Comments on: Nokia N79 to be first to ship without a charger

By: Impressions of the Nokia N79 NAM | Nokia Experts

Impressions of the Nokia N79 NAM | Nokia Experts — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:03:35 +0000

[...] Nokia N79 that I was sent to review is not one of those new ECO models without the charger since that program was launched after I received this evaluation unit. The Nokia N79 is available [...]

By: Patrick Rice

Patrick Rice — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:37:45 +0000

We got this oh maybe two year back now in the UK, with the Nokia 6233 "Letterbox Edition" - a thinner box version, by virtue of no charger, that meant that for Web/Direct Orders, the user was not required to physically sign for delivery - Royal Mail could just pop it through the letterbox.

After that though, the idea behind it kind of died out, and Nokias since then have largely been with Charger, no other option, barring one or two exceptions.

BUT, as the article says, Nokia have messed things up a bit here, with the change to the micro sized jack plug charger, from the slightly wider one, a couple of year back, and now the introduction of charging over USB - something all my none-nokia devices have had for at least four years.

So what Nokia maybe should really have done, is skipped the smaller jack plug charger altogether, and moved to USB based charging then instead... or at the very least, brought in USB charging when they moved devices from mini-usb for data, to micro-usb.

This would have helped avoid all of the many "multiple options" issues this now means we currently have.

By: ucfgrad93

ucfgrad93 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:47:48 +0000

I think this a good idea. It cuts down waste and clutter. All Nokia needs to do is keep the charger consistent.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:20:41 +0000

Funny Darren, that is exactly what I was thinking the first time I read the story It does make a lot of sense though when you think of the Nokia market outside of the US where lots of people have multiple Nokia devices in their homes. It also makes sense for mobile phone geeks like me that have several Nokia phones.

By: Darren Humphries

Darren Humphries — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:15:32 +0000

I couldn’t figure out what you were saying at first. I was thinking, “no charger? But…how…”. I’m a bit slow.

By: DaDude

DaDude — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:27:34 +0000

To be exact, it is the Nokia N79 “ECO” which will ship without charger, there will be a “ordinary” N79, which ships with charger, too? Or am I wrong? I am sure that this is the way it goes in Europe/Germany