S60 Open to new features

The S60 Agent program is in full swing. Tthe idea behind the S60 Agent program is to amplify the S60 Word of Mouth activity already taking place, and to find out what real people are saying about S60 on the street, over the phone, at the neighborhood BBQ. We are focusing on NY in order to take advantage of the rollout of Nseries devices in that area (check out http://www.nseries.com/nyc for details on Nseries in the NY market.) Anyway I'm getting a kick out of reading the reports from some of the enthusiastic S60 fans out there. Here's a sample from Marion Ong, a great salesperson.

(The Hard/Soft Sell) - Is this a report or what?! =P fast forward to the July 4th holiday. My friend Mon invited me to his apartment in Williamsburg in Brooklyn for a rooftop fireworks-viewing gathering/party. They had an excellent unobstructed view of the East River and it was just absolutely perfect for the party. By 5pm there were about 25 people in the roofdeck and the inevitable party snapshot taking begins. Everybody whips up their digital cameras and starts snapping away. I am always eager to show off the latest and greatest technology every chance I get but waited for my attention-grabbing moment. I let the first round of photos get taken and I suddenly blurt out something to the effect of "My turn kids, I need all the ladies in this corner!" Mind you I had my white Apple headphones on which was plugged in to the 3250.. When the girls congregated to had their group shot taken I proceeded to nonchalantly pull my phone from my pocket, 'twisted' the 3250 to activate photo mode whilst the headphones still plugged in to the HS-20 adapter and went on to take snapshots. The girls were taken aback for a few seconds then went on to pose, after I took a couple of snapshots, I was surrounded by the group and went to check my phone. They were impressed and definitely curious at the twister functionality, the dedicated music buttons but I went on to show them that this is the latest Nokia smartphone. I got the "but its not a Treo, how can that be a smartphone" response but I went on to explain that the phone runs an actual operating system, has excellent PDA software, syncs w/ Outlook, etc., can have software installed (there wasn't much s60 v3 software at the time so to convince them I dragged my friend Mon to the gaggle of girls and had him show off the installed 3rd party software to his 6260 - which I actually convinced him to buy 2 years ago and also proceeded to wow them with the 6260s twister/camcorder mode;). One of my friends Jenny jokingly asked me if she can buy my phone on the spot as she didn't want to go flying to Europe to get a 'high tech phone'; I told her its not too hard to find these phones in the city, I mentioned the importers in Chinatown and Flushing, and a lightbulb flashed in my head. I loaded the new v3 OSS based web browser and went to importgsm.com to show her the prices. The only question I had after that was "thats really awesome, but does it do Friendster or yahoo?" which I gladly proceeded to load on my browser, and that pretty much sealed the deal for her. I got a call from her a few days later and she was calling me to help her install "the internet" on her new 3250 and sync her tasks. I had her sign up for the T-Mobile t-zones plan and directed her to the nokiausa.com/support site and loaded the SMS/MMS/GPRS settings, and even hooked her up with a great deal for a 1GB transflash (microSD) card, and finally linked her ISP POP3 email to her s60 email client! A month ago I had a call from Jenny who moved to and asked for a good music phone for her boyfriend and without hesitation I advised her to visit the Nokia store but definitely recommended the Nokia N91. By this time my techie advice to her was golden and had her BF get the N91 8GB within the week. A few days later got a call from Jenny again asking to install 'the internet' - turns out she loved the N91 and made her BF swap it with her 3250!