How does NOKIA number its phones??

Beats me!

But wait, there's always a Zero in the end

Well as far as i noticed, it must be by class, 9 being the highest and expensivest class, and 3 (or maybe 2 now that the 2100 is gonna be released), is the lowest and cheapset class.

AS you can see, the 9210i is really expensive, then going down and down to the 3310 is real cheap. ONly a theory!

[quote="😊"]Beats me!

But wait, there's always a Zero in the end

Well as far as i noticed, it must be by class, 9 being the highest and expensivest class, and 3 (or maybe 2 now that the 2100 is gonna be released), is the lowest and cheapset class.

AS you can see, the 9210i is really expensive, then going down and down to the 3310 is real cheap. ONly a theory![/quote]

hmmm... what about the :-? 3650???

well sometimes phones go a little bit out of the theory, i said, it was a theory 😃

the 3650 is aimed at the youth market, hence it is supposed to be cheap. But not cheap as in dirt cheap, but cheaper than the 7650.

It's the Top Model of the 3 series, it's their flagship! So it will always be cheaper than the flagship of the 7 series, th 7650, and cheaper than the flagship of whatevers!

It's only a thought, but it's almost all true. with some exceptions.

😃

I think it's also to do with market (which will affect price)

3*** series is mass market
5*** erm - also mass market (!?)
6*** low end business market (?)
7*** cool phones for people who want something a bit different
8*** elite series for people with far too much money(look at the price of a 8210 now though, eh 😃 )
9*** communicators (different market agian)

Yeah that too 😃

What if they make a 10 series! (looks like a 10 series would be Laptops!)

Well
They all have a Zero at the end..so.. nothing much to say there.

"6" i remember having read somewhere (might be even this forum) , is for the Symbian 60 Platform.

😃 😃

[quote="wahchild"]I think it's also to do with market (which will affect price)

3*** series is mass market
5*** erm - also mass market (!?)
6*** low end business market (?)
7*** cool phones for people who want something a bit different
8*** elite series for people with far too much money(look at the price of a 8210 now though, eh 😃 )
9*** communicators (different market agian)[/quote]

hmmm, interesting, but do you really think 3650 will have a lower launching price as compared to the 7650??? :-?

*** off topic

btw, wahchild, have you received the nba logos. i emailed it to you. so can it be done? please hit me back. 😃

But the upcoming N-gage has no numbers, (but maybe "gage" is 4243? but there's no Zero!)

[quote="😊"]But the upcoming N-gage has no numbers, (but maybe "gage" is 4243? but there's no Zero!)[/quote]

And that heralds yet another class 😃 😃 😃 😃

That means i have to re-theorize my theory!

well atleast my theory is valid until the N-gage comes out.

Smart me! 😮

:P

Yes, the majority of these theories are correct.

The numbers are ordered by the segments.

It is not only by it's price.

There are segments:

2*** - cheap
3*** - mass market 18-35 range. (3650, altough it's cost is about �450, it's considered to be mass market, so nokia said)
5*** - sporty (5210, 5510, 5100...)
6*** - Business
7*** - We all know this right? And 7210, 7250 also includes in this category, obviously
8*** - Small but expensive phones
9*** - Comunicators.

The second number is it's "version" excludin the *650 which will be most certainly for the series 60. 7650; 3650; if perhaps we had a series 60 communicator it should probably be a 9650...

The second number itself (*6**), can't be for series 60, because 6610 isn't. On the other hand, nokia's 3g 6650 isn't either but it's near to that, so it might be new advanced phones for nokia, i don't know...

If you remember, the series begun with *110, then *210, then *310 and so on (e.g. 3110 3210 3310 3330 (an upgrade) 3410 3510 3510i)

Well, but if you research a bit more, you'll see numbers like 3315, or
6385... these are ment for asian-pacific market's. They are very similar to their "Younger cousins of europe, but have a slightly different design and software. 3315-3410; 6385-6310, etc

in the usa, you have also the "same" thing... 6370, 6340, 8265 (a mix between 7210 and 8310) and a lot of other "numbers" different form europe.

The big question for me right now is, with nokia releasing so many phones in the entire world, which numbers are still available for new phones? How will nokia do this?

I can only see a new series 2 (instead of 3) a series 4 (maybe instead of 5/6), but what next?

I don't say that everything here is 100% right, but i guess i'm right in the majority of this issues 😃

I hope i helped

While every other mobile company is carefully adding the ingredients to a new phone, Nokia blows them out and dumps their new models like a truckload!!!

The other thing you have to remember is that there probably have a nice technical system for naming phones, but the last say on name will be the marketing department - and marketing are a law unto themsleves 😃

(can just imagine the techies at Nokia - "Bloody marketing! - It's a 7***. N-Gage? - what the hell does that mean!!!" 😃 )

Seanmiguel - something weird's happening to my PM's so can't see the message - Only had a chance to quickly look at the logos but they should work fine (might have to recreate their backgrounds) - should have a chance to do them tonight (6 hours time)

My first mobile was a analogue Nokia 101, when Nokia moved to digital phones they changed the numbering system to 4 numbers, the first mass digital unit being the 2110 (as I remeber it)

Ashby

yep. i had it. i also had a series 1 (1610) looked like a heavy brick...

Hm...series 1. They must have been like 486 of Mobiles. Did you users of Series 1 like them? ( Back then? )

😃 😃

(insert grandpa's vioce before)

Well sonny... in the 'ol days the phones were a buck nintey-nine. Not like y'all techies and super gizmos! We didn't have no RTO messengin' or whatcha call them.... (they're MMS messages gramps) yeah those QMS messages! (MMS gramps, thats M M S) yeah whatever sonny. gimme a glass of water...

well it was not so far agor.. it was about 4/5 years. The phone was very heavy, but it had funcionalities like sms, altough they didn't work back then...

but i don't miss it.

Well... since 7650 i don't miss any phone.

ok.. perhaps one that could change covers, so when you scratch your screen, or you get your rails loose, you don't need to get mad trying to fix the problem...

as from what i've gathered from all these info, the 3 series is mass market and the 7 series is for a higher market. now, do u think that the 3650 will be launched at a lower price compared to the launch price of the 7650??? :-?

[quote="wahchild"]The other thing you have to remember is that there probably have a nice technical system for naming phones, but the last say on name will be the marketing department - and marketing are a law unto themsleves 😃

(can just imagine the techies at Nokia - "Bloody marketing! - It's a 7***. N-Gage? - what the hell does that mean!!!" 😃 )

Seanmiguel - something weird's happening to my PM's so can't see the message - Only had a chance to quickly look at the logos but they should work fine (might have to recreate their backgrounds) - should have a chance to do them tonight (6 hours time)[/quote]

wassup, wahchild! nice to hear u finally had a chance to look at them. find your most convenient time and i hope you can send me the pics after converting. about posting, im hoping i can post them in the album and of course mention your contribution. i feel were building a fine work of art here. hehe...

cheers brah! 😃