Nokia has a balanced portfolio of crap. I used nokia phones for 4 years before getting an iPhone. Their menu systems look like they are designed by programmers. They are so hard to use. I mean, you learn to live with it, but it got to the point where I was checking days off my calendar until the 3gs was released (figuratively speaking, I don't own a calendar).
I had one phone that would always call people from my pocket because it had these 2 buttons on the side that if pressed at the same time, would activate voice dialing, and it would pick up random words from conversation and call whoever it thought you said. That made for some awkward moments. Oh, and there was no way to disable that "feature".
When you are choosing between $79 anything phone + 2yr contract, or a $199 iPhone + 2yr contract, it's kind of a no-brainer, unless you want a cheap phone for some reason, like you happen to be really accident prone.
What happens if you lose the cheap 200$ phone, do you still have to pay for the 2yr contract? Do you get another phone for the same contract or do you have to make another contract?
Anyway, that is not my experience at all with Nokia. They are very popular here in Europe because there is no carrier lock-in and anyone can get any phone that they want. This means that the best phones tend to win, not the ones that are the most subsidized. The high-end Nokia series are N (multimedia) and E (business).
Your two-button key combination is either a bug, or you didn't lock your keypad.
It was a flip phone and the buttons were on the side. no way to lock them. I checked the manual and that combination was the way to activate voice mode...
Before I got my iPhone, I considered Nokias to be the best. In Europe the situation is different. You guys get way better phones than we do. I lived in France for a while and when I came back to the US, all the phones I could buy here looked 5 years old.
Our contracts aren't tied to a specific phone (except for the iPhone), so if you lose your phone you can replace it with just about anything that would work with that carrier. I have a friend who loses his phone every few months and he usually buys a cheap replacement on eBay.
Pretty sure the iPhone contracts aren't tied to a specific phone. I'm not in the US, but I'm pretty sure that you can't tie a GSM SIM Card to a phone. Take the Sim out and put it in a n97 and it should work.
Oops I didn't mean to say that an iPhone contract is tied to a specific phone. You could always swap the sim to a different phone.
what I was trying to say was that AT&T has a special iPhone contract that is separate from their regular contracts, in that it comes with a $30/month data plan.
I had one phone that would always call people from my pocket because it had these 2 buttons on the side that if pressed at the same time, would activate voice dialing, and it would pick up random words from conversation and call whoever it thought you said. That made for some awkward moments. Oh, and there was no way to disable that "feature".
When you are choosing between $79 anything phone + 2yr contract, or a $199 iPhone + 2yr contract, it's kind of a no-brainer, unless you want a cheap phone for some reason, like you happen to be really accident prone.