Nokia 6255i / 6256i
This phone will be too late...
No way I can wait for this phone... It's just taking too long to get too market. I "would" like to have it, but I cannot wait until next year for it... 😢
Too bad Nokia, I really wanted to go with a Nokia phone, but they are just too slow in delievering the latest goodies compared to everyone else... By the beginning of next year a bunch of new phones with bluetooth and similiar capabilities will have already been on the market for months....
I guess I will have to go with either a Panasonic X700 or a Moto V551 (or even a RAZR V3 or MPx220 if they ever fix either of those two phones ability to use voice dialing thru a blue tooth headset, some claim the RAZR V3 can but have yet to offer any definitive proof on that...)
cheer...
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Too bad Nokia, I really wanted to go with a Nokia phone, but they are just too slow in delievering the latest goodies compared to everyone else... By the beginning of next year a bunch of new phones with bluetooth and similiar capabilities will have already been on the market for months....
I guess I will have to go with either a Panasonic X700 or a Moto V551 (or even a RAZR V3 or MPx220 if they ever fix either of those two phones ability to use voice dialing thru a blue tooth headset, some claim the RAZR V3 can but have yet to offer any definitive proof on that...)
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"By the beginning of next year a bunch of new phones with bluetooth and similiar capabilities will have already been on the market for months"..."or even a RAZR V3"...
Dude, this is a CDMA phone. I'm not going to take the time to look up the other phone you listed, but the RAZR V3 is a GSM phone, and I assume the rest are two. I don't see the flood of phones "with similar capabilites" that do CDMA by early next year anywhere on this site.
On the other hand, I agree with your sentiment. It's taking forever, and it's going to take even longer to get to Verizon.
Dude, this is a CDMA phone. I'm not going to take the time to look up the other phone you listed, but the RAZR V3 is a GSM phone, and I assume the rest are two. I don't see the flood of phones "with similar capabilites" that do CDMA by early next year anywhere on this site.
On the other hand, I agree with your sentiment. It's taking forever, and it's going to take even longer to get to Verizon.
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>>Dude, this is a CDMA phone... and I assume the rest are two.
Truthfully, it makes no difference to me whether a phone is a GSM or CDMA phone. Where I live, coverage is not really much of an issue if you stick with the big 4 (3?), Verizon, Sprint, Cingular and AT&T (do they still count as seperate?).
For me only two things matter, what features the phone offers and what plans the carriers offer... The GSM vs. CDMA issue is mostly for the type of people who frequent Phonescoop, the vast uninformed public probably has no clues as to what either one is.
For them, they probably have the same issues as me, what plans does the carrier offer, and what phones do they offer... For some of them if they live in areas with coverage issue...
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Truthfully, it makes no difference to me whether a phone is a GSM or CDMA phone. Where I live, coverage is not really much of an issue if you stick with the big 4 (3?), Verizon, Sprint, Cingular and AT&T (do they still count as seperate?).
For me only two things matter, what features the phone offers and what plans the carriers offer... The GSM vs. CDMA issue is mostly for the type of people who frequent Phonescoop, the vast uninformed public probably has no clues as to what either one is.
For them, they probably have the same issues as me, what plans does the carrier offer, and what phones do they offer... For some of them if they live in areas with coverage issue...
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"For some of them if they live in areas with coverage issues then they would NOT take into account GSM vs. CDMA, but which carrier supposedly had the best coverage & go with whatever phones that carrier offered..."
I love these argument where what you write wins an argument, but has little to do with what I was arguing about.
I think what you're really trying to say is that this phone is to late for you, but not to late for most other people. For example, I have Verizon, and I'm pretty happy with it, so I'm not going to be switching carriers just so I can get a bluetooth phone a little sooner. I only used GMS vs CDMA to say "Verizon isn't getting any of the other phones you mentioned".
I'm kinda chomping at the bit about this phone ...
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I love these argument where what you write wins an argument, but has little to do with what I was arguing about.
I think what you're really trying to say is that this phone is to late for you, but not to late for most other people. For example, I have Verizon, and I'm pretty happy with it, so I'm not going to be switching carriers just so I can get a bluetooth phone a little sooner. I only used GMS vs CDMA to say "Verizon isn't getting any of the other phones you mentioned".
I'm kinda chomping at the bit about this phone ...
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No, what I was trying to say is that a lot of people in areas where the big carriers all have pretty decent coverage will choose based on plan & phones offered... Not on what a carrier's coverage is.
Not everybody of course, or maybe not even a majority of people, but *many* people shop around once their contract is expired and go with the carrier with the best plans and/or cell phones.
That's all.
kega
Not everybody of course, or maybe not even a majority of people, but *many* people shop around once their contract is expired and go with the carrier with the best plans and/or cell phones.
That's all.
kega
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hmm Well, being that all my friends don't go to phonescoop (haha), I've never actually known anyone to choose a carrier based on the phone. Actually, most people I know have simply been going with the cheapest, which is a real pain because At&t wireless is the cheapest around here, and they bite - my friends are always cutting out while we're tring to talk. Bastards!
Personally, it would take a BIG feature on a phone to get me to switch from Verizon. If Cingular ever gets coverage around here in Minnesota, I might consider them because they have 1. Good coverage 2. Phones with java, which means I can add my own software 3. I wouldn't have to hack around to use my camera the way it should be used (getting pictures off it, adding ringtones ...
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Personally, it would take a BIG feature on a phone to get me to switch from Verizon. If Cingular ever gets coverage around here in Minnesota, I might consider them because they have 1. Good coverage 2. Phones with java, which means I can add my own software 3. I wouldn't have to hack around to use my camera the way it should be used (getting pictures off it, adding ringtones ...
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PaulRivers said:
Personally, it would take a BIG feature on a phone to get me to switch from Verizon. If Cingular ever gets coverage around here in Minnesota, I might consider them because they have 1. Good coverage 2. Phones with java, which means I can add my own software 3. I wouldn't have to hack around to use my camera the way it should be used (getting pictures off it, adding ringtones etc).
Take a look at the Motorola RAZR V3. THAT might make you switch! 🙂
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=547 »
If it is released soon enough, I will be switching to Cingular to get it... 😉
cheers,
kega
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hehe Is it a telepathic phone? 'cause then I might be willing to travel to Madison Wisconsin, the closest place to me that they currently sell Cingular, to get it!
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Oh well, your loss! 😛 Just kidding! 🙂
For me, it is either this phone with Sprint, or the Moto RAZR V3 with Cingular, whichever one gets released first. Hence, my original post when I said this phone was gonna be too late for me...
I still think that the Moto phone is gonna make it to market first & it should be a big draw for people who don't have coverage issues with Cingular & want a top-of-the-line compact phone like myself and are willing to shell out the $$$ dollars for an expensive phone. Admittedly, a minority of us at best.
I do have high hopes that the Nokia 6255i will be a great phone, I just wish it was being released sooner rather than later. Anyways, just my two cents.
cheers,
kega
For me, it is either this phone with Sprint, or the Moto RAZR V3 with Cingular, whichever one gets released first. Hence, my original post when I said this phone was gonna be too late for me...
I still think that the Moto phone is gonna make it to market first & it should be a big draw for people who don't have coverage issues with Cingular & want a top-of-the-line compact phone like myself and are willing to shell out the $$$ dollars for an expensive phone. Admittedly, a minority of us at best.
I do have high hopes that the Nokia 6255i will be a great phone, I just wish it was being released sooner rather than later. Anyways, just my two cents.
cheers,
kega
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Interesting points. However, if you follow Verizon phones much I don't think people are going to be too excited about Moto anything. Their recent offerings have pretty much bombed from what I can tell.
Also, VZW dummied up bluetooth so it's almost useless. Its just a shame because there is quite a bit of stuff offered around the world with bluetooth capability.
If you're pretty much living, working, and playing in one place then you can chose carriers. But for people who travel, its really about coverage first and then the other stuff. I think VZW phones pretty much suck as a lot but their coverage just can't be beat (and I travel a lot). The real drawback is CDMA doesn't exist outside the US (not counting LG land).
This phone...
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Also, VZW dummied up bluetooth so it's almost useless. Its just a shame because there is quite a bit of stuff offered around the world with bluetooth capability.
If you're pretty much living, working, and playing in one place then you can chose carriers. But for people who travel, its really about coverage first and then the other stuff. I think VZW phones pretty much suck as a lot but their coverage just can't be beat (and I travel a lot). The real drawback is CDMA doesn't exist outside the US (not counting LG land).
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