Nokia Twist given a proper photo shoot, priced $100 for Verizon
By Ross Miller 
posted Sep 10th 2009 11:52AM
posted Sep 10th 2009 11:52AM
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Available now unlike the Pixi - Palm lost in the dust again.
Tweens Rewl!
And this one makes a satisfying ker-PLACK when you're done texting.
I know a lot of people that like using simple dumbphones/feature phones. They won't make the switch to smartphones.
People on here need to realize the dumbphone/featurephone market is still the largest for all carriers.
And people on here need to accept that smartphones aren't for everyone.
My father makes calls and texts, nothing more. His limited internet use is restricted to when he's home. Why should he have a powerful phone and data plan, for no reason.
just think... for twice the cost of this thing, I could be using a beautiful HTC Touch Pro2....
just sayin...
It's not the price of the phone, it's the price of the monthly data plan you'll be eating with the Pro2
And a hefty data contract to boot.
I do not care HOW much I make a month. up to 100 dollars a month is NOT worth it for me. I do not use my phone beyond ordering pizza, seeing whats up with friends, and taking pictures of pretty girls who are going up escalators...I ahh mean taking pictures of trees. YAAA...trees.
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Is M Night Shyamalan working at Nokia now? He loves tweests!
How come Verizon f**ks up every phone's interface =\...
Lamesauce.
Too bad this phone still looks like shit.
*snicker*
You guys at engadget keep calling the Nokla E81 a fake when the fact of the matter here is neither of them are fake since they are 100% the same phone from the same OEM in China. Neither is a fake version of the other because they are the SAME PHONE.
THIS phone, the Nokia 7705 TWIST for Verizon, is a KIRF Nokia as thay had absolutely NOTHING to do with it other then ordering a bunch of 'em from china and letting Verizon slap their User interface on there.
NOT series 40 or 60
NOT comparable with ANY Nokia chargers or batteries
NOT Nokia designed or manufactured (when was the last time you saw a phone designed by Nokia with SEND and END written on the buttons?)
Just another FAKE Nokia for verizon. Only Nokia KIRFs themselves when they can't be bothered with the compromises Verizon demands to be on their network.
Isn't this thing made by Pantech?
And on a side note Nokia does have a phone with SEND and END: the Nokia 6120 TDMA. But that was decades ago.
@ ToniCipriani
That's why I said, "when was the last time..." Not 'NEVER HAS NOKIA..."
Nokia used SEND and END labels on DOZENS of phones from the 80's up to the mid 90's, but since about 1997 they have not used those labels, only dashes or icons.
This phone appears to have its origins in China rather then Korea. Nokia has used Pantech as an OEM for Verizon bound models in the past, but this one appears to be sourced from some OEM in China, thus how a Chinese local market version of it appeared on the market before the Nokia branded version. If it was Korea sourced it would be available in some form from Pantech in Korea as all previous Nokias sourced from Pantech were.
I love how garbage is deployed in the garbage consuming country by it's garbage provider...
Smartphone/Dumbphone I don't really care: I don't really care much for this phone. Besides, the Nokias on Verizon don't have a good rep (and I'm a huge Nokia fan, in my own mind).
At Verizon gets a Nokia phone(even if its just in name), because I don't think Sprint has or ever had a Nokia phone?
The swivel is an interesting concept, but I'd prefer a hinged design that protects the screen.
i'll say what i said when the surge came out on ATT-give it full S60 and wifi, and its mine
No wonder Nokia has a bad rep in US if this is the only thing carriers want from them. This and the other slider slab of crap. No chace of them selling this in Europe and rightly so.
The design has such potential too.
Pity.
Huge potential with girls and teens)))
I prefer monoblock design with proper keyboard, like BBs, E71. But I think Nokia should really be given some credit here. Coming out with something that nobody has done before, taking risks. Something's wrong with all those Pantech comments. Nokia never outsources design of their phones, only manufacturing. And I beleive all of their CDMA phones manufactured by ODMs (Foxconn, Compal???). How come you guys don't complain that iPhones and iPods are made by ODMs? And I am about to puke to see yet another monoblock like X6 released. All the phones so look a like these days and then you hear a bunch of crap when somebody is trying to break the mold.
ugliest. phone. ever.
That form factor and icon set reminds me of something:
http://bit.ly/4miV4x