Nokia unveils new premium phones

[Kolzig]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7655096/

http://www.nokia.com/nseries/

Oh my, I have to get myself one of those N90 or N91.

Today in the morning when I was almost ready to go to work, I opened the tv and Euronews was on, there i saw Jorma Ollila raving about these new phones and Nokia's new strategies in the company event at Amsterdam yesterday.

Sweet Jesus, those phones looks abso-fucking-lutely gorgeous.

Those are miles away from the crap Nokia released in the past three years. I guess they fired all the old crap designers and hired some new great designers to replace them.

[Jake]

Nokia has definitely been putting out a lot of shit in the last few years. After the simplicity of that one model whose number esapes me but you know, the one that everyone had for like all of 2001-2 or so, they just went retarded. I don't particularly care about mobile phones though. I got an acceptable one at a super discount rate and I'm happy.

[Erkki]

I don't understand the people who need to have the newest phone models all the time. This is the only one I've ever had and it's served me well for 3 and a half years.

My only regret is that it doesn't have Java support (the first Siemens phones with Java cost double the price of the ME45 about when they all came out, and that one was already very expensive).

[MrHoatzin]

[MrHoatzin]

My sister, on the other hand, has to have a colour phone with a polythonic ringtone and an opening flap. I don't get it.

[lailoken]

That picture is soooo terrifying! Germans worked long long years to escape the oppression by a terrible telecomunication monopoly only to turn the evil monster lose on the whole world!!! I see magenta death!!!

[Chris]

I don't think my phone could possibly have fewer features unless it did not send and receive calls.

[MrHoatzin]

That picture is soooo terrifying! Germans worked long long years to escape the oppression by a terrible telecomunication monopoly only to turn the evil monster lose on the whole world!!! I see magenta death!!!

Deutsche Telekom evil? T-mobile is the best one hereabouts.

[JoeX111]

To quote myself on Adventure Gamers:

And on the subject of that phone in particular: it looks sleek and soulless, like an operating table in a morgue.

[Chris]

...and how many cell phones actually exude any kind of personality, and is that important at all in something like a telephone?

[netmonkey]

The thing about having an el cheapo Nokia phone is that it breaks easily... like mine. It was free, though. Can't complain!

[MrHoatzin]

The thing about having an el cheapo Nokia phone is that it breaks easily... like mine. It was free, though. Can't complain!

I've had that phone for like three years now. Not a single problem with it. Then again, I somehow managed to never drop it.

[Kolzig]

I had a Nokia 6310 for about two years, and because I tend to drop these things frequently, it of course broke.

Then I got shitty cheap Motorola as a present last year, I've managed to drop it too, and the screen is getting pretty scratchy.

[Chris]

I drop my phone all the time because I am an idiot, but it still works fine. It's the workhorse of mobile phones. It calls people and receives calls and is mysteriously far larger than most phones that have a dozen times that many features. The thing is built like a tank.

[Jake]

Your phone also seems to always run out of batteries the moment you leave Berkeley city limits. So that's one drawback.

[Chris]

Your phone also seems to always run out of batteries the moment you leave Berkeley city limits. So that's one drawback.

Hey, it still had power when we found it the next morning after leaving it GDC.

[Erkki]

The Siemens ME45 can take dropping quite well. At some point it developed some black spots on the screen, but they disappeared later. I suspect there are some kind of nano-robots in there doing repairs.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

This is the one I have (though the top main button is slightly different). And it's not even mine, it belongs to my little nephew. Since when the fuck do seven-year-olds have their own cell phones? He doesn't know how use it, of course, but he does know how to call his mummy and how to listen to the various musical ring tones. I only use it when I go into the city and need to call my sister to meet her so we can take the commuter train home together and drive home from there. Other than that I never use it. I don't 'do' cell phones.

I'll be getting my own cell phone when I move in a few weeks.

[steak-flavored gum]

When it comes to cell phones, the only thing I'm concerned about is whether or not it can play the Glottis driving sound for a ring tone.

WHICH IS AWESOME

[JoeX111]

When it comes to cell phones, the only thing I'm concerned about is whether or not it can play the Glottis driving sound for a ring tone.

WHICH IS AWESOME

Do you mean the Bone Wagon theme? If so, that'd be frickin' awesome.

[steak-flavored gum]

Do you mean the Bone Wagon theme? If so, that'd be frickin' awesome.

Well, although I could do that, no; I mean

BAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH BAAAAAAAAAAH BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[Spaff]

i hate mobile phones so fucking much

of course i still have one...

SHH.

[Chris]

i hate mobile phones so fucking much

of course i still have one...

SHH.

I know how you feel.

[Salka]

Good Grief! That phone also doubles as a Rubics Cube! When will the madness end!?

I had a Nokia 3310 for about four years. It was the best ever. I could compose my own ringtones fluently... it was creepy. I could actually sit there speedily punching in a ringtone. I put it in a hot wash once, and left it soaking in dishwater overnight, and yet it still worked. I would drop it every single day, and spill coffee over it every other day. It cost me e75, and came with e100 free call credit...

Eventually, it got stolen.

And once, I found a Nokia 3310 that had been thrown out of somebody's car as they drove along the main Carlow-Kilkenny road. It was in several pieces and had been there overnight in the rain and mud. And it still worked. All it needed was a new cover.

Those phones were fucking awesome.

Then I got a Motorola V300. Worst piece of shit ever. Freezes up randomly so I have to take out the battery and restart it. Battery life is worthless, and it refuses to accept incoming calls. Scratched to shit, and the ringtones are all equally lame. I hate polyphonic ringtones.

Nokia were great before they became shit. My little sister's middle name is Nokia.

What was so great about the 3310's, is that they were just phones. They weren't game consoles and personal organisers and FM radios and MP3 players and GPS systems all in one, which my brother's phone is, they were simply phones. And they were built like a brick shithouse. One day, Nokia 3310's will make a comeback like the Volkswagon Beetle, and everybody will want one.

[lailoken]

The only thing that I actually like about these new Nokias is the fact that they appear to be made from metal cases!? Hopefully that means that they will be less fragile... even though I guess dropping them into beer will kill just about any cell phone...grml!!!!