This is my wife’s old Nokia 7360 phone. She stopped using it for some reason back then. Seems that the keyboard was giving her issues. Just the other day, almost a year back, I dug this phone out of storage and decided to try my luck. I inserted a prepaid SIM card and what do you know, it worked first time! Nothing was wrong with the phone at all. Nokia really built things to last back then!
Right now, this phone, with its prepaid SIM card, is the house phone. We do not need a landline so this phone serves its purpose quite well. Reception is crystal clear and what can I say, it still works! Cheers to Nokia on their fantastic phones!
Samsung have always been ahead of the pack when it comes to dual SIM phone. I should know…I have one myself and so far, it is going along just fine. The only thing I am worried about is getting a suitable replacement battery for it. But that aside, let us look at this new C3322 model
Most of the details of the phone can be found on Samsung’s website here. But in a nutshell, The Samsung Metro Duos C3322 is a candybar styled Dual SIM GSM phone features a 2.2 inch TFT display, 2 MP camera, video player/recording, music player, FM Radio, 3.5 mm jack, internal memory and support external memory by micro SD card. The Samsung C3322 Metro Duos supports WAP, Bluetooth and USB data connectivity and SMS/Email messaging. The handset is powered by a standard battery.
Looks like this might be the next one to get if my phone ever croaks. But two years on, its still going great so that speaks volumes about Samsung and their quality
What happens when you have lots of old Blackberry chargers with mini USB connectors but you need to charge a device with a micro USB charging port? Simple. You get a converter, like the one above. I got one for about $5 some time back and it helps me charge my Motorola Defy phone with no issues at all. The only issue I can see is the fact that when hooked up to a mini USB data cable, you cannot transfer data though it. I need to use the supplied data cable that has a micro USB on it. But this little utility is very useful when I need to charge my phone outside my house and I do not have a micro USB charger. Not a bad investment, don’t you think?
This, my friends, is the very first mobile phone I got. The Ericsson GH-388. Come to think of it, I have yet to find another phone which was as durable as this. It had everything a mobile phone of that era had. What was also good about the phone was that was pretty small and could slip pretty easily into pockets. The only reason why I changed to a Nokia after a while was because of the battery…it was a nickle metal hydride battery and Ni-MH cells back in the day (more than a decade ago egads!) did not last very long and had a memory effect. I switched to a Nokia because the Nokia had lithium-ion cells that lasted much longer. Imagine, with the Ericsson, I had to carry the charger all over the place as the battery eventually only lasted half a day. Getting bigger battery cells just did not make sense. And the battery needed to be removed from the mobile phone while charging and as a result, you could not receive any calls. But in spite of all its limitations, I still miss this phone.
I have had this phone for a bout three years now. It is a very basic phone. Does not contain a camera or anything else but it does contain a flashlight and it has a battery that lasts for a very long time before the phone conks out. It also has a flashlight, very handy for those days when I need to peer into dark corners like my cupboard. It has a mono screen and it only cost me about $40. In a nutshell, a bare-basic mobile phone…very useful for the frequent traveller who needs a cheap phone for prepaid card use in another country or as a second phone for most people.
According to PhoneArena, Sharp of Japan has released a Hello Kitty Gingerbread Android phone. I just came back from Japan and it is pretty amazing seeing everyone on clamshell phones, like the one above. Knowing the Japanese penchant for all things cute, this one will appeal to them very much. I think this is the first time I have seen a clamshell Android phone…
