Kitty's Corner

I saw an article somewhere about weird looking phones, and that reminded me that I've had some weird looking phones too. I've always been a Nokia girl - and I've had quite a few.

The first weird looking phone I had was a Nokia 7110.

It was the first Mobile Phone to have a WAP Browser, and you may think that it doesn't look weird. But it did at the time. The one I had was annoyingly buggy. I couldn't hang up the usual way - I had to take the battery out to hang up.

The next one I remember was the Nokia N-Gage QD.

That is a combined handheld game console and mobile phone, but it never really became the big hit that Nokia hoped for. I don't really know why. It's a seriously cool phone, and I've played a lot of "Sims bustin' out" on it.

Then I had the Nokia 3650.

That was the first Symbian Series 60 smartphone to appear in American markets. It was also the first phone with an integrated camera delivered to North America. Some stated that the rotary style keypad made text messaging easier and faster. I can assure you that it's not the case. I text pretty fast on phones with regular keypads - but I never really became fast on this phone. I love the look of it though - and I had covers in all kinds of colours for it.

I've had my hands on a Nokia 7280 once too.

I knew someone who had one, and I borrowed it for a week.
The 7280 "lipstick" phone supports GSM, SMS, MMS, HSCSD, GPRS, and SyncML. It has a VGA camera. Its design features a slider end and a Navi-Spinner in the place of a keypad. As part of Nokia's "Fashion Phone" line, it has black, white and red styling, and a screen that fades to a mirror when inactive. Fortune Magazine listed it as one of the best products of 2004 while its design was praised by the jury in the iF product design awards for 2005.
I gave up on it. Writing a simple text message was almost impossible!

Right now I am looking at a new phone. The GPS in my Nokia has decided to die, and since I get lost everywhere, I really need a new one.

I've been looking at the Nokia 6760 Slide.

I fell in love with it the first time I laid eyes on it.


So... what do you say? Do I have a thing with weird looking phones?