Tough but simple phones
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:20 am
Hi everyone,
Before you say "google it", I did already and have some ideas but I want to see what you guys think or have experienced.
I am looking for a phone that is rock solid durable but doesn't have a million stupid "features". The features that I require:
1) Make phone calls
2) Send/receive text messages (only text, no MMS garbage)
3) Calender (just so I can see what day of the month it is, I don't need to put my appointments or whatever there)
4) Alarm clock (it would be awesome 9000 if I could program it to set the alarm automatically depending on the day)
5) Water proof up to 5 meters. I don't mean resistant, it should be able to receive a phone call at 5 meters of salt and fresh water
6) Shock resistant (I drop my phone almost once a day)
I don't want anything else really, I don't want internet, email, mms, gps, *insert feature that i will never use here*. But the phone has to be very durable, I do a lot of scuba diving so water is always an issue (the red sea caused the death of my last phone). Plus I live in Estonia where there is a ton of snow (seriously, it is snowing right now) so it will be dropped in the snow a lot. Also, I do a bunch of skydiving so it need to be able to take a good hit if I fall on it with decent speed (not asking for it to be able to survive a fall from 4km but you get the idea).
So, I need a simple phone which is not flashy at all that can do just the basic things that I need. If it had some noise cancellation that would be good too since when riding on a boat somewhere the wind can make hearing difficult for both parties. Of course, the cheaper the better.
Any suggestions?
Before you say "google it", I did already and have some ideas but I want to see what you guys think or have experienced.
I am looking for a phone that is rock solid durable but doesn't have a million stupid "features". The features that I require:
1) Make phone calls
2) Send/receive text messages (only text, no MMS garbage)
3) Calender (just so I can see what day of the month it is, I don't need to put my appointments or whatever there)
4) Alarm clock (it would be awesome 9000 if I could program it to set the alarm automatically depending on the day)
5) Water proof up to 5 meters. I don't mean resistant, it should be able to receive a phone call at 5 meters of salt and fresh water
6) Shock resistant (I drop my phone almost once a day)
I don't want anything else really, I don't want internet, email, mms, gps, *insert feature that i will never use here*. But the phone has to be very durable, I do a lot of scuba diving so water is always an issue (the red sea caused the death of my last phone). Plus I live in Estonia where there is a ton of snow (seriously, it is snowing right now) so it will be dropped in the snow a lot. Also, I do a bunch of skydiving so it need to be able to take a good hit if I fall on it with decent speed (not asking for it to be able to survive a fall from 4km but you get the idea).
So, I need a simple phone which is not flashy at all that can do just the basic things that I need. If it had some noise cancellation that would be good too since when riding on a boat somewhere the wind can make hearing difficult for both parties. Of course, the cheaper the better.
Any suggestions?