Help! Crotchety old man needs to take step into modern times....

[Caine]

Uggg.... it's official, I need a stupid fracking phone.... suggestions? Keep in mind I hate touch pads and don't want a Black Berry. I'll likely end up buying an extension qwerty for whatever I get so whatever..... I think I'd rather go droid than Iphone??? I donno... I want something I wont be embarrassed to have for at least another 3 months but is currently supported (so yeah, no iphone 5) also I'd like to keep it as cheap as possible too..... but we all know that's not gonna happen so...

[Master X]

Sprint
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/21/motorola-photon-q-4g-lte-review/ keypad

HTC evo shift is nice but it may not get Android 4.0 but you can get it for cheap.

Verizon
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/10/motorola-droid-4-review/ keypad

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/htc-8x-review-windows-phone-8s-compact-flagship/ NO KEYPAD

Samsung Stratosphere not Android 4.0 but it's cheap also.







 

[Isntmenttolast]

well you gonna use it for a phone or for everything else? ive got a normal phone with a qwerty keyboard, its no smart phone but its effective and you can text with it.

[Caine]

well you gonna use it for a phone or for everything else? ive got a normal phone with a qwerty keyboard, its no smart phone but its effective and you can text with it.

At this point in the game it's gonna cost me roughly a bill a month for service anyways so I may as well go big or go home.

[Caine]

Yeah while the windows phone does have some features I like (mostly being able to customize my "start screen") I don't think I dig the Windows 8 interface in general. Plus the lack of support for it (currently) doesn't help.


The Photon you showed me earlier so far is winning, but more research needs to be done.

[Isntmenttolast]

well you gonna use it for a phone or for everything else? ive got a normal phone with a qwerty keyboard, its no smart phone but its effective and you can text with it.

At this point in the game it's gonna cost me roughly a bill a month for service anyways so I may as well go big or go home.

well all deprends on what you wanna pay, remember smart phones and their data plans i now verizon wanted at least 30 bucks a month for the small data plan. thats the only thing  dont miss about a smart phone.