Introduction, packaging
This is what no one has been expecting. It is a well-known fact that Nokia didn’t really care about touchscreen phones for a long time, all they did was to release 6708 back in mid-2006, which has been a BenQ P31 under the Finnish brand. A bit late though, but they’ve finally managed to realize that the users have a really high demand for such things, so if they won’t get one from Nokia then no matter the brand fidelity, they will buy an Apple or an HTC. Seeing their sales statistics, the great council of the elders has been assembled in Finland, the result being the touchscreen version of the Series 60 platform that was launched on Nokia 5800. This brought quite an amount of joy for fans and for those who managed to escape brand fidelity as well.
Just as usual, the Finnish guys have invested huge sums in promoting this new system, so it has been rather surprising to read on the web about a handset called 6208 Classic and the touch-controlled Series 40 platform on which it is based. Did they really do it and launch it so silently? Well, it looks like they did, as the handset we got for testing from MGSM is right here on my desk, and it’s already available in stores as well.
I would not like to tell you the punch line already, so all I would like to note that things are not always what they seem to be. This time I told you a big deal of truth, but one should have some reservations about it when having a look at the really large box of 6802 Classic, which is primarily decorated with logograms (Chinese marks). We can immediately see that this handset hasn’t been made for the European market, but of course you could never know – this wouldn’t be the first Nokia which came to the Old Continent only after a short trip in Asia. Sticking to the facts I’d say that the large piece of cardboard had only a charger, a headset, an extremely short (~10 cm long) data cable and a 1 GB microSD card inside, although there probably would have been enough room even for the guy who has assembled it somewhere on the far side of China. Environment friendliness: zero.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
