lets get real!!!

Well...
The GSM tecnology has just arrived here in Brazil... so, this 9210i is a very useful cell-phone, and VERY new here... when people look at me with my phone in my hand, they keep the face thinking why this guy buy such a big phone... then I open it, and every one freeze.... 😃
Anyway... it�s the cheapest notebook that i found, and I can use it as a cell phone too...
I�m just beggining to search programas freeware for it, so... help me!!!
Ending.... the 9210i it�s not for the tecnology (cause don�t have the GPRS), but a matter os style!!!

[]s Diogo

Hi,

A little correction. The Nokia 9210 or 9210i is not new in Brazil, I remember seeing them since 2002. But it was very expensive, about R$3.000 ! More recently (from November 2003 or so), it costs R$1.499 (www.submarino.com.br) SIM free.

If you need better connection speed, just install Extended Internet on the Nokia 92xx Communicator so (almost) any GPRS phone with infrared will give access to faster Internet (approx. 40 KBps instead of 9.6 KBps). Remember to register Extended Internet if it works with your GPRS phone.

For example, the Nokia 7650 works very well as a companion to the Nokia 92xx. I have just bought one in Brazil (R$1.209 at 5x - www.submarino.com.br) and I am very satisfied using it alone, or with the Nokia 9290, or with my notebook. But there are simpler GPRS phones with IRDA costing around R$500. US$=R$2.95.

The N-Gage is not so expensive in Brazil, but it lacks IRDA... and the Communicator does not have Bluetooth.

Another suggestion : buy a MMC reader using USB (about R$100), it is much faster than serial/IRDA connection, approx. 1MB/second.

Enjoy your new 9210i,

Roberto

@ get real: If you don't like the phone, get of the forum.

I like my communicators, and I still enjoy them.
Who are you to tell me to get rid of them?!

Just because the're outdated, does that mean they are no longer usefull? Get real yourself! The GSM was ment for one thing, making calls. As long as my communicators can do that, the're not going anywhere.

Pathetic children you guys/girls are these days, once a thing is more than a year old, it has to disappear and be ignored. I wonder how long your avarage relationship lasts, do you ditch your girl/guy every time a newer model kicks in?

My 9210 is old, scratched, chipped damaged generally and definately worse for wear, BUT I wouldn't be abel to do without it, it's still the best PDA on the market for my needs and I can't wait for the updated version to arrive. As for it being the most buggy and unstable device around I'm guessing you've not seen any pocket PCs.

what do you guys do with you commies if they are so chipped and scratched??? lol...I have had mine for almost two years and it still looks and works great. And after the initially buggy software it has worked great for me. Not too many problems.

Well maybe because I use my commie only at work and home...when I'm going out I use my other, smaller Nokia. 😊

But as SwitchBlade said...even with its few missing features (mainly GPRS and bluetooth), 9210i is still the best PDA/Phone on the marked. QWERTY is a must for me. 😊

i do agree the 9210 is dead and has being for sometime, the last update in the headlines on this site was on the 20 Oct 2003. i must stress this phone is pants, i would sell mine for �50 but i would have a better time smashing it up..

i sold my 9210 and got a 3650 and now an n-gage

if i could go back in time i woudnt sell my 9210 for the world😞

i miss it sooo much

�50 I'd buy it for �50 no bother. TBH it's so scratched and chipped as it's used 24/7 and has been for the last 2 years. Been dropped a few times, hell the gf even dropped it once and handed it to me in 2 pieces, that took me an hour to repair.

I agree, The communicator is still a great phone. It is a little slow and is missing a couple of things like bluetooth but is still very usable. To say that it is dead or only worth �50 is overstated to say the least. I am using a p900, but still miss may features of the 9210.

i think the best thing that everyone misses in the 9000 series is that its the closest thing to a laptop yet in ur pocket

no phone can challege that

The Nokia 9210i communicator sucks, the shitty keyboard aint even big enough to type properly on. The top keys in blue
are too small.

The OS hangs, well thats a problem with symbian.
The phone is to big, to damn heavy to carry around
cant even fit in ur pocket propery, unless you wear
a 6 pocket shaggy cargo jeans.

The phones external screen on the outside is to small.
The internal one doesnt have touch screen.
It doesnt have GPRS.
It doesnt have Bluetooth.
It doesnt have a Digital Camera.
The com port, is damn too slow, even IrDA is faster... it should be upgraded with a usb port atleast.

There is no support to play polyphonic ringtones, only 4bit ones can be, there should be a chip in it to support 16bit polyphonic ringtones. Also it should support midi files.

The mmc card should be able to read larger than 128mb cards and should be possible with most mmc card manufacturers.

The phone is too darn heavy.
The antenna has no use, so its useless just an extra feature that is not needed.

The phones repection and signal strength quality is very low.

The phone side doesnt have many options, you cant even add contacts from the phone, you have to darn open the pda interface to add it. Meaning while your standing in a metro or walking you cant add contacts, you have to place it some where then type it.

The phone interface should have more settings such as, games, prefrences, add/modify contacts, clock/alarm, memory usage and other phone features and settings.

The internal screen should be total LCD display and not a TFT, on which color blends change, when you move the angle of the screen to a different view from your eyes.

The screen should have 65k colors, or 56k even for that matter, so as to give a better TFT display, 4096 is shit.

The inside pda, as you can see screen has a more larger space to fit in and that hasnt been utilized. They should make the screen inner pda screen more wider/thicker and increase its length too.

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These are some drawbacks I have mentioned in the 9210i or even 9210.

So you still think this brick is worth it?? now??
If so, you're a real ass!

WE NEED CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, which I'm sorry to say NOKIA is unable to provide with this cellular device!

The thing is, when a person buys a $600 dollar phone
atleast it should be worth it.

I could have easily bought a $400 dollar p800 or a
6600 which has gprs, blue tooth a digical camera.
Or even a sony clie a latest model which is cheaper
than the 9210i and has a 65k screen, insteal of a
4096 color tft screen.

But I chose the 9210i due to the fact of it's uniqueness
and capabilities.

However, after using it for a couple of while it is
incomplete as newer versions of software which
are bugfree come out, should be updated by the
responsible companies such as nokia and symbian
co-operating with them theirselves.

The more you pay, the more you want, if you don't
acheive standards of such quality you will be obviously
frustrated.

Money is not grown on trees, so you want the best
value for your money, I guess that's true isn't it??

For Mr. unsound here:
As for the get out of the forum thing: make me!
As for pathetic girls/guys: get a life!
And as for the relationship thing: mind ur own business!

😊

enjoyyyyyyy!

--
i R eleet
i Am dA rOxaH

awyeah,

Sorry to say, but most of your complaints about the communicator are fairly obvious before you even by the phone. It is a bit late to complain now, you should have checked that the 9210 fitted your requirements. Beyond that you just seem bitter because you fell over and broke your phone. Get over it, it is not Nokia's fault. I have dropped mine many times and it is okay, I guess you were unlucky that it was so bad and un prepared because I guess it was not insured.

I have gone from the 9210 to the P900 and I really miss the 9210. There are definite advantages of the newer phone, hence why people are eager for the new communicator, but I still thing the 9210 is a great phone.

Originally posted by CrisS
awyeah,

Sorry to say, but most of your complaints about the communicator are fairly obvious before you even by the phone. It is a bit late to complain now, you should have checked that the 9210 fitted your requirements. Beyond that you just seem bitter because you fell over and broke your phone. Get over it, it is not Nokia's fault. I have dropped mine many times and it is okay, I guess you were unlucky that it was so bad and un prepared because I guess it was not insured.

I have gone from the 9210 to the P900 and I really miss the 9210. There are definite advantages of the newer phone, hence why people are eager for the new communicator, but I still thing the 9210 is a great phone.

I 100% agree.

Checking specifications of a phone is a relatively harder task when, there are almost 10 or more recognized branded phone manufacturers each having almost 20-50 sets of phones.

I hope you break yours and spend more to get it repaired than me then you would know, or you would prefer to buy a second hand one then hehe.

It's not my fault, neither it's yours. Its nokia's. I don't want to argue with you but let me put it in a clear way.

The products manufactured must be alteast drop proof meaning, impact/shatter proof. Those are international standards. The product testing and quality assurance is responsibility of the company and not of the consumer. There was no such misshandling whatso ever.

The product and prototype testing, verification and validation, as well as the quality assurance due to nokia's standard's is relatively low.

As you bought a P900? What were you thinking?
You just supported the 9210i in your thread and now you bought a P900... You traitor!@

So how would you say you supported the phone so much and liked it, but then you changed to a P900?

Even why didnt you choose nokia, other new phones 6600 have more functions than the 9210i similar with the P900, but then why a sudden change of your most lovable phone and also to another branded? and not nokia??

Other phones as the p800 and p900 which you have, have a touch screen meaning there more delicate, and then being touch screen you have take alot of care of them as well as dust in a main factor.

I don't like the p800 and p900 because they have a PDA interfance its better to buy those, you can buy a New Sony CLIE if you want to buy those then. I only bought this 9210i because I thought it would be easy to use and it was. The user interface was excellent only due to the fact of the keyboard. Navigation was very easy and simple on this nokia 9210i phone.

A phone is incomplete, untill it has all basic features. As such this is a PDA phone so it must be likely to perform and support the latest OS, the newest 3rd party software, all file types at most and etc.

awyeah,i've read your posts on the same subject which somehow you managed to spread across the forum in a loads of different threads(Which is against the forum rules)and from their content i concluded that you are not very informed on the subject.My reply to all of your posts in the forum will be summed in this thread.

You are asking features like polyphonic ringtones or a better screen from a three year old device.If you only typed Nokia 9210 on google you would've known all the pros and cons of this IMO great device.Don't you think that in the period of existance of the 9210/i if Nokia had any plans to add new features they would've done so already.

Like i said,the Communicator is a great device.I certainly can't live without that awesome QWERTY keyboard but there are good if not better alternatives on the market(for my needs).One of them is the p900.Why?Because of Bluetooth,GPRS and the excelent PDA interface which you dislike and loads of other features.Can you make voice calls on a CLIE.BTW:Palm is a thing of the past.
Normal people buy what suits them best,fanboys buy brands.

Your friend told you that its a topnotch device?Well,maybe it is for him but apparently its not for you.Once again,you should've googled.

Its your fault that you spend so much money and got stuck with a device that doesn't suit your needs,not ours,not Nokias.

BTW:The rumours are that the communicator successor is in the works and most likely it will be announced on 3GSM or Cebit this year.

You were asking e-mail adresses and domain names of Nokia so you can mail bomb them or DDos them.If you wan't to stay a member of this forum please don't make such requests in the future.

Obviously you didnt read my last thread correctly.

Yes I am posting on the same subject, because I only have a 9210 and I don't have any other nokia phone or problem such as, so expected all the posts would be related to the same topic in one way or the other.

Tell me what is manufacturing?
One of the main purpose of a manufacturing company is to make a user unsatisfied with their products.

They do it, so as to draw attention towards people on their newer products.
They want to get people aware for the needs to buy their new, updated and upgraded products from time to time, I guess you might understand that. This is all monopoly by the company and the market.

So this is the case with nokia and any other manufacturing company, not specially cellular phones but apart from that as well.

I am not asking for a 4 year old phone Nokia 9210 to have such applications. Nokia as we all consider the leading manufacturer of cell phones, always has introduced remaped versions of their phones especially the communicator series.

Now to give you an example, I contacted LogoManager, maybe you have heard of them or not, but anyway. I wanted to activate NetMonitor, change the startup logos etc on my phone. (www.logomanager.co.uk)

I contacted them and asked why doesn't their program have direct support for the 9210 communicator, rather than you have to buy a $50 dollar mbus cable, while on dirt cheap... way old nokia models you just connect and go.

They said that basically the communicator has always be rempad after every 2-3 years. As 9000 was 9000i, 9100 become 9100i and 9210 became 9210i since the dawn of the series. Therefore people don't prefer much to buy nokia these days as much there prefer other manufacturing companies, so support for phones on their products such as logomanager, mobimb and etc have grown to other manufacturing companies and not nokia.

>Don't you think that in the period of existance of the 9210/i if >Nokia had any plans to add new features they would've done >so already.

This is a very strong statement. To put this in a clearer way.
How many people are urging for the new communicator to come out?? I guess you would be too? Is that right!??
Everyone wants a darn new commy? So why don't they release it in the press or announce any information regarding, or be quick to bring it into the market. We are seeing the 9210 series since 4 years, and the 'i' model has very very minute features as compared with its predecessor. A Change in the color of buttons, additional memory and thats all, that is negligble, you can buy a greater MMC card for the memory, issue i guess. Meaning, there are no major changes what so ever. We have seen no addition of new features and applications yet so far then.

There are certainly more products out in the market as the p800, p900 but, there totally changed into PDA. As for the matter I want a phone to be interfaced as a phone and not a PDA. I can buy a PDA if i want one, but I want a phone which has a lesser outlook of a PDA, and more functions of a PDA. Sonyericssion has changed all the outlooks of there top smart phones into PDA's which we all know.

Topnotch I was regarding to the most highest price in the market. Obviously people compare price when they buy. Look, this is the most expensivement phone, damn it must be great dude!? What new features would it have? Are you centralizing on my point of view.

In my previous thread which you just responded to, I put emphasis on quality assurance and I am noticed you didn't even mentioned a single word about that in your current reply.

As for my spreading unwanted threads. This is a discussion forum related to, comments and suggestions... well arguments probobaly but no personal criticizing or insulting remarks of vulgarity.

I don't care if you are an administrator, a super moderator, an auto moderator or even a guest. To me everyone who discusses in here are equal and have a full and equal right todo so because they are a proud of off and Nokia ***** phone.

Everyone one has a different veiw on things, so if people go against me on this topic that the communicator is not crappy?
DO I CARE? And if yet the go with me, I would surely say on peoples opinions that its a time for change, a time to introduce new stuff into the market!

If you are frustrated because Nokia still hasn't announced a successor to the Commi,then you are in the same club with me but if you are just complaining about the one you bought recently i don't think you have a valid point.

awyeah,

You are very good as writing a lot as saying little. I feel sorry that you were so unlucky with your communicator, I have dropped mine, thrown it around (with in limits) and generaly obused (Or as I call it 'used' it. It is a little damaged but working. I felt a few months ago that the 9210 and even the 9210i were a little out of date and went for a p900. I no realise that the communicator is better suited to me and might even consider going back to the 9210, but will probably wait for the new one. In short I made a bit of a mistake buying the P900, but I can live with that. I hope you learn to live with your decisions.

It's all part of life.

This is a more decent reply from CrisS than the previous one. I know shit happens, what happened to me.

>You are very good as writing a lot as saying little.

Point to be noted. I write alot, you understand less out of it and say, that I say little. 😊

Use and Abuse that's what I always say!
But unfortunately for me, I had just started to get to use it, and it got abused.

The P900 is a good phone. It is more delicate than most phones because of the touchscreen even. But it is way over my budget, it costs 2 times the amount I bought my Nokia 9210i for. Maybe when I start my job or earn salary I can buy one of those, but currently I am okay with the oversized heavy brick, if it has newer updated models.

�awyeah�

I back awyeah 100%

He tells the truth about the 9210(i) and sticks by it, the lot of you all know it, but just would admit it. I would love to know the last time you pulled your pre World War 2 communication device out, and someone said �wow that�s big and old looking� In your phones defence you can�t agree with them, but lie about how great it is, knowing fine well your phones flawed major league big time!!

Nokia knows this, and also knows true well it behind the times to in smart phones,

If Nokia can get real you know what you lot can do!!

I do love Nokia phones and do own four different models so please don�t get me completely wrong it�s just the 9210 I hate, because it makes me!!

Get Real Again, thanks for the supportive reply!
You should register into the forum!@#

Hehe nice Pre World War 2 communication device LOL!
Yeah it is a big old heafty piece of thing.

The only thing I am unsatisfied is with totally that Nokia has no product quality assurance on their 9210i and is is delicate as a crystal decoration piece.

Phones above 500 USD should be more durable, shock and impact resistant.

I liked NOKIA when I didn't have a nokia phone, and I always considered to buy a nokia one, just because every one has it... so I should have nokia as well!

I don't like NOKIA after what happened with my phone much because they are very proud of themselves pretending to be #1 leading cellphone manufacturers in the world, how ever they have no yet acheived international standards of quality...and so much over self-confidence can lead a person/company down in no time!

�awyeah�