Help me pick a new cell phone

I have the LG VX8100 and it's pretty nice.  It has a really good speaker phone (twin stereo speakers), a nice big bright screen on the inside and a light up color screen on the front.  I also like the fact it has a memory card slot in the side.  Buy a miniSD card and you can carry music and movies with you.  You can also make your own ring tones by loading an mp3 file to the phone via the memory card or bluetooth.  Same goes for wallpaper.  Just load up a jpeg image file and you're set.  A lot of people complain about the bluetooh being crippled, but I can link my phone to my laptop via bluetooth and use the connection to transfer files, contact information, call and txt message logs, ect.  I can even set it up so that my phone works like a modem, allowing me to dial up internet without physcially plugging the phone into my laptop.  The phone does take pictures and video.  something I never thought I'd use, but I do end up using it enough to make it worthwhile.  Sometimes when I'm out, I want to remember something, so I just take a picture of it. 

Only issues I've had with it, is that the mic is VERY sensitive.  I have to keep it away from my mouth or the other person just hears me breathing.  The vibrator is also very STRONG and even on silent, if it goes off in a meeting, the whole room will still know.  Then again that might not be a bad thing for some people.

I've used both samsung and motorola phones in the past and didn't like either.  My samsung phone literally fell apart after about a year and a half and was always giving me problems.  I actually managed to get the blue screen of death on it a few times with some quality Engrish warnings.  My brother has a motorola and I'm less then impressed.  The chasis seems nice, but the screen is very low resolution.  The screen on my phone is almost like a laptop.  I'm also a fan of real buttons and the current trend in motorola phones is to have those buttons that are just cutouts of the key material.  Look at a razor and you'll see what I mean.

great review... that phone is on my hit list, the other phone on my hit list is the Motorola E815.  is that the Motorola you are talking about??

that's the one.

Try and see if they have a working model for you to play with before you buy.  I almost bought that one too, but chose this one because of the memory card slot.  When I saw my brother's I was really surprised by how grainy the screen was.  I think that phone will also take memory cards, but you can't hot swap them or load stuff from your computer onto them and just plug and play.  I think LG did a better job at making the phone integratable with other technology.

My husband has had a Razor, twice. He liked the phone but they both broke pretty easy. He has the Samsung Rugby2 now and it is really sturdy.

Personally I love my iPhone, cant imagine using anything else.

lol I did not see the original date.

I was wondering about the one poster who said their job did not allow camera phones- I did not know there were any phones that do not have a camera... 

Times really have changed fast- I don't know many people that even have a land line any more.

Originally posted by McFuzz  My old phone allowed me to enter addresses and store multiple numbers under one name. Much better than my new phone that insists on storing only one phone number per name and doesn't provide for addresses. I'm back to the paper version of an address book.

Wow this is an old thread.

My company lets you *have* the camera phone, but taking photos are not allowed in most areas. Difficult to enforce, that's for sure.

Not nearly as sweet as Gordon Gekko's DynaTAC

Wow, that makes me feel old. I actually used of one of those as a work phone many, many moons ago.