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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3218642" data-attributes="member: 35788">I'm going to insert my opinion here that I'd take with a grain of salt.  [You know the whole saying about free advice and getting what you pay for it, right?]  Well, my opinion is just that.  My opinion.  But ... when we went into the store the saleswoman talked us out of the Motorolla Razr phones because they have a critical flaw.  Not all phones suffer from it, but a larger majority suffer from it than I'd consider acceptable.  The flaw is that some of the Razr phones are hard on their batteries.  The saleswoman said she had 3 friends in the last 4 months or so come home with Razors and each of them have had to purchase a new battery for their phone every 2 months.Like I said, just my opinion.  Third-hand information there, so take it with a grain of salt.  You might want to see if there is a Consumer Reports on phones and get an actual real scoop if you are concerned about it.I have found that Nokia phones almost always get better reception than other brands.  That doesn't mean they get reception always.  For example, I used to have a SOny Ericcson and my wife had a Nokia.  I could guarantee that everywhere we went she always had one more bar of service and I would drop a call sooner than she would.  In the end, we both ended up getting Nokia phones this time.  We're trying out the clamshell option with these phones.  Never had a clamshell style before.  So far, so good.Also, I've learned to stay away from phones that use the old "notebook computer mouse" style button as their menu tool button.  You know the kind I am talking about.  It is a little button that slides up, down, left, or right and then presses in when you want to select something.  If you use it too often, the button may wear out and the menus get hard to select.  As it wears, you might have to press harder to go in one of the directions and the phone thinks you were pressing hard to select.  Frustrating, to say the least.  The phones wer both have now have a button for each direction and a seperate button in the middle to press to select.  Again, very happy.Anyway, free advice.  Feel free to ignor it!  It cost you nothing to receive it, so perhaps it is valuable, perhaps it is junk!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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