My current material pursuit
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forgotten_ariaSo I don't know how I stumbled on it (possibly searching for "keyboard" on amazon in the cell phones.) but I found the Nokia 6800. I HATE my current phone. I was considering stopping my service in October because I hate it so much. It requires that you use the head set, doesn't have any concept of an email address book and only keeps a stand-by charge for 3 days, which sucks given my ablity to remember to put it on charage. It's a clamshell with two buttons on the outside and the ui is not terribly good. It had a keyboard which was the big selling point for me, since I prefer to send text messages to talking on the phone. If you remember last year at almost this time (it was in october) I crunched that orginal phone and replaced it with teh same thing because tmobile sold me the same exact thing for $45 + service extention.
The nokia has a keyboard, a different (but larger) form factor, 10 hour battery life, a concept of an email directory, settings so you don't have know all the background fiddly things for SMS email, use it with out a head set, use it as a speaker phone, polyphonic rings and all the nice new features of todays modern phones. Tmobile doesn't carry it, however.
In fact, as far as I can tell cellular is the only one to offer it at all and only in Los Angels, Chicago and few other select locations. I like my current cellphone plan anyway, since it's cheaper than anything else anyone is offering and has nationwide free longdistance and no roaming fees.
So I poked around and as far as I can tell it will work with tmobile (the manual says it uses a sim card, tmobile says the US is 1900Mhz, and the review on cnet used tmobile's network to test it.) (BTW, if you look for information about this phone, look for the US info and not the UK or you will get confused.) but if I buy it independnantly I can't get any service extention discount. It looks like I could get it from ebay for about $200-$250, which I think that I could afford if I save up for it, though perhaps I shouldn't.
Physically the phone is kind of big, but I think that I will enjoy it more than my current one. I should go visit simliar sized nokia phones and see what I think.
I emailed tmobile to ask if they knew when they would offer it, and they said "we don't know." I'm currious to know if they could special order one for me and give me the extention discount.
That was dry and boring, but since I spent my day reasearching, learning and making up mock boxes, I thought it was post worthy.
Anyway, I can't really afford anything until late August and perhaps I should wait until my service contract is up in october, but I'm really tempted to buy one off ebay in late August.
EDIT: Hm... I was wrong about some things about my current service plan. Maybe I should switch to at&t. I will have to research how much they suck.
The nokia has a keyboard, a different (but larger) form factor, 10 hour battery life, a concept of an email directory, settings so you don't have know all the background fiddly things for SMS email, use it with out a head set, use it as a speaker phone, polyphonic rings and all the nice new features of todays modern phones. Tmobile doesn't carry it, however.
In fact, as far as I can tell cellular is the only one to offer it at all and only in Los Angels, Chicago and few other select locations. I like my current cellphone plan anyway, since it's cheaper than anything else anyone is offering and has nationwide free longdistance and no roaming fees.
So I poked around and as far as I can tell it will work with tmobile (the manual says it uses a sim card, tmobile says the US is 1900Mhz, and the review on cnet used tmobile's network to test it.) (BTW, if you look for information about this phone, look for the US info and not the UK or you will get confused.) but if I buy it independnantly I can't get any service extention discount. It looks like I could get it from ebay for about $200-$250, which I think that I could afford if I save up for it, though perhaps I shouldn't.
Physically the phone is kind of big, but I think that I will enjoy it more than my current one. I should go visit simliar sized nokia phones and see what I think.
I emailed tmobile to ask if they knew when they would offer it, and they said "we don't know." I'm currious to know if they could special order one for me and give me the extention discount.
That was dry and boring, but since I spent my day reasearching, learning and making up mock boxes, I thought it was post worthy.
Anyway, I can't really afford anything until late August and perhaps I should wait until my service contract is up in october, but I'm really tempted to buy one off ebay in late August.
EDIT: Hm... I was wrong about some things about my current service plan. Maybe I should switch to at&t. I will have to research how much they suck.
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Date: 2003-07-21 04:45 pm (UTC)The Nokia 6800 is a very spiffy looking phone and I would
have been very tempted if it had been available with T-Mobile. Note that I actually find T9 predictive text entry to be not bad. My Nokia 6610 just showed up and is charging. I'm impatient and want to start playing with it.
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Date: 2003-07-21 05:09 pm (UTC)Erik, how did you find out that this was due to changes to have roaming with Cingular? A bunch of people noticed that the network name on their phone changed, and I've been noticing more dropped calls, but I didn't see any information due to the cause other than your post.
Oh, I agree with cat about her current phone. I would never *ever* buy a phone from Motorola again. They're great at the radio stages, but I can't understand why they can't hire a single damn UI designer...