I'm addicted to snake
Written: Dec 20 '00
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Product Rating:
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Pros: small, games, great battery life
Cons: how'd i make that call?
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| mhudack's Full Review: Nokia 8210 Cell Phone |
Hello. My name is Mike. And I'm addicted to "Snake."
Snake is one of the games on the Nokia 5190, it's basically a clone of the ancient "Centipede." The basic idea is that you're this pixelated snake trying to gobble up rats, tokens, birds, or whatever. Every one you swallow adds four pixels to your length. You don't want to run into walls or yourself. What a game to be addicted to.
In all seriousness, however, I do find myself playing Snake constantly - whether it be at the coffee shop, at work (shhhh - not that much) or at home.
The other features of this phone are equally fantastic, however.
GSM
The Nokia 5190 is a GSM mobile / cellular phone (cellular refers to the arrangement of cellular towers, each one covering an area known as a "cell").
GSM is by far the most advanced and usable cellular technology on the market today. Its primary competitors, CDMA and TDMA, are generally lower-quality, lower-reliability and lower-bandwidth. GSM is the standard cellular system in Europe, and they have an incredibly advanced system there. You can even order sodas by dialing a vending machine and billing it to your cell phone bill. Very cool stuff.
GSM was developed during the early 80s when analog cellular systems were really taking off in Europe -- especially Scandinavia and Britain. Each country had developed their own cellular network, and none of the networks were compatible with each other (for instance, I couldn't cross the channel with my British phone and expect it to work in France).
The Europeans realized that this wasn't an ideal situation, and in 1982 the Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs (CEPT) formed a study group called Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) to develop a cellular system for all of Europe.
The criteria were simple - good subjective voice quality, ISDN compatibility (for high-speed Internet access), international roaming support, spectral frequency (more users per cell) and handheld units (obviously!). GSM has met all of these requirements and many more, offering everything from Short Messaging Service (small text messages between phones) to e-mail and Web access, in addition to good voice quality.
Size, weight, durability
The Nokia 5190 is rather small and light, weighing in at less than six ounces and measuring about 5.2 inches from head to toe. I generally keep it clipped to my belt, and after the first day I stopped noticing it was there. I simply hear it ringing and say to myself "oh, I have my phone with me." This can be both a good and bad thing.
I haven't had any problems with durability so far, although it hasn't had much of a chance to break. So far it's holding up very well though.
Dialing
Oddly enough, yesterday I placed a call to my office and managed to stay on the line for about fourty-five minutes. I say oddly enough because I never dialed the office. My boss, being the idiot he sometimes is, put me on speakerphone and proceeded to listen to me laying cable at a local coffee shop. Needless to say, that cost me some minutes on my plan.
Features
I already mentioned the games. There's also Short Messaging Service (receive small e-mail-like text messages from friends and news services), there's a nice headset device (which came with my phone) which works very well, and there are a myriad of other niceties such as more than two dozen different ring tones (everything from Ode to Joy to the Mexican Hat Dance to ring-ring. I keep it on ring-ring).
Battery life
I seem to have relatively good luck with my batteries. My phone generally needs recharging every two days, with about an hour of talk time per day.
Call quality
Except for one area where there was a signal strength of one out of five, I have had unbelievably clear and wonderful calls. No one has commented I'm on a speakerphone or cell phone, and most are very suprised when I tell them I'm not on a landline.
Overall
I'm really enjoying this new phone, and I have a feeling I'll be keeping it for a while now. If there are any problems that may crop up, I'll certainly let everyone know.
Recommended:
Yes
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