1st and only phone, for 2 1/2 years now (since May 2003) on Verizon... 13217 calls, 28334 minutes. I'll stay with it till it dies or they peel it from my cold dead hands...
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I've had mine for, I think, a year and a half.
Verizon - works great, one hard reset, but.....
I just ordered a Motorola MPx 220 from Cingular. I'm just tired of walking around with this big phone - I know it's smaller than every other PDA phone, but it's still too big. I have to use the belt clip, so it sticks out, and jackets and long shirts just don't fit right. Looks like I'm carrying a .38.
As long as Cingular works good (NYC), I'll probably keep the MPx 220. I'll give it a year, and then my 7135 goes on sale.
I'm using my 3rd 7135 (started with them in May of 2003) as a backup phone for my Treo 650. The 650 is a far better phone (and I got over my flip phone predjudices with the help of Bluetooth headsets) except for:
Reception - K7135 is way better in marginal locations and of course supports analog.
Still here for now, 7135 on VW almost 2 years old and no major problems (knock on wood) Love the clamshell and tri-mode and mp3. Would love a new clamshell, trimode, Palm device but who knows when/if that will ever happen
I'm on number 7!! I Don't OverClock as much as I used too. I do eventually learn. I don't know what I'll do when this one finally dies. They are not exchanging them and, like everyone else, have not seen a suitable replacement, you know, something that can run Bebopper would be nice. Clam shell too. It still amazes me. I still find things about this phone that I didn't know before even after 2 1/2 yrs. First one arrived on my B-day April 14 2003. Nice B-day gift to myself, even if unstable.
Still on my first 7135 (after 2 1/4 years). Works just like the day I bought it. It's pretty beat up, it's hit the pavement a good number of times. Still have the original battery as well. When the phone was new I bought a spare back up battery but soon lost it. Haven't replaced it yet but I do think the original battery is not lasting quite as well as when it was newer.
Had mine for almost a year, spotty results but I would prefer my sort of junky 7135 to a 650 any day of the week.
BTW, the only Torx heads I can find at Home Depot are in a kit and they don't use the numerical designation, i.e., #7, #6, but instead tiny fractions of an inch. What is the equivalent to a #6, please? I need to get in and clean the charging contacts, hoping that will fix my major problem.
Otherwise, it's off to the little shoemaker-I-mean-7135 repairman on eBay.
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BTW, the only Torx heads I can find at Home Depot are in a kit and they don't use the numerical designation, i.e., #7, #6, but instead tiny fractions of an inch. What is the equivalent to a #6, please?
I just got a set from Home Depot, Husky brand, it's an 8-in-1 set labelled precision screwdriver set, it's got size 4-10 & 15. I found it in the screwdriver section.
Torx is always designated by #, I've never seen them done by inches. HTH
I'm now ready to try a brain transplant-taking the radio board out of my tired 7135 (21341 minutes), and putting it in the newer body. I like the 650, but I'm going to try and stick with the 7135 as long as I can.
Good quality individual Torx screw drivers are available at Sears. I bought a #6 for $2.00 just to have in case I needed it to open my 7135. Cheap Torx bit sets frequently do not have a #6 (they skip from #5 to #7) and when they do, it usually doesn't fit the screw heads properly. There is a significant risk of ruining the screw head trying to use these bits.
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