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Dear Nokia: You don’t vibrate like you used to

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 6:17 PM

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.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • geek

    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.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    it shakes, no doubt about it, but it isn’t as violent of a shake as i’m used to

  • pavle

    Same on my E70… first thing i noticed is weak vibration…

  • Ali

    and i can state the same for my 6230…

    my old 6510 still has a better vibe…