My New No-Frills Phone

As my old mobile phone has been acting up for a while now to the extent that it is hardly usable any more, i have decided to get a new one. But browsing through all those fancy new multi-whatever gadgets with incredibly useless features have resulted in me taking a radical step: With my new phone (ordered today) i am going be able to phone. And just about that. Yes, you heard right.

Here it is: the Nokia 6030



















And here are the amazing features it lacks:

1. Inbuilt camera with crappy resolution
2. Triband to make it work in the US and other places i am not likely to go to any time soon
3. Bluetooth, wifi or infrared connectivity. If i should ever need to transfer data, a cable will do just fine.
4. Large memory (what for? It's a phone ..)
5. MP3 player (nothing beats my ipod)
6. Any other feature that would never come to my mind if i thought about a phone

Here is what it does have:

1. Long battery life
2. Good sound quality
3. Ease of use
4. Simple, stylish design
5. OK, there is a radio, but believe it or not, thats one of the few features i actually did use on my old phone.
6. I can still use my old charger
   

(Was that six of one, half a dozen of the other ? )

On top of all that, no more long-term contracts with my phone operator. Who knows what the phone operator market might look like in two years time?