Nokia 3250
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- crazylegs
- mm{
- 27 Mar 2006
Yeah i'm trying to find it as well. My contracts up at the end of this month and I want to upgrade! The O2 website says April.
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- Sidney
- PFM
- 27 Mar 2006
I just got this phone.Initial opinion abt it was great - good large display ... good speaker quality ... unique design ...
Played around with the music and cam function. Music-wise,I feel it is comparable to SE phones.However,earpiece + cable = very long cables = too messy.Cam quality average. When viewing and taking shots,the pic looks so pixelated.However,after taking the pic, the pic looks alrite,more like a pic taken by 2mp cam.However,when uploaded into the comp,it just disappointed me.
The final straw was the twisting design. 90 degrees to cam mode and 180 degrees to music mode.Initially the person told me its due to my slow reflex,that why I cant set the phone to music mode.Hence the person at Nokia Care told me to turn it faster in order to access music mode.It turned out well until I reached home.After twisting for abt 15 mins, I stil could not access the music mode. And even if I use the manual way of activating music mode,the buttons for playing,next,stop etc could not work.I am going back Nokia Care tomorrow again and give them a hella of a scolding.I was once a anti-nokia customer and still is,tht of giving it a try after changing a couple of phones.However,its just plain disappointment.
If u dun ask for more,3250 is actualli quite a good music phone.The speaker is placed in a suitable location(nt facing down when the fone is on the table etc like L7).The sound quality is impressive and loud.Soley a music phone.Dun place too high expectations on its camera. =) hope it gives those out there who plan to get this phone some thts to consider . =) feel free to consult me on this phone. I dun wan others to end up buying a phone and regretting it in the end ( like me,regretted totally after getting L7 ) =P
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- joey
- RKp
- 27 Mar 2006
available...they made the phone in 7 months...gosh!!!
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- Chamak
- PBj
- 26 Mar 2006
viperkid
never did i say that previous nokia handsets has better audio quality (i think u r referring to its inbox earphones) i even admitted dat..:
No I don't need to refer to it's inbox earphones 'z nokia's earphones r totally incomparable with SE's. I'm referring to it's onboard loudspeakers. I didn't mention it 'z we're talking 'bout onboard loudspeakers not inbox earphones. And no matter whether u're referring to onboard loudspeaker or the inbox earphones, to me along with 4/5 nokia users around me(and loyal to nokia like you) SE alwayz beats NOKIA.
my only point about mentioning k750's joystick is how a company makes em and SE side very very uncomfortable and 70% accurate only unlike with nokia's joysticks (which i know a d-pad inside) but even, its 98% accurate and quite comfortable in 3230 so i think its not pointless:
To me the worst joysticks i've ever touched and never wanna touch again are of NOKIA 3230's and NOKIA 6600's. They're very tight and hurts my fingure. and of accuracy if SE's joystick is not malfunctioning i'ld say it's 100% accurate and so is NOKIA's.
but if u were d 1 to say you had accidentally dropped ur k700 its ok? what if i say its quite pointless for u to say dat too? but i will not say dat to u coz im not biased:
I mentioned my incident just as a counter-example of ur's. And with you nokia user's that's the major problem, you never think of you as biased, and always thinks the guy/gal is baised who's talking against nokia :-D
u admitted it dat w810 only "good phone" with the richest MM functionalities in d mrkt wyl 3250 for me is an excellent phone with great MM features which i think is better coz dat's wat cellphones are really for, communication! :
I said good as i beleive there's nothing said best. There's always better something than this or that. If i used your language I'ld say W810 is way excellent phone too. and I don't see how SE became a headache for Nokia just in around 4/5 years if they couldn't manage their phone to be excellent. Like you each and every other cell-phone user won't compromise a bit of poor quality in it's communication functionality.
dat's y EDGE, GPRS connection are for to connect and use visualRadio! i know dat u know for sure dat wifi is NOT d bandwagon or widespread yet, so y use GPRS if wifi is not present in ur location? so u can connect to web and use functions like visualradio! wat do u expect, go to a nearest starbucks or any cybercafe dat has wifi just to use visualradio even u can connect to GPRS? i think ur nuts! :
U've totally missed my point. If you use internet via EDGE u don't use it for 18 or 20 hours. But for me I listen to radio more than I listen to mp3s. and in that case if I'm to pay GPRS bill for just listening to your stupid visual radio, i think my gprs bill will overflow my communication bill by 2 or 3 times, and i surely don't want that. If u do, i think u're nuts.
RDS is an old technology but still not widely used in mobile phones wyl visualradio just started recently and its a new service/technology, wat do u expect it to be very popular? RDS should be popular by now but y is not used in mobile phones widely??:
Simple answer. They're not capable of. If I can get RDS w/o spending a single penny I simply would like it more. Moreover, almost each and every radio stations in UK are RDS enabled. I think ur barking 'bout visual radio is pointless as it's only published and it'll take at least 4/5 more years to hold a ground against RDS. So even if u do have visual radion in ur cell-phone it useless as only 1/2 stations has that capability. U may b charmed by visual radio if u're gonna use ur 3250 for next 5 years :-D.
screen, i know dat of course, around 2112 of pixel less in 3250 is not dat much, i prefer to view pics and vids on a bigger surface screen than viewing em on a tiny and not that wide screen of d inferior w810, i wont go for s700 coz SE is quite funny putting high res screen then putting a standard QCIF video encoding resulting in very very small video size of video playing, yuck! either d600 will never go and buy coz it does not ring and vibrate at d same time! i will still buy 3250! : ) :
It's totally ur choise, for me i like glossy extreme nice display even if it's in a smaller 1. (like i would buy a 32 inch lcd tv rather than a 51 inch plasma :-D). and u nokia loyal user's are really funny!...U don't like a D600 'z it vibrates then it rings! or other way around LOL...I remember once a very long ago another NOKIA loyal user like you told me why SE don't have that green and red button :-D. I answered him simply. That's SE's way. You funny loyals have to think, in what way NOKIA is representing something that's the right, all others are wrong! I mean come on people, wake up!
how sure r u i did not try P series of SE? FYI, i had P800 and P910i both of em great PDA coz of its touchscreen but they are bad phones:
You're the first 1 ever who said P series phones are bad phones! Why would u say something like that ?! Moreover, I pointed at their speed of functioning, how they're way faster than NOKIA symbians. u haven't told nething 'bout that, shall i assume you're accepting what've i said ?
and last but not least, u, ur 1gb memory card and ur valuable eaac+ :-D. Remember w810 at least supports aac not only mp3. and i repeat, when i can put a 4gb mmc i really don't care if a song is 4mb rather than 2.5mb. 'z then i can move the world with me.
and thanx for ur teaching 'bout carl zeiss. :-D
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- MGp
- 26 Mar 2006
Viperkid, Thanx alot
Peace
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- crazylegs
- mm{
- 26 Mar 2006
Just click the unoin jack flack at the top of the page to change it to english
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- viperkid
- PRQ
- 26 Mar 2006
19:
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- Anonymous
- 4nx
- 26 Mar 2006
i have got the fone recentlt.nice fone!!!!but
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- Anonymous
- PFM
- 26 Mar 2006
for design wise everyone have different taste, so its either like or dislike.
personnally i like the phones design, the feel of the phone is good and solid, keypads are responsive but i wont go into functions because again different people have different level of satisfaction on quanlity but im pleased with its functionality overall. only thing is the rotating block which i will reserve my comment until maybe a thousand rotation ..............maybe
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- azlan
- PFU
- 26 Mar 2006
To my noble opinion. This is the pretty awful looking phone release by nokia.Yet
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- viperkid
- PRQ
- 26 Mar 2006
Chamak:
ok, apology accepted. : )
i said:
"W810 also does not support bluetooth stereo like 3250"
u misunderstood wat i meant there, i used d word "also" to say and confirm that 3250 also does NOT support A2DP bluetooth profile, i think dat clear things up, never did i say on any forum on the net dat 3250 supports stereo bluetooth. (u know i don't invent things and NEVER did i use my imagination just to BIG up any brand) and u confirmed it 3250 has 2.0v BT which is an advantage over W810.
re sound quality k750 and 6230:
never did i say that previous nokia handsets has better audio quality (i think u r referring to its inbox earphones) i even admitted dat..
"contrary to mp3 played on loudspeaker midi tones in SE really beats nokia in loudness and quality there"
"conversely, previous nokia handsets looses to SE's megabass coz u can obviously hear d bass element more on d inbox earphone than nokia's inbox earphones but the treble element on both of em are quite equal in frequency"
its quite clear there and to my previous posts dat i was referring to loudspeaker loudness and quality in playing mp3 and midi files and never i meant d inbox earphones dat came with 6230 sounds better in quality on d inbox earphones of k750, remember i was hoping for a better set of earphones on 3250 inbox and u even told me:
"WELL WHAT CAN I SAY, ALL YOU REALLY CAN DO IS HOPE THAT NOKIA WILL FINALLY GIVE YOU A NICE PIECE OF HEAPHONES, AND IF YOU TURN INTO SONY FOR YOUR HEADPHONES WHY NOT GO 4 W810?"
since ur a "software developer" u should know dat too, right? bitrate and sampling rates in midi files and if im not mistakin other synthetic audio are not used in nokia phones
my only point about mentioning k750's joystick is how a company makes em and SE side very very uncomfortable and 70% accurate only unlike with nokia's joysticks (which i know a d-pad inside) but even, its 98% accurate and quite comfortable in 3230 so i think its not pointless
i think ur biased! if i say my niece accidentally drops his k750i which i gave u give me an answer:
"so it's quite pointless what happened 2 your handset after falling from your hand 'z it's not made to be fallen over."
but if u were d 1 to say you had accidentally dropped ur k700 its ok? what if i say its quite pointless for u to say dat too? but i will not say dat to u coz im not biased!
re me getting w810, yeah ur right w810:
"a good phone then it provides the reachest multimedia functionalities in the market"
u admitted it dat w810 only "good phone" with the richest MM functionalities in d mrkt wyl 3250 for me is an excellent phone with great MM features which i think is better coz dat's wat cellphones are really for, communication!
re visualradio, i think dat comment of d reviewer from mobile-review is just his opinion, dat's y EDGE, GPRS connection are for to connect and use visualRadio! i know dat u know for sure dat wifi is NOT d bandwagon or widespread yet, so y use GPRS if wifi is not present in ur location? so u can connect to web and use functions like visualradio! wat do u expect, go to a nearest starbucks or any cybercafe dat has wifi just to use visualradio even u can connect to GPRS? i think ur nuts!
RDS is an old technology but still not widely used in mobile phones wyl visualradio just started recently and its a new service/technology, wat do u expect it to be very popular? RDS should be popular by now but y is not used in mobile phones widely??
re screen, i know dat of course, around 2112 of pixel less in 3250 is not dat much, i prefer to view pics and vids on a bigger surface screen than viewing em on a tiny and not that wide screen of d inferior w810, i wont go for s700 coz SE is quite funny putting high res screen then putting a standard QCIF video encoding resulting in very very small video size of video playing, yuck! either d600 will never go and buy coz it does not ring and vibrate at d same time! i will still buy 3250! : )
how sure r u i did not try P series of SE? FYI, i had P800 and P910i both of em great PDA coz of its touchscreen but they are bad phones and its quite crowded in reading msgs and a bit hard to use plus their screen is not that clear it kinda pinkish or redish in color!
re sony falling down, i just told u dat to tell u the truth in consumer electronics since u said "sony" alone. ur wrong about nokia bought sony's carl zeiss lens, let me educate u, carl zeiss is a separate entity company they supply lens to sony thru their agreement to use exclusively in their digicams wyl nokia also had an agreement from carl zeiss to exclusively supply lens to their high end cellphones those agreements are different business segments and if sony owns carl zeiss they will never sell it to nokia coz they have SE, do u understand? sony does NOT OWN carl zeiss dat's y nokia does not need to buy lens from sony!
time will tell, who knows microSD company's will announce > 2GB and with 3250 supporting eAAC+ it will really have MORE space for music! mp3 sounds quality is worst than eAAC+ on d same bitrate and sampling rate, besides mp3's file size is around 4 times of eAAC+! dat's wat additional codec supports are for, to maximize valuable space!
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- Chamak
- PBj
- 25 Mar 2006
@viperkid -> the previous post is pointed 2 you.
- C
- Chamak
- PBj
- 25 Mar 2006
by now i think u have d "proper knowledge" already that se k700i, p910i, w800i and ur beloved k750 does not support bluetooth stereo or the a2dp:
yes, i've been bad and didn't do homework properly :-d so i did say wrong info and for that i apologige.
please stop playing around with other people and try to big up se with biased, untrue and baseless comments of urs:
i guess until u proof about ur precious a2dp is supported in 3250 u're playing with other people too. why didn't you supply ne link supporting ur info. that 3250 supports a2dp? i guess you can't proof your info. as i found this on www.mobile-review.com -> "the model supports bluetooth v.2.0 (edr including), but it does not have a2dp-profile support. this means that you will not be able to use bluetooth stereo headset. for a smartphone released in 2006 and positioned as a music phone this is a big omission."
sound quality and loudness of loudspeakers of k750 and 6230, do u have d 2 of em to say wat u have said? ask for me, i had em both before and tested em head to head with a mp3 file with d same bitrate and dat's wat i found out:
i think this is the time i tell you my professional background. i'm a software developer for nokia s60 devices. and everyday, i repeat, everyday i work with the following nokia sets: 6630,6680,n70,6600. and two of my coleagues has 6230 and 6230i. and everybody in my office has accepted that nokia couldn't manage the sound quality of se. nokia phones are louder than se's though.
actually i gave k750 to my niece bcoz i hate d joystick, its terrible!:
i totally agree with you beign a owner of se k750i. but as w810 uses d-pad i think it's pointless discussing it here.
also wen my niece accidentally dropped it 3-4 feet d auto focus went nuts!:
i can say my example as i'd accedently dropped my earlier k700i while on the car runnin at a speed around 90km/h. but the only sign i could get after lifting it from the road is it's scratch on the left-top corner. so it's quite pointless what happened 2 your handset after falling from your hand 'z it's not made to be fallen over.
i will ever go and get se w810 coz 3250 is d "real" phone for me with real phone features with great multimedia functions! not like with other makers out there that priority/focuses on multimedia first than focusing on "real" phone features! all i can say is a device's success is based on ease of use, underlying network support/applications, interoperability and its durability those i think are crucial factors!:
what made you think that se only focuses on multimedia features?!? it's a good phone then it provides the reachest multimedia functionalities in the market.
also y bother with d very old rds if visualradio is present, hello?:
let me answer you this by a quote from www.mobile-review.com -> "...with all those possibilities like online radios, but since there's no wifi in nokia 3250 this format will not be popular among phone owners."
i think you're not gonna pay your gprs/edge/utms bill each nd every second u're listening your radio. now are you?
besides rds is not supported widely so its kinda futile to have it..:
you think rds is not supported widely and yet you donno there're only very very very very tiny number of radio stations with the support of ur so called "visual-radio" see yourself for reference ->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/visual_radio
im not bothered with a few more grams as long as it has relatively bigger screen (in dimension:
yes and that's with a poorer resolution!(176x208) when se's w810 along with others gives impressive display with it's relatively smaller display for it's higher resolution(176x220). go see ne se's display and you won't like your 3250's display again :-d. and if u're for bigger display go for s700. or even samsung d600. you will not definitely buy your precious 3250 :-d.
and symbian os! :
have you ever touched ne p series of se? i guess not. you would understand right away how much slow the nokia's symbian set's are. use ne p series for at best 1 week as u're in for bigger display and symbian. you'll kick your nokia symbians off.
oh come on, since ur saying "sony" alone i'll answer u who's beating sony that is actually is falling down according to newsweek, the name is samsung & panasonic (in consumer electronics)!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/71...te/newsweek/:
ok but i guess neither samsung nor panasonic is binding up with nokia, are they? if you dislike se so much go 4 a samsung or panasonic then :-d. moreover don't forget in n90 nokia bought sony's carlzess lens :-d. so sony already proved nokia doesn't have something that sony has and nokia had to buy it from sony :-d.
and as for storage, if you wanna "think" 3250 will support 2gb cards you may, but i read at www.esato.com that k750 supports 4gb ms duo pro, so i can also "think" w810 will also support 4gb ms duo pro...and as long as i can insert a 4gb (or even 2gb) ms duo i really don't bother whether it's eaac+ or mp3. i don't think you're gonna change all ur existing mp3 songs into eaac+ just to make your 1gb much more "valuable" :-d. i just wouldn't wanna do that.
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- abd
- mcM
- 25 Mar 2006
great phone missin flash though.
w810 and 3250 tough competitors
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- viperkid
- PRQ
- 25 Mar 2006
To "2006-03-24 21:57 PBjI":
here are ur links!
W810
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/products/phonegallery/w810/p_w810.jsp
W800
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/products/phonegallery/w800/p_w800.jsp
K750
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/products/phonegallery/k750/p_k750.jsp
can u just tell me where is d bluetooth stereo or the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) being mentioned in one of the links above??? i think u should b d one to do ur homework! and what made u say this baseless thing:
"EVEN K750 SUPPORTS BLUETOOTH STEREO. SEARCH IN GOOGLE AND U'LL KNOW.."
now look at this so u'll know the truth!
http://www.jabra.com/NR/rdonlyres/B7185B96-6F5A-4BB5-B999-1A8166969669/0/BT620s_A4_Booklet.pdf
by now i think u have d "PROPER KNOWLEDGE" already that SE K700i, P910i, W800i and ur beloved K750 does NOT support bluetooth stereo or the A2DP. please stop playing around with other people and try to big up SE with biased, untrue and baseless comments of urs. re sound quality and loudness of loudspeakers of k750 and 6230, do u have d 2 of em to say wat u have said? ask for me, i had em both before and tested em head to head with a mp3 file with d same bitrate and dat's wat i found out (actually i gave k750 to my niece bcoz i hate d joystick, its terrible! also wen my niece accidentally dropped it 3-4 feet d auto focus went nuts!) never again SE, really they have d same loudness, on the other side, contrary to mp3 played on loudspeaker midi tones in SE really beats nokia in loudness and quality there, but again, after i found that out, i said, polytones should not be d basis for the "REAL" loudness of a loudspeaker on a mobile phone. i don't see anything bad about hoping especially wen its for d better, and plugging in Sony earphones, right? i will never go and get SE w810 coz 3250 is d "REAL" phone for me with real phone features with great multimedia functions! not like with other makers out there that priority/focuses on multimedia first than focusing on "REAL" phone features! all i can say is a device's success is based on ease of use, underlying network support/applications, interoperability and its durability those i think are crucial factors! also y bother with d very old RDS if visualRadio is present, hello? besides RDS is not supported widely so its kinda futile to have it.. im not bothered with a few more grams as long as it has relatively bigger screen (in dimension) and Symbian OS! oh come on, since ur saying "Sony" alone i'll answer u who's beating Sony that is actually is falling down according to Newsweek, the name is Samsung & Panasonic (in Consumer Electronics)!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7169299/site/newsweek/
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- Anonymous
- F4p
- 25 Mar 2006
Precisely. and i wonder how strong this is, will it subjects to wear and tear/loosening after a long time??? i hope not
"i think that with the swivel thing at 90 degrees, one yank and your phone will be broken."
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- viperkid
- PRQ
- 25 Mar 2006
nokia is saying that this phone's memory can be expanded up to 1GB, eventually 3250 will be able to handle microSD cards higher than 1GB (take 6230i for example, remember dat nokia said it can take up to 512mb cards only but i have 6230i with a 1GB MMC and it works 100%!)
http://www.nokia.com.ph/nokia/0,8764,73977,00.html
i think nokia's main reason of saying that thing is bcoz (i assume) 2GB microSD cards aren't available just yet. a 2GB microSD card is due out this 2006 (i think sandisk mentioned such a capacity already..) and it will be a perfect companion for this model then u'll have a way more room for music files on 3250 than W810 (bcoz W810 does not support eAAC+)
http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=1428
im juz waiting for my paycheck this month, for sure 3250 will be my phone! : ) but i hope by then its out already coz til now it has not been taken its face out here in Manila..
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- Anonymous
- U2T
- 25 Mar 2006
I think that with the swivel thing at 90 degrees, one yank and your phone will be broken.
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- Sash
- 4pU
- 25 Mar 2006
To Nokia Loyal User:
thankxz for a long self-proved review=)
Really got alot out this, although still want to get this 3250. As for SE phones, I know they are good, but the only thing i didn't like is that they freeeeeeeez! And they are not even smartphones! So, I think I'm done with SE's for now, and buy this Nokia. Always wanted to get a Nokia phone!