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...but im with sprint so i think im properly screwed.

My phone did have a battery life of 3 hours... that was a pain but now the stupid thing dies after a simple hour of taking.... I chose the plan so i could talk as much as i wanted and i chose a cell phone so i could do it WITH OUT being plugged into anything. Nokia seems to understand my problem so they came out with a phone that lasts 15 hours of digital talking! Motorola came out with a phone that will work for 11 hours! And sprint dosn't mesh with any of these companies!!!! WHY??!?!

The best thing sprint has to offer is this phone that can only talk for 5.5 hours... wooptie do. Is anyone here happy with their sprint phone?

As batteries age and the more it is charged/discharged, the life eventually fails.

Easy fix: Buy another battery.

Easier fix....don't use the phone.

Flabby Chick wrote:Easier fix....don't use the phone.

X2

Yet another reason I don't own a cell.

Can't buy another battery cuz they cost about 50 bucks each. I do have 150$ credit but the sprint store dose not have the extended battery that i would need.

YOU WIN FLABBY CHICK!!! That is the most useless advice ever given on this forum!!! If i had money i'd buy you a gold metal.

Actually, I think it's rather good advice, just too late for already-addicted cell phone users.

I'm with FC and Duper on this. I don't really need a cell phone (I'm not on-call at work, I have a CB in my car for emergencies, and my wife and I keep in touch just fine), so I'm resisting the urge to go out and get one. It's probably saving me a few hundred dollars a year.

Foil wrote:Actually, I think it's rather good advice, just too late for already-addicted cell phone users.

I'm with FC and Duper on this. I don't really need a cell phone (I'm not on-call at work, I have a CB in my car for emergencies, and my wife and I keep in touch just fine), so I'm resisting the urge to go out and get one. It's probably saving me a few hundred dollars a year.

It's not that i'm addicted, it's that i need to have it or i could die!

if a call exceeds 3 hours, you should probably take the bus. so, in a way, i second FCs advice
15 hours? nice. for call centers without a power grid connection.

Isaac wrote:YOU WIN FLABBY CHICK!!! That is the most useless advice ever given on this forum!!! If i had money i'd buy you a gold metal.

Save your dosh babes and buy a new battery.

You don't need a phone 24/7.

EDIT....wait...if you need it for a medical condition that you have so you need to be in contact constantly with some sort of assistance then that's different.

If that's the case then you're a bit of a prick for not stating so in the first place.

i am a prick but for diff reasons. A phone is a good phone for as long as it's a, phone! When it runs out of power it's a hunk of plastic: Not a phone. I want a phone that's good at being one. To hell with pics and mp3s.

I have a Nokia 6010 (I think). It is old and ugly, but the thing will literally stay on for days. It has quite a few hours of talk time too (~5?), plenty for normal use.

Isaac wrote: It's not that i'm addicted, it's that i need to have it or i could die!

Why's that? You can't possibly have that many friends.

Before the blackberry's the Nokia 6010 was the best on batteries. Its an old phone but still serves its purpose better than all the Ipod/computer imitation phones out there.

yeah my nokia was great but the reception was bad.

Beowulf, if you like guns, cars, and kung fu movies, u'd find we get along just fine.

Why would you die without a phone?

I think that saying he was going to die was just an Isaacism. But why all the cell phone angst in this thread? People should be getting rid of land lines, not cell phones. The monthly bill ends up quite nicely. If you really need to be chatting it up on the phone with local calls for hours each day and are afraid that a cell phone will run up the bills, then you're probably already a \"phone addict\" and all of the other nonsense already floating around this thread, so you're really not one to talk. There must be some secret pleasure or virtue in not having a cell phone that I'm not aware about.

well it looks like i've messed up and now have to use my 150 dollars of sprint credit towards, bills. It seems that i misread a bill and thought i had only 45 dollars due when i had 95 due. Now i owe 128...

I didn't decide to get my own cell phone until the first time I blew a tire on my car. That was two or three years ago but I took my sweet time getting a phone. It wasnt until last winter when I started driving an hour to and from school that I finally got a cell phone. Now I talk on my cell phone all the time with my boyfriend since we don't see each other everyday. We both are Verizon customers and my bill is about $50-$60 a month.
Cell phones are great when you get into a situation.

If you talk all day on the phone, I think you need to find something more to do. I suggest getting a phone good for above normal use, and not be on all day/evening/night/morning.