Don't know what T-Mobile has available, but I wholeheartedly recommend anything by Nokia.
For one thing, their texting system is definitely a heck of a lot quicker and easier to use than Motorola's and some other phone manufacturers.
But really, the best part about Nokia's is that they're freaking indestructible. I am not easy on any sort of, well, anything. My first Nokia had a fold-out keyboard (European QWERTY). A friend of a friend had the same phone. Said friend got mad one day when he was at work, and threw his phone at a fiberglass window, and it then landed on the concrete floor and bounced multiple times. Some bits of the casing broke off. The bits of the casing snapped right back on (multiple anchor points) and only came off if you tried to take them off, and otherwise the phone suffered no damage. Kept working.
The two Nokias I had both occasionally got damp (stand under a tree or awning while texting? Pssh), and suffered no ill consequences.
Another friend had a Nokia and decided it'd be fun to toss it around in a park. It landed in a puddle. Took them a while to find it (it was at night, and he had the silly thing on silent, and it was face down, so they couldn't see the screen light up when calling it), and it was still fine.
Sure, they're not as sleek as, well, practically anything else on the market. But they're freaking tanks, and it's still possible to find Nokias that don't have all the frills you don't need. As soon as my Motorola RAZR piece of crap dies (or possibly earlier if it gives me more cause to hate it), I will be going back to Nokia.
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Date: 2007-05-04 05:14 pm (UTC)For one thing, their texting system is definitely a heck of a lot quicker and easier to use than Motorola's and some other phone manufacturers.
But really, the best part about Nokia's is that they're freaking indestructible. I am not easy on any sort of, well, anything. My first Nokia had a fold-out keyboard (European QWERTY). A friend of a friend had the same phone. Said friend got mad one day when he was at work, and threw his phone at a fiberglass window, and it then landed on the concrete floor and bounced multiple times. Some bits of the casing broke off. The bits of the casing snapped right back on (multiple anchor points) and only came off if you tried to take them off, and otherwise the phone suffered no damage. Kept working.
The two Nokias I had both occasionally got damp (stand under a tree or awning while texting? Pssh), and suffered no ill consequences.
Another friend had a Nokia and decided it'd be fun to toss it around in a park. It landed in a puddle. Took them a while to find it (it was at night, and he had the silly thing on silent, and it was face down, so they couldn't see the screen light up when calling it), and it was still fine.
Sure, they're not as sleek as, well, practically anything else on the market. But they're freaking tanks, and it's still possible to find Nokias that don't have all the frills you don't need. As soon as my Motorola RAZR piece of crap dies (or possibly earlier if it gives me more cause to hate it), I will be going back to Nokia.