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Nokia cheapskates! P800 is an investment I am happy to pledge to! |
Frankie2105
Joined: Jun 20, 2003
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From: London
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 When you think about it how much have you paid for your P800?
From free - £500+ for the phone
Maybe a 128MSD or 2 (or three  ): £55-99 each
A screen protector: 6-8 quid
Maybe one of those flash (*cough* gay) gold or silver styli: £10 +
One of those fancy cases from around: 40-90 pounds
A duo reader/writer: Just under a tenner
Maybe a bluetooth headset: ranging from £50-150
And quite a few other things....So I must say if you shell out for all of these it is quite an investment wouldn't you agree?
As for the nokia list erm
Leather case : a fiver down the market
Handfree kit: a fiver down the market
A new nokia fascia: a fiver down the market
Oh whoops forgot one of those keypads that flash different colours when your phone rings: around a tenner 
Nokia owners stop sailing in the reservoir and join us P800 owners on the white water
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prodjsxb
Joined: Jul 13, 2003
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I quite agree, i am waiting to see if my gsm provider can give me a better deal on the phone, they have offered $800CAN so far, I am happy with my t300, but why not have a bigger and better toy  until then... i can only hope |
ainamrev
Joined: May 23, 2003
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From: Servanya - Russia
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A T300 i rather have a 7210 - 7250 etc etc then a bar of soap thats one ugly phone mate get a real phone...a P800
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North
Joined: Jun 21, 2003
Posts: 49
From: Gatesheed, UK
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Vermania says he'd rather have a 7250 than a T300... have you SEEN THE STATE OF THAT PHONE?!?!?! If anything less than a P800 is not a \"real phone\" then your standards must be as high as your level of pay! If I wanted a bulky phone with tons of features I don't need I'd go 3G :-) Roll on the Z1010 :-)
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Bogus Jimmy
Joined: Mar 01, 2003
Posts: 282
From: Adelaide, Australia
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Getting back to the original topic, I thought about it the other day and I have spent quite a lot of money on my P800. A few of my friends and family think I'm crazy, but I don't care. I've got all I need in my P800. It organises almost all aspects of communcation and organisation in my life.
The only aspect of the P800 that it didn't quite live up to my expectations is games. There is no problem with the graphics etc, it's the fact that the controls are only good for some types of games (and completely useless for others) which makes all the emulators and roms irrelevant. That's why I went out and bought a Game Boy Advance SP and half a dozen games.
Other than games, the P800 is a device I am happy to invest some money into (as you can see by my signature)
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d' fuhrer
Joined: Feb 26, 2003
Posts: 163
From: the wolf's lair
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no thanks. too pricey and i would rather splurge on other more important things like my car.
if you don't have something nice to say, don't say something nice.  FUEHRER MEANS "LEADER" IN GERMAN STUPID. |
Frankie2105
Joined: Jun 20, 2003
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From: London
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To each his own
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@Bogus Jimmy
I quite agree - I'm glad I took the big (financial) plunge and went for a P800. One additional cost this thread has ignored is the software one, albeit that many of the great apps are <£10, but install a few...
As for the games - the MP3, email, bluekacking and (limited) games fill in an otherwise mind-numbing commute. For serious games-only distraction, my trusty GBA delivers the goods!
Steven.
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lord viper
Joined: May 31, 2002
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p800......................way too problematic. cant do anything properly, but tries to do a bit of everything. i'm fairly happy with my 8910i. although bluetooth connectivity isnt as good as p800.
but all p800 owners look on the bright side.....
you could stack your phones together and build a house!!! |
d' fuhrer
Joined: Feb 26, 2003
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From: the wolf's lair
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i definitely concur to that viper!
if you don't have something nice to say, don't say something nice. FUEHRER MEANS "LEADER" IN GERMAN STUPID. |
Frankie2105
Joined: Jun 20, 2003
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From: London
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On 2003-07-23 23:11:12, lord viper wrote:
p800......................way too problematic. cant do anything properly, but tries to do a bit of everything. i'm fairly happy with my 8910i. although bluetooth connectivity isnt as good as p800.
but all p800 owners look on the bright side.....
you could stack your phones together and build a house!!!
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Could you please support this? problems?...feel free to list them.
And to "Mr.Leader" is the name d'fuhrer or FUEHRER as you spelt it
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janahan
Joined: Jan 13, 2003
Posts: 232
From: UK
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sorry,butthe T68i was MUCH better than the p800 for Bluetooth connectivity. It just WORKED..
In fatc the T68i was probably the only phone that did just *work* (after all the upgrades!), albiet sometimes slowly. my T68 had the fewest problems of any phoen i have had. and keeps on running. even when my p800 takes a sickie.
Owned (order of purchase): Nok 8110, Nok 6150, Nok 8210, Nok 6210, Eric r320s, Eric T68m, SE T300, SE P800, SE T610, SE S700i, Mot V3i, SE K800i |
senninha
Joined: Jan 05, 2003
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as you say, when you add up all the stuff you've paid for the phone, accessories and software, it's very expensive. but, unlike most phones out there, the p800 is a real business tool and not just a toy, a media player or a game machine.
it is extremely capable if you really learn it and know how to tweak and configure it, and most importantly, enjoy tinkering with it. managed properly, it is extremely powerful and, at least in my case, completely trouble-free.
as for the expense, in my experience, my P800 has paid for itself thousands of times over. i've been able to work with little disruption thru my P800 when my laptop crashed (and windows crashes are millions of times more painful than symbian crashes! ), i can manage my servers anytime of the day even when i don't have my laptop with me, and most importantly, i've actually used my P800 quite a few times for sales presentation purposes instead of my laptop. this absolutely knocked the socks off my clients and closed the deals for me. now try doing that on any other phone!
the fact that my p800 can actually cover for the absence of my laptop at times never ceases to amaze me. so do i even look at any other phones anymore? hell no... it will have to be something that takes a quantum leap in technology to make me give up my p800, and not just a p810/900 with a better cam (which i almost never use anyway).
the p800 is not for everyone, and many people may not like it at all. but i gotta say, u definitely have to respect it.
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mbailey
Joined: Apr 02, 2003
Posts: 105
From: Cheshunt, Herts, UK
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I was, and still a fan of the Nokia 9X10 series, having had two communicators. Yes, they were house-brick in size but they did more than any other phone on the market (and they can still send/receive faxes and edit Word/Excel files where the P800 cannot).
I've not had a P800 for four months and am delighted with it. Although being on a fairly old release of firmware I've had relatively few problems (none serious).
You can of course spend a great deal of money on this phone, but there are also a number of free apps out there that give the phone remarkable power. Take the Oggplayer, or VNC (PC remote control software, like PC Anywhere). How many phones do you know that can remotely control a PC?
Granted some of the functions don't go as far as devices that are SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THE PURPOSE. The P800 is a jack of all trades, and although not a master of many it is still a contender.
At any one time I have the ability to:
- Check my diary
- set an alarm call
- play several games (including Gameboy and other emulations)
- check spelling (advanced dictionary)
- take a photo (and send it via MMS or email)
- FTP a file to/from a server
- browse the internet or check my email
- write a note and save it as a text file (almost as good as Word in my opinion)
- play music or video files
- view a list of tasks
- be online with MSN and ICQ
- record a voice memo
- remotely connect to one of several web servers I run
- check the time, weather or currency rate of a country
- have a variety of weights and measurement conversions at my fingertips
- have up to 128MB of storage space available (useful if you have the memory stick converter and someone wants to share a file)
- remotely control many infra-red devices
- oh, and make/receive telephone calls
How many other devices the size of a cigarette packet can claim to do all of this?
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lord viper
Joined: May 31, 2002
Posts: 85
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im not gonna moan. ill just list my problems.
-sos or emergency calls only
-constant crashing
-inferior camera quality (when compared to 7650)
-and what really got to me was 'overcharging' which killed the battery.
i know to some people these problems may be somewhat trivial but i paid nearly £600 for it back in january. i could get a nicked top spec laptop for that!
anyway, having dumped my nr70v and t68i to switch to p800. i felt it seriously underperformed.
as i say many people will disagree or not even have experienced these problems. and im not going to throw a strop if anyone does disagree.
although i must say se users do present themselves as having inferior phones to nokia users.
for instance, if you look on dedicated nokia forums like nokiafree.org you dont really see threads like 'se will trash nokia' or 'nokia cheapskates'.
their threads are far more productive.
lets be real. nokia are the biggest mobile telecommunications producer in the world. se are trying to compete with THEM. not the other way round.
[ This Message was edited by: lord viper on 2003-07-24 22:53 ] |
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