My new phone

Bought myself a new phone yesterday: the MOTOROLA MotoRokr E6. I've been postponing this expenditure for quite a long time now, but my old phone, a Nokia 3230, which has endured a lot, including a dip in the swimming pool (along with me) and numerous falls. It finally started showing sure signs of ageing by switching for no apparent reason whatsoever, and other signs of senility (I'm not complaining because I got Rs. 2300 for it). Anyways, last night my wife dragged me to the "Mobile Store", a new chain of mobile supermarkets. The service is quite good, though I would've liked to see more models.

I was confused between the Nokia N73, a feature rich, but bulky, phone priced at Rs. 16000 odd, the Samsung U 600 priced at around 14K, one of the sleekest slide phones available and I was quite attracted to it, and the Motorokr at Rs. 13700. What clinched the deal for Motorola (and I've had a couple of bad experiences with Motorola before), was the PDA features.

MotoRokr E6 is a feature rich phone, with all the bells and whistles. It's got a 2 MP camera, music player, FM radio, bluetooth etc, and it is quite slim for a PDA phone. There is a wireless stereo bluetooth headset available, which is said to be awesome. My wife said she's gonna buy it for me when the mobile store guys get it (hopefully, next weekend).

Usability wise, it's a sea change for someone who has been an ardent Nokia follower for the last 4-5 years. The stylus is a new change, and I'm still getting used to it. And I like the fact that i can connect the phone to the comp and it gets charges: quite useful for a geek. You can check your mails, store your Business cards (haven't tried that one yet), read office documents, spreadsheets etc. There is a normal stereo jack (Nokia, please give this), 2GB memory, 30 preloaded mp3 songs, and you can use this as a web cam and modem.

One glitch, I had to copy the contacts from Nokia phone to the SIM, and then to the Motorola from the SIM. And the way the contact details are stored in Nokia is completely different from Motorola, which ended up creating separate contacts for a home number and a mobile number (stored in one contact in Nokia). Guys, it's time you came up with a standard here.

That apart, I'm looking forward to a long association with this phone.