Rewinding to My 2004 Phone

IN JANUARY 2004, I started using the Motorola V525. I liked that phone and I really like comparing it to the phone I use today, the Nokia E90 (at right).

• It weighed 114g. The E90 weighs 210g.
• It had a clamshell screen to protect its keys. The E90 has a screen that pivots over its keyboard.
• The V525 showed 176x220 pixels in 65,000 colours. The E90 displays 800x352 in 16 million true colours.
• I used 5MB of on-board storage with the V525 and I regularly overfill more than 2GB of storage on the E90.
• Bluetooth on the V525 connected to both my Sony Clié PEG UX-50 and to my Motorola headset. Bluetooth on the E90 powers SonyEricsson earbuds and the BMW Bluetooth kit in our car.
• POP e-mail worked well on the V525. I can set up multiple e-mail accounts on the E90. Nokia Mail pushes new content to the phone. I never have to check mail. It just comes to my phone.
• I could set up MP3 ring tones on the V525, just like the E90. And the E90 plays MP3 files, along with AAC from iTunes, 3GP, AMR, WAV, and MP4 files.

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Preivously -- "Best Cameraphone Upgrade" on Irish Typepad, 23 January 2004.

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