----- Original Message -----
From: "Leppanen Jouni" <Jouni.Leppanen@proha.fi>
> Does any one has actual user experience on Nokia i-Mode
These (below) are a few Nokia 502i clippings from the Tokyo PC Users group
thread on keitais. Their URL is http://www.tokyopc.org/ for those interested.
Sean.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Cotton" <ken.cotton@tokyopc.org>
Newsgroups: tpc.chit-chat
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Ketai for foreigners
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:18:20 +0900, "Dennis E. Schneider"
> <dennis@twcu.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> >How's the new Nokia working out?
>
> Better add this:
> http://www.nokia.co.jp/products/nm207/
>
> Doing okay for never having looked at the manual. They handed it to me
> in English mode and I figured out how to turn the vibrator on within
> minutes.
>
> You may not want it for the Internet, but pretty soon you won't be
> able to find one that doesn't do it.
>
> I think you can get a phone that does it but opt not to have any
> services turned on.
>
> The iMode email has come in handy a few times. Like the keitai itself,
> I don't feel I have to justify the cost on a day-to-day basis.
>
> If/when I get email on my Pilot or a CE device or breakdown and get a
> smaller notebook computer, I may be using the iMode functionality even
> less, but still will pay to have it.
>
> I am a bit disappointed with the buttons on the Nokia. Maybe my thumb
> is too big, but sometimes I won't to scroll up, but end up going down.
> I also was used to 1-button re-dial on my old phone, but haven't
> figured out how to do it on the Nokia.
>
> Like the size and think the 'active slide' is a good idea. Makes it
> really easy to hang up.
>
> Have yet to get the infrared to Palm to Internet working right, but
> others have, so I just need to figure it out.
>
> Keep in mind that I haven't opened the manual. Ought to try and hunt
> down and English version.
>
> > [...]
> >Anyway, I guess I'm gonna' be looking for some sort of fairly simple
> >(preferably inexpensive) phone in the next week or so. But I won't need
> >internet connections.
>
> See above.
**
> "Ken Cotton" <ken.cotton@tokyopc.org> wrote in message
> news:05iims8hurnu6dovp89r36lkp70s6kj83g@4ax.com...
> > I am a bit disappointed with the buttons on the Nokia. Maybe my thumb
> > is too big, but sometimes I won't to scroll up, but end up going down.
>
> Ken,
>
> The middle up-n-down button is working OK for me. However, my thumb is a bit
> too big for the left (Page Back) and right (Page Forward) buttons.
>
> > I also was used to 1-button re-dial on my old phone, but haven't
> > figured out how to do it on the Nokia.
>
> What do you exactly mean by one-button redial? If you want to redial the
> last number, just press the dial button for more than six seconds or so.
>
**
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:51:32 +0900, "Slavek Gronski"
> <slavek[@]webya.net> wrote:
>
> >> if Nokia stays to true form, pressing the green dail key, then scrolling
> >> will give you the list of redails available (Usually the last 10).
**
> Justin wrote:
> > According to http://anima.editthispage.com/ most of the new handsets
> > are now bilingual, so you don't have to plump for a Nokia if you don't
> > want to.
>
> The only real reason to go for the Nokia would be the infra red and
> perhaps a lower price tag, but if neither of these things bother you then
> the new docomo models might be better. The screen on the Nokia isn't that
> big and not colour (although I really don't think this is such a big
> problem).
>
**
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:18:10 +0900, "Slavek Gronski"
> <slavek[@]webya.net> wrote:
>
> >> I am hanging in until I can dictate my e-mail into the phone,
> >> then dial out by saying "dial Andrew the Scot" and such.
>
> >The Nokia already has a voice recognition button. For example, you can
> >record voice commands and then assign them to entries in the speed dial.
>
> I don't use this much. Found it works better when you record voice
> commands that sound kind of like Japanese.
>
> Laughed when in Taiwan last week a friend said that he found he got
> better recognition when he spoke in a Chinese way.
>
> I guess it just helps to break up the syllables yet. Not sure how
> different the voice recognition is between the handsets in different
> countries, though.
Received on Wed Jul 19 10:29:54 2000