yep, it's eight-thirty in the morning.
why am I up at eight thirty, you ask? well, my dad's in town, and because we share a mobile line, there's frequent switching of the SIM between his phone and mine. so, as per usual, he woke me up, becuase i was waiting for messages and didn't return the SIM to the useless titanium shell that is my father's Nokia 8910 Midnight Edition.
why, may i ask, is giving the phone a different colour worthy of elevating it to 'Special Edition' status? Perhaps i should start calling my phone the Ericsson T68m Ziroccan Gold from now on.
why he shelled out over a thousand & two hundred dollars for that lump of crap in the first place is beyond me. i asked him about it, and his reasons were the spring-loaded soft-touch auto-opening mechanism, the analog clock screensaver, and the look and feel of the useless device.
now, let me explain why i think it's a ton of hot shit.
1 - the spring-loaded soft-touch auto-opening mechanism. that thing drives me up the bloody wall. have you any idea how irritating it is to press the two latches on the sides, wait a few seconds for the phone to rise to its full height, then read your new message?
2 - the look and feel of it. if you haven't noticed, there're no buttons on the phone when it's closed, excepting the power button and the two latches. [i say latches because they're very low-quality] which means that there's no way of answering or rejecting calls when it's closed it. the build quality of the phone is horrible. the top of the phone wobbles and rattles when you're typing a message on it. hardly what's expected from a phone with such an exorbitant price.
there's also the problem of the rubbish screen. it's lumbering on with a low-resolution, 4-level grayscale unit. now, i admit that the grayscale [black and three grays] is an upgrade from the monochrome [black only] of previous Nokias, i'd prefer the high resolution of the 6510. but then again, why grayscale when Ericsson can offer a 256-colour, high-res display on a $300 phone? [that would be the T68m]
and how about the general lack of usefulness? if i wanted a phone just to make and receive calls on, i'd buy a Motorola. It runs the basic Nokia interface, meaning it's incapable of most things, already. surfing WAP over GPRS is slow, considering it can only interpret the pages into blocky text. it seems to block out most of the graphics that i see in glorious colour on my T68m.
the Bluetooth on that phone is another issue. on my Ericsson, you can talk on the headset with your phone, say, in your backpack, send images, ring tones, themes, notes, contacts and appointments between phones, or between the phone and a suitably tricked-out PDA or PC. you can even play Bluetooth games between phones. now, the beauty of Bluetooth is that it's a wireless technology. that means, for all you technology know-nothings out there, that it can communicate with another Bluetooth equipped device up to 10m [200m for some on high-powered chips] without having to worry about aligning any IrDA [Infrared Data Association] ports, or some idiot blocking your IrDA beam.
now that you've gotten a taste of the wonders of Bluetooth, you'll wonder what the fools at Nokia have been doing. all you can do with Bluetooth on the 8910 is ... nothing. its primary, and only use is to communicate with an un-launched, and much delayed, Nokia Bluetooth Headset. whereas Ericsson has already got five Bluetooth accessories on the market. so the poor Nokia has no Bluetooth friends. boo-hoo. not my bloody fault.
3 - the analog-clock screensaver. surely, i don't have to explain myself for loathing this.
there's plenty more to complain about the bloody thing, but, seeing that i've already deviated much too far from the original topic of my father waking me up, i'll teleport you lost souls back now.
now, back to the story. he also wanted to know the result of last night's EPL match [who is Bolton and Sunderland, anyway?], and he, of course, has no idea how to work the Teletext or the computer. which kinda explains why I'm perched on my swivel chair, clakking away at my keyboard when i really should be playing The Sims Unleashed or watching the two movies [Gattaca & The Whole Nine Yards] that i've recorded since goodness-knows-when, instead of ranting about my anti-Nokian tendencies.
i need to vent. i'll be looking for my Midtown Madness 2 CD now.
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