I have been searching for it for quite a while, as I have it as an emergency phone with a PAYG simcard, and it needs switching on and a call made every so often to keep the SIM alive. I think I last held the phone three months ago, but it could easily be four or even six.
I pressed the 'on' button.
FULL BATTERY. FIVE BARS OF SIGNAL.
Why can't they make phones like this today?
Hello, old friend.
I have an old faithful 6310i as a spare too. Been dropped twice, submerged twice and lost in a forest in the rain for an hour (until I found someone who could phone it for me). Battery life: a week; I'm lucky if my new Blackberry does till tea time. Great,great piece of kit.
ReplyDeleteI get about 10 days on standby, but then I don't make many calls. As I have proved, battery life when switched off is months rather than weeks. I wouldn't expect that from a lead-acid bike battery. OK, the 6310i doesn't have many fancy features to consume power, but it's still awesome performance. My iPhone, by contrast, needs charging every 2-3 days. More often if I actually make some calls.
ReplyDeleteThey can make phones with battery life like that. But who wants ... a phone?
ReplyDelete"It only makes calls..? Seriously?"
I charge my iPhone daily...
ReplyDeleteYou talk too much, clearly.
ReplyDeleteNo, I hardly ever make calls on it! Too busy browsing and Tweeting and reading books and playing minigames and checking the weather and checking the flight path of planes overhead and....
DeleteAh. I might have spotted the problem. :)
Ah :)
DeleteLovely old phones!
ReplyDeleteMy dad still has a Nokia 3310 - but it's great because you can drop them loads of times and they'll never break! I wish they made new phones equally as robust.
I'm still using a venerable Nokia NSE-3210, the battery of which has an expiry date of 10th October 2001. One charge lasts at least a week. I make and receive phone calls only, because that's what a phone is for.
ReplyDeleteI have a camera with which to take pictures and a decent fountain pen with which to write letters.
Another benefit of that one is.......... you're unlikely to get mugged for it.
ReplyDeleteAh, I knew this post would bring the old skool out in force!
ReplyDeleteI actually like my iPhone for all the things it does - it's a very handy bit of kit. But not as a phone, where its performance is mediocre. Perhaps I should keep the iPhone as a sort of PDA and use the Nokia for actual calls.
+1 on the camera and fountain pen :)
Hey, that looks like our old Nokia. Would still be using it if it didn't turn itself off for no reason. I liked it better than my current phone but our phone plan doesn't support theold phones. Damn.
ReplyDeletefunnily enough, that's why I got the second one. The first one started doing that, and by that time Nokia had stopped making them. I managed to find a NOS one on eBay and paid good money to have it. Battered, neglected, sat on, abused, dropped ... still works fine, a bit like the VW in Woody Allen's 'Sleeper'.
ReplyDelete6310? Best phone I ever had.
ReplyDeleteiPhone? Best electronic device I've ever had that also just about managed to make & receive the odd phone call now & then.
Coconut for Best Summary.
DeleteEricsson R250 pro, simply the phone of the gods. I have knocked a nail in with one and it worked afterwards! It is designed to be washed under a tap and the speaker phone can be heard on the building site it was designed for.
ReplyDeleteOK the downside, it is the size of a brick and heavy enough to leave your trousers round your ankles. However the battery life in a drawer is over six months..
Added to my list of 'technology I could come to like'.
DeleteNokia 6310 phones? like Ronseal - does what it says on the can (sorry, box). I use two of them!
ReplyDeleteWe should form a support group.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Richard and I am in love with my 6310i ...