A friend of mine gave this Pelican mini flash-light to me for a present. I did not know what to use it for at first as I had a Nokia mobile phone with a built-in LED torchlight too. When I was working in IT, it became obvious that this tiny flashlight could and did have its uses in dark recesses of the server rooms that I used to manage. Then I discovered another use for it…as a light during my DJ sessions in the pub! The light is very bright, and it uses 4 button cells to power it. Because it is an LED bulb, the batteries last a very long time as it draws very little power. The specs of this light are:
• single lifetime LED bulb
• push-button tail switch for momentary and constant on/off
• integrated clip
• safety rated for Class 1 Div 1 locations
• includes batteries, neck lanyard and red and green filters
• made in USA
• lifetime warranty from Pelican
You cannot go wrong with a lifetime warranty. Every DJ or IT guy should have one of these. Better than the MagLite in my opinion.
This is my wife’s old Nokia 7360 phone. She stopped using it for some reason back then. Seems that the keyboard was giving her issues. Just the other day, almost a year back, I dug this phone out of storage and decided to try my luck. I inserted a prepaid SIM card and what do you know, it worked first time! Nothing was wrong with the phone at all. Nokia really built things to last back then!
Right now, this phone, with its prepaid SIM card, is the house phone. We do not need a landline so this phone serves its purpose quite well. Reception is crystal clear and what can I say, it still works! Cheers to Nokia on their fantastic phones!
This, my friends, is the very first mobile phone I got. The Ericsson GH-388. Come to think of it, I have yet to find another phone which was as durable as this. It had everything a mobile phone of that era had. What was also good about the phone was that was pretty small and could slip pretty easily into pockets. The only reason why I changed to a Nokia after a while was because of the battery…it was a nickle metal hydride battery and Ni-MH cells back in the day (more than a decade ago egads!) did not last very long and had a memory effect. I switched to a Nokia because the Nokia had lithium-ion cells that lasted much longer. Imagine, with the Ericsson, I had to carry the charger all over the place as the battery eventually only lasted half a day. Getting bigger battery cells just did not make sense. And the battery needed to be removed from the mobile phone while charging and as a result, you could not receive any calls. But in spite of all its limitations, I still miss this phone.
I have had this phone for a bout three years now. It is a very basic phone. Does not contain a camera or anything else but it does contain a flashlight and it has a battery that lasts for a very long time before the phone conks out. It also has a flashlight, very handy for those days when I need to peer into dark corners like my cupboard. It has a mono screen and it only cost me about $40. In a nutshell, a bare-basic mobile phone…very useful for the frequent traveller who needs a cheap phone for prepaid card use in another country or as a second phone for most people.
Don’t laugh. This was my very first Nokia phone way back in 1999, lasting all the way till 2001. It was a Nokia 5110. True, it was bulky and lacked a colour screen like so many phones now but it was simple, SMS worked fine and the battery…oh the battery…lasted a long time because it was pretty big. One thing I did not like was the little stubby antenna that tended to poke your…ahem…privates if your phone was in your pocket. But I liked it and only changed to a Nokia 3210 because someone bought it for me as a present on my birthday
I was pretty sad to see this article here that said that Nokia slipped to third-place behind Apple and Samsung. I suppose the writing was on the wall. But one thing I like about Nokia phones is the ease of use. I now have a Motorola Defy, an Android touch-screen phone that replaced my Nokia E51, which was worn out (buttons breaking, battery shot…you get the idea). I am not one of those users that needs a new mobile phone every three months but I have friends that do.
Nokia was the leading phone company for 15 years. That is a pretty long time to be in the number one position. I still like Nokia and I do own some of their cheaper phones. One of them I use as a phone for long-distance calls. It has a prepaid card and it works out fine. I suppose Nokia is still number one for the emerging markets like India and China because they still manufacture inexpensive, no-frills phones, a market that Apple has no penetration in. Samsung has some el-cheapo phones though but Nokia is just more popular.
Well, it is wait and see time. Let us see if Nokia manage to pull up their socks. It is make or break time for them because they just inked a deal with Microsoft to release phones running Windows Mobile.
Yep, it is out and it is looking good! Seems that it is running on the Meego platform, Nokia’s version of Linux. Looks pretty cool and it was just released today. This thing of beauty features a pure-glass display. Nice ain’t it?
