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On the F3 you just have to hold the * for 2 seconds to unlock.
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
I carry the Verizon EnV on my run's and although it is a little bulky in a back pocket it doesn't bounce too much..I like a camera phone because every once in a while I'll be on a run and see a pretty scenic setting s o I'll stop and snap a pic. My kid on the other hand has a phone made by casio called the Gzone it is water resistant and shock proof she loves it. http://www.mobilewhack.com/images/casio_gzone.jpg
My wife and I both have sony-ericssons and we love them. I have the w810i, she has the newer w580i. They're mp3 capable with a pretty good camera, which we don't really use that much but it's nice to have. The reception is really good from our experiences with the phones. Her phone even has a fitness program on it, counts the number of steps and a few other things. I think it can estimate your speed and distance too.
My daughter has the Juke and it is about the coolest phone ever. It would be a great running phone, very small and a 2 gig MP3 player. I'd recommend it highly!
I have the Verizon Wireless G'zOne Type-S It's designed to be dropped... seriously. It's a little bulky, but as sturdy as they come.
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This is what I ended up with. Verizon had a phone that I was looking at that would have been perfect--it had 3 ICE buttons and a 911 button, but it didn't have any sort of waist-clip and those pleather ones that fit multiple phones are garbage. The Juke was my second choice. It is TINY! I like the sound and it seems to get a better signal than my old phone, even without an external antenna. Verizon had another phone I liked, but it was larger and weighed 5oz (I think about 2x the weight of the Juke). It's designed to be rugged and pretty bomb-proof, but the weight was a deal-breaker.
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling." - Lucretius
I use a blackberry 8703 all the time. It is my lifeline, but when running I leave it in my car. NO PHONE. Thousands before me have run without a phone and survived, maybe I will be so lucky. Let go of the device for an hour. Clear your head.
If I was concerned about having to make a quick call. I would have got something that is Blue tooth compatible. You see people walking around with it wrapped around an ear. They can be voice activated so you don't have to worry about flipping it open clipping it to your belt for easy access and no hitting of keys..just say "911" and you're connected
Some bluetooth phones allow you to send music to the ear piece, but I don't believe that any Verizon branded phones with let you do this. They lock them down and strip out a lot of the features that Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motrola put in. This of course is so you have to do everything through them and of course pay for stuff. Anyway, that specific feature is called A2DP.
Yeah...well...I live in BFE and am female. Your crackberry may be your "lifeline" when not running, I think of my cell phone as literally my lifeline when I am miles from home and not near any homes or businesses (which is why my first phone choice was the one that had 3 programmable ICE buttons and no camera or music player--just a phone). If I fall and bust something (definitely a risk when I run on unplowed and icy back roads) I don't want to have to drag myself a mile or two to civilization to call for help.