My Absolute Favorite Cell Phone
Written: Aug 12 '05
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Pros: Long battery life, great speakerphone, great phone book features, great size, weight and feel
Cons: Sprint only
The Bottom Line: I love this phone. It's the best I've ever had and I have no plans to replace it with any of this new crap that's coming out.
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| readparse's Full Review: Sprint TouchPoint 2200 Cell Phone |
This phone is so old now that it's hardly worth reviewing. You can get it on eBay for practically nothing and accessories are getting harder to find. Forget about buying accessories in the store for it.
I bought this phone in probably late 1999 or early 2000, meaning that I have now had it more than 5 years. This is a long time to own a cell phone. A year or so ago, I was contemplating color displays and new wireless web functionality and I thought it was probably time to buy a new phone. Soon, though, a couple of people at my company got a very snazzy new phone that uses Microsoft Windows Mobile and has all the new features... camera, video, e-mail, full graphical web browsing, etc... we decided to get one for me too, so that solved my cell phone problem. I figured I could drop my Sprint service and just use a work phone.
So I got the phone in the later stages of Christmas shopping season, when I was running all over town buying gifts and calling my wife from parking lots and stores a great deal. I couldn't stand that phone almost immediately. I found that I was really missing my phone, and over the next several months, I came to really appreciate the Touchpoint 2200 for what it is. It's a great phone.
The new phone that I got from work tries to be everything. It can play music, play videos, record videos, take photos, surf the web, everything. Oh yeah, and it also tries to be a phone. So it's not a very good phone, because it has too much other stuff to think about.
My Touchpoint 2200, on the other hand, is none of these things (although it does have simple, text-based wireless web capability, which is cool when you need it, but I hardly ever use it). This phone is simply a really great phone. It sounds great, works great, the phone book is great (multiple numbers for each person, all labeled with H, W, M, F or nothing to indicate which number is which). It has a very good volume control and speakerphone. The rings are very good and unique -- I never hear my rings from other phones. In fact, I've never seen anybody else on the street with my phone.
It's pretty durable, because I've dropped it numerous times over the years and it's still ticking. The battery on it is unbelievable, even after all these years it's good. But when the battery was new (and I just got a new one, too, so I have 2 now), it lasts for a really long time and charges very quickly.
I love this phone, I love it, I love it, I love it.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 80
Recommended for: Adventurous Technophiles - Tough and Durable
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