Jan-Piet Mens » Nokia http://blog.fupps.com my animals and other friends Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:31:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Disarmament http://blog.fupps.com/2008/08/25/disarmament/ http://blog.fupps.com/2008/08/25/disarmament/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:35:54 +0000 Jan-Piet Mens http://blog.fupps.com/?p=1542 For the past two years I've been quite unhappy with my Nokia N70: it is quite heavy, the camera cover slides open too easily, battery life is lousy, and the worst part is that the phone's firmware is so slow, that I often miss calls because the phone appears to take too long to "wake up" and start to ring.

I've also learned that I don't use the software on these smart phones at all. Radio? what for? Games? Nope. Movie player? On that small screen? Office tools? Heh?

The only productivity tool I'd use is e-mail, but the N70 can't beat a BlackBerry.

So I'm back on a Nokia 6230, low-tech as it may be. I purchased one second-hand, installed the SIM card, typed in my SyncML details and was "online" in a few minutes.

The 6230 is fast (it actually does something when I press a key) and does all I need it to do. Call me old fashioned, sure, but I'm happy again.

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