14:37 by FoxTwo Ooooo I can hear the outcry from SE loyalists from here already.
Yeah I've been a Nokia user for the longest time. So far all my phones have always been Nokias. However, last year when I wanted to get a new phone, I decided against Nokia (finally). Nokia had nothing really fantastic out at the time. All the phones they'd release up to that point had been buggy. Many friends of mine said their Nokia phones would "hang" or "auto-reboot" etc. One particular friend of mine even told me his N80 would auto reboot after every call, and also as soon as he took a picture with it.
Many friends around me keep persuading me to forget Nokia and go with Sony Ericsson because "the quality is better". So I succumbed (and also due to lack of interesting and reliable models from Nokia) and went for a Sony Ericsson K810i.
Initially I was pretty pleased with it. It performed flawlessly. No hangs, no reboots. Everything worked as advertised. I was wondering why I never got around to owning a Sony Ericsson until then.
Fast-forward 6 months later - present day. The keys on the number pad would quit working intermittently. Sometimes the volume buttons don't work too. THIS time, I really had to send it in to the "Sony Ericsson Hospital".
That got me thinking - technically speaking, Sony Ericsson's quality is worse than Nokia's. Every Nokia that I have ever owned, never had a single technical fault (other than buggy OS). I have never had to send any of my Nokia phones in for any sort of servicing.
Now, I own my first Sony Ericsson, and it decided to get sick and require a hospital visit in just 6 short months. To me, that shows Sony Ericsson make sucky phones, man.
Well I guess the next phone I own will not be a Sony Ericsson anymore. I'll just go see what's in the market at the time when I want to get a new phone. Sending phones in for repairs is very inconvenient - I have to break out my old sets, transfer data all over etc etc. Not to mention, getting used to the old functions again. Even now, when I SMS, I press the wrong keys because Sony Ericsson decided to swap the shift, space and punctuation keys around and completely different from Nokia's.
Labels: cell phones, mobile phones
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Hendri @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:54:00 PM I regretted forgoing Nokia for Sony Ericsson too...
It likes to auto-shutdown itself, typically when it gets a certain amount of vibration, like when I'm putting it on the table or when I knock the sides using my finger.
Sometimes it even auto-shutdowns when I'm walking, so I won't know it's off until the next time I take it out of my pocket. -
DK @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:12:00 PM
I have 3 Nokia phone previously before changing to Sony Ericsson. I'm using my 2nd Sony Ericsson Phone now and I'm loving it.
Sony Ericsson is not flawless. The keypad/joystick is known to have problems after long usage. But compare that with phone hanging every once in a while causing you to miss a phone call or SMS.
Still prefer SE. :) -
Min-tea @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:25:00 PM
I've used everything from Seimens, the original Ericsson phones, Samsung, Nokia and not SE. I'm on to my 2nd SE phone now and it's alright, though I have a colleague who's using the same model but having OS problems too. So I guess it's really luck of the draw.
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Cobalt Paladin @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:56:00 PM
I was a Nokia user until the point when their phone was so much fatter and with less functions than SE. I'm into my 2nd SE now and have no regrets. However, I do have the same problem with Hendri that it auto off at times. After I've brought it in for servicing, the problem is gone.
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FoxTwo @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:25:00 PM
Thanks for your comments.. I really dunno what I'll get for the next phone man... could be another SE, for all I know. But as I said I'll try to avoid getting another SE.
In any case, if the keypad is a "known problem" they shouldn't have released the phone :p None of my Nokias ever had a keypad problem. Lucky for me, the buggy OSes in Nokia never bothered me anyway. Never used the buggy functions :) -
BaseGuardian @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:29:00 PM Yeah, I've been using SE since my first cellphone. Some times they do made me pissed off, but all time it's the best.
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C K @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:42:00 PM
Have been with Nokia ever since the beginning of times... I just like its interface and it'll kill me just to learn it all over again. It's like being comfortable with Starcraft's tech tree and then have to learn Warcraft's all over again...
Ok, not the best of anology but you get the idea. -
FoxTwo @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:32:00 PM
Baseguardian - I wish I can be as happy with my SE as you seem to be.
ck - yeah I know. But now I've gotten used to SE's interface and coming back to Nokia is like a trip back in time. As I said in the post, I keep pressing wrong keys when sending SMSes cuz SE's positioning of the shift, space and punctuation keys are different from Nokia's.
