My Granny Diggs The E71
Now that is one weird post title, you might say, and probably rather irrelevant to anything Symbian as we _tech lovers, Symbian addicts, Nokia fans, advanced users_ conceive it. But to distract you a bit from the recent N79 and N85 launch, and to take your mind off wondering why the hell the N85 costs less than the N96, here is a nice relaxing story for you.
Last Thursday, I got a call to go pick up my E71, you know the one I won at the E66/E71 launch here in Lebanon around 2 months ago. I immediately stormed out, grabbed it and came back to my grandmother’s house where I was staying. When I arrived, my grandmother asked me to see it. She knew I had won “a phone” and she knows I “work on the internet with Nokia stuff”.
The second she held it and laid her eyes on it, there was a sparkle, and she looked at me and said: “this is the most beautiful one”. I was dazzled. The E71 doesn’t look anything like a traditional phone, and more so in Lebanon since Blackberrys and Palms aren’t even sold here. I asked her to repeat that, and she explained that amongst all the handsets she had seen me with, the E71 is the most beautiful one. Now this is HUGE, because my grandmother has seen me with a lot of handsets: 3250, N95 8GB, N81 8GB, N810, N93i, E61i, N95, E90, E66, N82 black. And the fact that she thought the E71 was the most beautiful one, despite its weird form factor, is astonishing.
I asked her then what made her think that, she replied that it’s very thin, the design is awesome and it feels very good in the hand. She was talking about the materials used to build this baby. She doesn’t know how to use it, as she never cared about mobile phones, but she thought the screen was nice. She also said that “it’s different from the others” and that “it looks expensive”. She then asked me about the price, I told her it was around the 500$, she smiled and replied “it looks like it”.
Ever since Thursday, whenever I’m at her house and someone comes visiting, she tells me to “show them THE phone” and asks me about its price in front of them, for a little bragging, y’know. I love it! For once, I’m not the one doing my Nokia/Symbian local marketing, it’s my granny who’s taking care of it!
I agree with your granny.
Your granny looks really kind Rita ! You must be really happy to have a grandma like her ! Please give her my regards. But I really doubt what will she say if she sees an E61i. But this is just another good example for the fact that mass market doesn’t care for power tidbits (like lack of Xenon, like we do). Will link to this soon !
That was really cool >_<
This really brought me a smile on my face.
The elders have many wisdom and wise words to tell,
and have the “traditions” in them.
“You pay for what you get” is such a statement.
(However this is not the case with most products today)
It really makes me happy to see elder people having fun.
Some I’ve met are even like kids, with better understanding in life of course.
And you know what?
They really deserve to have fun, after all they’ve gone through in life.
Great little story Rita, and a lovely grandmother you have also.
Rita, I’m sure that your granny would flip if you bought home E-71 in white color.
I know how I convinced my sister(basically nokia ‘n’ series user to buy E-71.
The White color looks soooo gorgeous that I’m thinking of trading my Nokia E-90 for E-71
You have a beautiful grandma. Maybe it’s not too surprising that your grandma found your E71 expensive looking:
Remember the days when the more buttons you had, the more technology advanced was your device, be it remote controls, calculators, watches, car dashboards or micro waves oven!
Then everything changed with the advent of the touch screen. Damn you iPhone!
Btw, I’m sure it would only get a ‘Meh’ from your grandma, wisdom of the elders…
Nice article… Your grandmom is a sweet lady. Please give a few hugs from SymbianGuru readers.
Lol.. very nice.
Btw, on your “why the hell the N85 costs less than the N96″
Isnt’t it obvious? Market segment targeted (perhaps most important reason). 16GB of internal memory (its not free). The digi TV tuner (its not free either). And, possibly, but not likely, a bit more expensive screen (not sure how the new OLED screen price compares to the bigger LCD on N96).
Dear Rita,
digressing from the topic… your grandma has a beautiful smile!
Slightly off-topic but…
tell your granny she’s right about the E71 but it’s actually her who’s “the beautiful one”
‘Enti jamila, owi owi’
Love that smile !
is e71 good?
my friend have it, when i see it, i really want it, ur story just make me more curious to have it. hopefully soon.
give hug to ur grandma.
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