I finally got my phone!!!
I have been waiting for Nokia 6230b for almost a year! Ever since corradokid and I saw this phone in the Nokia catalog. I have personally bugged the shit out of the local Cingular store asking if the phone has arrived.
In the meantime, corradokid and I have tried out the other brands of phones. We just don't get how people put up with the crap that is out there. He tried the Sony Ericsson T616. Man what a shitty phone. Sure we were lured in by the cool look (plasticy and flimsy at best with an annoying joy stick) and the cam. But after a month, he returned it. Bad reception (probably the worse we have tested but every SE phone we tested had shitty RF). Not to mention the silly and often illogical menu structure. Another buddy had same results with the SE T68i. I even gave the Sony Ericsson T637 a spin for a week. it was an ever so slight bump up from the T616 but still every bit as shitty.
I checked out my mom's Samsung X427M. It reminded me why I hated flip phones. It's just too...star trekkkky. ewww. Our friend has the Motorola v600 and my buddy has an asian model of the V710 from Motorola. Nice phones and it has a couple features I wish the Nokia 6230b had (like ringtone attached to a contact instead of a caller group) but like the majority of the other phones, the Nokia outclasses them with a shitload of other features. The upcoming V3 looks pretty badass, but then again, it's still a flip phone....
I won't get into the myriad of other phones like ones made by Kyocera, Siemens, Sanyo, and Panasonic. No one cares about them anyway. Low cost crappy consumer phones. Oh, and while I'm ranting...
I never though a cell phone would actually compell me to sever someone's head from their shoulders. But the users of Nextel brand phones and that GOD DAMN FUCKING ANNOYING AS ALL HELL ptt mode makes my blood boil. I actually try to make them fall and/or drop their phone. People complain how annoying people on cells are, man, Nextel makes them uber annoying. Not only are you twice as noisy because you use a fucking speaker phone and can hear the other person, often times the caller can't hear them and ends up yelling into their hand. Then that ANNOYING beep it makes between sends. And something about the way people hold a cell away from their face as they talk to it... [[[[shudder]]]
And I passed up the so called smart phones. My sister has a PalmOne. Yes, I enjoy talking into my PDA, yeh... right. The others made me feel like I was speaking into my TV remote or into a TI or HP scientific calculator. I honestly didn't need the blackberry shit or the PDA. Although I did like the idea of a series 60 Symbian phone. The same way I would rather have a Linux driven Zaurus PDA than a shitty pocket PC or Palm5 driven PDA.
So here are some pix of my phone (I think you can click them to get a bigger image)
This is the face. At 128x128, I wish the screen was bigger but the brightness is the first thing you will notice compared to other phones. Of course I added some modifications of course. I added a clear front and back case, hard crystal silver buttons, 128 meg MMC memory card (soon to be 1 gig card!). I want to get better lights (blue) but Nokia uses special fading diodes to save on energy. I also got a charging station with a battery charger (and an additional BL-5C battery). It came with stereo POP port headset (full on stereo music, radio and video, baby!!). But I mainly use my spiffy Motorola Bluetooth headset, the Motorola HS810. (http://www.motorola.com/mdirect/demos/bluetooth03/index.html). It's completely badass. Voice dialing from 10 meters away is pretty cool.
It syncs up real well with both Mac and PC (OSX10.3 and XP pro) but of course the PC side has better tools and better control. Apple does need to write iSync support for it but since it's a very new phone on the market, I'm sure it will be in the next revision.
Overall, I love his phone.
.
Of course If I could only get it to run MacOSX, mobile edition....
More info on this badass phone and what it can do, at the Nokia site: http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,47665,00.html.
In the meantime, corradokid and I have tried out the other brands of phones. We just don't get how people put up with the crap that is out there. He tried the Sony Ericsson T616. Man what a shitty phone. Sure we were lured in by the cool look (plasticy and flimsy at best with an annoying joy stick) and the cam. But after a month, he returned it. Bad reception (probably the worse we have tested but every SE phone we tested had shitty RF). Not to mention the silly and often illogical menu structure. Another buddy had same results with the SE T68i. I even gave the Sony Ericsson T637 a spin for a week. it was an ever so slight bump up from the T616 but still every bit as shitty.
I checked out my mom's Samsung X427M. It reminded me why I hated flip phones. It's just too...star trekkkky. ewww. Our friend has the Motorola v600 and my buddy has an asian model of the V710 from Motorola. Nice phones and it has a couple features I wish the Nokia 6230b had (like ringtone attached to a contact instead of a caller group) but like the majority of the other phones, the Nokia outclasses them with a shitload of other features. The upcoming V3 looks pretty badass, but then again, it's still a flip phone....
I won't get into the myriad of other phones like ones made by Kyocera, Siemens, Sanyo, and Panasonic. No one cares about them anyway. Low cost crappy consumer phones. Oh, and while I'm ranting...
I never though a cell phone would actually compell me to sever someone's head from their shoulders. But the users of Nextel brand phones and that GOD DAMN FUCKING ANNOYING AS ALL HELL ptt mode makes my blood boil. I actually try to make them fall and/or drop their phone. People complain how annoying people on cells are, man, Nextel makes them uber annoying. Not only are you twice as noisy because you use a fucking speaker phone and can hear the other person, often times the caller can't hear them and ends up yelling into their hand. Then that ANNOYING beep it makes between sends. And something about the way people hold a cell away from their face as they talk to it... [[[[shudder]]]
And I passed up the so called smart phones. My sister has a PalmOne. Yes, I enjoy talking into my PDA, yeh... right. The others made me feel like I was speaking into my TV remote or into a TI or HP scientific calculator. I honestly didn't need the blackberry shit or the PDA. Although I did like the idea of a series 60 Symbian phone. The same way I would rather have a Linux driven Zaurus PDA than a shitty pocket PC or Palm5 driven PDA.
So here are some pix of my phone (I think you can click them to get a bigger image)
This is the face. At 128x128, I wish the screen was bigger but the brightness is the first thing you will notice compared to other phones. Of course I added some modifications of course. I added a clear front and back case, hard crystal silver buttons, 128 meg MMC memory card (soon to be 1 gig card!). I want to get better lights (blue) but Nokia uses special fading diodes to save on energy. I also got a charging station with a battery charger (and an additional BL-5C battery). It came with stereo POP port headset (full on stereo music, radio and video, baby!!). But I mainly use my spiffy Motorola Bluetooth headset, the Motorola HS810. (http://www.motorola.com/mdirect/demos/bluetooth03/index.html). It's completely badass. Voice dialing from 10 meters away is pretty cool.
It syncs up real well with both Mac and PC (OSX10.3 and XP pro) but of course the PC side has better tools and better control. Apple does need to write iSync support for it but since it's a very new phone on the market, I'm sure it will be in the next revision.
Overall, I love his phone.
.
Of course If I could only get it to run MacOSX, mobile edition....
More info on this badass phone and what it can do, at the Nokia site: http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,47665,00.html.