*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]

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.