My contract with cingular is up and I'm looking at buying a flip phone. My only real desires are a color exterior display along with a decent camera and decent speaker quality for ringtones/sound quality on calls. I'm coming from a sony ericson t616 which has a shitload of features I never really use so I don't need anything super high end. Looking to spend about 100 dollars or so. Any reccomendations?

 

sony ericsson z500a should be your choice, speakphone, mp3 ringers, same accesorries

$80-30 mib visa rebate or buy one get one, 2 year contract

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/zoom.php?p=497&g=1

 

RAZR v3 w/ a contract shouldnt be to expensive look in the group buys section i think one of the cell phone co. owners on this forum is giving them for free w/ a contract!!!

look: https://acurazine.com/forums/sponsored-sales-group-buys-10/free-motorola-razr-v3s-162913/

 

Thanks for the links! Should have mentioned I want to stay with cingular(mobile to mobile is good)

 

Z500 is the best choice, unless you want Bluetooth, it has everything else, and at a good price

 

if nokia made a flip, i would say nokia. but since they don't.. the 3 best phones we have right now are
motorola v551 150 w/2yr and 50 mail in
samsung 427 50 w/2yr and 50 mail in
lg 1400 100 w/2yr and 30 mail in

the z500 has fallen off my list of recommended phones, b/c of the long range reliability.


the v551 has camera/video/speakerphone/voice activation/blutooth
427 is a basic flip w/no caller id on the outside/no speakerphone or voice activation
1400 is camera and a real nice color screen on the inside and outside/ no speakerphone/i don't think it has voice activation/does not store many pics when the camera is set on high quality

the v180 and v220 are garbage compared to the others and the lg 1300 is horrible on signal and battery life
and the razr is just a more expensive version of the v551



hope this helps


the v551 can be customized quite a bit compared to the 427 and 1400