Mobile phone

Well the K700i my wife uses is pretty much useless after 11 months due to the joystick and she barely uses it.

I agree 3G has limited appeal to many. I dont feel the need to video call anyone, but to completely dismiss fast data speeds on a mobile seems like dissing broadband because 56Kbps is as fast as anyone would really need. Being able to download emails with attachments quickly to an IMAP client is a major major plus for me and I suspect many people. Then to be able to use it as a virtually broadband modem for my notebook is hugely beneficial.

Proper speed browsing with a proper browser over HTTP when having a coffee or waiting for a train, eBay, online banking, BBC news, etc. is compelling. Again I can appreciate that for many a phone is just a phone/camera/mp3 player device.

But the N70 is not much bigger or heavier than the K750i so for me the size and weight isnt a sacfrice and I prefer small phones - then with all the additional features and functions I think you'd have to be peverse to choose the SE. Have you tried one?

 

It is indeed, I do it all the time on my K750i (via Opera Mini )

I've played with both a 6680 and N70 briefly and neither made me regret my choice of K750i in the slightest. The difference in size for me is pretty significant. Whilst I 'managed' with the size of the SE P800 (same size as N70) the difference a K750i sized phone makes is huge.

Certain people seem to have joystick issues with the K700i and K750i but 4 or 5 of my friends have had a K700i since they came out and have all just upgraded to the K750i and none have ever had any issues.

I'm not an SE fanboy and wouldn't have had any issue choosing a Nokia phone if there had been one around at the time that met my requirements. There wasn't.

Michael.

 

Woo hoo at 40-50Kbps. It'd drive me round the bend.

 

To be honest,there are joystick issues with the N70 also.The attraction for me is the MP3 facility for use on a train.

 

The K750i can be used as an MP3 player too (since it's hardware identical to the W800i "Walkman" phone). I tend to use the radio more though.

 

Just downloaded that on to my K750, awesome! The idea of pre-processing the web-page on a remote server before it gets to the phone so that less bandwidth and less of the phone's on-board CPU horsepower is required is a really nifty idea. Certainly makes full blown html browsing feasible at last on a smaller than PDA sized phone.

Now, has anyone gotten around to writting a replacement media player applet for the K750, as I find scrolling through the nearly 500 tracks on my 2 gig memory card with only the aid of the joystick for navigation a bit tedious, along with a number of other complaints I have about the primative user interface on the phone's mp3 player?

 

I've just got my Nokia N70 on Orange and doesn't seem to have been stripped of any of its features. It comes with a couple of built-in games + a demo for a game I have on my other phone. There's even an Adobe Acrobat and Word document reader. It's much more stable than previous Symbian OS Nokias I've had, and doesn't freeze up or crash.

 

No,mine's ok,its not stripped of any features,just the usual **** like ugly logos and a few icons changed.

As a Walkman,its perfectly adequate,but if you are a serioius walkman freak and lkike bass you would probably still get an Ipod.Although I think the Ipods days are numbered,all they need is a ge on the phone and slightly better sound quality and the Ipod is dead.

 

My colleague's just bought a Bluetooth GPS module (£46 inc. P&P) for his N70. It's about 1/2 the size of his phone. Sits in his pocket or glovebox and connects to the phone via Bluetooth so no cables. Tom Tom mobile 5 then runs on the N70 for the mapping etc. Handheld GPS/mapping - dandy.

 

saab,
the nokia n90 is the beginning of the end for the ipod and it's ilk - a mobile phone with a 2mp camera and a 4gb hdd built in.
my previous phone (a nokia 5140) has a 'gps shell' basicly a new phone body which has a gps reciever built in only weighs a few grams extra and works pretty well.
i'm waiting for a 40gb hdd phone with 5mp camcorder, gps, decent size screen and easy synch with a pc. then i can ditch my phone, camera, tom tom go, archos and all the attendant chargers and gubbins. be a few years yet though i reckon.
at the moment my spv is pretty good at what i want.
cheers

julian

 

Ah excellent, a phone with a built in HD at last.

Mind you, I'd settle with for a 2MP camera with good low light capability over a standard 5MP one.

Seen now that they've got MP3 players coming out with 100Gb HDD's, nice.

 

I couldn't get opera to work Kept saying communication error and wouldn't load the page

 

Yep,the Ipod has a short shelf life I think.The sound quality does need to improve a bit,but I can live with this for the occasional train journey.Might be the head phones are a bit crap.