Audiovox CDM135 Cell Phone

Prior to purchasing the Audiovox CDM135, I owned a Motorola V series 8160. I paid $425 for the motorola, thinking it was the best cell phone on the market. I could not have been more wrong! I have never had more dropped calls or weak signals before in my life! I originally thought the weak signal was because of my provider, Verizon, but it was not. It was the phone. After owning the 8160 for less than a year, I began having mechanical problems with it. The area on the phone where it shows you your signal strength, battery life, and voice mail notification went blank for no reason one day, and never came back. That's when I began my search for a "new" phone. Fearing that I would again be burned by purchasing another big ticketed phone, I decided to buy a used phone. I did some research and found the Audiovox CDM135. I bought it online for a pretty good price ($35). My first reaction to the phone was WOW! After using a $425 phone for 8 months and having nothing but problems, the extremely inexpensive phone has been a God send. The call quality is great, the phone rarely has to roam, and as far as I can remember, I have not had a dropped call. I once had the phone on for over 24 hours without charging it, made several calls, and the battery still was not dead (the Motorola doesn't last half as long and seems to "roam" at least 3 - 5 times a day). I wish I had found this phone earlier. It would have saved me almost $400! My complaints are few. One of the few things I liked about the Motorola was the phone book. It stored up to 100 entries on it and you would be able to save up to 5 numbers on each entry, versus the Audiovox which holds up to 99 entries, with only 1 number per entry. You also don't have any "smart buttons" to get to the phone book on the Audiovox. You have to hit the menu button, then hit phone book, then decide how you want the phone book accessed i.e. by name, or location. Another downside of this phone is the ringer. First the vibrating ringer. It is a little weak. Also, the "ringing" ringers are few and far between. Giving credit to Audiovox, this is an older phone and at the time, the available ringers on this phone were about all that was available. Even the ringers on this phone beat Motorola, who to this day have the same boring ringers that they have had since digital phones hit the market (they still have the ringer from the analog days programmed in their phone!). Overall, I would recomend not just this phone, but Audiovox phones in general. They truly seem to have their act together!