Nokia 9210

This Nokia 9210 mobile phone can be a real boon as it can give you complete independence from the office, with calls and faxes diverted to the handset, and the ability to collect emails from your personal ISP account - very handy indeed.

But... the unit is unreliable and flaky. The slightest tap and it will start to deteriorate - loss of telephone display, fatigue in the screen cable leading to 'snow' on the main screen from time to time, non-functioning keys as dust makes its way behind keys and buttons is a real problem. There also appears to be a very, very low level of product knowledge from the high street retailers as to what it does and how it works - leading to cancelled expensive contracts and lots of wasted time.

This is the second communicator I have owned. The first was replaced by this one 18 months ago, which died from similar ailments! However, I am now addicted to what it does and will not spend good money on a replacement, so I will keep it. If anyone knows if I can get full function from the phone on Pay-As-You-Go please let me know!

well, Communicator series was the first Nokia I ever used, not only 9210looks dashing and Masculline but it performs the same as well, my no,2 key got pressed but that aint a point to mention because you've got enuff keys inside,, Overall its a masterpiece

Au Reviour

Alee Sikandar

Overall The Nokia 9210 is a very good package, the software is user freindly and very easy to access, and the need to carry two devices is eliminated.

The screen display is very bright and shows well.

The lack of a touch screen function lets it down slightly.

This seems to be the only 'smartphone' with a keyboard around at present and it does an excellent job. To be able to look at internet and receive email attachments on the move is great and the keyboard enables you to write long replies. The office software like word etc is extremely useful. The fax facility is also very helpful as you can also receive faxes.

The software is on the whole stable although I have had to download programmes from the Nokia website to reinstall when I have had a problem. All in all this is a very useful machine, because it has a keyboard and I can do everything on the move - faxing, email, type docs etc.

Nevertheless, the machine needs a much bigger internal memory (at least 64mgb) and an ability to plug in compact flash cards so as to really boost its potential.

I've had about 20 phones in the past 8 years. The 9210i is by far the best phone i've ever used. I've had Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola, other Nokia's, but this is definately the phone to have.

I wait for the new generation of the 9110 or 9210 ... but for the moment I have never seen another wonderful tools from nokia.

The color in the 9210 ... not improve realy the power of the device.

You can do everything like an little old computer with internet.

So email and telenet work perfectly with a real keyboard and a real screen.

I have buy my communicator since 2000 and use it every day.

It's the phone use for system administrator or geek.

I am lucky enough to have tried them all Jornada 928 (fragile and buggy software), Ipaq 3850 with GPRS/GSM sleeve (disaster, crashed all the time), Handspring Treo (surprised me, but terrible battery), 9210 (flaky software in early versions), 9110 (good). There is only one which truly works, it does what it says on the box. The Nokia 9210i. Battery life is measured in days rather than hours. Software implemented well, and works as exepcted. (One of the gadgets above only showed the number of the person messaging you (SMS) not their name, how dumb is that!!! I have a cantact database running to 300 mobile numbers it is such a pain searching for the name of the person from the last three digits of their fone number). The units size and weight are acceptable, just. I can receive a fax in my pocket!! NONE of the others offer this functionality. And the price is reasonable in the UK off contract (no SIM). If you've looked at the others, stop and go and look at the 9210i again.

I am not an employee of Nokia either.

My Nokia 9210 mobile phone needed to be "booted" at least once a day to prevent errors and hang. I got a v.4.13 RAE-3 and sometimes, my SMS messages rerouted to "outbox" and send it many times without warning. Not until i "cold" boot it. It's very frustating to access Mails because you can't delete unwanted mails not unless you reconnect again. PC mail sync is also irritating. All in all, 9210 is buggy that's why 9210i went boosting as a nifty alternative. Nokia guys should do something in "Upgrading" the bios/HW to "9210i" ( which is impossible as they say it ) to make the 9210 users / owners happy.

Well Phone is goood but i think Nokia ppl cant handle it properly. I bought this from UAE and i live in Pakistan. And as per their rules its warranty last uptil one year but they fail to give me the warranty after 5 months. they got completely failed and at the end they give me used re-furbished phone set in which missed calls are not recorded and its word software is not opening. So now u tell me i bought this phone set with a great deal of enthusiam and now nokia people fails to give me any kind of support. SHAME on them.

Loved what the phone could do - could send emails and faxes on the train and surf the net. Handsfree phone, good with SMSes.

But could not get any backup when the software acted up. Had to find out the phone was sold to me with outdated software and that the most current version is riddled with errors as well.

Handed my 9210 back to nokia after 3 weeks.