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New Nokia Phones With Full Color And MMS
scrm writes "Nokia have just launched six new phones at the Nokia Mobile Internet Conference. All phones have color and MMS. Interesting is the 6800 that is specially designed for text input, and the premium 8910i with titanium casing, Bluetooth and J2ME apps. Will this company ever stop? (Nokia's press release is here, but the server is being battered right now.)" I've still got a serious lust on for T68i - it's iSync compatible and all that fun.
New Nokia Phones With Full Color And MMS
This is great news for today's trendy consumer since an empty phone without a pack of candy from MARS, Inc. just isn't the same.
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Ah, the name 6800 has a fond place in my heart. The first CPU I learned to hack asm for...
Seriously speaking. It seems that Nokia has realized that if you build phones based on proper modules you can pump out a number of new models each quarter of a year, without too much fuzz.
As for a dream phone, just wait until the P800 is released...
Decisions decisions. Sulk.
Will this company ever stop?
I read an article a couple of months ago where they described the engineering culture at Nokia (I don't remember where, somebody please post a link if you know).
In short, they worship geeks internally, not CYA lawyers, suits and the like.
So, I don't believe they'll ever stop *and* that's a good thing!
Every year, my contract expires, and it's the same story: I decide I want a new phone, and decide to try anything other than a nokia. I've tried Motorola, Samsung and the new Sony-Ericsson models, and I always come back to the nokia user interface. It has a few idiosyncrasies to be sure, but compared to every other phone I've used, Nokia is the easiest to use right off the bat. The one exception was the Mitsubishi Trium phones -- their interface was better, but unfortunately the hardware was awful.
Nokia's press release is here, but the server is being battered right now.
Yeah, let's post a link to the press release on Slashdot. That'll help.
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"
Is anyone else down with the "Dieter from Sprockets" people on this page?
Now is the time on Nokia *ahem* Sprockets when we dance...
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Meaning that I've got little options to buy either of them ever. I'm still stuck with my shitty motorola t193. I'm thinking of a ericsson t39, though. Looks like a very nice not-bells-and-whistles-based phone.
-- dieman - Scott Dier
Their engineering culture pretty guarantees that this innovation will keep going.
I still have the problem with there fonts/image quality. If they have decent have decent fonts/image quaility, the battery lasts not much longer than 12 hours. This is really sad. All the technology we are investing into makes these phones with more features and games (which take a hit on the battery), and not extending the battery life.
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Same with the 6800 and 2100, too...
I can see it turning about three axis and moving along one of the axis (for clicks), giving four DOF. Where is the fifth dimension?
Wait until the same functionality is available in a slightly heavier/bigger. It won't be top of the range (i.e., to show off to the rest of the world), but it will be one heck of a lot cheaper.
That is unless you really want to show the rest of the worls that you are the best pimp/drug dealer/flat-head, etc.
I'm a bit partial to Nokia, as most of their phones are pretty cool compared to sprint "branded" phones from Samsung and others. But most of these Nokias seem to be only available in Europe, Africa and Asia, not the US. Are there any cool, color J2ME supporting phones out there from Nokia that will work in the US? (having a camera is a big plus :)
Other then that, does anyone have experience with these java supporting phones? Can you write your own games and upload them to the phone? Are there APIs for interacting with your phonebook, calendar, etc?
IMO, having a phone that's programmable to do whatever I want is far cooler then being able to download little games from the phone company.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I wounder if the day will ever come, when they forget to implement the "talk" function ;P
Hey! That's my sig you're smoking there!
and that is why I never got a T68, it's absolutely useless in my area (Raleigh-Durham). If I leave the city I would have no service, I have clients in Va and couldn't drive there and get reception, until the providers get their collective sh1t together no new phone for me...
I have the T68m, the original T68. The phone is a real beauty, but be aware that it has poor reception. I have T-mobile and a friend of mine has ATT and the T68i and neither one of us has been happy with it. However, the usability of the phone is great and I love the 5-way mouse.
Oh, oh, oh, I know a slogan: "It's even weirder, and cooler (than 5510)"
Hold out for the 6650.
It has 3G, GPRS, Bluetooth, MMS - and it looks and works really well.
Don't bother wasting your time with the T68i or any of the earlier models in the same family. The reception is horrorable anywhere except right below the cell phone tower. Also, the screen leaves a bit to be desired.
Instead, I would recommend the new Samsung S105. It doesn't have bluetooth like the T68x do, but it has MUCH better reception, a better screen, polyphonic ring tones, Tri-Mode GSM, and I think looks better (if you like flip phones). It's not perfect, but a big improvement over the T68x.
that's great! where can I buy one?
That was classic intercourse!
Nokia and SEGA also announced the N-GAGE device, running symbian and series 60. Looks absolutely stunning.
Still very sketchy with hardware details, except that games are distributed on memory cards. And the only clue that the device is a phone and not just gameboy killer is the dial/hangup buttons!
The other press release also reveals that it has bluetooth, rising some intresting possibilities to use this gadget.
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I've still got a serious lust on for T68i - it's iSync compatible...
;)
Thank goodness it isn't nSync compatible...
I don't understand why Nokia haven't shoved a 128mb MP3 player on any of their phones?! It's a screamingly obvious thing to do - they already have decent batteries and audio circuitry and a screen all in the phone, so adding an MP3 player and a CF slot should be really cheap and easy.
Surely this is something more people than just me would be interested in?
It's a shame I only have three dimensional thumb.
Would be wicked to have five dimensional though, I could scratch my ass more 'directly' by averting my trousers through 4th and 5th dimensions.
I wouldn't need that much space anyway, cause I could cram all my stuff to fourth dimension. I could also buy ugly looking beige PC box and to just keep the monitor 'amongst the living' so to say. hmm... Let's see, I think I left it here.... no...
I've owned using a Sony t68i now for a few months - this has to be the most disapointing phone I have ever had the displeasure of using. I curse the day I ever allowed Orange (UK) to sell it to me.
According to orange, more than 1/3 of the T68s and T68i's ever sent to Orange customers have been returned at least once. Orange no longer recomend the T68 family of phones to anybody who makes 400+ minutes of calls per miniute - it's not up to the job of being a business phone.
First of all, the good points - this is a jewel of a phone. Tiny, pretty and colourful. It's designed with the looks to sucker in geeky types who like cute machines. Thats the good bit over.
Unfortunately, this has to be the least reliable phone I have ever used. Before my T68i, I have owned bricks made by Motrola, and then less brick-like phones made by Nokia. Even my 1996 Motorolla MR1 flip-phone has better signal strength usability and reliability than the T68.
The interface is pretty, but unfortunately the CPU and graphics chip are underpowered - the result is a strange laggy feeling where because the phone takes a fraction of a second to respond, it often leaves the user unsure as to if the button was pressed correctly... so the user ends up pressing the button again, and then fills the screen with redundant characters.
If you allow somebody to sell you this phone, it's worth getting insurance with it (The same goes for the Nokia 8000 and 9000 series phones) - these all have very low MHBF (Mean Hours Before Failure) scores. I'm now on my 4th T68i - every few months I have to get it replaced.
Faults have included, frequent crashes (Orange will admit off the record, that the T68 firmware was just not ready at the time it went to market). Transmission and reception failures - general poor call quiality and lack of reliability. Occaisionally I have had missing menu options, and sporadic and inexplicable freezes.
Anyway, that should be enough to convince you - just dont buy this phone okay?
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of mobile phones have been making lots of headway lately, and its nice to know that nokia is at the forefront of both technology, and user-friendliness.
that being said, i have noticed that whilst the technology of new phones get better and more advanced the build quality has been plummeting. most, if not all handphones that have come out recently do not usually last more than a year of constant, everyday use. this is definitely in sharp contrast to the phones that motorola, ericsson, and other older players in the mobile phone business used to make.
usually within a year, most handphones would already have failing LCDs, loose or cracked casings, non-responsive buttons, and all this for a phone that costs a few hundred when new.
tired? go take a break. take out the old ericsson or motorola analog phone (or a first generation gsm model) you have stashed somewhere, and compare it with the tiny but fragile nokia/motorola/ericsson you have now. observe the cheap and brittle plastic now used, as opposed to the thick and strong bakelite-like material phones used to be made of. as i recall it, my old ericsson had its innards assembled on a metal chassis, which was then covered with a plastic casing, and it survived many many drops, kicks and falls and came out fine.
i'm currently using a nokia 6150, and i refuse to lay down the cash to buy any of the new phones coming out. firstly, its because i don't actually need or use any of the new spiffy features that most phones come with but are redundant to most people. second but more importantly, i'm not going to pay for a phone that won't even last more than a year of daily use, and probably cost 1/100th of its street price to manufacture.
now admittedly, this is due to a change in consumer habits, in that most people buying a new handphone change it within a year, so i don't really blame the mobile phone companies. however, i would definitely appreciate it if they at least gave those of us who buy phones to actually use and expect those phones to last, the option of doing so. i personally abhor people who throw away their old phones just because its no longer a new model and not in fashion, and go out to buy a new one. and before i forget, has anyone forgotten where all these phones go after we throw them away? yes, they fill up the landfills, further poluting the environment, for most countries that don't have strict recycling laws.
nevermind if it doesn't have bluetooth, a built-in organizer, or any of the new-fangled features. just give me dual or tri band capability, sms, the basic functions like call-forwding, conference calls, and you have a happy and loyal customer. i don't need quick-swap faceplates and number pads because i don't see phones as a fasion accesory. i see them as a tool, so build them that way, thanks. and plain black would do, thank you. i don't need a translucent phone with a full led array flashing away and consuming the battery's power that goes off the first time you drop it.
c'mon. lets see some REAL phones!
I just picked up a Vertu Platinum / MMII for the wife the other day, and she has been most thrilled with it. Of course, I sprung for the optional headset and platinum cradle. She loves the personal concierge service -- they managed to get us tickets to that Puccini opera that just opened up downtown. Simply marvelous.
Of course, I can't blame you if you are unprepared for such luxury. Such a pity.
I've had the 6500...something I've had the 8860, I currently have the 8890, but I MUST HAVE the 8910i, or at the very least an 8910.
That is the coolest phone - like the said, well, the 8890 is great, but let's fix everything that is wrong with it.
The bummer is, not only can I not have it in the states now, I'm moving this summer and it doesn't look like the phone will work in that country either (Bermuda - they have a 1900 setup there, and the Nokia 8910/8910i is 900/1800 - waaaaah).
My current phone (8890) should work, but WOW would I frickin love the 8910i.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
...or do the guys on the top of the Nokia 8910i page look like members of 'Sprockets'?
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
Oh, I almost forgot. To view the Vertu web site, you'll need an Internet browser that supports Macromedia Flash. My wife's fully-loaded Powerbook G4 supports it just fine, for example.
Based on information from the Yahoo! group dedicated to the Sony Ericsson P800, it won't be ready until January. This comes from someone who works for Ericsson in the UK.
It seems that they are having problems with the firmware. Certainly the demo version that I played with a month ago hung after a couple of minutes playing with it. The person demonstrating it said that I should test out the features that I was most interested in, because this model tended to crash within a couple of minutes. So I guess it's not quite ready for prime time.
These full color phones are awesome, but beware: There could be a lot of hidden costs.. For example, one of the nation wide networks that now has full-color phones, charges for the games that come on the phone. The charges vary from 2.95 for 3 months to 8.95 for 3 months, PER game. ouch!
You can also sync the T68i with evolution thanks to multisync:
http://multisync.sourceforge.net/
I do wish Nokia would standardize SyncML across all of their phone models. That way we could see iSync compatibility, even if bluetooth is excluded. My understanding is that someone could write some lower-level driver to allow an infrared sync, so long as the phone supports SyncML.
But even with all those features, what really sells me on Nokia phones is their aesthetics - you really just can't find better-looking phones out there, with the possible exception of the Moto v70. Handphones are status symbols in many parts of the world, and these new models will make heads turn.
This is about it for the phones I can find (except for the ones announced today). My question is this:
Is this going to be the standard bluetooth ratio (e.g. 1 to 2 phones per manufacturer) or are more coming and this is just the tip of the iceberg? I am really interested in moving to the next phase of wireless, but it seems like bluetooth is a totally separate branch of modern cellphones. Will it be integrated or continue to be a separate branch?
For happy surfing: both bluetooth and GPRS. Keep the phone in your pocket, when surfing the net with GPRS. Try that with infrared. Unfortunately, bluetooth is often missing on GPRS phones (even on the new 7250).
You can download photographs to the 6100, which supports MMS. Cool. But even way cooler would be if digital cameras would come with bluetooth, so you can download a (downsized) picture straight from your camera into your bluetooth phone, and send them as an MMS.
Multiplayer games, based on bluetooth.
The ability to switch the phone in a mode where it does not send out any signals, but still allowing me to use all other functions such as calendar, alarm, stopwatch, calculator, games, and soon camera. Useful for in places where use of a mobile is not allowed such as planes.br>
My karma ran over your dogma
they got the name from a finnish city called nokia , where the company first started.
In case anybody else doesn't know what this wonderful little bit of Marketriod is:
:= MultiMedia Messaging Service.
MMS
Folks, if you are going to use any abbreviations, acronyms, or technical terms that may not be in common use to the audience for which you are writing, it is considered good form to define them when they are first used.
I had to add to the workload on the poor Nokia server to discover the meaning of that particular abbreviation.
www.eFax.com are spammers
These new phones from Nokia are always great - if you live in a country that Nokia releases them to. The new cell phone technology here in the US (where a majority of /.ers are from, remember) is severely lacking. Only just recently did AT&T switch over to a GSM system (well, it's coterminal with their existing TDMA network). We've still got a battle between CDMA, TDMA, GSM, and iDen networks here. And because of that (and for other reasons, doubtlessly) Nokia never releases these really cool phones here. Boo.
No kidding...
and also offers an integrated stereo FM radio
As if the battery life isn't short enough. Would anyone use this feature?
Boss: Bob, we tried calling you but you never answered your cell. You missed a $500,000 contract
Bob: Sorry boss, I drained my battery again listening to the radio.
It's nice to have features on a phone, but it seems to me that they will be adding unnecessary bulk to most phones without extra value. I'd much prefer a phone that has battery for 3-4 days than a built-in radio. My current Motorola Startac POS only lasts about 1.5-2 days, maybe just 1 if I run into analog or low-reception areas.
Toys are nice, but how about we improve the value as a phone first?
p.s. Who (of users with high-tech phones) listens to radio nowadays? Mp3 would still have been overkill but perhaps more useful and likely less battery drain.
Stop dropping the phone on the ground and surprise, the phone will work. I had a salesman try to pitch the same deal to me (T-Mobile Rep and ex-AT&T rep), and he eventually told me that most of the returns had to do with people dropping them and the SIM card would become loose. That caused the phone to fritz out. You are right about one thing, get insurance on it if you're prone to dropping it. I did.
The interface is pretty, but unfortunately the CPU and graphics chip are underpowered - the result is a strange laggy feeling where because the phone takes a fraction of a second to respond, it often leaves the user unsure as to if the button was pressed correctly... so the user ends up pressing the button again, and then fills the screen with redundant characters.
What FUD. What did you expect for a tiny phone with a 2" 256 color screen? You're not going to get the same snappy response as your video card in your computer. I'm happy with it. Sure, it lags, but I'm more happy with the fact that it has some kickin' battery life.
Here's my experience: In the US, AT&T wireless has this phone for their new GSM/GPRS network. I've had Sprint PCS before, but was unhappy with their coverage and even with their signals within coverage areas. I didn't relize how many times I had to ask people to repeat themselves because the signal would dropout for a second or two. This new service (Cleveland, OH area) is much better. Sure the coverage isn't there (yet), but there are fewer dropouts with AT&T. Suprisingly, in the car, I have yet to get a dropout while driving. I can understand the other person quite clearly, unlike Sprint.
Ya, then just wait till they release the Nokia 2600. I'm sure that will be all the rage.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
I read the same thing adn thought WTF do they mean by that.
The only combination i thought that would give me 4 DOF (obviously not 5 dimensional movement, which i wouln't be able to produce and/or see) is left-right (1) up-down (2) in-out (3) twist ccw-cw(4)
The out movement is really not that useful, you could use it to navigate a menu. like click goes deeper in the structure (normal click funcion) and pull goes back up. Tho i dont think many ppl would get used to that.
But where is the 5th ? i really hope those marketing doids didn't mean 4 directions + click. That would really suck. (besides being incoherent)
Too bad it doesn't come with it's own Faraday cage.
The rumors about the 9310 appear to be true... according to this article Nokia is set to release their latest Communicator model (phone/PDA/mobile office) later today, with support for GPRS. See also on Google's news for other articles on the 9310.
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Actually, look for the 7210 and 3650 on sale in the very near future.
I have the t68i, just got it last week, actually. I'm using it with AT&T Wireless in Chicago. So far the reception isn't any worse than the Nokia 3360 I have with Cingular here. Actually, I get better reception in my downtown office tower than I do on the Nokia. Also works at home fine, and I live in the far Northwest suburbs.
I know it depends on your market area, though. I've also heard that the newer firmware versions work better.
I've bought my girlfriend a Nokia 5510 recently. It's great and has a radio and MP3 player, but it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis yet.
If there's any insider from Nokia here, can he/she shed some light on future plans? Does Nokia plan adding OGG support to phones that currently support MP3 playback?
I recently upgraded to the Samsung S-105
o mm erce/telecommunications/sgh_s105_specs.jsp
http://www.samsungusa.com/cgi-bin/nabc/prod/hhc
So far, I am really enjoying it -- other then that no one else has MMS and the J2ME isnt really supported yet. (Infact, a lot of the advertised features of this phone are not supported yet, including the data cable listed on the box!) So far the color screen has been nothing more then an oh neat. Same thing with the polyphonic ring tones (other that finally when somoene is discovering ring tones I can just shut them up). It may be nicer when more of my friends have TMobile and MMS and the camera accessories.
My bitch with all these new features is they all take up bandwidth, and at least with my provider, they arent real clear on that. For example, I have 300 messages per month for $2.99 plus one meg of download. This is all fine and dandy except they didnt tell me that sending an MMS costs bandwidth (as aposed to just a message count).
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
As opposed to many of the Nokia phones, it is actually possible to buy this one.
Unfortunately, as I understand it, it is not possible to use Voice Dialling with any currently available Bluetooth headset and Nokia phones, which definitely sucks.
Nokia's press release is here, but the server is being battered right now.
Slashdotted before the article was even posted. Amazing!
-JDF
I just got my phone last week and haven't noticed any issues. I'm on ATT Wirless in Chicago...
What lag on the interface? Maybe I need something to compare it to, but I don't notice any interface lag at all, and the interface is easy to use and read, imho, of course.
As for reception, it's fantastic for me in Chicago. I used to have Cingular here with a Nokia 3360, and the t68i with ATT has much better reception, even in this office tower where I usually get no signal or 1 bar on the old Nokia.
Not sure if its just new firmware or what, but I love the phone so far...
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7250/
Bluetooth is a standard. A lousy standard, but a standard nonetheless. So iSync should sync with any Bluetooth GSM phone.
The T68i is a lousy phone.
Hell i was shocked when i saw it!!!
The Nokia 7250 will contain Digital Rights Management.
Take a look at the following url, it's listed as a key feature.
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7250/
Next announcement seems to be that they change
from the very cool symbian os to wince...
--bofh
... coming up with a phone that does its basic job reliably and cheaply? I am sick and tired of more and more phones offering gimmicks that I don't care about while, at the same time, cellular phone charges remain exorbitant (they do in the US) and coverage is pathetic (it is in the US.)
At the risk of being accused of trolling can I say that I don't think Nokia's phones are very good really? At least not as far as data and data-services go.
I don't want MMS on my phone - I want email and AoL-IM. Nokia know a lot about mobiles, but nothing about the Internet!
I want an apps environment which anyone can programme and is truly cross-platform. Roll on J2ME.
I want proper VPN clients for corporate access.
I could go on....
"It seems to have happened with Nokia's 5510 MP3 phone, introduced last fall amid much trumpeting. The phone, which allows users to listen to FM radio and play MP3s, has proved too bulky and too expensive, and Nokia is quietly pulling it off the market. (Nokia officials concede that the phone is a disappointment but won't elaborate.)"
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Other than that, I'll buy Siemens ME45 the next time there is some money on my account. It should be able to take some rough treatment, and it has an internal calendar that uses vCalendar, so it should integrate pretty easily with KOrganizer.
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$19,500 for a phone? I assume this site is a joke..... Either that or this is a product for people who just like to be assholes about flaunting whatever they have overpaid for. -Tom
Or maybe I guess this is the product for the same kind of person who spends tens of thousands of dollars on an umbrella stand.
-Tom
He's talking about Nokia's new models, not the three triband models you list. Neither of the new models are triband. He never said that NO Nokia phones were triband.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Nokia hasn't successfully had a CDMA phone pass Verizon performance testing since the 5185.
Their lack of CDMA experience is showing itself now - They STILL haven't been able to release a decent UMTS handset due to their lack of experience with CDMA.
AT&T really is shooting themselves in the foot by moving to GSM - It has no upgrade path. GSM/GPRS is a dead end from which the only way out is an entirely new network (Note the European providers running out of money right and left because they have to buy additional spectrum and build an entire new network to upgrade to 3G, whereas CDMA2000 has a planned upgrade path that has full backwards compatibility with cdmaOne equipment and spectrum.)
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Do you mean to tell me that you think the screen requires so much horsepower that you can't have a responsive UI? It's not FUD. It's true. The phone lags a lot more than it should. It's probably a bad design. Why can't you push any buttons until the informational pop-ups go away? You should at least be able to push the END key to make it go away. Keypresses should be stored and handled ASAP. It's bad.
On the plus side, the phone does seem to do pretty well with reception. It's not perfect, but is so much better than any phone with Cingular when I had them.
Unfortunately, the drawbacks are very numerous. Why do I have 10 static images that I can't delete and replace and only 1 image that I can? The ads show it being used to send pictures. Why would I only want to hold one picture? I know why. Because AT&T wants you to use their online WAP sites, which you have to pay for. Why do I want to pay for excruciatingly slow access to pictures??
Key features: Visually provocative design, integrated camera, high-resolution color display, downloadable applications via Java(TM) technology, advanced MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), polyphonic (MIDI) ringing tones, stereo FM radio with handsfree speaker option, Digital Right Management (DRM), SyncML
I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means. If it does, I am staying away from this phone like the plague.
It's real. Nokia started Vertu for more discriminating customers. You can get their "bargain" phone for $4,900, if you wish.
... notice that you can't use one in the states. It's the only fone in that lineup worth half a damn (since it's the only one with bluetooth) and it's not triband.
:)
Spose my T68 will be fine for a little while longer
Also, does that bottom part pop out ala Matrix, or is it a wussy pulldown?
I've been a subscriber to AT&T for about 6 years now. I travel between Pittsburgh and Houston a lot. Pittsburgh's AT&T reception has traditionally been better.
However, over the past year or so, reception has really been in the crapper. Can't place calls, connected calls get dropped, cutovers into others' conversations, it's been a mess. And don't even ask how bad it's been in Houston!
I have a Nokia 8260, with which I'm largely happy. (My first died on a trip to Canada almost two years ago, but the replacement has been a trooper.)
I'm now curious ... given that you love your reception, and you're GSM/GPRS, i wonder if it's a network thing? The 8260 is TDMA, so hmm...
Would anyone out there know how AT&T's TDMA and GSM/GPRS networks compare, relative to each other with respect to signal strength? I have to admit, I'm pretty uninformed about the topic in general, and with respect to AT&T in particular.
It would be interesting to note, though, given that all my friends with AT&T cell service are complaining as bitterly as I, regarding cell coverage...
mmm... yeah... You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out...
Nokia released six phones today.. Those models where he mentioned where released today. Triband is really not so important, as rather few people travel all the time from and back to states. But for travellers it's nice to have a standards based phone that works in most of the countries in the world.
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I just bought a Sony Ericsson T300. It's a wonderful phone. Basically the only thing that the T68i does that this doesn't is Bluetooth. For my $149 (Only $99 after rebate) I got a triple-band GSM phone with great reception, incredible battery life (Lithium-Polymer; 7.5 hours of talk, 300 hours standby), GPRS acces, both POP3 and IMAP4 support, AIM, WAP, two-way SMS, MMS, a 640x480 color digital camera, headset (which I'll never use, but some people can't live without them), 256 color display, IR port that can communicate with other phones or handheld devices, 500 contact memory (8 fields per contact), four built-in games (you can download more for free), and the really important thing to me - it's small. I was going to go for a smaller Samsung or Motorola flip phone, but the combination of price, GPRS, and battery life made me get this model instead. I will probably get the USB cable and pray for iSync compatibility. Otherwise, I can always send emails with attached vCards to keep my laptop's address book in sync with the phone. Also, the menu is very easy to navigate on this phone.
A friend of mine bought a T68i last month and returned it within a week. He said that it works wonderfully with iSync, but the Bluetooth totally drained the battery, and he was getting about 1 hour of talk time, and at most 15 hours standby. A guy from T-Mobile said that he's heard of this issue on the original T68 and early T68is, so it's possible that AT&T Wireless just had older boxes sitting around, but it was enough to make me not want one. In the short time I've had the T300, it's been phenomenal. The sound quality is great, the reception is good, even indoors, and I really only have one complaint: the interchangable faceplates are not available yet, so for now I'm stuck with dark green when I really want blue.
Karma: Ran over your dogma.
Brings a whole new dimension to phone sex !!!
Forum Nokia has a page about their "Open standards" DRM technology...
I've been a Nokia bunnie for the last 5 years (I've been using mobiles for 8 years) and upgraded to a T68i instead.
:-)
When I decided to upgrade, I wanted infra-red, bluetooth, colour screen, GPRS, etc and good battery life - the camera bit is nice, but not essential. I was deliberating upon a 7650 or the T68i. The T68i has miles better battery life (I get about 5 - 6 days out of it), it's smaller, and the interface I find is quite usable. Sure, it's not the 7650, but that won't fit in my pocket so nicely and was 100ukp more expensive for the upgrade.
When you start using bluetooth more, you realise how cool it really is. I now exchange images/date with people often. It seems to have caught on.
In my mind, Nokia has brought out a deluge of new phones too late. By announcing 30 (as some articles say) new phones in the course of the year, are they not running the risk of severe problems ? I would have thought that the idea of keeping a fairly small product range was the way to keep brand identity and profits up. In this situation the distinction between the 72xx and the 76xx and the 8xxx range, etc.. gets lost. They used to have distinct target audiences - I've sorta lost the plot now. Over diversification, I believe is the term, isn't it ?
I'm happy with my T68i. Some people have niggles, but I can only go on experience.... I'd recommend it, apart from the fact that all my mates have one now...
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Upgrade your firmware and you can delete those static images and store more than one.
Sure, sure, so it supports J2ME Java Apps. But how long until there's support for MIDP2 in these apps, or, hell, even MMAPI? Nokia UI API doesn't cut it; as a developer for these devices, I can say that we need the ability to play arbitrary waveform data across the speakers, and we need it now, for all devices, regardless of manufacturer.
Java is just the thing to run on mobile devices, but if Sun doesn't get its act together and start pursuing the manufacturers to put in sound support (and other goodies, like full screen games), the market is going to die while BREW and other initiatives surge ahead.
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