Nokia 8910i

Instant awareness of holding something extraordinary is felt when you hold the mobile and the feeling is enhanced when you press the 2 side keys and the phone slowly rises to reveal the beautiful keypad. Perhaps the most luxurious nokia to date better material and design than 8800 series. Only improvement required is to change the plastic part on the back cover.

This Nokia 8910i is a stunning mobile phone handset, looks great and works just as well - call quality, GPRS, BlueTooth, MMS, etc., all are excellent. The choice is simple - if you're a serious business user, to whom frankly daft polyphonic ring tones are an abhorrence, with limited need for a camera and who takes pride in high quality kit, then this is by far and away the best/only choice. The fact that it does not have these 'faddy' features just underscores the fact that this is a professional quality, serious piece of hardware...it's simply too classy to need gimmicks. I can't believe the moaners banging on about the cost - that's simply the price if high quality materials and exclusivity. If you need to worry about the price, then you can't afford it...

The Nokia 8910i remains the King of the Mobile Phone Media, it's what everyone wants.

You can have your 1 megapixel camera phones, mp3 phones, radio phones (bla bla bla), but when it comes down to sheer class, this stunner leaves everyone behind.

I've had loads of phones before (camera phones), and although they're good, you just cannot compare it with this beauty.

The features are the same as the Nokia 402, no i'm exaggeratin, erm, 7210 shall we say apart from the radio, but the looks oh my.

When your walking and using this phone, heads turn your way

If you want to be the odd one out, I'd really reccomend you buy this. It'll put you back at least £230, but it's worth it, cuz no-ones got it.

Top phone, shouldn't have bothered with this review because 'Quality speaks for itself'

This Nokia 8910i mobile phone caught my eye some time ago,its small,

black (yes black not silver)and when you press those two side buttons and the keypad is revealed i couldn't help but smile.

I've had the phone now for two weeks and have no gripes with performance at all.Battery life is good.Reception also is good where others have been poor.The menu operation is the usual Nokia affair (if it aint broke....). The bluetooth function works well even with my sony headset. If there was something to add to the 8910i then maybe it would be poly ringtones,then again maybe not.

Overall i cant recommend this phone enough.

As for the price although its high, at least that means it'll be a bit more exclusive than the rest.

I didn't have this Nokia 8910i mobile phone for a long time, i used to have a 7250i but too many people got it and the look of it is not as good as the 8910i. when i took the 8910i out everyone on the street would look at me, and this is what i wanted. I am a person who likes things diffrernt from everyone. Instead of using cheap plastic this phone is made out of titanium which brings out its high status. If u are the person who likes to be different from everyone else and liked classy phones this is the best choice for you.

If your a flash git like me then this Nokia 8910i is the mobile phone for you! The sheer satisfaction that you get out of clicking those two side buttons and watching the phone slide out of its shell is bliss! Okay...on a more serious note this is one eye catching phone. The features are DECENT but thats it. You get your basic nokia functions (good phone book/messaging services etc). Extra applications and features are lacking though, especially for a phone this expensive (£500ish). It comes with WAP, Bluetooth (a huge plus), a few extras (calc. stopwatch etc), and limited organizer facilites. Each function is not exceedingly brilliant and to be honest synicing it with a computer is v.hard (the bluethooth is not brilliant---get a sonyericsson if u need it badly) but if u need a relaible phone with an adequate measure of basic functions then this is for you.

Negatives: Small screen (complemetns phone but limits text viewing), SMS storage memomory (can only store 50 total!). Also, am a bit worried about the SPring mechanism, as flashy as it may be one of the buttons (there are 2 u have to simultaneously press) is becoming looser and mor 'ratty' by the day. SO much so that when you shake the phone you can hear minor rattle. I dont know if this is just my model but needless to say its ANNOYING!.

MMS messaging is LIMITED. You cannot send voice/sound files, only image.

Positives: Simple/Easy to use mobile.

Reception is brill. Is a definate chick magnet. Very good Nokia reliability. Colour screen.

I got a Samsung E710, and it was rubbish, so when i spoke to Vodafone about a replacement the only phone i was intrested in was a Nokia 8910i.

And when i got this phone i was so happy, feature wise it didnt compare to my 7250i(expept for bluetooth). But as soon as you feel the cold metal of the phone in your hand and press the two silver buttons on the side of the phone you get a smile over your face as the mobile rises out of its case! Its when you see this happen that you relise that this is why you buy the phone, which is for style and not Features. But the call quality on the phone and the reception are exellent, and i will reiterate that it feels so good. The only thing i would say is that i would be careful where you keep the phone, just two days after recieving it i went into london, and to avoid pick pockets put the phone in an inside jacket pocket along with a set of keys. This was a bad idea as both the screen and body work got scratched, the next day i rushed out and invested £20 in a case!

So in summary dont buy this phone for features (although it has everything i need)But buy it for exellent feel, looks and sound quality, and of course the Two buttons at the side that make the mobile rise up as if from no where!

I know I will probably get monstered by the Nokia people for this(blue writing at the bottom..just watch them go!!) but the Nokia 8910i phone has nothing to justify the high price apart from looks and feel! I am aware that,for example a 7250i retails for £300 but can be bought for free with a contract and this is a £500 phone going for £280 and upwards but why?...with a P900(similar price but completely different thing I know) you can see where the work has gone with the features and menus but with the 8910i it's internal parts are old school,old news.Nokia really does need to address this as apart from the cool exterior I found this phone a little disappointing!...And PLEASE could I ask no keyboard warroirs to leave comments such as "This guy sounds as though he hasn't even held the phone" as that is a bit of a cliche now..I got this phone for a VERY good deal from Vodafone as I am a heavy user but if I had paid the going rate I would not have been a happy chappy! I wasn't after a rubbishy camera or polyphonic ring tones but a little more than this phone offers would have been more acceptable.Unless you can afford or desire status symbols this phone is simply not worth the outlay...Finally altough the reception is very clear I can only give it 8/10 until I find out how to raise the volume and no this isn't my first phone,I had my first in 1988(shopping trolley to carry the battery that lasted about 3 hours!!) and even then if I remember rightly a volume button was in a very obvious place not hidden away in the bowels of the menu system!!

Having owned the original 8910, I was then seduced by the ads into buying a camera phone with polyphonic ringtones. Loads of features, but I didn't really use them and the phone (although a leader in its class) felt plasticky and cheap. And it didn't have bluetooth.

So I bought a Nokia 8910i.

This phone is unsurpasses in terms of looks and sheer style and class. It is *so* elegant and really makes heads turn when I use it. The phone has all the feautures I need but none of the gimmicks. The Bluetooth works faultlessly with my iPaq HP5550 so I can check email or surf the net wherever I am.

The great size means its easy and unobtrusive to carry. The menu system is perfectly user-friendly and I can change all the settings I want.

And the included PC Suite means I can update settings, enter data, back-up numbers and messages - all from the PC. I can also create and upload my own ringtones and logos and graphics, which saves a small fortune.

I have no hesitation at all in recommending this phone; no other phone comes close to the 8910i.

This Nokia 8910i mobile phone is in a league of its own beautiful craftsmanship, elegent and functional, i've had the phone for about 3 months now and have paid about $1100.00 Australian for it and dont regret one penny of it..

if you can afford the money and want a phone of unsurpassed quality then you cannot go past the 8910i.

I had a 6610 prior to this and while a good phone, they've gone overboard with features on the new phones realisticly people NEVER use all these features, Nokia have made a smart move and designed a new phone but taken a step back and provided a phone that is primarrily that a phone, its not a pda, its not a computer, its a phone, for those who can afford this phone treat it as such a phone, dont buy it expecting it to be something else, its core function is to be a phone..

as for all the complaints about no polyphonic ring tones, my personal opinion on polyphonic ring tones is that they sound like a carnival or circus they are tacky and would not be a compliment to a phone like this, im only 21 but i like classic principles a phone that rings like a phone, a phone that has features like a phone

for those who make the purchase knowing this you'll never look back...