most reliable phone for use in eastern europe

[Bossman]

Any cheapo Nokia or Moto that has the 900/1800 bands will do. The Moto V195 is quite nice for a basic quadband. Just make sure it's on automatic band selections. I am almost certain that was the problem with the V66. It does not have automatic band selection and it has to be done manually. It was probably set to 1900 and they forgot or did not know that had to manually select the appropriate bands for europe under network/band selection.