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I just bought one a few months ago when my 13 year old Nokia died. I actually dislike the phone quite a bit and prefer my old Nokia. I have to charge the Razr

I just bought one a few months ago when my 13 year old Nokia died. I actually dislike the phone quite a bit and prefer my old Nokia. I have to charge the Razr about every other day, even if I haven't used it for calls. It takes too many button presses to do anything. It isn't very responsive (it takes about 4 seconds for each text deletion). If I receive a missed call or text the phone will vibrate every 5 minutes until I open the phone. This is really annoying in the middle of the night, and when I'm talking to someone at work and my phone won't stop making noise. It supports SMS and MMS, but doesn't actually do well with group texts. Sometimes I can open them, sometimes I can then see what the person sent, and other times the message won't open at all. Also, maybe I'm just dumb, but I can't figure out how to add apostrophes to text messages, which bothers me (especially because I talk to a lot of non-native speakers and I don't want to reinforce poor grammar). Maybe different providers had better interfaces that solve some of these problems, though. The only things I appreciate about the phone are that it has a USB port for charging instead of a barrel plug, and it can store more messages.

usaphp 8y ago
Did you lose a bet or something? I can understand carrying a dumb phone that you like, but using a dumb phone that you absolutely hate? With so many options available...
- swimfar 8y ago
  Obviously I didn't know about about all this before I bought the phone. On paper it seemed like it would be a nice upgrade. I don't send 100's of texts, so I haven't been bothered to look for a different one.
eli 8y ago
I think you can get an apostrophe if you put it in symbols mode first by mashing the # a few times
50 8y ago
What Nokia phone? I've been looking to get a Nokia 105 (2017) unlocked with the possibility of using it with Google's Project Fi (T-Mobile) but can't seem to find them anywhere - the only seller of them on Amazon in the US isn't reliable.
- bnastic 8y ago
  Fwiw, lots of those Nokias on Amazon Prime UK
Xunxi 8y ago
Nokia has revamped its classic phones https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/classic-phones https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/classic-phones
- borellini 8y ago
  They are not the same. Even though Nokia is infamous for not being able to produce a solid smartphone platform that would actually attract app developers, their feature phones (and Sony Ericsson's, too) were always known for having more finished, polished and faster UX when compared to competition like Siemens and Motorola. The Nokia-branded feature phones produced during Microsoft's ownership and ones produced currently by HMD Global are based on somewhat horrible generic Chinese feature phone platforms and lack the finish and localisation. HMD likes to call one of them Series 30+. Nokia's Series 30 is easy to use and reliable feature phone platform, Series 30+ is not.
  - r3bl 8y ago
    Reviving the old 3310 got Nokia back into every store in Europe. It really doesn't matter whether those phones are any good or not, because they're not a priority, they're just a gimmick. They're just a gimmick that's a complete win from a marketing side though. I know Nokia, I've seen their new feature phones everywhere, I've found out that they have sturdy, decent smartphones now (like the 7 plus) running Android One, and I've made three purchases from them this year.
  - rjsw 8y ago
    I have an old 6101 and a new HMD 130. The new one works fine, I don't feel that there is anything wrong with the software.
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    Having a mix of Perl and Batch files, using the Symbian C++ dialect did help on that. But the platform was actually getting quite good before the burning platforms memo thanks to PIPS and Qt, oh well.
- swimfar 8y ago

usaphp 8y ago

Did you lose a bet or something? I can understand carrying a dumb phone that you like, but using a dumb phone that you absolutely hate? With so many options available...

swimfar 8y ago
Obviously I didn't know about about all this before I bought the phone. On paper it seemed like it would be a nice upgrade. I don't send 100's of texts, so I haven't been bothered to look for a different one.

eli 8y ago

I think you can get an apostrophe if you put it in symbols mode first by mashing the # a few times

50 8y ago

What Nokia phone? I've been looking to get a Nokia 105 (2017) unlocked with the possibility of using it with Google's Project Fi (T-Mobile) but can't seem to find them anywhere - the only seller of them on Amazon in the US isn't reliable.

bnastic 8y ago
Fwiw, lots of those Nokias on Amazon Prime UK

Xunxi 8y ago

Nokia has revamped its classic phones https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/classic-phones https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/classic-phones

borellini 8y ago
They are not the same. Even though Nokia is infamous for not being able to produce a solid smartphone platform that would actually attract app developers, their feature phones (and Sony Ericsson's, too) were always known for having more finished, polished and faster UX when compared to competition like Siemens and Motorola. The Nokia-branded feature phones produced during Microsoft's ownership and ones produced currently by HMD Global are based on somewhat horrible generic Chinese feature phone platforms and lack the finish and localisation. HMD likes to call one of them Series 30+. Nokia's Series 30 is easy to use and reliable feature phone platform, Series 30+ is not.
- r3bl 8y ago
  Reviving the old 3310 got Nokia back into every store in Europe. It really doesn't matter whether those phones are any good or not, because they're not a priority, they're just a gimmick. They're just a gimmick that's a complete win from a marketing side though. I know Nokia, I've seen their new feature phones everywhere, I've found out that they have sturdy, decent smartphones now (like the 7 plus) running Android One, and I've made three purchases from them this year.
- rjsw 8y ago
  I have an old 6101 and a new HMD 130. The new one works fine, I don't feel that there is anything wrong with the software.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Having a mix of Perl and Batch files, using the Symbian C++ dialect did help on that. But the platform was actually getting quite good before the burning platforms memo thanks to PIPS and Qt, oh well.
swimfar 8y ago