I have owned plenty of cellular phones over the last few years, as I am sure most people have, and while none have been that extraordinary, some have absolutely been crap. The only problem I have ever had with my cell phones has been with the batteries. The cell phone battery has either stopped working or it just would not last long enough and I would need to purchase and carry a replacement battery.

I tend to use my mobile phone often, both for work and for home use, so having another battery is often worth it but having to replace a faulty or damaged battery is disappointing. My latest phone is working ok but I would like a replacement battery for those times when I am not in the office.

Cell Phone Battery

These are the details of my latest phone (yeah, I know it is a bit old, I really should find a new cell phone):

Samsung SGH-X660 Unlocked

Product Short Spec:

Band / mode:

GSM 900/1800/1900 (Tri-Band)

Talk time:

Up to 210 min

Combined with:

With digital camera

Weight:

2.8 oz

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So for now the true question is do I spend the money purchasing a new Samsung SGH-X660 Unlocked mobile phone battery or do I just get a new phone with a longer life battery? Replacement batteries are fairly inexpensive but a new phone would be good too. I must make a decision…

I have owned a number of cell phones over recent years, as I am sure everyone has, and while none have been that extraordinary, some have absolutely been rubbish. The most common problem I have ever had with my cellular phones has been with the batteries. The cellular phone battery has either died or it just would not last long enough and I would need to purchase and carry a replacement battery.

I do use my cellular phone a lot, both for my work and for personal use, so having another battery is often worth it but having to replace a faulty or damaged battery is disappointing. My current phone is working fine but I would like a replacement battery for those times when I am not in the office.

Cell Phone Batteries

These are the details of my latest phone (yeah, I know it is a bit obsolete, I really should find a new cell phone):

Verizon Wireless G’zOne Type-V

Positives:
The G’zOne Type-V is an extremely rugged durable phone that can withstand submersion in water and multiple drops to the floor. It offers decent call quality, a speakerphone, a 2-megapixel camera, and support for 3G EV-DO networks.
Negatives:
The G’zOne Type-V lacks Bluetooth, a music player, analog roaming, and an expandable memory slot.
Facts:
The ultrastrong G’zOne Type-V is a perfect phone for extreme sports enthusiasts. It lacks some key offerings but otherwise offers a decent selection of features and performance.

Photo gallery: G’zOne Type-V

So for now the right question is do I spend the money purchasing a new Verizon Wireless G’zOne Type-V cellular phone battery or do I just purchase a new phone with a better performing battery? Replacement batteries are quite inexpensive but a new phone would be good too. I must make a decision…

I have owned plenty of cell phones over the last few years, as I am sure most people have, and while none have been particularly amazing, some have absolutely been useless. The main problem I have ever had with my cellular phones has been with the batteries. The cell phone battery has either died or it just would not last long enough and I would need to get and carry a replacement battery.

I generally use my cellular phone regularly, both for work and for personal use, so having a second battery is often worthwhile but having to replace a faulty or damaged battery is annoying. My newest phone is working well but I would like a replacement battery for those times when I am travelling.

Cell Phone Battery

These are the details of my most current phone (yeah, I know it is a bit obsolete, I really should get a new cell phone):

Samsung e335

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So I suppose the right question is do I spend the money buying a new Samsung e335 mobile phone battery or do I just buy a new phone with a better performing battery? Replacement batteries are reasonably cheap but a new phone would be fun. Decisions, decisions…

I have had numerous mobile phones over the years, as I am sure most people have, and while none have been especially amazing, some have absolutely been useless. The only problem I have ever had with my cell phones has been with the batteries. The battery has either stopped working or it just would not last long enough and I would need to buy and carry a replacement battery.

I always use my cellular phone regularly, both for my job and for personal use, so having another battery is often worthwhile but having to replace a faulty or damaged battery is aggravating. My current phone is working well but I would like a replacement battery for times when I am not in the office.

Cell Phone Battery

These are the details of my current phone (yep, I know it is a bit obsolete, I really should purchase a new mobile phone):

UTStarcom CDM-120 (CDM-7025)

Positives:
The UTStarcom CDM-120 is a basic entry-level clamshell with text messaging, e-mail, voice recording and dialing, a speakerphone, analog roaming, and a tactile keypad.
Negatives:
The UTStarcom CDM-120 lacks an external display and a Web browser; additionally, it doesn’t support downloadable personalization options.
Facts:
The UTStarcom CDM-120 for Sprint is an entry-level clamshell with a trim feature set. Easy to use, it’s ideal for cell phone newbies.

While camera and music phones may be all the rage these days, most people just want a cell phone that can make calls. So despite the hype around fancy handsets, entry-level cell phones still have a place in today’s market, especially for those that can’t always afford the latest and greatest in cell phone technology. The UTStarcom CDM-120 from Sprint Nextel, for example, is as basic as cell phones get, with a supertrim feature set. It’s available for $149.99, but with a new two-year contract with Sprint, you can get it for free.

From the inside out, the UTStarcom CDM-120 is the definition of simplicity. Its black and dark-gray plastic exterior bears no markings, save for a Sprint logo and a LED on the front cover that glows when the phone is charging. The CDM-120 doesn’t even have an external screen; in this regard, it’s perhaps too bare for a lot of people, as it means you must open the flip to see who’s calling. On the left spine are a volume rocker and a headset jack, while on the right spine is a charger port. On the bottom, you’ll find an accessory port for accessories such as a USB cable, whereas an extendable antenna resides up top. The overall handset is compact (3.46 by 1.9 by 0.8 inches) and lightweight (3.2 ounces); it feels comfortable in the hand and when cradled next to the ear.

From the inside out, the UTStarcom CDM-120 is the definition of simplicity.

When the phone is open, you’re presented with a 1.5-inch-diagonal internal screen that seems a little too small. It supports 65,000 colors, which is typical of most basic cell phones. While you can’t adjust its brightness and font size, you can adjust the contrast and the backlight time. The default menu style consists of large graphical symbols denoting the menu options, or you can select a list-style display. We had no trouble viewing the screen indoors, but in direct sunlight, it appeared faded and washed out.

Below the display are the navigational controls, which consist of two soft keys, the contacts list, and the calendar. You’ll also find a My Favorites folder that holds customized shortcuts to frequently accessed applications and a five-way navigational toggle that doubles as shortcuts to messaging,. Below the toggle is the Back button, flanked by the Talk and End/power keys on either side. Much like the numerical keypad underneath, all the navigational controls and keys are slightly raised above the surface of the phone, making for a tactile navigation and dialing. The keys glow with a blue backlight when activated, and the backlight time is adjustable.

The UTStarcom CDM-120 has a 500-contact phone book, with room in each entry for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, and a memo. Plus, you can assign contacts to caller groups or pair them with one of 25 polyphonic (32-chord) ring tones. Organizational tools consist of an alarm clock, a calendar, a scheduler, a countdown clock, a memo pad, a world clock, a stopwatch, a calculator, and a unit converter. Other features include six vibration modes, text messaging, enhanced messaging service for sounds and emoticons, four minutes of voice recording, voice-activated dialing, caller ID, and a speakerphone that you can turn on as you’re dialing a number. The CDM-120 has 16MB of flash memory.

You can personalize the UTStarcom CDM-120 with a variety of wallpaper and a personal greeting, and you can display your calendar or clock as a screensaver. There are two included games: Board Mania (a snowboarding game) and Ace of Aces (a flying title). Unfortunately, because there’s no Web browser, you can’t download more games or personalization options.

We tested the dual-band/trimode UTStarcom CDM-120 (CDMA 800/1900; AMPS 800) on the Sprint Nextel network in San Francisco. Callers heard us loud and clear, and vice versa, though there was a little static in certain locations. The speakerphone had good sound quality as well. The UTStarcom CDM-120 has a rated talk time of 3.5 hours while it showed a talk time of 3 hours in our tests. It has a rated standby time of 10.5 days. According to FCC radiation tests, the CDM-120 has a digital SAR rating of 1.16 watts per kilogram.

So I suppose the right question is do I spend the money getting a new UTStarcom CDM-120 (CDM-7025) cell phone battery or do I just buy a new phone with a better battery? Replacement batteries are reasonably low cost but a new phone would be good too. Always decisions need to be made.

I have bought plenty of mobile phones over the last few years, as I am sure everyone has, and while none have been particularly great, some have most definitely been rubbish. The most common problem I have ever had with my cell phones has been with the batteries. The battery has either died or it just would not last long enough and I would need to buy and carry a replacement battery.

I generally use my cell phone a lot, both for my career and for home use, so having a second battery is often worthwhile but having to replace a faulty or damaged battery is annoying. My latest phone is working ok but I would like a replacement battery for times when I am not in the office.

Cellular Phone Battery

These are the details of my current phone (yeah, I know it is a bit past it, I really should purchase a new mobile phone):

Samsung SGH-D807

Positives:
The Samsung SGH-D807 is a beautifully designed world phone, with a great user interface to boot. It also features a 1.3-megapixel camera, a microSD card, Bluetooth, mobile e-mail, and a speakerphone. Performance is great, and photo quality is decent enough.
Negatives:
The Samsung SGH-D807 has slippery navigation controls that are a bit too flush to the surface. Plus, the camera has no flash.
Facts:
The Samsung SGH-D807 is a slim slider that should appeal to fashionistas and gadget geeks alike. Its sleek design and ample features are hampered only by its slippery navigation keys.

Note: This product is part of the Samsung SGH-D807 series. .

Although Motorola grabbed the early lead with its popular Razr, Samsung has made a name for itself in the slim-phone market. What with thin, well-received models such as the Samsung MM-A900, the Samsung SGH-T809, and the Samsung SGH-T509, the company is certainly giving Motorola a run for its money. The latest slim phone in Samsung’s arsenal is the Samsung SGH-D807 for Cingular, a slider phone that appears to be an update of the aforementioned SGH-T809. With its sleek design and ample features, the SGH-D807 should appeal to a broad audience. It retails for $179.99, but you can get it from Cingular for $129.99 after a mail-in rebate and a two-year service agreement.

It’s no secret that slim phones are in, and the Samsung SGH-D807 does not disappoint. It’s a beautifully designed handset that hits a home run as far as first impressions go. Wrapped in a matte-black finish and silver border accents, its slim, lightweight form factor (3.98 by 2.09 by 0.61 inches; 3.3 ounces) makes it a joy to hold, both in the hand and next to the ear. Because it’s so skinny, it also slips easily into a pocket and hardly takes up room in a purse. The SGH-D807 slider mechanism is easily operable with one hand, and it slides open in one swift motion.

The Samsung SGH-D807 is a beautifully designed phone.

Another design showstopper is the Samsung SGH-D807’s gorgeous 262,000-color display, which measures an impressive 2 inches diagonally (176×220 pixels). The user interface on the SGH-D807 certainly takes advantage of the extra real estate with stunning, color-saturated graphics, as well as eye-catching animated menu icons. You can also change the backlight time of the display and select whether you want the LCD to turn all the way off or just have a dimmed effect. The screen’s brightness is adjustable, as are the size and the color of the dialing display font.

Underneath the display are the navigational controls, which consist of two soft keys; a four-way toggle with a middle OK key (marked with the Cingular logo); the regular talk and End/power keys; and the cancel key in between them. The four-way toggle also acts as a shortcut to four user-defined functions, and the OK key in the middle defaults to the Media Net Web browser. While the keys are large enough, they are slippery and too flush to the surface of the phone. As a result, we had a few misdials, such as clicking two buttons at once or clicking the wrong button entirely, which sometimes resulted accidental deletions. This is a concern especially if you have large hands.

Slide the Samsung SGH-D807 upward, and you’re presented with a slightly recessed keypad. The keypad is also slightly flush to the surface, but thanks to minor texture details, it’s possible to dial by feel. It was nowhere as slippery as the navigation controls. Rounding out the phone’s design are the charger/headset port and the volume rocker on the left spine, with a microSD card slot on the right spine. Sliding the phone upward, you’ll note a 1.3-megapixel camera lens and a self-portrait mirror on the back. As a result, you can’t take photos with the slider closed.

The Samsung SGH-D807 has a microSD card slot.

Surprisingly for such a slim phone, the Samsung SGH-D807 has plenty of features to go around. First, the basics: Its contact list holds up to 1,000 entries, and each entry can accommodate five numbers, an e-mail address, and a note. You can personalize each contact with a photo caller ID or a custom ring tone, and you can organize them into a caller group of your choice. There are 11 polyphonic ring tones to choose from, and the SGH-D807 supports MP3 ring tones, which you can download from Cingular. Organizational tools include an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, notes, a calculator, a unit converter, a timer, a stopwatch, and a world clock. Rounding out the basic features are text and multimedia messaging, instant messaging (AOL, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo), mobile e-mail (Yahoo Mail, MSN Hotmail, AOL Mail, and SBC Yahoo Mail), a speakerphone, a voice recorder, a vibrate mode, voice dialing, Bluetooth, and a WAP 2.0 browser. The phone also supports EDGE data speeds, which is especially handy when downloading additional applications.

A welcome feature on the Samsung SGH-D807 is its 1.3-megapixel camera. There’s no flash, so it’s not great in low light, but you can adjust the camera’s brightness setting. There’s also a 10X digital zoom for close-up shots, and you can take photos in six different resolutions (1,280×1024, 1,152×864, 800×600, 640×400, 320×240, and 176×144) and four different quality settings (Fine, Super-Fine, Normal, and Economy). There are some fun camera settings, such as color effects, including Grayscale, Negative, Sepia, Emboss, Sketch, Antique, and Moonlight; 24 fun frames; multishot (up to 15 shots at a time) and mosaic-shot (from 2×2 to 3×3) features; and a self-timer. You can choose to set your viewfinder in full-screen or standard ratio, and you can set the sound effects of the shutter, the zoom, and the brightness adjustments. Picture quality was satisfactory for a 1.3-megapixel camera–not excellent but still pretty good compared with the lower-quality VGA camera phones out there. As for video, you can shoot in one of two resolutions–176×144 and 128×96–and record with the audio on or off. Recorded clips were predictably low quality. After taking photos or recording video, you can store them on the phone’s built-in 18MB of memory or on an additional microSD card for more storage. Then you can send them via multimedia message to any of your friends or transfer them to your computer, either via the card or Bluetooth.

The Samsung SGH-D807 produced satisfactory picture quality.

The Samsung SGH-D807 comes with an MP3 player that has a user-friendly interface, and you can download tunes to the phone via the microSD card. MP3 player settings include repeat, shuffle, two different visualization modes, and a backlight (either always on or normal), and you can set the volume of the MP3 player separately from the phone’s ring or speaker volume.

You’ll be spoiled with personalization options on the Samsung SGH-D807. You can customize not only the wallpaper but also how information is displayed (different color fonts; whether you want the graphical logo on the main display), the color for the skin of the phone’s menu system, and the clock style when the screen goes idle. You can personalize the keypad, message, and alert tones, as well as the slider tone, which is the sound the phone makes when you slide the phone open or closed. Of course, you can also download more graphics, wallpaper, and tones from Cingular. Only two games are included–Tetris and Midnight Pool–but you can download more.

We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900; EDGE) Samsung SGH-D807 world phone in San Francisco using Cingular’s service. Calls were loud and clear, and callers reported great sound quality on their end as well. Speakerphone calls were also admirable, and the music from the MP3 player was pretty good too. We had no problem pairing the SGH-D807 with the Jabra BT160 Bluetooth headset, and audio quality remained good, despite a slight decrease in volume. Downloading ring tones and applications was speedy, thanks to the EDGE network. The Samsung SGH-D807 has a rated talk time of 5 hours and a rated standby time of 10 days; we managed to eke out only 4 hours of talk time in our tests and six and a half days of standby time. According to FCC radiation tests, the SGH-D807 has a digital SAR rating of 0.516 watt per kilogram.

So I suppose the true question is do I spend the money buying a new Samsung SGH-D807 cellular phone battery or do I just purchase a new phone with a better performing battery? Replacement batteries are reasonably cheap but a new phone would be nice. Always decisions need to be made.