Nokia 6265 Proves CDMA Can be Sexy!
It's common belief among cell phone fanatics that GSM phones are
sleeker, sexier, smaller, and more advanced than their CDMA sisters.
And that's a problem for Americans who don't get to see, let alone hold
and use, the high-tech gadgets that come out in Europe and Asia before
US carriers even start to consider them.
US Carriers Sprint and Verizon are CDMA giants that usually dictate
what we see in North America, while GSM handsets often make their way
across the ocean in the grey market, unlocked and ready to use on
AT&T, T-Mobile or Rogers Wireless in Canada. The frequencies
don't
always work the best over here, but many fans of the designs don't
care. Those fans often won't use CDMA phones because of the lack of
variety and "wow" factor.
GSM phones use SIM cards, which allow you to move your entire wireless
account from phone to phone at will, while CDMA phones only use the
sister technology RUIM cards in Asia.
But now the CDMA world has just changed. A true sexy, high-end phone
has been launched exclusively on Canada's Telus network... the Nokia
6265i.
This phone looks like a GSM phone to most cell phone users, and it has
the features to back that assumption up -- and yet it's CDMA all the
way, baby!
It's a slider form factor, something Nokia perfected long before LG and
Kyocera started dabbling in phones that slide. This slide is
spring-loaded with a ball bearing, making a smooth motion with the
tiniest flick of the thumb, similar to the recent highly priced Nokia
8801, a GSM phone, but with a slightly different mechanism that slides
over the keys inside of up and out.
When closed, the 6265 has a mirror-like screen which is a cool QVGA
resolution... higher than any other competitor phone screens, and
matched only by more expensive PDA units.
The high-res screen is matched by the unheard-of 2 Mega-pixel camera, a
first for CDMA phones in North America. And not only do the stills
capture in 2 Mega pixels, close to twice what the closest competitor
delivers at 1.3 Mega pixels, but the video capabilities are unsurpassed
as well. Imagine... unlimited video clips, rather than 15 second clips,
as long as you still have memory available. And since it takes Mini-SD
expandable memory cards, you can take that up to 2 GB.
The Bluetooth functionality on this phone is completely free to
transfer files and data phone to phone, phone to computer, and phone to
printer, unlike most Bluetooth CDMA phones which only support headset
profiles.
And for music, this goes way beyond an MP3 phone. This new Nokia
supports the cutting edge eAAC+ format, which makes files six times
smaller than an MP3 with the same sound quality. Now your 2 GB card has
just become 12 GB -- who needs an i-Pod?
So for a new, sleek, sexy look to the CDMA front, don't miss the new
Nokia 6265i -- if you can get it! It's usually on back order!
