Steven J. Sobol wrote:

> (The cheap Motorola handsets seem to be crappy regardless of carrier. I wanted
> a Samsung, but T-Mobile seems to be in the dark ages regarding voice dial -
> a few of their handsets don't have it at all, and many only have basic voice
> dial. So I ended up getting a PEBL, which I have come to love in spite of my
> general distaste for anything Motorola... it is the only T-Mo phone that
> currently has speaker-independent voice dial.
>
> The PEBL, which isn't the most expensive Moto but isn't a bargain-basement
> piece of junk either, seems to be a solid little phone. Certainly much better
> than the V188 that sits in my bedroom as a hot-swap phone...)

I too have heard lots of bad things about the V180. My wife got two of them to crap out on her
(granted she dropped one of them). otoh, I got one of the "good" v180's. I've had it almost 18
months and it still works fine. Even left it out sitting on my car during a torrential thunderstorm
and amazingly it still works. Dropped it lots of times so it's pretty scratched up, but yet it
continues to function.

-Jason