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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.
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"
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...
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 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.
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.
signatures pending - ansa@kos.to - (dont mail there)
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?
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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...or do the guys on the top of the Nokia 8910i page look like members of 'Sprockets'?
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