I was looking for a cellphone in August of 2000 and my criteria was a small, light phone with a robust system of applications. I couldn't have dreamed for anything else.
To begin with, the operating system of the 2282 is amazingly easy and intuitive. There is a little up arrow that brings up a quick menu feature that saves oodles of time. I can then press the up arrow button and then say 5, and now I have accessed my call log and see what phone calls I missed while I was in the shower. Very ingenious and helpful.

Since I am a techie of sorts, I was drawn to the WAP features of this phone. With the WAP 1.1 protocol it is easy to check movie times, news, weather, and all sorts of other information. This has saved me in several situations where I needed to be informed of the weather because of trips etc. But I’m not reviewing all Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phones, just this one. The phone seems to be slow sometimes, the 9600 baud rate is quite slow, but only ten years ago I was raving about the speed of my desktop that went a whopping 9600 bps and who would need anything else...

I have also grown to love the SMS messaging; quick notes to the girlfriend, sending jokes to friends, this is a feature that lets you leave notes for people when you really don't want to talk to them. The T2282 does a great job of this, but some of the keys needed to be pressed for some symbols are quite ridiculous. To insert a colon one has to press the 1 key ten times! Quite useless. One other headache is that although the phone has caller ID and I can always know who is calling, when it comes to SMS it is a different story. It merely stamps the time date and number, it doesn’t replace the number with the persons name. This requires long sessions of scrolling through the number list in the phone's phone book to find out who is asking me what I'm doing tonight. These gripes aside, I have enjoyed the messaging.

The phone is small but extremely light. I have not found a phone that is this size that is so light. I concede that the Nokia’s little red pepper phone is smaller and thus lighter, but I do not have the need to shell out 200 bucks. My phone came in a teal color that is really quite attractive and I've enjoyed it. One thing about the design though, the antenna sticks out a full inch and this is annoying because its always sticking out of my pocket and, well...
The last cellphone I had, I had a Motorola that had a rechargeable battery in it, but it also could run on 4 AA batteries. (Yes, it was quite bulky but very handy) When I opened up the back of my phone I was glad to see three AAA looking batteries in the back. It is handy when you're traveling and you forgot your charger to just slip in duracell batteries. However, when I tried to put AAA batteries in, the were to short. The phone runs on AAA type L batteries. I have since found out that this battery type is very common in Europe for headlamps on bicycles. However I don't ride a bike in Europe, I drive a Taurus in Texas.

All gripes aside, this is a very nice phone. It handles calls really nicely, does a decent job on the WAP, and the design is nice. I would definitely recommend this phone to people who want a small, cheap phone for those techies out there who like the idea of have knowledge at your fingertips at all times.




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