convoy 3 is about it as far as decent flips.. If you are not on a shareplan and the phone is on a plan by itself they now have a $45 plan that has unlimited text, talk and a very low 250MB of data. You can put a smartphone on it and turn the cellular data off and just use wifi to avoid going over the data limit.

Thought is you can get a smartphone plan pretty cheap if you don't care about data, this opens up a lot more options as far as phones go.

You can also get a casio ravine on ebay dirt cheap off contract for around $60.. they are decent phones.

daigo1 said:
I went through 2 flip phones from Verizon within the past year and they both broke on me and have bad call quality. Is there a different phone I can buy on like eBay or a 3rd party site that will work with Verizon and is reliable (will last at least 2 years without malfunctioning or degrading in quality) with good call quality?

Best Verizon phones to get:

-Casio Ravine 2

-Casio Ravine 1

-Motorola Barrage

These three have the best call quality. You may also want to get an extended battery to give you more time between charges. You will really need an extended battery for the Casio Ravine 2, for it only has about a 5 hour talk time.

Of the three, the Motorola Barrage offers the...
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