Choosing a Cell Phone

You can begin to narrow down your choices. The best way to do this is to make a list of the cellular phone features that you need to have. You should also make a list of the features that you�d like to have but could live without. Generally speaking you should choose your calling plan before your cellular phone, but you can work either way. If you are looking at a specific phone with very specific features, your choices of cellular carriers is going to be somewhat limited. To make things easier we�ve created the cell phone comparison sheet. You can use it to help you narrow down your choices.

	Phone 1	Phone 2	Phone 3	Phone 4	Phone 5
Phone Style (flip or  candybar)
Antenaa Type
Band (800/1800/1900)
Modes (single/dual/triple/quad)
Battery type (NiCad/NiMH/Li-Ion)
Talk time in mnutes
Standby time in hours
Silent ring/vibrate
Speaker Phone
Headset Jack
Camera Phone
Blue tooth
Infra-red port
USB port
Download ringtones
Voice Dialing
Display phonebook
Full text keyboard
Predictive text
Text Messageing
Wireless Internet