*squeeeeeee* Pretentious Art Deco phones!

[fluffymark]

Nokia are going to release a pretentious new range of Art Deco phones very soon. Described on their website as:

• sleek object of beauty
  
• compelling as the night
  
• exudes mystery and excitement
  
• like a flame in the darkness
  
• crafted for glamour
  
• bold art deco elegance
  
• exquisite form and dramatic colours
  
• sleekly flamboyant

*shinyshinyshinyshinysqueeeeeeeeee*

I so want one.

Comments

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Don't buy Nokia: they make nice phones and crap software.

The third time your phone crashes, requiring either a week at some factory, a trip to the West End to a dealer with the original receipt, or forty quid from a backstreet phone unblocker, you'll simply stop using it and go back to your old handset.

Don't buy Nokia.

Every time it happens you lose all the numbers, all the texts, all the dialled numbers, speed-dials, ringtones, stored images and diary entries. Every time. How many times will it take before you stop using it?

Don't buy Nokia. Or if you do, pose with the shiny toy as much as you like and keep a working phone with you at all times.

[fluffymark]

That must be the "mystery and excitement" that it exudes, then.

Bother, is Nokia really that bad now? My old Nokia (8210, I think) never crashed, and was very nice all up to the point that it got stolen.

As you say, I'd mainly want one of these new ones becasue it looks pretty. :) Which is entirely the point, yes? :)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Indeed... said Nile, who went back to using his Nokia 8210 despite it being knackered. It's costing money to keep it going (another replacement display will be need soon) but at least it works. But the repairs are cheaper than being out of town and having no phone - and infinitely better alue than spending money on a phone that doesn't telephone phone.

Nokia have had over two years to release patched and stable firmware for their 6100 mini-phones: they did not do so because they lack the software engineering skills and internal discipline to build up to their abilities, instead of promising up to some fool's ambitions for unwated and useless features. They will never now do so because the new models are out and there's no benefit to them in supporting legacy hardware.

Don't by Nokia. Or at least wait until comparative reliability data is published, the way it is for cars, which would provide a commercial incentive to build reliable firmware. Or see if the shop will sell you the dummy handset they use for display purposes: at least you won't waste any time transferring numbers - or lose any you haven't backed up every time a 'real' handset crashes.

[fluffymark]

Sounds like you have a big grudge against Nokia. Surely not all their recent phones are unstable? (spot the optimist here!) ... which of their phones was it that really made you despair?

And I was mistaken in remembering the make of my old phone, it was in a 6210, but thats similar to the 8210.

Or I could ask at my office, we have lots of shiny new Nokias floating around there, and I'd assumed they only went wrong when we put bug-ridden software on them ourselves.

Still want a pretty phone. I probably wouldn't use it much anyway. :)

A grudge? Moi?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

It's not so much the bad software - hell, I write more bugs than they do - it's the failure to release a working firmware update. Or even , apparently, to try. Which implies a complete and total disdain for the customer.

Right now, Nokia appears to be driven by an unholy alliance of marketing twerps and feature-fetishist propellerheads. The poor sods who have to write, test, and QA the software appear to have no influence within the company whatsoever.

[erming.livejournal.com]

Never had any problems with the 3210, 3330 or 6310i.

Had a lot of problems of very flaky build quality of Motorolas though.

[tea-at-bettys.livejournal.com]

they're so shiney! I think they'd be perfect for you!

Hmmmm...

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the 7200 model? (http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,6771,47705,00.html) It's a neat little phone and here you can get some great art deco covers for it: such as Klimt's "Kiss". I'm seriously considering getting one, although I am happy enough with my current one :)

I think if you really want a new phone, wait until you get here. Gorbushka (http://www.gorbushka.ru/index_ie.asp) (electronics market) is right across the road from me and you can get an unlocked mobile phone for a pretty decent price (here, there isn't as much discrepency between on-contract and off-contract phone prices, so the prices in general are less evil than in the UK)

The 7280 or whatever is a really nice one in my opinion. Doesn't look like a phone at all. I suspect it'll definately be here by December.

Something for you to think about.

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd let you know...

I've spotted the 7260 model here already. Can't remember the price but it certainly wasn't cheap :( Still. Think about it when you get here.

[fluffymark]

Is new so it won't be cheap, possibly not even there in Russia. I think it'd be worth a look at Gorbushka when I visit just in case they can be found cheaply, or theres another shiny phone that catches my eye.