I hung on to my Nokia 6610 for about one year and three months. My new phone is a Samsung E700, which is nearly identical to the American E715 model. I've personally only had Nokia phones up until now, although I've played with the various other phones my girlfriend's had as well.
While I'm very content with my new phone, I only had to try it out for a mere couple of minutes to notice how Nokia's user interface is far more polished, and, dare I say, superior. That doesn't mean the Samsung stands out as unpolished however, I find Nokia's phones to have a better user interface than the SonyEricsson and Siemens models I've played with as well.
My new phone has a built in camera, and quite a good one at that. As far as I know, the Samsung E700 has the best camera presently available on mobile phones in Europe (as opposed to in Asia). Of course, cameras on mobile phones don't hold a candle to regular digital cameras, so naturally I'm not comparing them, either.
The quality and size of the pictures it takes can be configured, as can the light sensitivity and a bunch of other pointless things, like frames and visual effects. I snapped off a picture of my two cats, Kenzo and Milo as they played with the bag from the reseller. My cats love crawling up inside bags, packaging and stuff like that; in these pictures, Milo is the white one, beating on the red bag, and Kenzo is the one inside of it.
The upper picture is the original one, taken with the phone, of course. The lower picture has gone through a very quick retouching in Photoshop; it's had its levels, contrast and colors tweaked. Since I'm far too much of a perfectionist, I just won't be able to not retouch whatever pictures I've taken before I post them, in case I'll be doing any of that in the future. Perhaps I will (now that I have some order to my archives hierarchy, and a phone with a camera on it).
It doesn't have Bluetooth, which is a shame, so in order to retrieve the pictures from it, I have to send them as MMS, via e-mail, to my regular inbox. A funny thing though, is that according to Outlook the e-mail has no attachments, but when I open them with Pine I can retrieve the attachments just fine. But, I'm thinking about switching to Thunderbird anyways, and perhaps, if I feel really creative, I'll make some sort of script which automagically intercepts and saves any incoming MMS e-mails to some designated location on the server, for me to pick-up and post later, that'd be pretty sweet.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, Talisyn, it can make and receive calls, too.
Comments
Nice cats. Can you show more pictures of them in your blog?
Comment by Chadie at 09:51, 11 Apr, 2004 #
Chadie: Actually, there are a few of them already, and I'm sure there will be more. Go ahead and search my archives.
Comment by Tomas at 14:01, 11 Apr, 2004 #
I have a Sony Ericsson T616 and I can bet anything that no Nokia out there has a better interface. We are not only talking about easy to use interface, but beautiful in general. With it's hight quality, fully colored icons, the T616 has nearly no match when we are talking about a beautiful interface. It has camera and bluetooth as well. And, of course, it is a GSM phone.
On the Samsung models (GSM), the best one I have seeing (it has no camera, but I care less about that) is the S307. The reception on that phone is second to none. Kim has it and in places where I have no signal at all that phone always has full bars. Amazing!
Comment by David Collantes at 14:21, 11 Apr, 2004 #
David: My girlfriend used to have the phone you mention (although in Europe it's called T610), but has now switched to its successor, the T630 (called T637 in the US).
Both of them has slick, skinnable UIs, and they're very configurable, but in my opinion they're not as user-friendly as the Nokia UI is (although not as far behind as Samsung and Siemens are), even though they've obviously borrowed many navigational cues from Nokia.
As far as reception goes, well, reception is never an issue in Sweden. ;-)
Comment by Tomas at 14:52, 11 Apr, 2004 #
I "bought" a SonyEricsson T310 about nine months ago (by bought I mean I sold my ass to Comviq for twelve months and got the phone for 349 SEK). That was my first non-Nokia. The only difference I noticed that really mattered for me was that the T9 input system was better and easier to use than on my previous phones, but I think that T9 is the standard system on most phones nowadays.
As soon as my twelve months are up, I'll look at a new phone. I've decided that I want a clamshell model this time. The Motorola Mx200 (or whatever it was called) looked nice, but I'll have to have a closer look at the features first.
Comment by Johan Svensson at 15:32, 11 Apr, 2004 #
Hi. I found you by looking for other people with my phone (E715). I've had the same problem with the non-attached attachment, but only in France, where SFR is my provider. At home with T-Mobile the attachments work fine. Could be a European MMS thing? Just FYI.
Comment by David at 21:21, 08 Jun, 2004 #
The discussion has been closed on this entry. Thanks to everybody who participated.