Dear Nokia: You don’t vibrate like you used to
Posted by Stefan on Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 6:17 pm under Ideas and rants
I’m sitting down at the dinner table, just eating some left overs from lunch. The room is silent and my phone, in my pocket, starts going off.
I don’t feel it going off, I can hear the motor however. That faint little hum. I have a Nokia E61.
When did Nokia get so bad at this? My old 3220 could vibrate itself several centimeters from a given location every time it went off. I used to put it on the floor at night so that in the morning, since I have hard wood, I would wake up from the sound of the vibrations.
I was never a "thin is in" kind of guy when it came to mobile phones. I like them to have a nice feel in my hand. If the next iteration of the E61 needs to get a little fatter to have a better vibrator then so be it.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Your vibrator engine is probably shot. I had to send a 6680 (? first gen gullwing) to Nokia service to fix this. Compare your phone’s vibrations to someone else’s nokia vibrations. If you want the technical details, there’s a motor connected to an off balanced load. The motor turns the off balanced load, shaking the phone. If the load breaks off, you get the motor hum with no shaking.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pm
it shakes, no doubt about it, but it isn’t as violent of a shake as i’m used to
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:28 am
Same on my E70… first thing i noticed is weak vibration…
February 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am
and i can state the same for my 6230…
my old 6510 still has a better vibe…