On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, nick may wrote:
> Is that the original premini? The one you have to be v.careful not to
> sit on as it has the dimensions and shape of a suppository?
Yes.
> If so, it is rather old now - so no surprise they are being given away.
> The 702NK Voda lobotomized-phone has been available for 1yen for a
> while.
Available for 1 yen to existing subscribers who have changed their
phones in the last two months?
This is basically giving them away for free to anybody, as far as I can
tell. You just go in, with any sort of subscription, say "I want a new
phone," and they give it to you.
> The Premini's problem isn't that it is small and light - it is - just
> that it is so THICK and the screen so small. The same phone squashed
> flat wold have been fine. They could do it with the P504i - and that
> was YEARS ago....
Actually, they've done better than that (albeit without Java) in one of
the newish phones whose model I completely forget. It's a reasonably
recent flip-phone in the Mova non-Java series (25x?), and it's extremely
thin.
Given the otherwise small dimensions, the thickness doesn't bother me
much--at least not yet. I can easily keep it in a front pocket, which is
kind of a nice change.
cjs
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Received on Tue Jun 14 05:37:58 2005