Cell Phones

Motorolla phones seem to have the best sound, the other brands seem to be focused on adding spamable features and... oh yeah.. we also have to provice voice.

I have Verizon also, and I just bought a Motorola Razr V3 and that is the best phone I've had in a long time, as far as sound quality and ability to find a signal goes. But I live in the boonedocks so I don't get very good reception when I'm at home. And I work in a different boonedocks so I don't get good reception there either. But when I'm driving from one to the other, it works great. Or if I go to Houston or Humble it works really well.

With just about every man, woman and child in America owning their own personal cellphones, you'd think the companies could afford to put up a few more towers.

Dick Tracy Toys, that's all they are as far as I'm concerned. When business is strongest (generally spring and fall) its not uncommon for me to come home and have 7 or 8 messages on my answering machine. If they're left from a dopey cell phone, a good deal of the time there will be drop-outs to the point where I may or may not get their name or phone number either one! I guess they're nice to keep in the glove box for emergencies but other than that I wish they'd just go away! You'd think people would have better sense than to leave an important message from a Dick Tracy Toy. I mean, its one thing to leave a message to your brother or best friend about little things, but if you've got an imprtant message to leave, for Pete's sake do it right and use a grown up phone.

i have a sanyo phone on sprint's network. i haven't had a dropped call in a long time but then i don't use my cell that much. the voice quality for sprint to sprint is tolerable.

expect this problem to crop up on landlines as soon as it's more profitable for phone companies to route landline calls over IP networks. i think they are already doing this in some cases but haven't got anything solid to back that up.

Coincidentally, I heard a program on NPR yesterday about an airline in Europe that was considering putting cell phones in every seat. Obviously most people thought it was a terrible idea. The show quoted from a recent survey which said that 60% of all the people surveyed said that they'd rather go to the dentist than sit next to somebody with a cell phone. Walking around in public places yapping on a stupid cell phone is like wearing a "kick me" sign. Nobody wants you around. Put it in the glove box where it belongs and forget about it.