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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-04-2001 03:59 AM
I have a Motorola PCS phone with Sprint and all I can say is I am thinking of writing a review on it. I've never had such bad cell phone service. It seems that all of my friends that have Sprint have the same problems that I do:
- Calls randomly cutting in and out
- Calls randomly dying (almost always in the first 5 seconds of a new "billed minute"
- Calls that never connect, yet are billed.
- Audio randomly becoming distorted to the point of not being able to understand the person on the other end of the phone.
- Incredibly HARSH frequency response! Definite ear fatigue after short sessions.
- Sometimes voice mail answers the call without ringing the phone.
- Voice mail messages commonly arrive 3 days later.
- Cannot play back messages from a local phone and successfully stop the infernal beeping of the phone alerting me to a message. Only calling in from the actual cell phone will stop the torture. (I'm going to hurt the next guy who calls and says "hey, I guess I'll call you later" on my cellular voice mail!)
I was MUCH happier with my Primeco service. Who are they now? Cingular or something like that? Anyone know if their service is still good? Sprint sucks!
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Paul Turner
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Posts: 115
From: Corvallis, OR, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 06-04-2001 05:05 PM
Nokia 5190. Like the phone. Getting really tired of VoiceStream. They have this habit of billing me for getting my messages from my VM via a land-line. It's supposed to be free, but three times now my bill has included air time for retrieving VM, even when using a land-line. If you're with VoiceStream, read you bill carefully.overall, i like the phone and the sound quality is good along the I-5 corridor (OR, CA, WA). Really hoping they get the coast covered soon. i also have a pager, that way the phone doesn't have to be on all the time and only three people have the pager number, so when it buzzes, i know i want to talk to them.
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James R. Hammonds, Jr
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Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-04-2001 09:46 PM
I dont remember the brand, but i bought a cell phone recently for only a couple dollars.The thing is, I couldnt get it to work just right.
I could touch buttons and they would play cute little songs, but i could never dail out. I opened it up to see if there was a wire loose, but i found that there were no wires, but only a bunch of gum!?! wierd
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Sean Weitzel
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Posts: 619
From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall)
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-05-2001 04:09 PM
I have had a Nokia 5190 for about 2 years now through Pac Bell (now cingular) wireless. As for the phone itself, I have nothing but praise for it. Good audio quality, not too bulky, sturdy (the phone has survived several of my tantrums involving my hurling it onto the linoleum floor)as for the SERVICE -
absolute without a doubt THE most AWFUL service I have *EVER* had with a cellular (since buying my first nokia bag phone in 1991) *Dropped calls - even with full signal strength and not physically moving at all. A MAJOR annoyance expecially if you are calling tech support and have just finished waiting on hold for 45 minutes for a technician. * System Busy
*EVERY* night between the hours of 9 and 2am it is DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to place or recieve a call. I'll just get a 'System Busy' along with a fast busy tone. ARRRRGH! What if i am on the highway and have an emergency?! I am not going to re-dial my phone for upwards of 15 to 25 minutes just to call 911!!!! and why can't anyone leave me a voice mail? anyone calling me will get *doo doo doo.. all circuits are busy please try again later* *voicemails not arriving* Brad mentioned this, and he's right. sometimes it takes HOURS to get a new voice mail. and other times voicemail will show up because the damn phone never rang! It's really awful.. and ya know, it's not just cingular. Nextel phones do the same thing, at&t phones do the same thing.. Come to think of it, I never noticed this kind of erratic service until all of the cell phones have become digital/GSM phones. This kind of thing was RARE with old analog phones. I thought that as time progresses, technology was supposed to get better, not decline! uugh!. If it wasn't for the fact that I screwed up and gave my cell number as my sole contact number to a lot of friends and collegues, i would have abandoned cellular phones a long time ago and stuck to my trusty motorola single numeric line pager. *whew* i feel better now
-sean
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Overall great service and great battery life. Now if I could just find a good belt clip that wouldn't break in thirty minutes my life wold be set. And Brad you are right. Sprint was my last carrier. I just loved when I used to get voice mail a day and a half later from my area director. And he thought that I was just ignoring him. 
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