Cell phones

[sandra]

This is totally off the cycling topic. I have a Razr phone and love the size, but the phone is pathetic. When people call me, half the time my phone never rings. It goes straight to voice mail. When DH dislocated his shoulder he tried to call me three times before he finally got me. My phone never rang until his third attempt.

It's getting more and more frequent. Do any of you have a Razr and have this problem? I would consider a new phone, but I don't know what would be any better. Most of the phones now are way more than I need. I just need a phone and like the camera, but don't need data.

[surgtech1956]

I have a Razr v3 - like the phone. I have the same probably too sometimes. The only time I don't get a call and it goes straight to my voicemail is when I'm inside certain places/certain areas. I work at a hospital and all my calls usually go to my voicemail , but this has happened with my past 3 phones. I like a basic phone - don't need all the extras either. but they're becoming harder to find.

[Zen]

I have a $20 Nokia phone from Tracfone. Works just fine.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have a $20 Nokia phone from Tracfone. Works just fine.

Another happy Tracfone user here. I got the $50 LG flip phone though, and i LOVE it. After buying the phone itself- the total usage only costs me about 5 dollars a month. No contracts or monthly fees, and it piggybacks onto whatever local towers there are near you. Cool.

[blueskies]

Are you sure the problem is your phone and not your service? Just a thought... If your service wasn't working in the area that you were in, the call would go straight to voice mail.

[sandra]

Are you sure the problem is your phone and not your service? Just a thought... If your service wasn't working in the area that you were in, the call would go straight to voice mail.

No, I'm not sure. The cell phone company has reset the phone several times. It is inside my house and a lot of the time it works, so I really don't know.

[KnottedYet]

I get that problem when my tower is weak. People call me, go straight to voice mail, and later I hear the phone beep the little message alert.

I have an older LG phone that is JUST a phone. Believe me, I wanna keep this phone running for as long as I can!

(and then, maybe an iPhone?)

[OakLeaf]

Depending on where you are in Mississippi, you may just not get on well with "modern" phones. Most new phones these days are digital only, but there are still a LOT of rural areas that have only analog service.

That's why I switched carriers, actually. I'd been a happy Cingular customer for like 10 years, but I really needed a new phone, and Cingular doesn't offer any phones with analog service. I went to Verizon and got an LG VX5300, which may be the only analog phone they offer, if they even still do. It isn't nearly as convenient as the Nokia phones I've had, but I didn't *lose* coverage by getting a new phone, and that was my main criterion.

Plus, I finally got the next level of digital speed plus Bluetooth... infrared dial-up Internet connection was just a PITA.

[KnottedYet]

Ooh, yeah, my LG is one of the last analog/digital phones I could find. (I think it was called a "trimodal" phone?) Another reason to keep it!