NDR Motorola cell phone question....

Jay Anglin

Jay Anglin

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I have had good luck with the Motorola RAZR V3xx with AT&T. I was perfectly comfortable with that phone and it's durability was acceptable but I finally destroyed my 3rd one and I looked for another but Wally World ran out of the $50 ones and now the new in box ones are well over $100.

I'm looking at the Motorola Tundra military spec phone which like a Nextel phone. I picked one up yesterday and I really liked it but I figured somebody here may have one and I wanted to hear some input. I HATE dealing with cell phones and I don't need a pda or a smartphone...just a durable phone that gets a good signal and had good acoustics.

Anybody?
 
Jay,I have the Verizon "water resistant" phone and am pretty happy with it. The only bug as far as I am concerned is the volume button is on the outside and it can get turned down in my pocket. I forget what the model is called but it is a Casio phone. It is supposed to be "mil spec"
 
Tom, I have the Boulder also but with different results and I am back to using my old LG. My boulder keeps shutting down when carried in my pocket. It won't turn back on until I take the battery out and reinsert. Sent back once with a full detailed write up of the problem. They returned it with a write up saying they upgraded the software. 20 minutes after firing it up and dropping it in my pocket it was dead. Reinserting the battery woke it up but there is no way I'm going to carry it again. I've had LG phones for about the last 12 -14 years and none of them caused me any problems and the last two still work great. The now almost 4 year old phone is in my pocket as I type this. Funny how the only phone I bought that was supposed to be wicked tough and water resistant is the only one that has ever caused me any pain.

Scott
 
Scott, Thanks for the heads up. I haven't had this one very long but am lukewarm over it. Time will tell. Mine keeps bumping the volume down to nothing and then I don't get calls (not ALL bad though). "You can learn more here by accident than elswhere on purpose" . BTW did it matter which battery you were using?
 
...just a durable phone that gets a good signal and had good acoustics.
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Good luck with that!

Actually I had a Nextel, mil spec non flip type for probably 3 or 4 years...I could drop it on the concrete floor and the rubberized coating would make it bounce high enough that I could catch it...It didn;t bounce like a superball but it would bounce. Work upgraded me to a droid, surprised I haven't killed this thing yet, I'm notorously rough on phones.

Chuck
 
Tom,

It came with two batteries and it does it with both. I'm not sure if it's a a battery contact thing or if removing the battery resets the phone some how. Still I tried to picture myself bobbing around in my exposure suit in the middle of Long Island Sound trying to take out and re-install the battery. :^)

Scott
 
Don't forget that there is a 30 day return on most phones.
If you call the phone company (Verizon, ATT, Alltel, etc) and tell them what you need AND that you will return any phone that is unable to meet your specs, they will point you in the right direction. This is not always the case at your local sales office.

I just recently went thru the "contract" with my phone supplier.
There is an out clause with each of them so if you are under contract and need to change companies in order to get the "service" you need, you can get out of your contract without penalty. I had to send a lawyer letter for V------ to accept their own contract but I did cancel it.
 
Thanks again, I'll keep an eye on it for that problem. I got both batteries and only use the small one most of the time.
 
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