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New Nokia Phones With Full Color And MMS

Posted by Hemos on from the with-still-crappy-interface dept.

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.

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  1. 6800 by e8johan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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...

  2. Nokia interfaces by seldolivaw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Nokia interfaces by darien · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I've got a T39m and I reckon it's absolutely bloody useless. Just immediately, off the top of my head, here are some of the reasons I despise it:
      • The UI is very, VERY slow. When I'm typing text I often get five or six words ahead and have to sit and wait for the phone to catch up. If I've made a mistake it's agonisingly slow to move the cursor around. GRR.

      • Text edit mode always displays a space on one side of the cursor, even when there really is none. If you move, the space disappears, often joining two words together. In predictive text mode there is no way to get back to the centre of the word - you have to just delete the word on the right. GRRR!

      • After the phone's message boxes are full, incoming messages are automatically saved to your SIM. Selecting "Delete All" doesn't delete these - you have to delete (and confirm the deletion of) each one by hand. GRRR.

      • If someone sends you a message and you want to save their number, you have to close the message, leave the Messages menu, go into the "Phone Book" menu, select "Add Contact," enter the person's name... and then, when asked for the number, select "Unsaved Numbers" and select which of the (undocumented) numbers on the list you want. Intuitive, hey?

      • If you want to set the time, the option is under menu 4 (option 7: time and date). If you want to set an alarm, the options are under menu 5 (option 3: calendar or 7: time). Intuitive, hey?

      • The phone remembers only the last time someone called you - unless they don't send their number, in which case the phone doesn't record the time. Huh?

      • If there's a text field on a WAP page, you HAVE to enter some text in it before you can proceed from the page - otherwise you get a (usually false) "you have to fill something in" message.

      • Sometimes you have to press a key twice for it to take effect. This includes while you're playing games, so you generally end up dying for no reason.
      This was my first non-Nokia phone. Never again. Ericsson have lost a customer for life. It's Nokia or nothing for me from now on.

      (The T68i isn't so slow, but its UI is just as brainless - so I'm told by a friend of mine who let the gimmicks sway him into getting one instead of a Nokia 8310, and has been lamenting his mistake ever since.)

  3. Still the problem... by McFly69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  4. Five dimensional joystick? by Captain+Zion · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The T68i five dimensional joystick makes drawing pictures in your phone easy.

    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?

  5. Nokia stateside? by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  6. If you need a new phone soon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hold out for the 6650.
    It has 3G, GPRS, Bluetooth, MMS - and it looks and works really well.

  7. MP3 by nmg196 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

  8. Hmm, iSync? by phil-trick · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can also sync the T68i with evolution thanks to multisync:

    http://multisync.sourceforge.net/

  9. Ex Nokia Bunnie - Comments by MrDalliard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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... :-)

    M.