New glasses
This is the same model cellphone as the first one I owned. I didn't have the flashy headset however.
It’s been a while since i bought a new cell phone. As a matter of fact the only phone I ever bought with my own money was my first phone. An Ericsson, back in 1997 or something like that when it was still quite exotic to have one.
You would think that that technology has progressed since then, but what we see today is a market totally overcrowded with bad products. I’m not joking when I tell you that the SonyEricsson p990, a phone I had the misfortune to meet at my current job, actually choke on the task of dialling a number. Out of memory after two digits! Receiving a call was the same gamble, the phone could run out of memory as it tried to recieve the call.. system restart.
So it was with pretty low expectations that I went shopping last week. What I wanted was so simple.
- A phone that is small, and that I can drop without it going a million pieces. A “vacation” phone if you will.
- Not an iPhone clone.
- As less keys as possible and as minimal design as possible.
- Wi-fi and ability to stream music from my home network.
Ok so that last point was a bit of a joke, because I never expected to find a phone like that. The iPhone does that kind of, via the tversity web-interface. But it’s pretty slow and only works when it feels like it.
But what do you know, looks like Nokia r&d have been reading my mind. I went and bought a Nokia 5630. The rest of this post is going to be about how great it is, and how UPnP changed everything.
