After my last trip to NYC Chinatown, I was able to snag the Nokia 6682 cell phone for $150 with 1-year contract. Not exactly the greatest deal ever, but it worked out – I sold the phone on fleabay for $290.
I did manage to play around with the phone for a couple days before I sold it. So here’s my mini-review…
Yes, it’s that time again to preview a “new” Nokia cell phone – the Nokia N80 phone, part of the Nseries line of high-end mobiles.
Read more about this feature-packed slider in the extended entry.
Lately the word on the street regarding Nokia cell phone deals is the Cingular Refurb Go! Phone Store. If you didn’t opt for the Nokia 6010 cell phone deal then this might be for you…
I stumbled upon some interesting stats while on the Nokia Global corporate site.
Did you know that the U.S.A. was once the biggest sales market for Nokia? Unfortunately, that was in 2003, and times have changed. Today, not only is the great U.S. of A no longer #1, our Nokia cell phone sales have actually declined in the past 3 years! Pretty sad. But then again, if you think about it – how many friends do you know with Nokia cell phones these days?
After scoring a Nokia 6010 at Staples with a price-match to Target, it’s time to put the phone through its paces.
Full review in the extended entry.
My last attempt to write this update ended in failure (movable type “lost” it somehow). Anyway, it’s been nearly two weeks since I brought home the Nokia N90 phone, so let’s see how things turned out. The good, the bad, and the ugly…
There’s five phones at Nokiausa.com that are “coming soon” to the U.S. I just want to say…
…what the hell is this??
Is it always mandatory for Nokia to release at least one nasty fashion design cell phone a year? Wow. The other phones aren’t very impressive either – no series 60 devices and ANOTHER Nokia Communicator phone. I suppose it’s nice to see that Nokia has started upgrading some of their Verizon phones because they were seriously lagging behind the competition in that field.
I would actually consider the Nokia 6282 cell phone if it were Series 60. I’m not really a slider phone type of guy though. And it’s funny that the battery on this phone (970 mah) is better than the Nokia N90′s paltry 760 mah battery.
I guess I’ll have to wait it out with my Nokia N90 until the N92 releases in June or whatever.
I took my own advice and took a trip to Target + Staples (for some odd reason, they’re usually near each other). The first strip mall I went to had both of them, but the Staples didn’t have any 6010′s in stock. Damn.
I went to another Staples south of my house and luckily, they had one in stock. HOWEVER, the manager (this super lazy guy which was great for my purposes) wouldn’t do the 110% pricematch unless I “went and stole the price tag off the Target shelf.” So instead of that I went across the street to Target and used my Nokia N90 phone to take some *damn good* pictures of the Target price tags, and finally the manager okay’ed it. Total price out the door: $38.15. The rebate can be found here.
The phone comes stock locked to Tmobile, so you’ll need to access the DCT4 calculator if you want to unlock it for Cingular. And by the way, the Nokia 6010 phone is dual band 850/1900 mhz.
It’s very budget, but for $8.15 after rebate it’s a (somewhat) great backup phone. You also get a free wireless number and $15 worth of airtime. Sadly I think it’s Series 30 with color. (is that Series 35?)
Hurry up and go get a Nokia 6010 phone before they’re gone!
My last post mysteriously deleted itself when I published, so I guess it’s time to talk about something else.
A few weeks back I went to a friend’s place up in Hackensack – it’s about 5 minutes drive from Garden State Plaza, one of the, if not the largest mall in New Jersey. My goal was to hit up the Nokia Experience Center and check out the newest Nokia cell phones, maybe win some free phones or something cool like that.
Me and my friend (my friend and I) asked four different people where “the Nokia store” was. Sadly nobody had any idea – I was thinking that it probably wasn’t even open yet or something happened, etc.
So we finally find one of the mall workers who points us in the right direction. We pass the Sony store with its super-overpriced laptops and finally we stop at one of the mall intersections. In front of us is a TINY little cubicle that says “Nokia” on the top.
Ever the optimist, I say to myself, “There’s no way that’s the store. It’s probably around the corner or something.” Unfortunately it was not to be. That little fruit stand of a Nokia store ended up being the “Nokia Experience Center,” or in other words the smallest piece of garbage store that I still to this day cannot believe bears the Nokia name. I could take my collection of Nokia phones, put them in my garage, and it would be a nicer place than the Nokia Experience Center.
The stand was about (literally) 10 feet by 5 feet. And of course there were about 5 other people in the “store” trying to roam around and browse but in reality just bumping into each other. It was horrible. The guy working there looked ridiculously bored (how long could you possibly watch people bump into other people??). The people bumping around looked bored. I was definitely bored. The phones they had on display were either phones that you could easily find in any Cingular/Tmobile kiosk OR existed like 5 years ago. Like the 6800. I love my Nokia 6800, but it’s oldschool and it belongs in a museum with the dinosaur bones.
The only “nice” phone they had there was the 8800. And finally, the “Nokia Experience Center” isn’t even a store – you can’t actually buy anything.
I was not happy that day.
There’s two new cell phones up at nokia.com (nokia europe to be exact) – the Nokia 6131 phone and the Nokia 6136 phone. Both look strikingly similar, and for the most part have the same general features. (quad-band, 1.3 mpx camera, inner/outer displays, series 40-ish features, no symbian, expandable memory, etc)
More about these two revolutionary phones in the full entry.
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