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Does anybody know of a cell phone with the following features? I use cingular.

#1. It's gotta be rugged. I beat the hell out of all of my eequipment. I need to be able to drop it off of the tip of the aerial truck!

#2. It's gotta be LOUD!!!!! loud ringer AND voice.

The following features are nice to have.

Text Messaging
Datebook
calculator
alarm clock
voice storage
phone lock
vibrate


thanks for your help.

Nokia makes a couple of export phones that meet the spec, problem is IIRC they don't do GSM 850, so they won't work on Cingular. (they will work with T-Mobile and other 1900 GSM carriers).

If you want rugged public safety tough you'll have to port over to Nextel...the I325is is about the most rugged portable around...more of a radio than a phone! The i580 isn't bad either, rugged iDEN flip with camera, media player, etc.

problem is consumer phones are cheap, plastic POSes that aren't designed for commercial/industrial enviornments. Carry a Razr or LG Chocolate in a public safety environment...see how long it lasts.

I forgot to say. It has to be a flip and I need to stay with cingular. Can I use a nextel phone on the cingular network?

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