Radio Sales Café

Happy Friday, all!

This week's poll topic is cell phones, specifically:

1) What cell phone are you currently using?

2) What do you like about it?

3) What do you NOT like about it?

4) What will your next phone be?


As always, thank you for your participation!

I have the new Blackberry Curve I purchased in October. It doesn't have the roll bar of past models and is very easy to navigate through. I'm quite happy with it. Battery life is great and sound quality is quite good. The only minor complaint is the qwerty keyboard is smaller than other Blackberrys in the past and sometimes hard to text. Otherwise, this will be my phone for a while and my next type phone in the future.

1) What cell phone are you currently using? iPhone

2) What do you like about it? Everything

3) What do you NOT like about it? Doesn't do flash

4) What will your next phone be? No plans to change . . . IPhone

We currently have the Apple Iphone. Being able to send and receive email is a big...big deal. Being able to connect to the internet has come in handy on many occastions too. We currently are putting a texting service up and the Iphone is great for that application too. And speaking of Applications... the Iphone App store is fabulous too, with hundreds if not thousands of apps you can add on, most at no charge. These apps run from pure toys to very useful items like GPS.
I can't think of anything I don't like about it...except maybe the monthly cost.
Our next phone will more than likely be the next generation of Iphone... or, the one after that.

Cell Phone is the Verizon Omnia II

It's a Windows phone and it syncs all my e-mail, contacts, calendar, etc...instantly

It could be a little faster

Not sure about what my next phone will be...I'm sure technology will change in the next few years

Blackberry 9000 Bold

Ease of use, battery life

No calendar program for desktop use. The Palm I had did have Palm desktop which worked very well. I do not want to spend the extra money for Outlook!

Not sure

1) What cell phone are you currently using? Verizon LG

2) What do you like about it? Small, compact, simple

3) What do you NOT like about it? That is't small, compact, and too simple

4) What will your next phone be? Not sure, but I need to take advantage of all a phone can be, and discover a way to do that in-expensively

I am currently using the Blackberry Pearl. Really the only thing I like about it is it's size. But if I would have known how hard it is to text with the small keyboard I would not have purchased it. Having 2 letter on each key drives me nuts. That is the biggest thing I don't like. The screen is to small too. My next phone I'm looking at is the G1 or the Blackberry Bold. I am real happy with my T-Mobile service, I have had it for years and have no complains. Everyone have a great radio day.

I currently have a Samsung. Picking up the new Verizon Droid next week!

Sprint HTC touch
I really like most everything about it - internet access... usability - very simple, touch screen, excellent camera
I don't like that sometimes when on the phone it will open in layers many programs...and to hang up, i have to close, close, close, close then hang up.
I will probably get the same phone only updated version... its about a year old now.

I bought the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 in November 2009. They got rid of the traditional navigation ball and went with a track pad a lot like the track pad on a laptop. I love my phone because it’s a tiny computer, I use it to e-mail, enter my daily schedule and its crazy fast! Hoping online via your phone to see what’s playing at the movies and utilizing the GPS for my poor sense of directions is just well... FANFREAKINTASTIC! My last phone was 7 years old this Christmas... It’s still alive and is now my father’s first phone. To be honest, of course this phone is the greatest thing that’s happened to me technology wise because all I have to compare it to is my 7 year old phone that didn’t even have a coloured screen and has been dropped in a toilet and flushed.
Once in a blue moon it does freeze on me and will reload itself for 30 seconds, but other than that it’s been great! That being said, I’d be surprised if my next phone wouldn’t be a BlackBerry.

I use a basic Motorola phone on Verizon. I will not get an iPhone as long as it only works with AT&T. When I had Cingular (now AT&T) I couldn't reach clients, the station or my wife and when I complained they said that that didn't matter. I still needed to pay for the service. I have had a Palm TX which can read wi-fi and sinc to my desktop for calendar and contacts. It also can forward copy and messages. Having everything on one unit is dangerous. If it breaks or gets lost you are SOL. I would rather where everything on a Batman utility belt and know that my phone, my PDA, my camera and other items can last individually. If one item has everything in it then everything is lost when it's gone.
I also rely on my Bluetooth for hands free conversation in the car. Many years ago I stood in line for a payphone to talk to clients. Now I can do business rolling down the highway, or across country if need be. I try to always be available for clients.

I have an LG flip phone...don't know the model number, but it has the capability of texting and can access the internet.

I like the long battery life and the size of the phone. It is easy to use.

I do not like using the phone for texting, as it has a phone keypad which makes texting laborious.

My next phone will probably be a Verizon Droid or some model of a Blackberry.

I'd like an iPhone, but the service, coverage and pricing we get from Verizon is so good that I don't want to switch to AT&T. Friends have reported that AT&T's system is getting bogged down by all the iPhones in use, and in our area (San Antonio) they have coverage problems.

My Cellphone is a first generation digital Nokia...this model is often sold now as a "Go Phone". I like the fact that it has long battery life and big buttons. I hate trying to text on it especially since I am not fond of texting anyway. Why text when I can talk 100 times faster? What I don't like about my phone is how small it is and how archaic. Now days, cellphones do everything but make you dinner. My phone basically is great for talking. I hope my next cellphone has more features and is a bit bigger. However, I like to think that I have the best phone in the world as it is "free" to me since we have a station trade for it.

Julie Slanaker
KFMJ 99.9 FM

1) What cell phone are you currently using? Motorola Krave

2) What do you like about it? Easy to use touch screen with a flip cover so I don't pocket dial anyone. QWERTY touch screen keyboard works fine for me. Stores lots of music for those long drives. Just moved to a new market and have fallen in love with VZ Navigator.

3) What do you NOT like about it? Camera could have more features,but works fine for me.

4) What will your next phone be? I obsess for months when it's time to buy a new phone. I have to compare them all and find just the right one. I am guessing that my next phone hasn't been built yet.

1:
Applie iPhone 3GS
2:
Good reception anywhere in New Zealand
Good data plan from Vodafone
Great music/music videos/films/apps from Apple iTunes store
Excellent camera & video functions
Wifi & Bluetooth - syncs well with Hands free Parrot while driving
Great to get emails while you're on the road or overseas
3:
Expensive to download data when roaming internationally
so we turn off the data function (30 times more expensive)
Had a Bill-Shock over Xmas with a $1,300 monthly cost
because of communcations between NZ & the UK
4:
Will hold onto iPhone for now as I believe Apple are best
at researching what people want & delivering innovative solutions

Cheers,
Steve Keats
Auckland - NZ

Currently I have a Blackberry Pearl, the size and some of the functionality were appealing, however after 90% of the station converted to I-Phones, I've been excluded from "app" talk which is the main thing I now dislike about the Pearl. With peer pressure mounting my next phone will be an I-Phone...I want to hang out with the cool kids.

A couple weeks ago I upgraded from a cell phone to a smartphone, the relatively new Samsung Omnia 2. I'd been looking seriously at the Droid, but after talking with a couple friends who have the O2, I went with it. I might otherwise have considered the iPhone, but wanted to stick with Verizon wireless. Compared to the Droid, it seems to be a better choice for a business phone. Comes with mobile versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat Reader, plus Google and Bing. Syncs with Outlook. Email and web browsers (Opera and IE). GPS unlocked and ready to use with Google maps or Bing. 5mp camera with zoom/flash, HD video, media player, sound recorder, user-friendly calendar, several options for taking notes, including a new technology called Swype (you can Google it)...just a really powerful little package. No regrets. Haven't had it long enough to talk about what I don't like, and I'm not planning on a next phone at this point. I should mention that while there have been some user complaints about the original Omnia phone, this new version seems to have taken care of any deficiencies. Great phone!

D R O I D!!!! I picked up the Motorola Droid thru Verizon. LOVING IT! (Dumped my Blackberry Pearl - small screen.) LIKES: The apps are great. Great camera too. I'm sure apps and phone are similar to the IPhone - but I'm not willing to drop Verizon service. DIDN"T LIKE: Didn't like that I couldn't tether to my laptop for service where WiFi was not available. Last week, though, I found an app for that! http://www.junefabrics.com/android/faq.php?v=217 Works great! Next phone will be the next DROID.

Don't have one. Probably won't get one. Love them, but...

We have iPhones. We luh-ove them! I love everything my phone does, especially love the app store, gps, iTunes, iPod, ease of use and the touch screen that I can adjust by piching across the screen!

I hate that it doesn't have flash so I can't play farmville on my phone (I truly believe if it had flash player Id never need to use my
computer again). The camera is pretty useless too. I miss having the ability to create office documents easily like I could on my palm phones (I'm guessing there's an app for that though).

I plan to stay with the iPhone but the verizon droid looks interesting (but I haven't looked at it closely).