Quality, no frills GSM phone

Per Joe:
>I'm looking for a no frills, good quality phone for use on the Cingular GSM
>network in St. Louis. I don't need a camera, broadband, websurfing, a razr
>or flip, email, etc. I only want a phone that will give extended range and
>a little more muscle in transmitting power then a flip phone. Cingular
>doesn't really offer anything with more muscle so I'll need to find
>something on the OEM market.

Every time I've read a thread on range, somebody has ranked Nokia candy bar
phones near the top.

I've had a half-dozen different Nokia candy bar phones and my favorite is the
6160.
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PeteCresswell

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At 19 Mar 2007 17:58:58 -0500 [email protected] wrote:

> It is my understanding that the FCC strictly limits transmitting
> power,

It does- to 3 watts on 850 MHz, and 2 watts at 1900.

> so you WILL NOT find any legal cell phone with extra
> transmitting power.

No currently available phone I'm aware of even comes close to the FCC
limits. Most top out at 3/4 to 1 watt for battery-life and size reasons.
I keep my old Nokia 6010 GSM phone around for when I know I'm going to be
in a tough-reception area for awhile. The current version, the Nokia
6030 is supposedly as good. I have one of those too, but haven't had a
chance to try it side-by-side with the 6010 in a challenging area yet.

Is this a discontinued model? The closes model is the 6133 on the Nokia
website.

"Anon E. Muss" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:16:10 GMT, "Joe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for a no frills, good quality phone for use on the Cingular
>>GSM
>>network in St. Louis.
>
> Nokia 6130 is the clear and obvious choice.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:16:10 GMT, "Joe" <[email protected]> wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>I'm looking for a no frills, good quality phone for use on the Cingular GSM
>network in St. Louis. I don't need a camera, broadband, websurfing, a razr
>or flip, email, etc. I only want a phone that will give extended range and
>a little more muscle in transmitting power then a flip phone. Cingular
>doesn't really offer anything with more muscle so I'll need to find
>something on the OEM market.
>
>Any suggestions.

What makes you think a flip phone has any less range than a non-flip
phone? Several Cingular flip phones have excellent range, notably the
new RAZR V3xx, which outperforms Nokia handsets in my tests.

If you want more range than that, Motorola makes a GSM "bag" phone.

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