Greetings!

My mother and I both have Nokia 5165 TDMA phones, which were
purchased in 2001, and have been working just fine for us! And, we use
them primarily for emergency use only, though we want and do use them for
an occasional "regular" call.

We are currently using ecallplus.com, and prepaid cellular cards.

TDMA will no longer be supported by Cingular after March of next
year.

Things I'm reading indicate that we should use a phone from the
carrier. However, the two phones I see ecallplus offering are Siemens and
NEC.

We were originally thinking we'd want Nokia, especially if we could
use our existing cell phone chargers and battery chargers.

However, looking on the Nokia web site, I see, carrier Cellular, the
GSM 850/1900 phones.

This is truly a minor concern, but I'm just curious, because we'll be
wanting to get new phones as inexpensively (aka cheaply) as possible! :-)

I was thinking a definite "no" for both, battery and cell phone
chargers, for a new Nokia phone compared to a six+ year old Nokia phone.

However, looking on here, it appears that an adapter may be
available, and we would possibly be able to use our existing cell phone
chargers with a potential new Nokia phone? (These plug in, via a
round connector, to the bottom of the phones.)

But, I'm not expecting batteries or battery chargers to be the same.
So, would we very likely need new battery chargers, but possibly not new
cell phone chargers?

We're in Orlando, FL.

Thank you!

Barry
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