{"id":817,"date":"2014-07-30T23:22:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2014-07-30T23:22:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T03:22:22","slug":"nokia_6230i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2014\/07\/30\/nokia_6230i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nokia 6230!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 87px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nokia_6230i#Nokia_6230i\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f8\/Nokia_6230i_20070930.jpg\/220px-Nokia_6230i_20070930.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia 6230i\" width=\"87\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nokia 6230i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do you remember when a phone like the <a title=\"Nokia Press Release from 2003 about the Nokia 6230!\" href=\"http:\/\/company.nokia.com\/en\/news\/press-releases\/2003\/10\/28\/nokia-6230-classic-design-and-advanced-functionality-for-mobile-professionals\" target=\"_blank\">Nokia 6230<\/a> was the phone to have? I remember trying to get one of these for use in the US after seeing a friend&#8217;s phone in Ireland. At the time you could only get this model on the Cingular network and the things cost hundred. This phone was a classic for it&#8217;s time and it was durable and just worked and it&#8217;s form-factor is a classic from the period.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Nokia 6230i at GSMArena\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/nokia_6230i-1087.php\" target=\"_blank\">GSMarena<\/a> has specs on the phone, and <a title=\"Wikipedia Page about the Nokia 6230\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nokia_6230i#Nokia_6230i\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> has a badly written page about. Those things sold for hundreds of pounds\/euros\/dollars when they were new in 2005, now you can get one on <a title=\"Ebay Search for Nokia 6230\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=Nokia+6230i&amp;_sacat=0\" target=\"_blank\">Ebay for less than 20 quid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And these days you can an Android phone on <a title=\"Kyocera Event Prepaid Android Phone for Virgin Mobile\" href=\"&lt;a%20href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00B9K6ESC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00B9K6ESC&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=unmickable-20&amp;linkId=PHZOWUMORHJ7LM4H&quot;&gt;Kyocera Event Prepaid Android Phone (Virgin Mobile)&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=unmickable-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00B9K6ESC&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; \/&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> for as low as $30 that&#8217;s more powerful that a 2005 era laptop. And you know, I still want this phone, the only problem is I can&#8217;t read the screen as it&#8217;s too small!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember when a phone like the Nokia 6230 was the phone to have? I remember trying to get one of these for use in the US after seeing a friend&#8217;s phone in Ireland. At the time you could only get this model on the Cingular network and the things cost hundred. This phone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2014\/07\/30\/nokia_6230i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nokia 6230!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}