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Tuesday 7 January 2003

Nokia in sucking shocker [lurks]

Strikes me that all of Nokia's victories in the mobile phone arena involve making pretty simple phones that just work. You know, making calls, SMS and crap like that. They work, they're solid, the SMS stuff pretty much wrote the book on how to do it properly. Can't really go wrong.

Unfortunately every time they try to add gadgets and hocus pocus, the Fins go horribly horribly wrong. The first being the 7110, which while the whole 'chock' thing ruled, the err WAP shit and general doing stuff really really sucked. You think they'd learn their lesson?

Well yes because they went back to making a load of really good phones like the 6210 and stuff like that. Again nothing fancy just phones that worked. Then the 7210 happened. This is that nifty picture phone thing with the nifty slidey openeny thing. Yeah only err, it doesn't fucking work does it.

What's up with these goons? Basically if you were gonna buy a Nokia, you'd buy a no-nonsense phone and not one of their cutting-edge lifestyle abortions.

The thing is, I reckon the picture phone is a real revolution. Eventually every phone will have them, it'll just be too cool not to have. Mine you, I wont touch one so long as they want a tenner a month and 50p a message just to send the damn things!

5 comments:

  1. I thought you were with T-Mobile? According to the web you can pay as little as £2.50 for 10 picture messages per month at 25 pence per message. range up to 50 messages for £10.50 per month at 21p per message.

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  2. I think there must be something wrong with me. Am I completely fucked up because I just want my phone to take and make calls? Do I need help?

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  3. I have to admit that I don't get the picture phone thing either really - I actually find the millions being spent on TV ad campaigns to convince people that being able to send 320x200 blurry pictures to each other very slowly indeed at 50p a pop will make their lives worth living pretty funny. And a little bit sad.

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  4. Isn't the 7210 just an ordinary colour phone with the 7650 being the fancy camera thing?

    Like slim I just want to make phonecalls with my phone. I recentlygot myself a nokia 6510, a decent small phone with long battery life and gprs.Isn't the 7210 just an ordinary colour phone with the 7650 being the fancy camera thing?

    Like slim I just want to make phonecalls with my phone. I recentlygot myself a nokia 6510, a decent small phone with long battery life and gprs.

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