Comments on: Nokia E70 Lust

By: Nathan Henderson

Nathan Henderson — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Please update us with your opinions of the N70 when you get it!

In the past year I’ve switched from a Sony Ericsson T616 (nice simple phone, great bluetooth sync w/ iSync) to a Treo 650 (nice features, but somewhat buggy. Mine would restart on its own at least daily), and finally to a Motorola RAZR (pretty, but somewhat useless for anything but the most basic phone functions. iSync support is sketchy at best).

I’ve been intrigued by the new Nokia models, and the N70 (and now E70) looks nice.

By: Faruk Ateş

Faruk Ateş — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've recently developed an interest in the Nokia N90. Its quick ability to capture high-res images and/or video is something I've long desired, and my Sony Ericsson T610 is starting to feel very, very old. Mike, what all do you need the QWERTY keyboard for? Do you do browsing on your phone as well, or something?

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Faruk: If I’m ever writing e-mail or sending text messages from my phone, I’m just a ton quicker with a QWERTY. I can write full-length e-mails from the Treo in not much more time that it would take me from a laptop.

I know there are kids in Korea who are faster with a T9 than with a QWERTY, and in fact, there’s even a T9 attachment for *normal* computers if you can believe that, but I’ve just never felt comfortable with predictive text.

By: Faruk Ateş

Faruk Ateş — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike: Okay, well then it makes sense. I guess I’ve just never had the opportunity to see how well I’d like that, or how much I’d use it.

An important factor is that here in the Netherlands, GMTS rates are ridiculous, and E-mailing from the phone (no matter how fast I’d be able to do it) is just unbelievably expensive. Because of that, I’ve never looked at phones for such things.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ouch. In the U.S. it’s $5 USD per month for unlimited data (through T-Mobile). Super cheap.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, you must be rolling in dough from venture funding if you’re dropping 500 on *yourself* during the month of December.

Thanks for reassuring the rest of us that we’re just scraping by. :)

By: Faruk Ateş

Faruk Ateş — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Crikey. $5 per month for unlimited? Good lord! It’s about 75 Euro ($88) a month for only a GB of traffic. Extra traffic will come at 25 cents per MB. And that all is only for National traffic, it skyrockets if you use the service abroad.

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Buyer’s remorse… negative four days”

Ha! Been there, done that. I’m currently expecting delivery on a THIRD pair of in-ear monitors ;)

By: Dave S.

Dave S. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“It’s about 75 Euro ($88) a month for only a GB of traffic.”

It’s $100 CDN ($85 USD) a month for only 100MB of traffic over here.

Count your blessings.

By: Faruk Ateş

Faruk Ateş — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dave: ouch. And I found our prices to be way too steep…

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

US$7.50 gets us 2mb.

US$250 gets us 44mb.

Past that it’s $0.0055/KB

Don’t use GPRS in Australia :(

By: Bradley

Bradley — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My T637 has this lovely “feature”… a button marked “Online” right on the side of my phone. One little bump in the pocket of my jeans and BAM! A few dollars in unwanted charges.

Thanks to Sony Ericsson, I can’t disable this button. So I actually had the GPRS service completely disabled on my mobile account. Very sad… I have a camera phone and can’t send pictures anymore. Boo hoo. *cries*

BTW, your link to Om’s site is bad. But I like the new “You have been taken to the closest matching page on Mike Industries” thing. Where’s the writeup on that one? :)

(Editor’s Note: Oops, forgot the http://. Thanks, it’s now fixed. The writeup on the smart 404 is here, by the way.)

By: Don

Don — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh brother, who cares? The thing is a telephone. I don’t understand you or my kids. You could have gotten a cheap fm radio to fill that bill.

Now on a tech subject that I do understand envy regarding, how is your camera (7.3 Megapixels in my pocket) holding up. I think I will be buying a new camera in the next few days and I have liked that one since seeing it on your site. I don’t doubt they have improved since. What is the modest priced camera I should be going for — or is it stupid to go modest priced? I am thinking that for my wife she can just keep the thing in her purse and with one a one gig card snap till she drops.

Where do I shop for the thing?

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike, why not looking at another Treo (650 or 700w)? I had a predecessor to the E70 (the 6820) with the fold-out QWERTY; it was nice, but I vastly prefer my T650 to it. The Treo keyboard is easier, and software for the Palm platform really sets it apart. And now that Mark/Space finally did something useful with Missing Sync, getting my PowerBook and the Treo to speak the same language is a breeze.

Don, I bought the same camera Mike recommended (Casio EX-Z750) and my wife and I have been very happy with it. Mike’s recommendation was spot on.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don: I understand that sentiment, but a mobile phone is the most personal piece of technology in my world. I have no home line and my office line is through Vonage, so I tend to make almost all my calls with a mobile. Furthermore, I’m vehemently against the multiple device strategy (carrying a phone for calling, a PDA for organizing, and a music player for listening). I understand why people do that but I just don’t like it. On the bright side, I do tend to go 2 or 3 years between phones so I’m better than some people. As for the Casio EX-Z750, I still love mine. Would buy the same camera today in fact. Nothing beats full-manual mode on an ultracompact.

Christian: I thought about getting another Treo but the reason I didn’t is that Palm seems to have given in to Microsoft and I don’t like that. The Treo 700 will run Windows Mobile software and that just tells me they’ve relegated themselves to hardware and left the user experience to MS. That’s generally not a good thing. I suppose I could have gotten the 650, but hey, it’s already almost obsolete.