Advice Needed- PDA & Cellphone or Cingular 8125?

I'm trying to decide between a Cingular 8125 or something like a Dell Axim x51z and a RAZR or SE w600i.

I currently have a BB 7100g and a Palm Lifedrive. This duo is becoming something of a drag to carry around everywhere though I love the LD's storage capacity and I like the push email on the BB.

My thoughts are either to get the 8125 and just carry one device or get the Dell Axim and a small cellphone (which originally I intended to get the RAZR but their battery life worries me) which I can use as a modem for the PDA.

Will I find the 8125 insufficient compared to a standalone PDA?

I'd appreciate advice, pros and cons from folks who have experience with any or all of these devices.

I've had a tiny bit of experience with an audiovox smt5600 which appears to be quite simular to a cingular 2125 (not the 8125) which is a really neat phone and still "phone" sized doesn't have the qwerty keypad but runs mobile windows apps. As far as battery life the GSM razr's do ok on battery life and my friend uses his to connect a pda. (a cingular razr) i hear the the razr v3c's that verizon and the cdma carriers use don't have as long battery life but I think like the verizon razr might have more speed for DATA.

I have really enjoyed using my 8125 since I got it two weeks ago. The Windows Mobile OS works pretty well. I've stopped carrying around a notepad.

). Since I have short fat fingers, I have to pull out the stylus at inconvenient times to dial a number or access the menu (guess I need to grow a fingernail..

)).
The things that kinda bug me are hardly worth mentioning, but that never stoppped me...
Battery life ain't great, especially if you run the screen at the brightest setting. And if you use the phone a lot like I do. I keep several chargers around and hope to get a second battery soon. On the other hand, I've never heard anyone ever say "Wow, I'm getting great battery life from my phone!"
For some reason that maybe someone can enlighten me about, when I open programs like Word Mobile, IE, Outlook Mobile, among others, I hit the "X" to close them. But I have to go to Start/Settings/System/Memory/Running programs and manually stop the programs from running. Is there another way to close programs?
So far, no one makes a practical holder for the phone. Too big, too small, lousy beltclip.
Call quality seemed to be a little better on the Razr, just a little. But the signal reception seems to be better (as in I couldn't talk inside our tin building with the Razr, but I can with the 8125.
And I'm finding a few discrepancies between what the manual says and what the phone actually does. Not to say I'm blameless..
Having said this, I'm still very happy with the phone. My issues seem to be more of the getting used to it variety.
And much to my horror, I've already dropped it twice. No problems, but I sure hope I can be more careful.

Geri O

I'm getting an HP 6515, like the 8125 it has WiFi (only via miniSD chip, but it works) but it also has "touch screen" which the 8125 doesn't. I have vonage home service, so I'm going with a data only pkg and getting a vonage "softphone" (fully functional telephone line assigned to whatever device, PC, Laptop, Cellphone, or PDA, it is loaded on) for voice calling to any phone number.

I've been told that the voice/sound quality of the 8125 is not very good. Of course, I'd been told this about my BB 7100g as well and I think the BB has excellent sound quality. But the question needs to be asked as I am getting old and the hearing is beginning to get worse.

How is the 8125 as a phone?

Speaking for myself, I think my Razr had a little better phone quality, but the phone quality of the 8125 has been fine. Actually, I'm a little more aggravated with the touchpad numbers that my fat fingers have a hard time dialing with. But if I can grow a fingernail, that problem will be solved. I think that with any do-it-all solution, there will be at least slight compromises.
Today, I came to like the 8125 even more. I was doing a set-up for a concert and instead of a notepad, a pen that I keep losing, and a phone, I was able to assign inputs to the mixer, write them into a Word file while on the set, IR the file to my notebook out front, and print out a copy to give the stagehands. All while taking 3 phone calls in the process. Waaay cool.

I've owned the SMT5600 for a couple of months, and "played" with both the 2125 for quite a while and the 8125 for almost 3 weeks. My service is Cingular in WA, and the reception for the 5600 and the 2125 was exceptional. Same goes for the 8125. Of course, reception is not AS clear as the Moto RAZR or a good Sanyo handset, but it does it's job. The 8125 is nice to have, like gerio pointed out. I don't like the way the keyboard is made, feels a bit flimsy.

If you want pretty much most of what you're looking for in one package, then go for the 8125. But if call clarity is your is your #1 concern, then you might want to go for the RAZR and Dell combo. Besides, most of my friends go that route..."less hardware in a device, less worries about it getting busted". For me, I don't like carrying a lot of devices, so my MPX220 serves me just fine. Yeah I sacrificed the use of a keyboard, but I can deal with it. I just like my phone because call clarity is just amazing (what else can you expect from the better quality Moto's out there). I normally don't give alot of praise to Moto...I'm an SE-type person.

i personally really like the 8125. there's a good review for it here:

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/cingular-8125.htm

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