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Well, as I’m Deafinitely Girly, absolutely no one to tell you the truth. But that didn’t stop me squealing with excitement when my shiny new Nokia 6700 Classic turned up last week.
Now, as a deaf person, my phone is insanely important to me. It enables me to keep in touch with everyone effortlessly through text messages, emails, instant messenger, Twitter, and Facebook, and in order to get all this working efficiently, I have a Pinkberry.
I love my Pinkberry very much, so I also knew when the Nokia 6700 Classic turned up, it had some pretty big boots to fill.
So let’s get to it shall we:
Visually this phone is shiny shiny, very shiny. So shiny in fact, that the back of it makes the perfect mirror for emergency lipgloss application.
Technically, it has: a micro USB for charging and moving about audio and data; a microSD memory card slot with a maximum capacity of 8GB, and a battery life of up to 416 hours on standby and 5 hours of talktime depending on your internet usage and connection. Impressive, non?
Playfully, it offered me: a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, a flash and various other camery tools including direct printing to compatible printers; the internet; GPS navigation; loads of games; a Nokia Media player; voice recording and a whole lot of ring tones I couldn’t hear.
This is all great, it really it – and I’ve had many a person salivating over it since it appeared in my handbag.
But I’ve got to review this as a severely deaf person and so that means I’ve got to ask the question, ‘Does it give me what I need?’
And unfortunately the answer is no.
Technically, it doesn’t matter that it isn’t pink. My love of pink things doesn’t stretch to inconveniencing my life just so I can have something. Even if this phone was in pink, it wouldn’t sway me.
On an average day, I send maybe 50 text messages, 25 emails, browse the internet for news, travel announcements, train times, weather, my blog, and erm… the latest gossip on Sky Showbiz.
So, I decided that I should do exactly this with the Nokia 6700 Classic as I popped it in the front pocket of my bag.
I got to work, three text messages were there. I hadn’t felt the vibrate.
It sat on my desk as I worked, and luckily the vibrate was much better on this hollow surface, but there was no visual clue that anything had arrived – on Pinkberry there’s an insistent flashing red light.
I did discover, due to my clumsiness that if you drop it, it buzzes twice and a clock appears. A look in the manual told me that what you should actually do is tap it twice and this brings up the clock, rejects calls and activates snooze on the alarm. This was my favourite thing so far.
My next favourite thing, was the games – I had endless fun wreaking havoc in Sims 3 with my little person flirting with everyone she encountered and the recurring message ‘Your Sim is freaking people out’ – or something along those lines.
I also liked the super-fast internet connection and the fact that navigating it was more similar to an iPhone than a standard phone, but it was hard to zoom out to see complete pages, and I couldn’t work out how to leave it running and do something else like send a text, which I can do on Pinkberry – so multi-tasking was a no-no.
I quickly set up my three email addresses but apparently, according to Snowboarding Boy, emails are pulled not pushed, as they are on PInkberry, so you have to set it up to ‘send and retrieve’ which was a bit frustrating as it meant things were delayed in getting to me – or at least felt that way.
And now onto my most-used requirement – text messaging. This was absolutely fine to tell you the truth, but I would have loved to have a running conversation, not just see individual texts, as it’s quite useful when replying to be able to refer back to what the other person said.
I really did give this phone a fair chance. I gave it 5 days in the life of my Pinkberry. But then, I cracked.
I missed Pinkberry – she does the job for me so well.
I handpicked her after extensive research as to what I would need in the light of being deaf and that research has paid off – Pinkberry gives me everything I need and this means I don’t feel isolated or unable to contact people. I really think I’m spoilt that I have all that.
And, if I wasn’t deaf?
I reckon I would have quite liked this shiny, shiny silver phone.
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Little Pinkberry is sighing with relief! she sat sad and alone with knocking knees for five days. Glad you are staying loyal.
you’ve got to see DG’s flying fingers text to believe its humanly possible to text so fast! x
Hey Dg your feels like Summer blog is amazing but it seems to have tangled with somebody elses and there is no space for a comment, so i@ve put it here. Keep up the good work.
Hi
One area I would Appreciate is more detail on the loudness of the ring tones for both txts and calls.
my partner is totally deaf in one ear and the othe is about 50%
she is vey consious of her deafness And when in a phone shop hates to ask about the Db’s that a phone produces. Sadly even when I ask most stores do not know