"RBM" <rbm@noemail.com> wrote in message
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> "Wally" <w_cohen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> My son continually either loses his phone or somehow manages to damage
>> the charging ports on EVERY phone I've ever gotten him. This is why I
>> never buy him a new phone (at least not from Verizon) and get new, or
>> mostly new, from Ebay.
>>
>> Anyone recommend a good, durable vzw phone that I can get him
>> (again...) that won't be too bad as far as any texting he does? He
>> has said that for some reason the phones that have charging ports with
>> internal contact pins are the ones he invariably ends up breaking and
>> hence cannot be reliably charged.
>>
>> I'm initially thinking of the LG VX8300 as I know it has always been
>> one of LG's better, more reliable phones - more so than their follow-
>> on models of the phone.
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>> Thanks,
>> Walt
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> I don't know how texting is with a VX8300, but I've used one for 3 years
> and find it extremely reliable in every respect. I got a gel skin for
> mine, which gives it a little protection and makes it easy to grip. I have
> always charged mine in my truck, in a pretty awkward position, and the
> contact never lets go. I bought one for my dad, who broke his, on Ebay for
> less than $100 shipped
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Texting must be doable, heaven knows my son does enough texting with his
8300.