I have owned many Nokia devices over the years, and taking this blog post on Nokia Conversations as inspiration, I thought I would share with you my three favourite devices.
It could have quite easily been my ten favourite, but you would have fallen asleep reading if I would have done that many! It has actually been harder than I expected, trying to whittle it down to just three, but here we go.
Nokia 6130 / Orange NK702:
This was my first proper contract phone, back in 1998. I had previously had rubbish PAYG phones, but this Nokia device still sticks in my mind. I got the phone on a one year contract from Orange.
The 6130 was actually just a dual-band version of the Nokia 6110, with a couple of design tweaks. The Orange version being labelled the NK702. It was the same phone, just with an Orange logo on it.
The main feature of this phone, over all previous was build quality. This thing was almost indestructible. It had only two main parts. The phone, and the battery. That was it. Nothing to bend, or fall off. It was rock solid. Obviously the specification sheet was rather short in those days, but the fact it could do this new fangled gizmo called “text messaging”, and I was sold. I even swapped the aerial out for one of the flashy light ones, for a couple of days, before I realised I looked like a right prick.
Nokia 6600:
The Nokia 6600 was my first Symbian powered phone back in 2003. It was actually the worlds first Symbian S60 2nd Edition device, and was so far ahead of anything else at the time. If you had one of these phones, you were proper cool. Or just a geek.
This thing had everything. A camera which could take photo’s as well as video, it had bluetooth, infra-red, WAP internet, a colour screen, and a, quite frankly enormous 6MB of internal memory.
It is totally amazing that production of this device only stopped 2 years ago! Just shows how far ahead of it’s time it really was.
Nokia N82:
The ultimate Symbian S60 3rd FP1 device in my eyes. Essentially Nokia N95 internals, wrapped up in an indestructible candybar form factor, with the addition of a xenon flash.
I had this device for almost 2 years, and have only got rid of it in the last couple of weeks. It was everything that was ground breaking about the N95, just with none of the reliability issues. Yes, the screen was a bit smaller, but that didn’t matter.
The N82 is still considered by some, to be the best Nokia imaging device ever. Even beating the new Nokia N86 with it’s 8 megapixel camera, purely down to the fact that xenon is much more useful.
So there we have it. My favourite 3 Nokia devices of all time. Do you agree? Do you have your own 3 favourites? Let us know in the comments, or how about writing your own blog post?
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