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July 18, 2007
Buying a Nokia Phone
Have you ever tried? I am a big believer in unlocked phones...which are not readily available in the standard consumer electronics store as they are all supplied and locked by the carriers. So i drove to the outer sunset today to hit some of those small-time wireless shops on Irving St that sell unlocked cell phones...came home empty...
it is really hard to settle on one as I find myself paralyzed by too many choices...it is hard to find the right cell phone with all the necessary features (of which there's many now) at a
price one can swallow...to complicate matters, after doing some research on the Internet and settling on a few possible models, one then finds these shops don't have all in stock...
given the increased amount of email and SMS, the qwerty keyboard is moving higher up on the feature list...from nokia, this leaves me with the N70 or the N61i...both of which they didn't have...i played with the N95, N93, N80 and N76 which are all cool phones but lack the qwerty...
and then there's the price...i don't know if I can swallow the $750 for the N95 (i have a long track record of losing phones)...moving down from there price-wise leaves one with some cool choices as well (N93, N80) but as you start getting into the $500 range, one starts thinking iphone...but the lack of 3G gets ya...or does it? it is one of those features that you don't necessarily crave but once you have you wonder how you lived without it.
i checked out the sony ericssons at the store but they're short on wifi...which will start becoming necessary once Skype is ported to all OSes including Symbian...Sony Ericsson has cool phones if you're focused just on music (walkman) or just on photo(cybershot) but lack in the other departments...
arrrrrrrrrgh! iphone, is it?
Posted by raza at July 18, 2007 1:00 PM
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