Motorola V810
tri-mode
All they hype about which phones are tri-mode. I just don't get it. How often do you really make calls in Analog? I live on the eastern shore of Maryland. You don't get closer to the middle of nowhere than where I live. I only see analog on my phone about once a week, and I use my phone all day long. I sell the LG6000 and 3100, and never get any returned for not being tri-mode. Whats cool is that all digital phones hang onto a digital signal better than a tri-mode does. Analog towers are constantly being converted. By the time these new all digital phones come out that you have been salivating over there won't be hardly any analog towers left. Whenever my phone is in analog (Very rarely) and I need to make a call, I turn it off and back on a...
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You have the option to lock the 4400 into an all digital mode through the service programming menu ("0" from the menu screen and I believe six more "0"s for the security code). I know three people with the 4400. They also live in the middle of nowhere and locked their phones into all digital and say the service is much better. Hope this helps.
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I live in Sussex County, Delaware which is not too far from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Granted VZW is the best by far, but you still need a tri-mode phone. There are places you may have to switch the phone over to analog to get enough signal to make a call. I think of it as security for an emergency situation.
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