Pipe dream: a cell phone that doesn't break before your contract's up.

[asthmaticeog]

Someday, maybe, in the distant future when we all tool around in hovercrafts, it'll happen.

:grr:

[GOPisEvil]

1. I've had my Nokia over a year. No problems.

:shrug:

[LynneSin]

8. Did with Nokia - only time one ever broke

was when I dropped it into a gigantic mud-puddling during the middle of a major storm. Even then it dried out and almost worked except 1 key. But since I had the phone for 2 years figured it was time for a new one

[Guy_Montag]

2. Don't you get a free replacement with your contract?

+ 1 vote for Nokias

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. I think Ive only managed to get to the end of a contract with 1 cell phone

they're made to break, imho. Its a good way to get an extra 300 from you for fo reaon :grr:

[LeftyMom]

4. the extra insurance is a good investment

when I had to replace my work phone (it's nextel, they cost a mint) I got one pretty cheap on ebay.

[brainshrub]

5. The Motorola StarTac. Best phone ever made.

They are so durable and stylish that they had to stop making them. (How can you sell new phones if the old ones have the half-life of uranium.) It is the most perfect cell-phone ever made.

I've had mine since 2000. They are easy to fix and the accessories are inexpensive.

The StarTac doesn't take pictures, double as a flash-light, play annoying songs or make a good sex toy. What is does do is absolutely incredible: YOU CAN MAKE AND RECEIVE CALLS! *gasp*

Go on ebay and buy one. You won't regret it.

[MercutioATC]

6. I second the vote for the Star-Tac

Sadly, my provider no longer supports them. I loved mine.

I now have a Motorola V-710. I've never had a problem with a Motorola phone (my LG was awful)

[China_cat]

7. My original contract ran out 3 years ago

I'm still using the same phone...with the original battery.

[WhollyHeretic]

9. I'm trying to manage until September with a phone that's dying

The screen keeps getting scrambled and the buttons don't work half the time.