Back To School Phone Guide 2009
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High School and Teen
- Sanyo SCP-2700: This budget phone is perfect for first time texters. It comes in two bold colors, Impulsive Pink and Deep Blue. This basic phone offers a camera and full keyboard, along with parental controls.
Sanyo SCP-2700
Samsung Reclaim
- Samsung Reclaim: The earth-friendly slider puts a premium on eco consciousness, but delivers a pretty good handset as well. It comes in fun colors and a compact package, while offering Sprint’s full multimedia suite.
- Samsung Exclaim M550: This dual slider offers a full QWERTY keyboard as well as a traditional keypad. Sprint’s One Click UI gives teens quick access to social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
- LG Lotus: LG’s sweet messaging device may have a funky form factor, but it delivers where it matters most. The QWERTY keyboard will keep their thumbs happy and high speed data will let them get their internet fix.
- LG Lotus: A good bridge device, the Lotus offers more than just fun and games. A document reader allows this device to do more than your average dumb phone.
- RIM BlackBerry Curve: The best selling PDA for much of the past year, the Curve offers the tried and true reliability of BlackBerry devices. The Tour is a better device all around, but the Curve’s price tag is more suited to the graduate student.
- Palm Pre: The phone that outdid the iPhone. It’s a powerful smartphone and wonderful multimedia device all wrapped up into one. Synergy brings your life neatly together on the phone. With a real keyboard and multitouch display the Pre is a dream to use, and the ever-growing App Catalog means the Pre will only get better with age.
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15 Comments
1. VDubb posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:43 0 0
Why in the hell is the Tour recommended for VZW, but the Curve is recommended for Sprint? Also, the G1 over the MyTouch 3G and no mention of the 8520 for T-Mobile which can be had for as low as $0.01, what kind of stupid recommendations are these?
8. matistight posted on 12 Aug 2009, 13:13 0 0
Quemical- Thats funny, Good one hahah VDubb- HAVE YOU SEEN THE TOUR?!? Wonderful, its like an upgraded 8900, with a bold keyboard and for anyone, verizon, sprint, metro, t mob, att. Love the sim card slot. And a curve for sprint? Cause thats the only good phone they got, who wants sprint anyway? Plus they dont have any of the rumors on there for sprint. The 8520 is new and i dont think people will like that phone, they went for an iphone back, but failed. nothing is wrong with the tracpad...ITS AN OPTICAL MOUSE! THE EPIX AND OMNIA HAD IT....OPTICAL MOUSE!!!!! Not tracpad! Even safari wants me to check spelling on tracpad... and the g1 is cheaper than the mytouch or should be at least... and you can get the 8520 from a t-mobile store for 1 cent....do research and rething what you said or delete your post
6. behold--me posted on 11 Aug 2009, 23:00 0 0
ok uh it should be that the mytouch3G beats the G1 the Tour bb beats the 8330 or whatever it is the comeback outer screen is too small the highlight and the lotus are both hideous form factor or color lol ahahhahhahhahhaha :)
7. joolian posted on 12 Aug 2009, 11:29 0 0
I understand why you would reccomend smartphones to the older group, and the dumb phones for teens, but most of my friends and I use smartphones. I would feel really limited without my iPhone or a blackberry. And also, the Bold for att ? Also, the 8520 was a perfect opportunity to reccomend a smartphone to teens for tmobile.
10. matistight posted on 12 Aug 2009, 13:14 0 0
Blackberry is for adults mainly but i agree on the bold
11. matistight posted on 12 Aug 2009, 13:15 0 0
BOLD INSTEAD OF JACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
12. rafaelinux posted on 12 Aug 2009, 22:20 0 0
There should be somewhere on the site that says [USA SITE] or something like that..
13. souleater93 posted on 13 Aug 2009, 18:25 0 0
Samsung Alias2 ftw. the chocolate 3 is horrible i had three of them and they kept resetting themselves so they wouldn't be reactivated spent a total of three hours on the phone with verizon not the happiest verizon costumer
14. nalu808 posted on 18 Aug 2009, 11:14 0 0
i dont understand why peeps hate on sprint. so they made bad choices and havent offered the best customer service but the plans and the network especially internet speeds have proven to be up there if not better tha vzw and att. everyone needs to get off their high chair (just like iphone people) and not bash on something you know nothing about. do the research then make an informed decision on who you pick or decide to bash. not a sprint employee
15. AZNphoneGeek posted on 21 Aug 2009, 19:19 0 0
yeah i agree with nalu808. i've had service with multiple carriers and they're all different and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. i currently have sprint service with my pre and i've never had an issue with the company. i think it's probably cause i don't complain about stuff thats my fault... i hate carrier x cause i went over my minutes and broke my phone cause i drove over it and fell into a swimming pool. then carrier x shut off my service because i haven't paid my bill in 2 months. so when i went into carrier x and told them i hate my phone and wanted to buy a new one but i just bought one 3 months ago. carrier x said i wasn't eligible for a discount and the phone would be full price. my service at my home sucks with carrier x. did i mention i live in a lead box in the mountains? these people are morons.
