If you are looking for the best digital performance, the fewest dropped calls, and a longer lasting battery the cell phone needed is a CDMA digital cell phone. The service providers have not started to market the concept of the CDMA. They think it is too complex for just an average user. Sales people are usually confused to if a phone is really a CDMA phone. Some ways to tell if it possibly is, is by the provider. Some providers that offer these phones are ALL TELL, Cricket Wireless, Qwest, Sprint, Verizon, and Virgin Mobile.