Nokia phones in their condoms

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Walking through Brooklyn Chinatown tonight, we popped into a few phone stores to see the new holiday season's importants from Japan and Hong Kong. One of them was the Nokia 7260. It's significantly lighter and slimmer than the Nokia 3650 or 7610, and in person it's actually pretty cool looking. It also features "Clothing and shoe size converter for the true fashionista" and an FM Radio. It doesn't have bluetooth, a megapixel camera, or a memory card slot, so I wasn't that interested, but I still asked how much it was. Totally unlocked, it was $250, or $80 if I was willing extend my contract with T-mobile.

But T-mobile is apparently cracking down on phone switchers - they only want to give the free phones to people switching into their service, not existing customers. So to get the cheap rate on this phone, I would have had to change my phone number and register the phone under a fake name. Huh? The woman behind the counter assured me "We do this all the time, it's easy!" Okay.

Comments

[lia]

My friend Dee bought a 7260 in Chinatown recently so I got to fiddle with it some. It's cute to look at, but not impressive to hold and even less impressive once you get a look at the screen, the menus and the quality of the cameraphone. So not worth it!

[jeff]

I read somewhere certain cell phones could "explode" at any moment. It's good to keep them covered and protected. Practice safe communication...