Nokia 3330
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Today my new phone arrived. It's a classic Nokia 3330 off ebay at the low price of £13 delivered. It isn't new, but looks like its never been used.
This is to replace my T-Mobile MDA III, which got very grubby at ManiacLAN 5. The MDA had previously survived a dunking, and I was a little generous with the water whilst cleaning it, but didn't worry much because I (wrongly) assumed that it'd dry out and be back to its old self. But it never did.
It's not the worst loss in the world. It was quite battered, and crashed randomly when I tried to answer calls. Also, since my switch to open-source software last October, I have been unable to sync my contacts on the XDA with my computer, which kinda defeats the object of it really. If I ever need this feature in the future, I will buy a Palm Treo 680, which syncs with Linux much easier (especially Kontact). Another XDA feature that will not be missed is the camera, since I have recently treated myself to a Canon IXUS 850 IS.
I wanted to enable a PIN on my Nokia 3330, but it seems this was very stupid, because I didn't know the current PIN of the SIM card, and ended up locking it. Luckily, there's a red phone box on Broad Street, where I could ring Orange to get them to give me a PUK number to unlock the SIM. Nevertheless, lets say I've since reversed my decision to have a PIN. 3 guesses by a Donov trying to get into your phone will lock it up again. They could've made the number of guesses before lock-out a little higher!
Being an online person, I didn't have any change for the phone box to call Orange, but luckily BT saw that, being a tourist trap, Broad Street phone box would benefit from being about to accept Debit/Credit cards. Well sort of. It rejected my HSBC maestro card, and it took 3 attempts "Insert Card" "Remove Card" "Insert Card" etc with my mastercard before it took it and I could make my call. It would've been handy to see on-screen how much the call was costing me, but at least it worked. And it didn't need a ChipnPin or a signature lol.
A few things that strike me about the Nokia against the XDA:
1. It's small. It fits in your pocket and doesn't weigh you down.
2. You can dial numbers easier as it has a proper numeric keypad.
3. There's no stylus to break/lose or delicate screen to scratch.
4. You can be ~(as cool as Mike Spivey).
5. The audio quality isn't as great as the XDA unfortunetly
6. It actually gets a decent phone signal in most places like my room.
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