{"id":52,"date":"2006-12-11T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T18:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.11h.net\/brian\/52"},"modified":"2006-12-11T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T18:08:49","slug":"nokia-6133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/nokia-6133\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia 6133"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nokia 6133b<\/a> (T-Mobile branded) phone is probably Nokia’s best series 40 “flip style” phone to date (Disclaimer: I hate flip phones and well likely never own one myself). It essentially has every feature of the Nokia 6230<\/a> except most features have been improved in some manner (which makes sense since this is a much newer phone).<\/p>\n

But first the story of why we got it … In the middle of the night, while my girlfriend’s Nokia 6101<\/a> was charging on the counter with her Japanese charms dangling off the edge of the counter, her cat decided the phone was a play toy. She managed to knock the phone off the counter right into their water dish. By the time we noticed, the phone was completely dead and soaking wet. So, we took the SIM card and battery out of it. Since Corrie was “conveniently” looking at the 6133 literally one day before, we went to the T-Mobile store and bought it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this phone has one feature that makes a flip-phone more tolerable to use:\u00a0 One handed opening.\u00a0 Simply press a button on the right side of the phone, and it pops open!<\/p>\n

However, it has other “features” that counter-act one of the reasons most people claim they want a flip phone:\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. “No way to press keys while in your pocket.”
    \nWell, this phone has a dedicated camera button and volume buttons on the side.\u00a0 Holding the volume button will activate voice dial.\u00a0 Now, for people who don’t use voice dial, it wouldn’t normally be a problem except this phone doesn’t need any voice training to use — it automatically recognizes all the names in your Contacts.\u00a0 Just press and hold the button, say the name, it speaks it back to you to confirm, then dials.\u00a0 To prevent this, keypad lock must still be used.<\/li>\n
  2. “The flip-style protects my screen and buttons.”
    \nUh, it still has buttons on the outside; buttons mainly get worn by usage and are generally well protected in a cloth pocket.\u00a0 Also, this phone still has a (nice) screen on the outside.\u00a0 Additionally, my screen on my non-flip phone has never been scratched in my pocket — only when I dropped it on cement.\u00a0 Plus I can easily replace the screen (well, the plastic the covers the screen which was the only scratched part) by buying a new face plate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The only other pet-peeve of mine about this phone (which is not Nokia’s fault) is that T-Mobile branded versions have disabled setting mp3 and aac files as ringtones.\u00a0 This is a feature that has been available on their lower end Nokia phones for a long time (like the 6101) that they decided to disable for this phone.\u00a0 That made my girlfriend mad since all the ringtones I created for her will no longer work, and ringtones included with downloadable themes<\/a> will not activate.\u00a0 The phone reports the error “Activation Key Required”.\u00a0 I take this to mean, “You h7ck0rz!\u00a0 You didn’t buy this from T-Zones!\u00a0 Bad!”.<\/p>\n

    This is an example of poorly implemented DRM — I can understand not letting you transfer (COPY) ringtones you purchased to other phones (w\/o removing the source)… but an mp3 file clearly marked as “Copyright: None” in the phone’s own file info display?\u00a0 An mp3 file that I created on my own and own the copyright to?\u00a0 I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

    Luckily:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. iUnlock.com<\/a>, who I highly recommend<\/a><\/strong> to anybody who wants their phone flashed or unlocked, supports debranding and upgrading the firmware ont his phone to remove the T-Mobile customizations and re-enable these features.<\/li>\n
    2. .WAV files can be set as ringtones still…. so until we get prepared to be w\/o her phone for a few days, she can at least have uncompressed files as her ringtones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The cost of buying the phone from T-Mobile (with a contract renewal)\u00a0plus the price of iUnlock.com’s services are still less than buying the “non-branded” version of the phone directly<\/a>, so at least its acceptable.<\/p>\n

      So, in summary, I’d recommend this phone (unbranded) to anybody who wants a Series-40 flip phone with adequate media playing capabilities.\u00a0 Its nice and thin, smaller than the RAZR (excluding thickness), much more intuitive to use than the RAZR, and actually makes you look sexy (if you’re female) (the RAZR just makes you look like a marketing department’s wet dream).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Nokia 6133b (T-Mobile branded) phone is probably Nokia’s best series 40 “flip style” phone to date (Disclaimer: I hate flip phones and well likely never own one myself). It essentially has every feature of the Nokia 6230 except most features have been improved in some manner (which makes sense since this is a much newer phone).<\/p>\n

      But first the story of why we got it … In the middle of the night, while my girlfriend’s Nokia 6101 was charging on the counter with her Japanese charms dangling off the edge of the counter, her cat decided the phone was a play toy. She managed to knock the phone off …<\/p>\n

      [Continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}