Samsung SGH-C225 (T-Mobile)

Summary: A great reliable industrial grade workhorse phone. A simple to use phone, no frills or extras.

Summary: Well I been using this phone for over a year now and it been a fine phone. It is always clear and reception has been always excellent. Battery life could be better too!

The only think wrong with it is that it is kind of bulk to carry in your pant pocket - front! To turn it from standby to active; you have to press a couple of key combinations which takes a few seconds and to go back to standby by hold a key down. Not the most efficient in operations.

Also, people kind of think you are very needy or put you down when you are shown talking or carrying it in public.

In San Francisco for example, I was talking on the public bus and got looks from school children age 12-15 and they were mocking my phone. "Looks like sh*t" was the most common comment. They had Razrs and other high end flip type phones and couple had Blackberries. I ask how much those phones cost and asked $250-$500.

So because of this incident; I have purchased a Razr V3 for $213. I well trying to find someone to give my Samsung SGH-D830 too after I get my Razr maybe the superintendent of the school system. I guess; being put down by school children really make one think about how you present yourself to the outside world. How status is created and how the world looks at you base on what you have with you.

It kind of funny but it does put pressure on oneself to conform to society's standards or at least school kids standards. I guess there is a level of peer pressure that transends age - called keeping up with the Jones or at least their kids(school kids)!