Where are the phones NOT loaded to the gills?!?

I am one of those people that prefers a phone w/o a camera. I was fortunate to find one last August w/o one, but I had to sacrifice an external display just to get a good phone w/o a camera. That phone was the Samsung a650. Verizon Wireless (corporate mall kiosk) was recommending the Audiovox CDM8600, but I told them that I saw too many negative reviews for that phone. The only other phone I would have chosen was the Audiovox CDM8900, just for tri-mode. I wanted a tri-mode phone. I don't like Motorola, didn't want the slider from Kyocera and Kyocera didn't have the KX1 (I believe that is the model #) at the time. I only hope I can find another flip phone w/o a camera and possibly tri-mode, especially should I move to Wisconsin next year since Alltel is the big provider of CDMA service followed by US Cellular, but I'll retain Verizon Wireless since I'll be looking at Milwaukee and Verizon serves Milwaukee.

try nextel its not for eveyone but they have a long line of phone some a little big but might fit ur needs i suggest a i830 or 836 both small with no camera and not ugly by any means and yes u dont have to worry much about the merger it dont affect much of their service

Some people like Nextel, but I don't. The cost of the plans are out of my range, plus they use the proprietary IDEN digital standard, so you either have service or you don't. My mom & sister already had it, but dropped the service after a year because we all travel through rural Indiana and they one day in January 2004 in Rensselaer Indiana and had no service in town. I got a collect call on my cell phone in Knox Indiana while visiting my brother because my mom & sister were lost. Since they had no service in Rensselaer Indiana, they had to use a payphone to call me. After that experience, they dropped Nextel for Verizon Wireless. It works great if you're in one of the largest markets in the major cities, but rural areas are iffy. Now that Sprint has bought out Nextel, they will slowly phase out IDEN. I don't know how soon it'll be before they stop accepting customers on Nextel and require new customers & upgrades to signup for Sprint service, which uses CDMA.

Yes, that does make sense, but it's a shame nonetheless. Like I said, I work in a secure facility and cannot even take my phone into the building, so it gets to bake-or freeze-in my car 5 days a week.

To the Nextel suggesters: I thought about changing services, but I'm happy with TMobile and particularly the international coverage. Thanks for the suggestion tho-