at this time I will be defending myself. Do you wish to proceed? If so, please sign here, here, and initial here, by the X, and we will continue. I’ll have the rest of the paper work sent out to you immediately, and it should arrive the following morning. Thank you, and have a wonderful day.”
I freaked out man, I couldn’t help it.
Anyway, I’m not “cool.” Cool is for multi-faceted subjectivities of a capitalist-cosumerist discourse. Like people who buy cell-phones, for example.
BTW, I’ve known a British dude by the name of Tommy before, so don’t give me that shit.
I have been in Slam Dancing (as it was originally called) fights more than once before. The football or the angry young man type tends to be the most dangerous here because as usual they aren’t in in for the fun.
If you time it correctly and let then jump before you do, then you will bounce them back every time.
Anyway, I stopped doing this type of thing when I noticed that it was a bunch of guys banging into eachother with an almost “no girls allowed” type of feel. I lost the feeling.
A friend of mine got the tendons in his hand sliced by a beer bottle during one these things as a result of some guy pushing him. So, I support detrop yet again.
Detrop how many books and adventure novels do you have in you? Why not be a modern Voltaire and translate your philosophical ideas into fun novels? No pressure, but I would certainly pay for a copy.
Hmm… you know Ben, now that I have evaluated the fact that you currently have an Erisson k700i, it suggests that you are looking for a mobile phone with many features to get your “godfatherly” fingertips at the end of many puppet-strings. Unfortunately, the majority of mobile phones that feature multiple technical capabilities often have a lacking in performance in each of those areas, not to mention, as you have explained, the multitude of tasks on the phone eat away at your battery.
I at first recommended the Samsung D500 because of its obvious focus on personal media. It just so happens to have just about double the space as your k700i, which pretty much supports its main functions as a superior camera/camcorder/mp3 player. However, that’s pretty much the D500 is good for… personal media… it doesn’t feature the slew of multi-leveled media-communication that the k700i is capable of.
Which makes me wonder… say Ben, what do you use the k700i for? With its prowess, you could update ILP.com over a few beers at the bar…
The new Motorola V3 appears to be purely a talk phone. Although it has a camera and many other media features, it only has 5 megs of space. What, you say? Yes, you read right, only 5 megs. However, its strong points are clearly in vocal communication, giving the best clarity and connectivity… so really, it wouldn’t serve Ben’s multi-media purposes…
So…
Unless you want to check out the Ericsson w800i, which has a little more battery power, but a few less features than the k700i, I’d stick with what you have Ben.
Hello F(r)iends,
Two Things:
(1) Everyone should have a cell phone - I hate not being able to reach important people.
(2) Anyone with a cellphone on at a movie should be shot.
Ben, I’m a bit of a corporate whore so… I like the PalmOne Treo 650.
It syncs up with my Outlook, it has Terminal services, Bluetooth capabilities for handsfree talking and has a speakerphone. Those are some of the important features for me. Of course, it has a lot of other features that I do not know how to use or really need… It is bulky though and the antenna is particulary bothersome.
EDIT: Also, my wife really likes her Siemens SL55. The problem with that one is that it has little storage capacity for contacts, it doesn’t have a great search feature for contacts. Of course, if you only have about 100 contacts or less it may not be an issue (the limit is 1000 I think…).
-Thirst4Metal