Hi-Mobile.net was very generous to send us over the second most high-end Nokia S40-based phone (after the 7390) for a review, the 6288. This model is an updated version over its similarly-looking 6280, and it's considered a high-end feature phone. Read more for our findings and plenty of screenshots.
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Member since:2006-01-01
"feature phone" isn't a term I've heard used over here in the UK. We seem to get "mobile phones" and "pda phones" pretty much. You buy what you can afford.
It sounds a bit like a buzzword. Like VCR (we say "Video"), "RV" (we say "car" or "4x4"), "SUV" (we say "car", "4x4" or "School run car" :-P ), realtor (?sp?), i.e. "house seller" (we say "estate agent")
Why does the US have to make everything so complex and categorised??
Member since:2005-07-06
Most people don't called them "feature phones". However, for the purposes of product review, it makes sense to be a bit more specific. I suspect review sites like CNet have had a lot to do with the "phone categorization scheme".
So basically, it is a buzzword. But it makes sense to use in this review...
Why do the British have to make so many generalizations about other countries' populations? ;-)
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2005-06-28
You don't understand. Anything that it's above low-end but not a smartphone, it's called "feature phone", regardless of the features it has (or not). It's a classification, not a statement to its features.