Sexy Motorola PEBL V6 cellphone. Edge capable (Edge is Cingular's high speed network offering - not quite as fast as EV-DO but still nice.) Includes Bluetooth, and an MPEG4 VGA video camera, plus POP3 and IMAP-compatible email app, and MP3 ringtone support. Strangely I'm not lusting after this one, but I think it will be very popular. Clearly a very nice phone. Sort of surprising to see Motorola making some nice design decisions lately (remember way back when their Startac was king?)
- jim 3-04-2005 5:57 pm

T-Mobil and Radioshack want a ridiculous $69 dollars for a replacement battery for my Nokia. Offerings online are much cheaper but I hear a lot of stories about counterfits. Any suggestions?
- steve 3-07-2005 7:04 pm


which model ? whole phone available used on e.bay for that price? when your plan comes due, sign one with free phone ?
- bill 3-07-2005 7:13 pm


I think you're supposed to buy a new phone. (I'm only half kidding.)

I don't really know about counterfit batteries. Do you mean that they wouldn't work? Or they'd hurt your phone? Or just that they might suck?

Sorry I don't have any insight here. Let us know what you do though.
- jim 3-07-2005 7:18 pm


It's a Nokia 3390b. It's small but not too small, great reception and super tough. I've dropped it countless times, from the top of a 20' scaffold onto concrete floor last Oct. The phones TMobile is offering as replacements are delicate things with flat keys that I find hard to operate. Batteries via ebay and elsewhere online vary between $8 and $24. My worries of counterfit batteries are primarily that they would suck.
- steve 3-07-2005 7:51 pm


Counterfeit NiCad or NiMH might suck. Counterfeit Li batteries can be dangerous. They carry a lot of energy in a fundamentally unstable material. "Official" batteries and chargers contain safeguards.

For online, stick with known e-retailers. For example, I use Motorola's on-line store.
- mark 3-07-2005 9:06 pm


Yikes! Hopefully this one is the real thing.
- steve 3-07-2005 10:22 pm


The day I made my purchase I wrote the dealer and asked that they swap the Li for a NiMH as they sell both types and the NiMH is a buck less but recieved no response. The following day I managed to lose my phone while holding it in my hands, don't ask me how but I did, it was there in my hand, I got on the bus and Poof! it was gone. I found a replacement on ebay, another 3390b, $29 with shipping. The Li battery arrived yesterday, it came with a earphone which was not listed in the auction. I figure it's the dealers way of absolving himself of any guilt for jackasses like me losing half our heads. I'll wear it and try to use the phone left-handed.
- steve 3-16-2005 2:19 am





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