Virgil, I WISH I could get my old 8260 going...
backstory:
when I killed the battery on my Nokia (4 hour call to my insurance search me or mustaine and insurance on this board to read the story) I HAD to get a new phone. Batteries were't for sale anywhere I knew and this is my only phone. I don't use a land line of any kind. no reason.
That phone had the BEST reception, and clarity of any cell phone ever, even without an exposed "antenna".
I would give anything to get it back!
Anyway when I got a "new" phone from my provider they had the "30 days if you don't like it return it" policy.
within 2 days the audiovox phone I picked out was back at the store, and online I had found a new battery for my Nokia 8260.
I told them kill this phone, I want my old phone back. They said the "upgraded" my service to some new fangled digital thingy and I could NOT revert, no matter what. I was SOL.
You have NO Idea how pissed I was. I spent 4 days going to every mall kiosk seeing if any of the cell providers would activate my old phone. Not a single one would.
US Cellular $%^&*($ me with a 10 foot rubber #$%^.
So here I am, I have to choose a new phone, they saw how PO'd I was and gave me this LG piece of worthless mule crap even though I was supposed to pay $50 or something.
I discontinued the "service plan" thingy that was $4 insuring the phone against anything (to save money), and within 30 days the lcd screen was blanking out. I NEVER dropped it once until 1 time in a parking lot....
it landed on the butt end and broke of a part of plastic... the part the holds the battery in. $175 repair according to the US Cellular service rep.
for the past 1.5 years my battery is held on by scotch tape.
the screen goes out 2-3 times a day, and the ear speaker never works. answering a call. I have to answer, switch to speaker phone, and get the caller to say "hello?" then I can sometimes go back to a private conversation.
OH and the "front" lcd thingy when the flip is closed, well that has been a garbled mess of lighted up poo since about the same time. when working "right" it scrolls the time for a few seconds then goes blank. whe a call comes in it is supposed to show the caller ID. I had to turn off the auto answer when I flip the phone open just to see who's calling me. most of the time the front thing just shows random illuminated cyan dots that run my battery dead.
for a year and 1/2 i have to each week peel off the scotch tape, clean off the gunk, and re-attach my battery.
with my personal life and finances going to cht a while ago there was literally nothing I could do... NOW with a job and a salary, and all that cool stuff I am going to move on.
I sent an email describing this whole fiasco to Nokia, just to see if they have any reaction, but I did state almost verbatim what DREDIOCK said.
ALL I use the phone for is communication. It is my main line. I don't want ringtones, I don't want a camera, I don't want internet, I just want a phone that works GREAT as a PHONE! that's it. give me a monochrome screen I can read, and great battery life / reception. I will be happy for decades with it.
sad thing is those "monochrome" screen phones are left only for the sad people that buy their phone at a gas station and "pre pay".
I use upwards of 900 minutes a month as my primary mode of communication, and I am guessing I am not the only adult not into the latest R&B ring tone that needs a quality cellular phone.
Yes the consumer market is full of suckers, and they are what makes corporations money, but why can't they at least offer something to the likes of me?
ok sorry rant lol
