Paul Verizzo
New member
Well, OP, you opened the floodgate.
I had a Nokia 6xxx, a TDMA on AT&T basic phone ca. 2000. With a new job and needing decent calendaring and other functions, I discovered the Nokia 9000il, the first of the Communicator series. Nokia's own version of Motorola's brick. Coworkers were amazed, email, everything. It develeoped a charging problem, so I bought a 9290. See Nokia 9000 Communicator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for both phones. Bottom line, the 9290 is still my favorite phone I've ever owned, acknowledging its now tech limitations. Very easy and intuitive Symbian 80 OS, a keyboard that I've actually typed out long documents during a boring lecture. Rock solid operation. Never a fart or a reboot. Granted, they did fail after time, I must have owned four, finding replacements as needed.
Time to move on: the AT&T Nokia 9300, an unlocked and updated version of the 9290. Never acknowledge as a Communicator, but it did the walk and the talk. It died one day, thank you Square Trade. Never owned a 9500. Went on to the E90 and Symbian 60. What a horribly unintuitive system, and the KB keys were too close together and no feedback, but at least they were there and it worked. Last of the clamshell flip phones, I think.
Detour to Android with a four line slide out KB, hardly worth the effort. Came back to the last Symbian, touch screen ^3 OS on a TM Nokia C7. Also the last phone that could use all the features of the Nokia Ovi/Suite/Whatever programs. Text from a full size KB, etc.
Anyway, I've come to accept that physical KB's are now history except for those few Motorola Droids. One idea I had was one of those $10 mini BT keyboards on eBay. With a large enough belt case, it fit with my C7. Sadly, it never could completely connect to either the C7 or my WP 810. But it works fine on two relative's Andoid. If it works, it's a good solution for that real KB craving.
Will we ever see a real KB Nokia again? I doubt it, but I'd be happy to be wrong. Too many consumers think smaller form factors are the Holy Grail. I had a little Samsung (never again) that I could hardly hold in my large male hand. I'm happy with a clunker like the 9290.
Ah, memories.
I had a Nokia 6xxx, a TDMA on AT&T basic phone ca. 2000. With a new job and needing decent calendaring and other functions, I discovered the Nokia 9000il, the first of the Communicator series. Nokia's own version of Motorola's brick. Coworkers were amazed, email, everything. It develeoped a charging problem, so I bought a 9290. See Nokia 9000 Communicator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for both phones. Bottom line, the 9290 is still my favorite phone I've ever owned, acknowledging its now tech limitations. Very easy and intuitive Symbian 80 OS, a keyboard that I've actually typed out long documents during a boring lecture. Rock solid operation. Never a fart or a reboot. Granted, they did fail after time, I must have owned four, finding replacements as needed.
Time to move on: the AT&T Nokia 9300, an unlocked and updated version of the 9290. Never acknowledge as a Communicator, but it did the walk and the talk. It died one day, thank you Square Trade. Never owned a 9500. Went on to the E90 and Symbian 60. What a horribly unintuitive system, and the KB keys were too close together and no feedback, but at least they were there and it worked. Last of the clamshell flip phones, I think.
Detour to Android with a four line slide out KB, hardly worth the effort. Came back to the last Symbian, touch screen ^3 OS on a TM Nokia C7. Also the last phone that could use all the features of the Nokia Ovi/Suite/Whatever programs. Text from a full size KB, etc.
Anyway, I've come to accept that physical KB's are now history except for those few Motorola Droids. One idea I had was one of those $10 mini BT keyboards on eBay. With a large enough belt case, it fit with my C7. Sadly, it never could completely connect to either the C7 or my WP 810. But it works fine on two relative's Andoid. If it works, it's a good solution for that real KB craving.
Will we ever see a real KB Nokia again? I doubt it, but I'd be happy to be wrong. Too many consumers think smaller form factors are the Holy Grail. I had a little Samsung (never again) that I could hardly hold in my large male hand. I'm happy with a clunker like the 9290.
Ah, memories.