As some of you may know im getting a new 7610 from orange tomorrow. Just wondering if anyone on here has one and your opinions of it

Thanks

Paul

forgot to say im particually intersted in how people find using the keypad when sending texts etc

paul

I got a 7610 from Orange a few days back, as an upgrade... here it is on eBay

Generally its quite a nice phone, but...

1) The keypad is a little annoying, especially those little keys up in the corner.

2) There is no Bluetooth seriel port, meaning the GPRS connection cannot be used on an iPaq This is what makes the phone useless to me.

im not too worried about the serial port more the keypad. do you find it easy to get used to or should i ask for a different phone

paul

Umm, I don't know, I only used it for a couple of days... Me having big fingers, I wasn't a fan of it, it was usable, but not to my liking.

I'm finding it great. The video quality is excellent, 10 minutes at a time as well! Fantastic.

Wait for the Nokia 6680, it will be on orange soon, its on there list!

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellp...680-027391.php


There is not much info out yet, but its 3G, runs Symbian and will feature its new 3D Menu, but it looks nice.....

Thats funny! I set mine up with my iPAQ ok! worked fine too better than it does on my new Nokia 6230

- regarding the phone! well, it pi55ed me off, so I sold it
I think you'll either love it or hate it!

well i spoke to the nice lady today and asked if i could have the samsung d500 instead. she said that at the moment its not in stock but as long as the upgrade costs £150 or less than i can have it for free. That nokia 6680 is nice but its 3g so unless i upgrade my account cant have it

paul

I love my 7610! It's the fabbest phone that I've had in the past 8 years of mobile stuff. The keypad isn't very difficult, the only complaint being that your finger sometimes slips on to the '2' key when pushing down on the directional pad. The extras are great, Opera is a superb browser. THe video editor is great. The camera quality is superb! My upgrade cost me £100 though I sold my old phone for £90 so for a tenner it's a bargain!

well i used one in the shop briefly and really didnt like the keypad. Was also told that the 7610 had been discotinued so i thought against it. The d500 seems the best phone i cant get from them at the moment unless others have better ideas?
oh and not the p910/00 because its too big!

Paul

It hasn't been discontinued at all! Nokia are still supporting it for software downloads and are currently promoting the lifeblog function that comes with it. You've been lied to.

How did you manage that, seeing no-one else on the internet seems to be able to?

The 7610 just acts as a bluetooth modem! it took a while to get the connection to work, but in basic terms, you simply pair them using the iPAQ Wizard (either explore bluetooth device or use the 'connect to internet via phone' opiton) - then you create a connection on the iPAQ using the Bluetooth Dialup Modem driver... you then use *99# as the telephone number which causes the phone to dial a GPRS connection and in the advanced options you ned to enter a dail-string (each network differs), but this works for 02 ( +cgdcont=1,"IP","mobile.o2.co.uk" )

The same settings works with the Nokia 6230 as well, but the connection keeps dropping which peas me off!!!

Tried all of that, wouldn't work... Works fine on my new 6230 though, no problems at all.

Bummer! I had it working on thee 7610 perfectly! well until I sold the phone cos it pea'd me off!!!

Question: what firmware version is your 6230... I read that the latest improves bluetooth on the phones... I'm wondering if that could be my problem???!!!

Well, no, I'm on the old v3.14

What exactly is your BT problem? If it's that your BT connection drops from time to time, I wouldn't really know about that cause all I do is download my e-mails and check the occasional webpage. It holds out long enough to do that...

Hi, i've had a 7610 since october. The keypad really doesn't make a difference, you get used to it in days. Its got an amazing camera and all in all is a good phone. If you get one with the latest software/firmware then its really good (the ones with the old firmware from july are a bit slow and have less options)


All in all its a wicked phone if u get it free. The D500 may be a better choice. The fact that you can't play mp3 ringtones is a bit irritating (unless you convert them to midi)

I beg to differ. No matter how long I could own the phone, the keys wouldn't get bigger and my fingers wouldn't get smaller

Hi

I have a 7610. how do you check the software version???

*#0000# and it should automatically appear!

cheers mate.

my software version is v 4.0421.4

is that the latest version??

Mine says 4.0424.4

Take it this is old software as it says something about 12 June 04 next to that!

latest version is 4.0437.4 from 15th september 04. Thats what my latest phone has. (though there might be a new one, i'm not sure)

well i'm only 15, so dont have the biggest hands, and i had a nokia 7610 back in september, and found the keypad a b**ch to use, especially when you keep pressing the wrong buttons, i found the phone a little slow to load things when you get a few pictures on there also. though i got ripped off by a lot of money, so had to sell the phone to pay it back, only to find out after selling the phone, they put the money back!
overall, i'd go for something like the samsung D500 ( i really want that phone!!) or the nokia 6230, another very nice phone.
David