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You know this site is all about great affordable stuff right?. So you want a new mobile phone you can throw away when you get your PMS tantrums (if you are a girl) or you favorite football team loses and you put all your savings to your bookie (if you are a stupid moron)?
If you got 100 USD left in your pocket, then this would be the absolute phone for you. The All New Nokia 2630. I busted my Xpress Music phone 2 months after I bought it, I got it serviced but the week in between was hard thinking I couldn’t Txt (sms) all I want. Although i have my business phone with me, my personal phone is the busier one. So I got up and hunted for a phone. Price wasn’t my main concern at first.
Nokia 2630
So I went to a local Nokia Dealer and asked for their selections, they pointed me to the N-Series phones and the SuperNova lineup. I was sold on them and I was trying out some of them which I found amazing. Then I thought, why splurge on something I don’t essentially need? My other mobile will get replaced anyway.
Still the N-Series phones were quite tempting. That is when I sort of do my “take a leak” routine as a reason to think ten times before purchasing anything. I found this a good way to minimize impulse buying.
When I got out of the Mens room, I saw this pretty girl looking at lanyards in one section of the shop. Well I guess I have time to strike up a conversation, so I actually looked at lanyards my self and said “My phone is so heavy for these things, I think it’s nice for ID cards though”. The pretty girl which I got the name later as Jenny looked up and said, “Well you can always get a lighter phone”. What a nice idea I thought, so I talked to her some more and asked what phone she is using. That’s when she pulled out a bright white version of the Nokia 2630. So i said what a nice phone she has, she said thanks and quipped that it was affordable too. She then attached her lanyard to her phone and wore it on her neck. I quipped again how nice it looks on her (I am on my hitting on her mode here). She just smiled and said “You should get one, it will look good on you too”. So I asked her what the phone was and it’s number, she gave the phone model and I was hoping for the model number but instead she wrote on a piece of paper her mobile phone number. She smiled again, paid for her lanyard and went out of the store, just at the door she glanced back and I said “Nice Meeting You Jenny” she just smiled back.
Anyway, I went back to the sales guy and asked for the Nokia 2630, he kept on bugging me why not the N-Series? I said, well I like the 2630, he frowned and got me a small box with the 2630 and it came in black. I asked for other colors, but it only comes in white and black. So I guess black is for me, since I am a guy.
I was surprised when I paid for it which is just under 100USD. I then went back again to the lanyards section and got me a synthetic snake-skin looking lanyard and then I wore my phone over my neck just like Jenny did. I then put the sim card in and saved Jennys number on the phone. Called her later for Coffee and that was the start of the Nokia 2630 adventure. Now go check it out.
What I liked about it:
Small, Thin and Light. Has a Camera and Bluetooth. Interface is like the newer models, has radio and mp3 capabilities and yes you can wear it on your neck too like Jenny and Me.
Specifications:
SCREEN TFT Screen
DATA Dual-band EGSM 850/1900 MHz, GPRS, Bluetooth 2.0 for photo and data sharing
MEMORY Up to 11 MB user available memory, No Slots
BATTERY Li-Ion 1790 mAh with up to 1,440 standby time and 17 hours talk time
DISPLAY 128×160-pixel, 65K-color, 1.8-inch TFT screen
SIZE 4.13 x 1.77 x 0.39 in , 2.33 oz
Complete Specs on the Nokia Site Here
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