Jan 17 2009

A Decade of Nokia

Took this phone the other day.

Nokia 6150 vs E71

Nokia 6150 Nokia E71
  • Released in 1998
  • Dual band GSM
  • Infra-red port
  • 84 x 48 monochrome display
  • Released in 2008
  • Quad band GSM + dual band HSPA
  • Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + Infrared + GPS/AGPS
  • 320×240 QVGA colour display

That Nokia 6150 wasn’t my first Nokia — I had a Nokia 101 back in 1995/1996 with Optus when it started selling digital mobile phones. Vivian actually bought the phone from Orange in Hong Kong, and I then bought a Optus SIM to use it here in Australia. With its built in infrared port, I could actually use my Psion 5mx to talk to it to send SMS — how cool was that?!

2 Comments

  1. timhu on 17 Jan 2009 at 9:44 pm #

    Hahaha, a whole generation of kiddies will be saying, “huh? Psion?”, and “huh? infra red?”

  2. scotty on 18 Jan 2009 at 8:40 pm #

    The funny thing is, the operating system of Psion — EPOC — became Symbian, and then got acquired by Nokia, and later evolved into S60v3 FP1 running inside my E71!

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