Posted by alias
Nokia 7700 is ugly but spec wise it's a killer. What do you guys think?
Posted by masseur
Isn't that more or less what is being discussed in this thread...
p900 killer is a nokia
Posted by alias
Ok sorry mate, didn't see that thread.
Posted by BlackBauer24
I WANT A P900, enough said.
Posted by EthanD
At the moment would settle for either.
The P900 on Orange is about as easy to track down as a Yeti.
The 7700 needs to be marketed NOW if it is going to torpedo the SE P900, which it would do if it competed head to head. It's arguably ugly (or at best weird looking) and no idea how confortable in the hand it will be to use as a PDA (i.e. upright) let alone as a phone.
It is however, a Nokia, and people like Nokia phones for some good reasons (and some stupid ones).
At least Nokia have learned from their earlier models that just because they can't think what use more memory would be doesn't mean that everyone and his kid sister wouldn't be able to eat up the available memory in minutes.
Really the 7700 is like a P900 but with bigger screen a few extra applications, a proper amount of user memory and a viable upgrade memory card slot. So no reason to buy the Nokia eh?
Given a choice I'd definitely get the 7700 but I have a well overdue order placed (paid for) for a P900 as it's likely to come into stock sooner.
Sony Ericsson had better hurry up and get the P900's into the stores because when the 7700 comes out the P900 will be yesterday's news.
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Posted by ainamrev
the Nk 7700 is being released Q3 is it not. Handsets of that price (
£300 with a contract) never really sell and are mainly bought by techie freaks and business people
as the pohones more of a media phone it will be intresting to see what actually happens. The handset has the same size screen as a p900 however the 7700 has higher resolution. As Nokia screens are typically crap (compare their 4096 screens with a samsung 4096 screen!) i think the screen will be the same as the p900
The design on the 7700 is awful and its just to damn big. I dont want to hold a phone side ways imagine balancing it whilst on a treain with one hand then trying to write with the other!. I can see nokia marketing heavily on the TV tuner add on but knowing nokia it wont be out till 2005 and will be over priced and riddled with faults. And probably make the phone bigger and bulkier (AKS TV tuner for GBA is huge!)
Posted by 701
Ok, so for now and until 2006, the p900 is the king.
Posted by MikLSP
The Links ''Future Look'' website had a review on the 7700 and said it is a 3G phone WITHOUT video calling capability!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the hell is the point of that??
PS from here on let it be known as the Nokia Taco!
edit:
Here's the quote from my e-mail from Future Look:
''Nokia 7700
Those wacky Finns are at it again, with one of the stran-gest designs yet seen for a 3G phone that doesn't do video calling''
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never made the connection but now that you come to mention it it really does look like a Taco!
Posted by 701
That's bullshit.The 3G means video.It's like sayin u built a car with a diesel motor without..the diesel power.Are they allowed to use the 3G term if their phone doesnt qualify?
Posted by Ru
Isn't 3G just the 'new' standard for mobile telecommunications?
Functions such as video calls/messaging etc. are just applications which are made possible by the increased bandwidth 3G allows.
Posted by MikLSP
But what is the point of making a phone that can use the new bandwidth etc. but is unable to actually apply them to what they are designed for i.e. video calling
Personally I'm not really bothered about video calls to but it just seems quite a contradiction that a '3G' phone won't even let you!
Posted by panlek
7700 is not so good as p900. ;-)
Posted by gravity
Apparently the extra bandwith will be used to stream TV. Thats right, no TV Tuner, it will be streamed, streaming = downloaded data = money.
Posted by MikLSP
That's IF they actually enable it to do that. I believe it cannot do it yet?
And why pay costly bills of streaming TV to your phone when you can get handheld TV's, watch it through your PC or just go home or to your mates house or better still the pub(for the footy anyway)!!
Posted by BigFeat
Sprint PCs has already started a mobile network TV campaign in the States... There are currently 12 television channels including CNN, MSNBC, and several others... As of now they have been able to play games online with other mobile users on that network, surf the net at bandwidths much much faster then the standard GSM GPRS data, and now they are able to literally tune to about 12 television cable channels right from the phone.. I still own a Sprint PC Samsung phone, but the big drawback is that I am not able to travel outside of the country with their phones... I had a chance to add the Mobi TV to my package and I must say it is quite interesting where their going with that.. The price of the package is extremely cheap. However, its because the company can afford the bandwidth to share streaming content with its clients. Here's a clip from the article:
"MobiTV offers TV for Sprint PCS users
News by Siddharth Raja on Friday November 14, 2003.
MobiTV has just launched one of the world's first live streaming TV services, delivered to mobile phones on the Sprint PCS network. Users will need to download a J2ME application to their phone which will enable them to view the live broadcasts. Standard TV features such as on/off, volume, and channel changing will be available directly from the program.
MobiTV has secured rights to some of the most popular channels in the US market, such as MSNBC, CNBC, Discovery, TLC, Discovery Kids, CSTV, CMC, and IMNTV. Other channels include CMC Beat Lounge, ToonWorld TV Classics, and Discovery en Español. They claim more channels will be added over the coming months. The MobiTV service is available to Sprint Vision PCS subscribers for $9.99 per month. "
Posted by ainamrev
Would the kids need to buy TV liecences?
Posted by DragonEye
let them test the market.... if they fail it's good for SE... you guys are hardcore anti change it seems...(in general..remember all the t610 haters..i was one and and am still not fond of it) i agree that the phone is ugly and doesn't seem very practical but you never know.