New communicator

At least 1 year...

I really am starting to get disillusioned by Nokia, they only appear to be interested in the youth market and are focusing on creating gimmicky products. I hope someone gives Nokia a spank by bringing out a mobile with a querty keyboard.
The 9210 as the flagship model, the joke is wearing a bit thin.

What d you expect - its kids that fuel the market. If they don't chase that there's no Nokia and then there's no 9310 either!

I wonder how many people will rush to buy the next
communicator. Look at the major differences that
exist between the 9210 and the 9210i. Waste of your
money getting a standard communicator. If I were
waiting on a new communicator then I would
deffinatley wait for the (i) model without a doubt.
I am using a 9210 standard right now and know now
that I should have waited for the (i) version. As there
is no possible way whatsoever to update the 9210.
Wait for the (i) version you will be glad you did.

Probably you're right. But if someone should have used the 9110i till june 2002(date in which the 9210i was released) that person would have had a very difficult time in keeping up with his old device. I mean that the changements from 9110 to 9210 so big that a person that really used that device for important things must have up-graded to the 92xx series. This is how I think about it. I like to keep up with technology...

If people are happy with the 9210i now without the problems
that exist with the 9210. Then would they be happy to
wait an extra year after the 9310 is released for the
9310i so have a machine that is ultimatley better.
Or would it be better that Nokia themselves build
and test the 9310 to better specification in the
first place.
They need to look at the market as it is now and
build a machine that is 10 times better, a machine
that can be user updated more internal memory be it
ddr ram whatever. But nokia should end the locking
of the communicator to themselves i.e the mmc card
that is so outdated now. Why pay �130 for 128mb
when you can get a card that cost much less that every
other device uses. Make a device that is capable
of having no errors in todays multimedia market
place. Ok put GPRS on it so when gprs mb prices drop
we can use that option. include BlueTooth and A GPS
for navigation. I'm sure that Nokia monitor sites or
even their workers use these sites?.
� So why don't we all put your suggestions up the site
what we need like having our emails in true html format
so we don't have to be online to view emails with graphics
and pictures. The ability to save web pages with the graphics
saved with the page for off line viewing. There's so many things
that nokia can do to improve the communicator series but don't
seem to want to know. Don't we matter to them now. I think
possibly that Nokia will release a Palm type PDA phone
with a massive screen and a clip on fold away type keyboard
as with the HP IPAQ type devices. There can't be much life in
the communicator as we know it. Unless Nokia release both a
Palm Pda and a 9310 Communicator.. What do you want on your
next communicator?.
If you don't write it how can Nokia know what you want!!.

[quote="Guest"]If people are happy with the 9210i now without the problems
that exist with the 9210. Then would they be happy to
wait an extra year after the 9310 is released for the
9310i so have a machine that is ultimatley better.
Or would it be better that Nokia themselves build
and test the 9310 to better specification in the
first place.[/quote]

>SNIP!<
The 9210 was quite a few years after the 9110 and if the system follows we have a few years yet for the 9310 or whatever. My 9210 is what? A year and a half old, still impresses people and still does more than I bought it for, I see a lack of need to upgrade (apart from the fact it's falling apart (my own fault), and that I'm a mild technophile).
>SNIP<

[quote="Guest"]They need to look at the market as it is now and
build a machine that is 10 times better, a machine
that can be user updated more internal memory be it
ddr ram whatever. But nokia should end the locking
of the communicator to themselves i.e the mmc card
that is so outdated now. Why pay �130 for 128mb
when you can get a card that cost much less that every
other device uses. Make a device that is capable
of having no errors in todays multimedia market
place. Ok put GPRS on it so when gprs mb prices drop
we can use that option. include BlueTooth and A GPS
for navigation. [/quote]

>SNIP!<
Buy a laptop, as that is what you seem to be specifying. As it stands it was a choice between a brand new laptop or the 9210 on price. A machine 10x better than what the market allows will be surely coming up to 2 grand. Laptops have the smallest upgradeable RAM chips available and they are half the length of a 9210, to develop some kind of removeable SIMM/DIMM that is smaller will be very expensive. As for the MMC, almost all PDAs accept them, so they can't be that outdated. Yes a top size of 128MB is a bit small, but what the bloody hell are you putting on it to fill it, my 64MB card is less than half full and has more apps on it etc than I need, as for the price complaint where are you buying your MMCs??? Dixons!???!? �45 is a more realistic price for 128MB. As for the other addons you want, they too aren't small, and will probably leave the 9210 more like a sub-laptop than a mobile phone or PDA.
>SNIP!<

[quote="Guest"]So why don't we all put your suggestions up the site
what we need like having our emails in true html format
so we don't have to be online to view emails with graphics
and pictures. The ability to save web pages with the graphics
saved with the page for off line viewing. There's so many things
that nokia can do to improve the communicator series but don't
seem to want to know. Don't we matter to them now. I think
possibly that Nokia will release a Palm type PDA phone
with a massive screen and a clip on fold away type keyboard
as with the HP IPAQ type devices. There can't be much life in
the communicator as we know it. Unless Nokia release both a
Palm Pda and a 9310 Communicator.. What do you want on your
next communicator?.[/quote]

There are already plenty of threads where people have moaned about what they would like to see in the next communicator. Just do a search. As for your suggestion, any wanker sending me HTML e-mails will get some nice flames and possibly a few Outlook virii sent to them as that's invariably the e-mail client they use, HTML e-mail is one of M$ worst ever ideas. As for saving the images for offline viewing on a page, there is both the space and recoding consideration as the HTML will need to be parsed and re-written.
Your statement that Nokia doesn't care what needs improving on the 9210 is a very foolish one, Nokia are a business like any other, currently they are looking at making money and how to get good headway with the Symbian OS to get apps for their phones and hence make them more popular. This means phones that sell to the mass market audiences, as for PDAs, if you read any interview with prominant PDA people (I.e. not M$), hell even Apple, no-one knows where the PDA market is heading, Nokia communicator has a niche section of it, and what they need to look at is the next model needs to sell better and pick up people who did have 9210s. This means it has to do something special that the existing models don't, many people will be cynical of them producing a simple system spec upgrade and probably won't buy it, and until Nokia know what will sell them huge numbers of communicators they are playing it cagey and producing devices in the more profitable areas.

You said it SwitcBlade!

Yeah... :P

you're right SwitcBlade! :angel:

I smartphone like Nokia 9210 without GPRS? Without Triband.....makes it useless to me unless they come out with it within short time. Target user for 9210 is business user...and they seem to travel (=triband) and they seem want to get connected to their businesses and chat with instant online (=gprs)

Wake up Nokia

a P800 user

Once a GPRS and Triband version of 9210 will be available I'd do the switch back cause I love a keyboard more then pen input.

I'm real happy with my 9210i...

[quote="sahli"]makes it useless to me unless they come out with it within short time.
Wake up Nokia

a P800 user
[/quote]

Well, I can ask two things.....

What is a p800 user doing here 😉
Tell me, if you are so happy, how do you modify one sheet with a lot of numbers, recieved by e-mail, with your p800.

And send it again, modified....hehehe, who`s 😃 now?
Og course a 9210 user 😉

Yeah man...p800 sux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)

[quote="sahli"]I smartphone like Nokia 9210 without GPRS? Without Triband.....makes it useless to me unless they come out with it within short time. Target user for 9210 is business user...and they seem to travel (=triband) and they seem want to get connected to their businesses and chat with instant online (=gprs)

Wake up Nokia

a P800 user

Once a GPRS and Triband version of 9210 will be available I'd do the switch back cause I love a keyboard more then pen input.[/quote]

1) The 9210 isn't a smartphone, it's a PDA with phone capabilities.
2) The 9210 has HSCSD which is both faster and better than GPRS technically, and as high speed data access wasn't widely available at it's release having HSCSD on the device could be seen as forward thinking. Unfortunately in the last year GPRS has become the common form of higher speed data access which no-one could have predicted 3 years ago.
3) Tri-band is only of real use for people going to the USA and as they are so backward they still don't have a decent GSM network, for the rest of Europe and Asia there are no problems with dual band as we have it.

Wake up and smell the coffee people!