Gordon Ramsay uses crap handset too
I was trying to relax a bit last night. It’s been a very busy time recently, so I sat down and flicked on Gordon Ramsay’s F-Word and watched as he knocked up some pretty good looking food.
It always seems so simple when he’s doing it, yet when I get into the kitchen, it doesn’t quite work the same way.
Anyway, in one scene during the programme, he’s talking on the phone. I paused it. I had to pause it. I ran to get my N95 and took this photo.
Shocking.
The guy drives a Ferrari. Right? A Ferrari. And here he is, on national television, using a Nokia handset that you get free in Christmas crackers.
It winds me up, it really does.
Then again, maybe he just wants a dead-boring handset as he’s too busy to arse around with a decent one.
Still. Annoying. Couldn’t the producer have given him a better handset, just to placate any mobile geeks watching?
Oh it winds me up, it really does… 
Oh, don’t be so hard on him. It’s obviously a 6230. I got one about two years ago as my U.S. phone, and it’s actually a great usability phone, and stands up to most abuse nicely. It’s not perfect, but it looks as good and works as well as most phones on the market. The real question is, how does he work those little metal keys with those big fingers?!
Hey, don’t pick on me. I just got my new E65, which is absolutely stunning. But the camera isn’t any better, and the dialling functions are worse. As a full smartphone, the E65 wins, of course (S60), but as a *phone*… I’m not sure it’s better than the 6230 (S40, and, I believe, is also quad-band)…
The 6230 was the best of its generation.
Posted by Sarah Lipman on June 21st, 2007 at 9:48 am.