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    RobertJ
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    My old phone literally bit the dust, and I was wondering if cingular made any phones that would withstand dust, dirt, water, drops, etc?


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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    i peronally think cingular has some pretty weak phones. if you are looking for strong phones that withstand a lot, sprint offers those



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    Quote Originally Posted by RobertJ
    My old phone literally bit the dust, and I was wondering if cingular made any phones that would withstand dust, dirt, water, drops, etc?
    Majority of the cell phones are tough. I am sorry to hear your cell phone did not hold up.

    Now if you talking about cell phones that can withstand falls from a 2nd story window, cars running over it, falling in the swimming pool than that's a different story.

    I will say that the Motorola and Nokia can hold up fairly well. I used to own them.

    Another thing you can do is buy a case for it. The case helps keep the phone together if you accidently drop it.



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    Not to many phones will hold up to a good drop 3 ft + except the nextel work phones but since the meger with sprint the service has gotten so bad the ptt phones from cingular are looking good, as far as water anything short of a zip lock bag will not protect ANY phone unless their making water proof phones sometime soon I'd just be careful around large bodies of water or try to avoid talking while using the bathroom, as for sturdy phones through cingular the nokias are good (I would recommend the 6030) or the Sony ericson walkman phone (not very pretty but loaded with extras)



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    My last phone was a Motorola V220 and I survived pretty well. I droped it many times and it got washed once and it still worked, until it fell open face down in the sand and it quit working. I was really liking it until one fall in the sand made it quit working, I just thought that it should withstand more than that.



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    I've dropped my nokia 6030 4 times already, the last time I kicked it hoping to avoid a direct fall to concrete WRONG, skipped it across a mud puddle picked it up wiped it off good as new minus a few scratches. It didn't fall right in the puddle but it splashed pretty good (don't tell cingular)



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    Thanks for the info.

    As a side note what happend to the good old phones. I remember that my dad droped his Nokia many many times, even a couple of 10 or so foot drops onto cement, and it even got lost in our orchard for a day and all he ever did was take off the face plate and blow it out a few times and spraded tuner cleaner on the charger connections when they were acting up.



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    Ha! my dad had on of the orginal purse phones (don't let him know I said that) got left out in the sun for like a week melted and still worked got ran over too



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    My RAZR has enough frequent flier miles to take a trip! I always am dropping that thing! it has some nicks and bruises but it works fine! Ima ctually impressed how many tmes ive dropped it and it still keeps working. I just got a nice leather case for it so I think I can drop it a few more times before it actually will die lol



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    My recommendation for durability in a cell phone would definite be Sprint/Nextel. Have you not seen the commercial with the guy who beat the other guy up with the cell phone? Now that is what I call durable! LOL.



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    That's my problem too.. phones are getting broken too fast



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    Quote Originally Posted by Motorola V551
    My recommendation for durability in a cell phone would definite be Sprint/Nextel. Have you not seen the commercial with the guy who beat the other guy up with the cell phone? Now that is what I call durable! LOL.
    I would but Sprints service around here is terrible



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    dont know if cingular supports this phone, but im thinking of the nokia 5140, its built for the outdoors



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    Nokia's are pretty sturdy...my old 6620 & 6230 were dropped numerous times and still kept ticking.

    But outside of Nextel phones, the one I've seen that are rugged is the Siemens M65 and Nokia's 5100 & 5140. I'd go for the Nokia 5140 because it supports 850Mhz.



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    Re: Does Cingular Have any tough Cell Phones

    try any nokia 3595 6010 etc all are less than $40 off ebay 6030 can be had for free(buy the prepaid version, use dealking.com rebate and pop in you sim)



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