Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 307

And you thought $599 was bad for the Treo

Check out this glorified cellphone from a Nokia spinoff company...

Here...

Yikes! Hmmm the new car... or a new phone...

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 229

lol, this is just ridiculous!

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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Lexington, Ma
Posts: 138

thats hot stuff...i wonder what they would do if i (being 14 years of age) saved up to buy one?

they would think i stole it, that would be hilarious...maybe i should try it? hah

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 229

Lol start saving now...you'll be able to get one in 10 years ...we can cut the tim in half if we split it...

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Metro Station, Hollywood and Highland
Posts: 1018

Hmmm. I was ready to whip out my credit card until I got the end of the article. Too bad it's GSM!

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Eye of Gameboy

Registered: May 2001
Location: Madison, WI
Posts: 101

Hmmm.
I'm sure it'll be big among hot-shot rappers and "ballers."

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P.S. I feel at home with geeks like you.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: New York, New York
Posts: 560

Nokia has to find a way to pay those fines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/i...ope/06NOKI.html


free subscription.

Anyhow: "Nokia executive, Anssa Vanjoki, was fined a staggering $100,000 for a relatively minor speeding offense on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle."

ouch.

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Felipe Garcia
Happy Treo 600 user, so far. Thanx Cingular for having an unlocked phone.

My Treo 600 is my phone, my PDA, my watch, and my MP3 player. Oh yeah, I take a picture once in a while with it. Convergence is such a great thing.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 1571

What is this world coming to?

There are people in this world who are ready to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a cell phone when thousands of people around the world are dying from hunger and curable diseases...This is rotten.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Metro Station, Hollywood and Highland
Posts: 1018

yardie wrote:
There are people in this world who are ready to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a cell phone when thousands of people around the world are dying from hunger and curable diseases...This is rotten.

True, and the first place to look is in the mirror. I just spent $400 on a PDA/cell phone, which is over half of the yearly income of half the people in the world. Something to think about the next time you buy a handheld.

We're all part of the same hypocrisy.

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Registered: Feb 2000
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Posts: 1571

Miss the point

Gameboy70..

I think you missed my point. There is no need for anyone to spend tens of thousands of dollars when they can spend a few hundred on a phone that does exactly the same thing. This is pure extravagance. I am sure that your Kyocera and my $400 Prism is a useful tool that keep up organized etc... I would not call it an extravagance.

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Posts: 123

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Originally posted by Felipe
Nokia has to find a way to pay those fines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/i...ope/06NOKI.html


free subscription.

Anyhow: "Nokia executive, Anssa Vanjoki, was fined a staggering $100,000 for a relatively minor speeding offense on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle."

ouch.

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Just to clarify, in some Nordic countries the fines are relative to ther person's wealthy... So, it's not a big deal. Anssa is proablby millionaire buy now

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Metro Station, Hollywood and Highland
Posts: 1018

yardie wrote:
I think you missed my point. There is no need for anyone to spend tens of thousands of dollars when they can spend a few hundred on a phone that does exactly the same thing. This is pure extravagance. I am sure that your Kyocera and my $400 Prism is a useful tool that keep up organized etc... I would not call it an extravagance.

But someone else would. Hasn't everyone on VC, at some point, been asked by someone why anyone needs a $400 organizer? It's a purchase that I have the luxury of being able to make, and I don't take that luxury for granted. More importantly, it takes less effort to point to someone else's extravagances than to locate our own, however relative. But your point stands: $40,000 is more wasteful than $400.

At any rate, I'd be willing to bet that anyone obsenely rich enough to afford the Nokia probably committed greater sins in acquiring his fortune in the first place than he would in wasting some of that fortune on the phone.

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[...] But your point stands: $40,000 is more wasteful than $400.

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The Point

Toby.

My whole point is that it is obscene to spend "walking aorund" money on a phone ($22,000+) when they can get a phone that does the same thing for 1% of that. The funny thind is that a lot of these oil sheiks have people in their own kingdoms that have never even seen a cell phone much less to be able to afford one that cost $22.

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Originally posted by Toby
*shrug* I'd wager that many probably inherited it. I'm not sure if I'd consider that a sin.

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Re: The Point

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Originally posted by yardie
My whole point is that it is obscene to spend "walking aorund" money on a phone ($22,000+) when they can get a phone that does the same thing for 1% of that. [...]

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