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So, I bought a new phone a few weeks back when our VZW contract came up for renewal. With a $50 rebate from Motorola, VZW having them on sale, and me having a $100 credit for renewing for another two years, I got a Razr for $30. I went ahead and sprung for the bluetooth kit, which came with the HS850 bluetooth ear doodad, a car charger for the phone, and a belt clip for $99.
The phone, the BT ear thingy, and the car charger are all great. The belt clip is another story. This is a flip phone. I am not a fan of flip phones. At all. I liked my Nokia phones. They were in a nice leather holster with a flange on the back that slid into a locking clip. When the phone rang, I just thumbed the release and put it to my ear while hitting the Any Key. They were open face phones. VZW only carries one or two of the current Nokia line, and they are low end garbage. My 3589i wasn't the top of the line, but neither was it what Nokia gives away on the street for free. Buying a top end phone directly from Nokia would cost me multiple hundreds of dollars, and there's no guarantee VZW would be willing to activate it on their network (and in all likelihood, they would not since they wouldn't be able to cripple it, forcing me to buy ringtones and applications through their VCAST service).
To get back to my neglected, and now sulking dejectedly in the corner, point, I have a flip phone, which requires me to remove it from the belt clip to do most of the things I did with my Nokias still secure in theirs (like, oh, charging the battery). The belt clip is a rigid plastic thing with a couple of teeth that 'flex' when the phone is inserted or removed. Since I have to take the phone out of it to do anything other than answer an incoming call (which I can do with the earpiece), the clip sees a lot of use. The first of the two teeth that hold the phone in came off in less than a week. The other came off just a little while ago.
My options are now to carry it around, which is impractical and annoying, put it in my pocket, which will lead to me forgetting it's there until I sit down and break it, or not carry it, which sort of negates the whole fucking point. I could give VZW another $20 for a leather carrying case that doesn't require removal, but fuck them, I'll order one direct from Motorola.
The sad thing is, they could have bundled the leather case with the BT headset instead of the plastic one. They charge the same for both (although I don't know if they were offering it yet at that point since VZW had only just started carrying the Razr when I bought it, and I see they've gone to a lower grade headset bundle in the interim as well).
The phone, the BT ear thingy, and the car charger are all great. The belt clip is another story. This is a flip phone. I am not a fan of flip phones. At all. I liked my Nokia phones. They were in a nice leather holster with a flange on the back that slid into a locking clip. When the phone rang, I just thumbed the release and put it to my ear while hitting the Any Key. They were open face phones. VZW only carries one or two of the current Nokia line, and they are low end garbage. My 3589i wasn't the top of the line, but neither was it what Nokia gives away on the street for free. Buying a top end phone directly from Nokia would cost me multiple hundreds of dollars, and there's no guarantee VZW would be willing to activate it on their network (and in all likelihood, they would not since they wouldn't be able to cripple it, forcing me to buy ringtones and applications through their VCAST service).
To get back to my neglected, and now sulking dejectedly in the corner, point, I have a flip phone, which requires me to remove it from the belt clip to do most of the things I did with my Nokias still secure in theirs (like, oh, charging the battery). The belt clip is a rigid plastic thing with a couple of teeth that 'flex' when the phone is inserted or removed. Since I have to take the phone out of it to do anything other than answer an incoming call (which I can do with the earpiece), the clip sees a lot of use. The first of the two teeth that hold the phone in came off in less than a week. The other came off just a little while ago.
My options are now to carry it around, which is impractical and annoying, put it in my pocket, which will lead to me forgetting it's there until I sit down and break it, or not carry it, which sort of negates the whole fucking point. I could give VZW another $20 for a leather carrying case that doesn't require removal, but fuck them, I'll order one direct from Motorola.
The sad thing is, they could have bundled the leather case with the BT headset instead of the plastic one. They charge the same for both (although I don't know if they were offering it yet at that point since VZW had only just started carrying the Razr when I bought it, and I see they've gone to a lower grade headset bundle in the interim as well).
