Which phone to buy this year?Anyone used nokia??do they all fall apart

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Im looking for a phone to replace my erricson 630 which as all erricsons is a very good phone! The new k750i is unbeleivably expensive!!And the 700 no good at all!That is the screens far better than the already good 630 but the battery flat after 10 mins it also costs to much all the 700s!

Im only changeing as the 630 has a very small memory and no storage card.
Ive seen several not very old Nokias and they have been in very bad state-battery wont charge,has to be charged in another phone! Plastic falling apart even though owend by a girl!!!

Almost no Nokias have bluetooth??all have GPRS so how can you use the GPRS without bluetooth????

Ive been thinking about a Nokia 6230 that has BT GPRS and costs about£100
Another the 7260 has no BT but can give you dress and shoe sizes(up to 42) in any contry??????Umm cost £150???

I need GPRS BT to use it with my PDA a camera a storage card or at least 50/80megs internal storage.I also want to send SMSs via my PDA i cant use the keyboard where i have to press 8/10 times untill i find just one letter i need!!
And the 9xxx nokias are to expensive and to big!!

Should not be to big and cost around £100 if i find something very good would spend £150

The trouble choosing is to know whats being offered? what is a pop cable? or other specific nokia things--at least Erricson explains what it offers!and what it dose.

In ALL the shops ive been to when not busy 90% of the sales people have never heard of GPRS!!! And have know idea which phones have bluetooth!! They can only tell me which has a 1.3meg camera and changable fronts?? And the price per month!!The price to buy they have to look for!!

Dose anyone get and read emails by phone? is it pop3 or imap???Can they be "sent" to a PDA which has a proper screen to read??

Any advice on what is becomeing a complicated subject? Or dose it just seem more complicated to justify the huge prices of phones this year??

And is there a small bluetooth keyboard that could be used with a phone???
 
Most of your questions are beyond me I am sorry to say but for what it's worth I can say that I have been using Nokia for about 9 years.

I have only had three of them in that time so you can see mine at least have been reliable.

One thing I can tell you is that the build quality over the years seems to have declined in as much as I can hardly see the black/grey display on my 6310i at times due to the increasing and considerable amount of dust that has found its way from my pocket to inside the casing and behind the screen
 
Re: Which phone to buy this year?Anyone used nokia??do they all fall a

I managed to run over my old Nokia with my Landrover, admittedly on soft ground. Kept on working for another year after this abuse.
 
I can hardly see the black/grey display on my 6310i at times due to the increasing and considerable amount of dust that has found its way from my pocket to inside the casing and behind the screen

Have you tried popping the faceplate off and cleaning the inside of that and the face of the display?

If not and have any difficulty working out how, try a friendly teenager or a phone shop.

John
 
I agree with Ken.

Bog standard Nokia which I've had about 3 years. 2 new batteries at about £20 a go (Vodafone wanted to charge me some daft amount for same battery).

Rarely do texts, but as a phone it's great !
 
The 6310i, best phone in the world....ever! The face plate is held on with tiny torx screws from the battery side. You can get a new case on ebay, the new (Chinese) batteries are crap though.

Why dosnt Nokia still make the 6310i? (OK I know the answer but hell it was a good phone)
 
Re: Which phone to buy this year?Anyone used nokia??do they all fall a

Agreed. I am still using a 6310i, despite the telcon trying to "uprate" me several times. The last was when I dunked the phone in the oggin. I waited for low tide and used a kid's fishing net on a pole to recover it. The telcon said it would be dead, but I am using it still a year later.
I occasionally use the GPRS for weather, IR to the laptop and my PDA for emails and very occasional internet access. With care I can make the battery last a fornight. I have never used the bluetooth.
 
Me too. Nokia 5310e, now 4 years old, and I can confirm that the case is splashproof and impact resistant! A very good solid little phone. My third Nokia in 9 years.
 
I had a Nokia 6310i for years and used it for email & internet on the boat with a laptop via bluetooth and GPRS. Absolutely no problems but I sat on it too many times and eventually the 3, 6, & 9 buttons became unreliable.

The replacement is a Nokia 6230i which connects to the laptop fine via bluetooth for file transfers PIM synchronisation, etc. but it won't connect the laptop to the GPRS service. Weird because the stand alone GPRS browser on the phone works fine. The work around so far has been to get a USB cable to connect to the laptop then everything works fine. Does the PDA have a USB port?
 
I dumped my tri-band Nokia first chance an upgrade on annual contract came up, I'd had my previous Motorola for 3 years despite being offered upgrades. The Nokia screen (colour) was impossible to read in daylight let alone bright sunlight and it would also lock up occasionally, refusing to get out of the displayed screen. I also found it verry difficult even to switch on and off, the button is designed for ladies with long pointed nails.

I now have a nice Motorola V620, it is quad-band so really useable worldwide, I CAN turn it on/off without needing a screwdriver and I can actually read the screen in all lights including bright sun. It does everything I want and a lot I don't use, like camera etc, but it does have bluetooth and GPRS. It doesn't however allow downloading of naff ringtones, IMO that is a plus factor too. It is a flip phone so you can carry it in a pocket without it dialling a call unasked for you as did the Nokia unless you locked the keyboard - a feature that WOULD have been OK IF the bloody thing would allow it to be unlocked on the first rather than third attempt, just as the caller hangs up...

Nokia Smokia, never again!
 
but it won't connect the laptop to the GPRS service

I have had the same problem with Nokia fones using the Nokia software on the computer. Maybe you have tried this already, but in case not I have solved it by setting up as a dial up connection (usually, but not always, you dial *99# for phone as GPRS modem) in Windows>Control Panel>Network Connections.

To get on thread, I have always had Nokia phones. As said by another, I too find the menus easier than other fones.

And ROBIN - what Nokia fone won't allow you to answer a call without unlocking the keypad first /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

John
 
Trouville,
with a very simple cord You connect the Nokia (In my case is a 6610i) and You set it up ad a modem for internet conection (dowload the s/ware from Nokia website): I used last summer sailing between Sardinia, Corsica and the tuscany coast for receiving meteo maps, mails and occasionally visiting the YBW site; beware thogh to the cost of international data roaming.
Cheers,
Gianenrico
 
Re: Which phone to buy this year?Anyone used nokia??do they all fall a

Seems non of us think much of the new phones!!
I still use my Erricson A1018s which must be 10 years old!With a "chatboard"(key pad) to send my SMSs then swop the SIM back to my new phone for the reply!!!

The Nokia3650 was on my list sold still for £80 but it dident have a memory card slot and only a small memory thats why i thought the 6230 was better for just £20 more.With a memory card or larger memory i wont keep haveing to deleting a pic or some smss to get an MMS or another SMS.

The main thing is sending SMSs or Email if possiable from a phone- definatly needs a key board

Sadly PDAs dont yet have USB!!! Just bluetooth. Im now going to look at the V620

Hello! I have the 6622 on my list wonder if thats the same? it costs £150 approx.

What cord do you mean? It wount work with a PDA unless the cord has a USB socket then i could plug in my docking station?

My boat tends to leak quite a lot from the deck so i dont carry a laptop as i couldent be sure to keep it dry even in a locker! Can you set up a phone to down load email?? I never managed with my erricson 630
 
I think it's a mistake to change brands. Most phones carry their in-house menu systems into new models which makes a change of phone much easier to handle. I doubt one brand had better QC than the others.

Even the Rover 420 my (ex) wife bought in 1996 is still going faultlessly, products are good these days. (I realise this is off topic, but everyone said Rover quality was crap, and perhaps it was less good than others, but it only goes to show how much improvement each decade brings).
 
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And ROBIN - what Nokia fone won't allow you to answer a call without unlocking the keypad first


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I cannot remember the model number, it is at the bottom of the harbour...

Just joking, you may be right but the sequence of events was:

The phone in my pocket dialled a customer in the memory bank not once but about 15 times in succession which cost me quite a bit when the bill arrived and is the only way that I discovered it had done it. Fortunately said customer didn't identify my name to the number that kept giving them silent calls! After that I learned to lock the keyboard, but it always took several goes to unlock it to use the phone and I must admit I assumed it would be the same to answer a call and always did the 'unlock' procedure.

When I commented on the very poor colour screen visibility in daylight I was told a lot of customers had retained older Nokias with B&W screens for that very reason, when I said I'd have one like that in B&W I was told only colour was available 'cos people wanted cameras and other features these days needing colour displays. I really did hate the thing though whereas my new Motorola is a 1000% improvement!

Robin
 
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