Just got my 6100

[msmaron]

Just got my new 6100 and it seems to be a great little phone. i had the 6108 but realized for the 400.00+ I would never ever use the Chinese Dictionary or the scroll pad. nice phone though and both have great RF and I am on T-Moble. Just some information on a great little phone

[sean]

I am envious... they are a veryt cute little phone to be sure!

[Tenoq]

Certainly got the better of the two (vs 6610), as this one seems to be fairly well made.

Glad ur happy with it! That $400... is that US?

IT is too much for 6100,if you ask me.But it is a nice phone.

[Michael]

The 6100 is my favorite Series 40 Nokia phone, behind only the 7250.

It is light, compact, and nice looking.

Another handset on my ever-expanding list of "I'd be using one if it had Bluetooth"....

[jase]

Yeah, the 6100 looks like a nice handset to me. If I didn't want a Symbian phone, I'd probably be using that one.

So what phone are you using Michael?

[sean]

Don't get him started..it will end in jealousy... Plus, with all the NDAs he signed, he'd likely be shot dead before he finished typing it all out.

[jase]

Ooh, previewing multiple pre-release phones, eh? Lucky him!

Of course, I do live relatively close by....

--Jason

My mother owns cellphone dealership.

[Michael]

Originally posted by jase
Ooh, previewing multiple pre-release phones, eh? Lucky him!

Hah....you would expect something exotic.

But I use a T68i with the first rev firmware. *yawn*

I use Bluetooth constantly, so that is the big thing for me. I would have used the T610 if the RF didn't suck. T616 would be ok for me, but I travel to Europe a lot and want a normal 900/1800/1900 triband, not 850/1800/1900.

I'm hoping that the Mot V600 will work out for me. Failing that, the Nokia 6600 or Panasonic X70.

The Samsung SGH-D700 would really be sweet, too. Even if it only supported the Hands Free BT profile like the 3650, most of my favoured headsets would work.

[Ghibli]

I find the Series 40 phones to have too many shortcomings to be good phones. For example, there is no full MMS support, only a 1 picture + 1 text option. Also, they have crippled IrDA, and no hotkeys like on Siemens phones.
I got the 6108 because it is a novelty, that's all.

[Michael]

The MMS editor is really bad in Series 40, but that doesn't bother me much at all.

In fact, not at all. I think MMS is pretty much a loser. The financials don't make sense, and the "benefits" it offers over SMS are not useful to most people.

Plus all the settings and such that are required by comparison to SMS, and the issue of dealing with a huge existing base of non-MMS phones, or people with MMS phones but no MMS service.

[Sid]

Dont forget about MMS services that aren't compatible with MMS services on other networks. In Australia you can't even send an MMS between the 2 biggest mobile betworks - Optus and Telstra!

[Tenoq]

Originally posted by Sid
Dont forget about MMS services that aren't compatible with MMS services on other networks. In Australia you can't even send an MMS between the 2 biggest mobile betworks - Optus and Telstra!

Ridiculous, isn't it? Why can these two never agree to work together? Vodafone and Telstra is fine, and I imagine Vodafone and Optus have a similar deal. So what's the story? It's still a standard... why is it so hard to make it cross over between networks?

Ok, my grumble for the day

[Ghibli]

There's no such problem with MMS in S'pore, but I just think it ridiculous that while Nokia has done so much to promote MMS, like collaborating with the telcos to advertise it, they actually don't support it fully. What's more, most Series 40 phones have no e-mail client, which means the only way to send pictures to another phone is via the costly MMS since the IrDA is crippled, whilst completely ignoring the sharing of ringtones.