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LTHOUGH Mr. Sheinwald39。t want to change my plan。s Nokia may not be for everybody, most phones these days are much more than just phones. Many now allow a user to snap photos, surf the Web, and send and receive 。制造商們不僅在生產(chǎn)更小、更輕以及更精美的手機,而且他們還在給手機增加越來越多的功能,這使得以往那些功能單一的手機漸漸遭到用戶遺忘?!? 分析人士稱,上述手機的多功能性、小巧精致的外觀以及使用的簡單化反映出最近幾年手機行業(yè)取得了突飛猛進的發(fā)展。s models look like the clunky municators on old Star Trek episodes.Although Mr. Abelon39。s team uses its phones primarily for work, many consumers expect a little whimsy from their phones. Most models include calculators, calendars and speeddial functions. Increasingly, they also include games, personalized ring tones and cameras.But intriguing as those features are, will the average person really use many of them? Probably not. Besides, they drain batteries, and too many demands on the puter chips inside a phone can sometimes weaken reception. The best way to find out if the extras are right for you, and whether a phone gets good reception where you live, is to take advantage of a 15 or 30day trial period. That would have saved Ellen Anderson a headache. When Ms. Anderson, 49, of Austin, Tex., upgraded her plan with Cingular, she was told that her old Nokia phone would not work with the new service because Cingular was switching to a different network technology. So, reluctantly, she bought a Nokia 6340i and soon found that, for her needs, it had a weak signal and poor sound. She asked Cingular if she could pay extra for a Motorola T720, but was told, apparently in error, that she could not upgrade her phone because her contract had just started. I did