Nokia Debuts New Light-Up Camera Phone
WOW, first nokia phone marketed to kindergardeners!!!
It's always been known that Nokia tends to the teenage crowd with its changeable covers and colorful phones, but this is ridiculous. What's next a joint venture with Crayola or maybe Pokemon. Hahaha, you have to laugh. When will Nokia mass produce a well-designed, sleek, slim flip phone for the business professional?
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NicholasKiz said:All us men are kindergartners anyway.
It's always been known that Nokia tends to the teenage crowd with its changeable covers and colorful phones, but this is ridiculous. What's next a joint venture with Crayola or maybe Pokemon. Hahaha, you have to laugh. When will Nokia mass produce a well-designed, sleek, slim flip phone for the business professional?
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Nokia may have hit sales bottom, but they seem to know that a "well-designed, sleek, slim flip phone" is an oxymoronic anachronism. By their very nature, flip phones are not sleek, slim or well-designed. They are burdened with added weight due to the must-have external caller ID display. Please note...the extra display was added to overcome a major shortcoming of the flip design, you had to open up the phone just to see who was calling, look through your phonebook or even check the time. Next, flips are not slim since they must fold in half, almost doubling their thickness. True, lighter-weight screens will be available and technology shrinks components all the time. One manufacturer will introduce a single, two-sided screen - caller ID on ...
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Nokia may have hit sales bottom, but they seem to know that a "well-designed, sleek, slim flip phone" is an oxymoronic anachronism. By their very nature, flip phones are not sleek, slim or well-designed. They are burdened with added weight due to the must-have external caller ID display. Please note...the extra display was added to overcome a major shortcoming of the flip design, you had to open up the phone just to see who was calling, look through your phonebook or even check the time. Next, flips are not slim since they must fold in half, almost doubling their thickness. True, lighter-weight screens will be available and technology shrinks components all the time. One manufacturer will introduce a single,
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NicholasKiz said:...robbg said:
Nokia may have hit sales bottom, but they seem to know that a "well-designed, sleek, slim flip phone" is an oxymoronic anachronism. By their very nature, flip phones are not sleek, slim or well-designed. They are burdened with added weight due to the must-have external caller ID display. Please note...the extra display was added to overcome a major shortcoming of the flip design, you had to open up the phone just to see who was calling, look through your phonebook or even check the time. Next, flips are not slim since they must fold in half, almost doubling their thickness. True, lighter-weight screens will be available and technology shrinks components all the time. One
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The flip phone was designed for a lazy person. I'm in sales in West Texas and the biggest complaint about a bar phone is having to lock keys. For two or three steps that takes a couple of seconds to do, that is incredibly lazy. My most famous quote is: "My fingers start to hurt after lokcing it all day long." Of course I could probably quote more but that would take most of the day. With the screen getting scratched, take better care of your phone. If your a heavy user, get a leather case or holder of some kind that protects the screen. Even flip phones get scratched on the outside. But yes, it does suck to have to flip open your phone to do anything with it. 😁
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If you hate flip phones then don't buy them and just like I hate candy-bar phones I won't buy them. Has nothing to do with locking the keys or not (at least for me).
As for putting a leather case on a phone to protect the screen, these phones are big enough as is. I mean if you want to wear a fax machine on your hip go ahead but I like my phone in my pocket.
All of this has nothing to do with whether or not nokia is making a good phone. You talk about marketing to children, well that is the hot demographic right now for money spending. If you can get the money of the 16-25 year old market you are in good shape. You don't like the phone, don't buy it.
As for the business professionals, nokia has it's communicator, whether you th...
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As for putting a leather case on a phone to protect the screen, these phones are big enough as is. I mean if you want to wear a fax machine on your hip go ahead but I like my phone in my pocket.
All of this has nothing to do with whether or not nokia is making a good phone. You talk about marketing to children, well that is the hot demographic right now for money spending. If you can get the money of the 16-25 year old market you are in good shape. You don't like the phone, don't buy it.
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First of all, I love when people blow things out of proportion. A fax machine? Come on. A leather case is for protection and a flip phone will still get scratched in your pocket. And nobody's forcing you to like a bar phone, so quit forcing others to like your opinion because its just that, an opinion. And I'm not generalizing all flip phone lovers, I've just heard about enough from those who are picky about a phone. That is what we're talking about: a phone. If it works where you want it to work, no matter which carrier your with, or what kind of phone it is then more power to you. 😉
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Outside of the features that Nokia phones have, which are pretty interesting, are the batteries still funny? I stopped using Nokias because the batteries suck on these candy bars (ie. I had to replace my battery twice in one year and even had to put paper inside the battery to keep it from shutting off). And this is not just me, since a lot of my friends had the same problem w/ their Nokias.
And you're right, a phone is a phone is a phone. Just a long as you're happy w/ it, features, design and all. Unless you can't use the features for whatever reason..... 😎
And you're right, a phone is a phone is a phone. Just a long as you're happy w/ it, features, design and all. Unless you can't use the features for whatever reason..... 😎
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just a little off topice.
But in the description of the nokia, it states that one can make a message with lights by moving the phone from side to side?
I've been trying to think of what the hell that means... i keep thinking about raves and glow sticks...
but really what the hell do they mean by message with lights moving the phone from side to side? i'm not knocking on why they have it. just wondering how it works and what it looks like.
phones are phones people. be it a flip or bar.
i've seen some pretty small flips and sleek bar phones and i just think it's personal preference. it's like comparing apples and oranges, flip and bar are two different platforms that you can't compare very well directly because of their physical diffe...
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But in the description of the nokia, it states that one can make a message with lights by moving the phone from side to side?
I've been trying to think of what the hell that means... i keep thinking about raves and glow sticks...
but really what the hell do they mean by message with lights moving the phone from side to side? i'm not knocking on why they have it. just wondering how it works and what it looks like.
phones are phones people. be it a flip or bar.
i've seen some pretty small flips and sleek bar phones and i just think it's personal preference. it's like comparing apples and oranges, flip and bar are two different platforms that you can't compare very well directly because of their physical diffe...
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hwanyoung said:
just a little off topice.
But in the description of the nokia, it states that one can make a message with lights by moving the phone from side to side?
I've been trying to think of what the hell that means... i keep thinking about raves and glow sticks...
but really what the hell do they mean by message with lights moving the phone from side to side? i'm not knocking on why they have it. just wondering how it works and what it looks like.
Not off-topic at all 😉 It's hard to explain, but a picture - or in this case a video - is worth a thousand words. They show the "air messaging" feature in action twice in this video:
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,58575,00.html »
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So, am I the only one who imagines somebody wildly waving the phone side to side with the message "wanna date?" or something like, trying desperately to get some hottie to pay attention, then only getting said attention after accidentally cutting loose of the phone and it sails across the room and busts into fifty pieces on the wall? Smoooooooth....
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Aleq said:
So, am I the only one who imagines somebody wildly waving the phone side to side with the message "wanna date?" or something like, trying desperately to get some hottie to pay attention, then only getting said attention after accidentally cutting loose of the phone and it sails across the room and busts into fifty pieces on the wall? Smoooooooth....
You should have been in advertising.
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Ok Ok lets take a deep breath and sit in the corner for a few minutes...Flip phone or "candybar" phone, doesnt matter, Its just a personal preferance. Ive had nokias for years, but now I have a v400 and wouldnt go back. I hated scratching the screen or accidently calling people from my purse and leaving them muffled voicemails...Anyways, this phone has a cool idea I guess, but its just a little to strange for me to imagine anyone actually using it. If anyone actually does buy this phone I wanna see pics of them waving the thing around on the street trying to write a text message about how dorky they look. 😁
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