Cellphone - a must for DJs.. but which one?

[ASD :)]

This thread might seem pretty stupid, but a cell phone is a must for all of us, especially Don Juans (or at least wannabe ones). We need it to arrange dates, parties, any kinds of events. PLUS, we need it for #closes, we often even give the HB ouf cell for her to put her number in it.

Some people think a cellphone tells a lot about its owner's personality. I would not say it is that important, but still - it is an accessory, it is a part of your looks, since you use it a lot and you are seen using it.

So, what kind of a cell should a DJ use? I am currently using quite a bulky one. I never thought it would matter, but now that I am sarging and getting girls' numbers, I have noticed some weird looks when taking out my cell.

I hope at least some of you would get my point and express his opinion.


Thanks,
ASD

 

[future dj]

depends on how much you want to spend....if you've got a couple of grand to burn on a cell...the vertu is your phone....if you want something cheap and slick...nec L1 is a nice phone.....

 

[bbestar]

There are alot of companies to choice from but two of them are especially unique

T-Mobile and Cingular

Unlike other companies, the two use what you call a sim card, a little card that has your phone number and contacts. THe nice thing about is you can buy as many unlocked phones either t-mobile cingular or international unlocked phones and you can put your sim card in it and... Bam that is your new phone, with your number and contacts.

Verizon, and Sprint... You have to use the same exact phone for 1-2 years then you can upgrade to the new phone but you can't go back to your old phone.

I would go to both T-Mobile and Cingular to see which one is the better one in your area.

T-Mobile has a 14 Day Trial Period.
Cingular has a 30 Day Trial Period.

Compare the two services side to side, but usually its the phones themselves which may or may not have the better signal.

make sure you are within the two week period, to be safe 10 days and 25 days then choice which company you like better

 

[ASD :)]

Thank you. Bbestar, you must have misunderstood me - I have been using mobile service for more than 5 years, so which company to use is no problem - I am already using one. What I am asking for is which phone to buy - which would look good and, well, unique.

Future dj, you seem to get my point. Thank you for those nice suggestions. The Vertu is just great, but currently way too expensive for me - might look at it again in a few years But this NEC L1 seems to suit my needs very well. It looks decent, it is fairly cheap (I would not like to spend more than $600-700 on a cell) and I have not ever seen anyone have that phone yet. It is maybe just a little bit too boxy. I will definitely consider that one, though.

Any other ideas? Anything elegant, stylish, unique and not too expensive?

EDIT: I was thinking of LG KG800 [ http://www.mobile-review.com/review/lg-kg800-en.shtml ], but I doubt it would be too unique soon.

Thanks!
ASD

 

[ShizamDaMan]

Dude, which ever one comes free with your new plan. As long as it calls people and stores numbers reliably, who cares? I'm not going to compell chicks to blow me by showing them my stupid phone, which is only going to get dropped on the floor many a time when I'm wasted and then get replaced a year later with one 10x better for the same price.

 

[Le Parisien]

There are alot of companies to choice from but two of them are especially unique

T-Mobile and Cingular

Unlike other companies, the two use what you call a sim card, a little card that has your phone number and contacts. THe nice thing about is you can buy as many unlocked phones either t-mobile cingular or international unlocked phones and you can put your sim card in it and... Bam that is your new phone, with your number and contacts.

Verizon, and Sprint... You have to use the same exact phone for 1-2 years then you can upgrade to the new phone but you can't go back to your old phone.

I would go to both T-Mobile and Cingular to see which one is the better one in your area.

Actually its much more simple and more complicated that that :crazy:

Let me explain. All you just described is NOT related to marketing strategy or business decisions. It directly depends on the technical choices that were made when the companies built their network.

- Most operators in North America use the CDMA technology that was invented by american tech companies. With CDMA, your account is attached to your phone (how stupid is that? ), if you lose/break/change your phone, you lose all your contact, plus you need to get a new phone number as well, unless your company has implemented some technical and commercial solutions to remediate that.

- Most operators around the world use the GSM technology that was created by european companies. With GSM, your account is identified by a Sim-Card (part of the reason behind was also that SimCard was invented in Europe, guess the american tech companies at that time didn't want to pay too much license fees so they left this out). You can change your phone all you want, as long as you keep the same SimCard, everything's fine.

- Over time, when the advantages of GSM were becoming clear, some companies in North America also started to offer GSM network, like Cingular. T-Mobile, which is an american subsidiary of "Deustch Telecom" naturally adopted the european standard.

So the thing is, just ask the company you want to subscribe to whether they run GSM or CDMA. If they say "we don't know", then it's probably CDMA , and you know what to do...:kick:

Just for the anecdote. For almost more than twenty years, many european countries have been using chips on their credit cards to prevent fraud and electronic forgery. Because a magnetic stripe is way to simple to fabricate. Just read it with a machine, and rewrite the information on another card's stripe, simple as that. In the same process, you also get to know the card's pincode.
But it's different with a chip, a chip works like a mini computer.
Basically the magnetic storage "tells" you the pincode is XYZ, while with a chip, you type in the alleged pincode XYZ, and the chip will say "ok you got the right/wrong number" and acts accordingly.

The chip on the credit card and the SimCard use pretty much the same technologies. I'm not saying that Americans are not as advanced as the europeans. But for political and economic reasons, the americans deliberately left out some really good technologies. And many of us as customers get screwed without even knowing it.

 

[ASD :)]

Where I live (Europe) it is 100% GSM only. And that was not what I asked anyway, lol.

ShizamDaMan: I do NOT want to show off my phone. But to my mind, it is a part of my appearance - just as, for example, clothes. You do not only wear the second hand clothes that you can get for almost no money, do you?

 

[future dj]

this is a canadian company but they do have some interesting models....

http://www.easycell.ca/default.aspx

 

[seanchai]

I hate the Razr. I got one for cheap last summer and I kept it because it's the only phone I've found that fits in my tight-ass pants. But call quality is ****ty, no memory, and the camera isn't great.

 

[Derek Flint]

Actually its much more simple and more complicated that that :crazy:

Let me explain. All you just described is NOT related to marketing strategy or business decisions. It directly depends on the technical choices that were made when the companies built their network.

- Most operators in North America use the CDMA technology that was invented by american tech companies. With CDMA, your account is attached to your phone (how stupid is that? ), if you lose/break/change your phone, you lose all your contact, plus you need to get a new phone number as well, unless your company has implemented some technical and commercial solutions to remediate that.

- Most operators around the world use the GSM technology that was created by european companies. With GSM, your account is identified by a Sim-Card (part of the reason behind was also that SimCard was invented in Europe, guess the american tech companies at that time didn't want to pay too much license fees so they left this out). You can change your phone all you want, as long as you keep the same SimCard, everything's fine.

- Over time, when the advantages of GSM were becoming clear, some companies in North America also started to offer GSM network, like Cingular. T-Mobile, which is an american subsidiary of "Deustch Telecom" naturally adopted the european standard.

So the thing is, just ask the company you want to subscribe to whether they run GSM or CDMA. If they say "we don't know", then it's probably CDMA , and you know what to do...:kick:

Just for the anecdote. For almost more than twenty years, many european countries have been using chips on their credit cards to prevent fraud and electronic forgery. Because a magnetic stripe is way to simple to fabricate. Just read it with a machine, and rewrite the information on another card's stripe, simple as that. In the same process, you also get to know the card's pincode.
But it's different with a chip, a chip works like a mini computer.
Basically the magnetic storage "tells" you the pincode is XYZ, while with a chip, you type in the alleged pincode XYZ, and the chip will say "ok you got the right/wrong number" and acts accordingly.

The chip on the credit card and the SimCard use pretty much the same technologies. I'm not saying that Americans are not as advanced as the europeans. But for political and economic reasons, the americans deliberately left out some really good technologies. And many of us as customers get screwed without even knowing it.

US has been using GSM and Sim Cards for several years now.

 

[Nocturnal]

Friend of mine showed me this, the sprint employee referral plan. 500 mins, free powervision (internet), free nights/weekends, free roaming, for $30 a month. All you need is an employees email address and they arent hard to find.

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=243068

 

[MrS]

Nokia 3310 with union jack cover.

 

[Taviii]

Where I live (Europe) it is 100% GSM only.

:nono:

I live in Europe also and there are CDMA networks here, they are rare and not very popular but they still exist...http://www.zapp.ro/

 

[Le Parisien]

US has been using GSM and Sim Cards for several years now.

I know that man, I mentioned it in the long reply that I typed. Read again carefully...
Technology protectionism only goes that far. Plus after all these years, the license fees must be pretty low now. Better late than never right?

I live in Europe also and there are CDMA networks here, they are rare and not very popular but they still exist...http://www.zapp.ro/

Some places in the world adopted both GSM and CDMA. For example, in China, originally people used GSM. But after enormous political pressure from the American government (like threat of trade war if China doesn't "help" reduce the trade balance deficit of the US), CDMA was also "adopted". Again just like in Romania like you mentioned, CDMA is NOT very popular.

 

[Bible_Belt]

fwiw, the physical weakness of flip phones is usually the hinge of the two halves. I have seen a lot of broken hinges. The name "flip phone" is misleading. If you flip them open like the Star Trek communicators, they tend to break. Gently open them with two hands, and flip phones will last much longer.

 

[Morphiex]

u want unique stick a yu-gi-oh sticker on your cell phone or sumthing , =P il bet no other guy has that.....
but if u want a good phone as well as a sick design , then get nokia n90 , bbut be aware its a bit pricey...

 

[Deep Dish]

I always get the free phones which come standard with a plan. As a general rule of thumb, the hottest phones now which cost hundreds of dollars will be free in two years. When I replaced my last phone a year ago, yeah sure there wasn't a built-in camera, but I bet by a year from now it'll be featured on free phones. (I don't keep up on phone trends, so I have no idea what's being currently offered.) Why invest thousands of dollars over the years on the latest phones when you can get the same all for free if you simply do a little delayed gratification? Currently, for phones with cameras, the resolution is so small that it's ridiculous.

Currently, I have a Nokia 6010. It's getting up there in its mileage and is wearing down but at least it's not a flip phone.

 

[Skilla_Staz]

I don't have a cell phone. It makes me harder to get a hold of. More "mystery".

I do want one though.

 

[ShizamDaMan]

Where I live (Europe) it is 100% GSM only. And that was not what I asked anyway, lol.

ShizamDaMan: I do NOT want to show off my phone. But to my mind, it is a part of my appearance - just as, for example, clothes. You do not only wear the second hand clothes that you can get for almost no money, do you?

Dude, I rock thrift store blazers harder than Dennis Hopper rocks the local bar scene. Some of my best clothes have been bought for less than 3 dollars a piece. This is not to say that they are nasty and worn out, but you'd be surprised what you can find when you don't want to pay a lot for quality.

Seriously man, my cell phone spends 95% of its time in my pocket. It's not so much an accessory as it is a tool. You're wasting your money trying to find a stylish phone. Hell, the only reason I replaced my old cell phone (which lasted me all through high school and my first year of college) was because the thing would lock up every time it got a text message.

 

[BBX]

Hell, the only reason I replaced my old cell phone (which lasted me all through high school and my first year of college) was because the thing would lock up every time it got a text message.

Text messaging on a 5+ year old phone? Really?