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BTW, are you fucking kidding me? According to your source, Apple has 0.11% world-wide, but doesn't reach that share in any continent - how exactly does that add up?

That's global smartphone market share. Show a graph with global market share of ALL wireless handsets, not just smartphones.

http://forum2.mobile-review.com/showthread.php?t=85840 Apple had 2.5% world-wide marketshare amongst mobile phone handsets in Q3 2009. When the iPhone was released in 2007, Jobs announced they were going for 1% of the market - and people here laughed their asses off.

No dice. It's a resistive screen. http://mobile-review.com/review/nokia-rx51-n900-en.shtml

Notice the Maemo 5 (Fremantle) Transfer & sync button on the bottom left:

me syncy

Mobile Review got hold of one and has an article with specs and photos:

article

This is the same article linked to in TFS(ummary)

in this image http://www.mobile-review.com/review/image/nokia/rx51-n900/pic24.jpg you can see a SIM card in its slot. So I would say it can actually be used as a phone. Plus you can spot a speaker hole next to the screen (on the left)

Mobile Review got hold of one and has an article with specs and photos:

article

I don't even bother to read Pogue's reviews since the hard drive recovery service review he did and was discovered it was paid for.

Pogue's review is wrong on so many counts it isn't even funny. From methodology, description and so on. People interested in communication technology should read websites that specialize in this kind of things like gsmarena.com, mobile-review.com and see how a review should be done. For example he compares it with the Iphone on a regular basis, though they are not in the same category, or still not because Apple won't release a SDK untill february.

A real review of a phone should be made like this (for you iphone lovers), or a Nokia N81 review, and i will shut up now and not comment on Pogue again in my life. :)

I don't even bother to read Pogue's reviews since the hard drive recovery service review he did and was discovered it was paid for.

Pogue's review is wrong on so many counts it isn't even funny. From methodology, description and so on. People interested in communication technology should read websites that specialize in this kind of things like gsmarena.com, mobile-review.com and see how a review should be done. For example he compares it with the Iphone on a regular basis, though they are not in the same category, or still not because Apple won't release a SDK untill february.

A real review of a phone should be made like this (for you iphone lovers), or a Nokia N81 review, and i will shut up now and not comment on Pogue again in my life. :)

The iPhone occupies a mobile market that is far separate from what Google will be targeting with its series of lower-end, consumer-level devices.

If they include a built-in flashlight, count me in!

Argh, I just can't understand how some people can be so interested about anything concerning iPhone: I'm looking at you Slashdot editors, bloggers, telecom journalist etc.. The iPhone basically is just like the Ericsson R380s, but with newer components. Just look at the thing, it's very much like iPhone. Actually it follows same concept as the iPhone: it's completely locked down, so no addable software, and it was designated to mainly function with the network. According to a Swed who I had a pleasure to meet in a trip in Sweden, said Ericsson at the time of the phones introduction, in 2000, said that it wasn't a phone but an terminal.

If there are any engineers from Sony-Ericsson reading my comment, please for the love of god and everything that is good, bring back the R380s with modern technology. The P-series that Sony-Ericsson introduced afterwards is just rubbish when compared to R380. The R380s had the right form factor, it just felt right. Actually when reminiscing my memories of it, I actually took it from drawer, the phone functions still, except it's OS is unfortunately corrupted with out possibility to have a master reset via phone. :-( Does somebody have an advice on how to get it reset otherwise?

PS. Actually there is one big advance that the R380 had: as a Finn having the R380 and not a Nokia phone, you got instantly more friendlier reception, "oh you have an Ericsson, your mine friend!" ;-)

Do people really need to be that connected? Probably not.

And do those same people really need to be contactable 24 hours a day? If not, then they do not even need a mobile phone in the first place.

Seriously, this is the same argument that people use against mobile/cell phones before they actually own one. But once they get used to having one (and to leaving it turned on all the time - yes Mum, I'm talking to you) then most people get dependant on the technology. I find now that I feel terribly isolated if I ever go out without my phone - especially if I am meeting friends somewhere and have no way of letting them know if I am running late.

I started using the internet on mobile phones years ago when I was into auction sites. I find that it puts you into a different mindset to be permanently connected to the net. It seems natural to always have access to the phonebook, or street map, or to look up a movie review while browsing in the DVD shop, or read the newspaper on the train, or grab the train timetable, or fill in a spare 5 minutes by checking out slashdot. Yes, it is all stuff that you can live without; at least, until you get used to having it.

There are ways around the screen resolution issues. I have a Nokia 9300 with a screen resolution of 640x200 which, when combined with Opera's Fit to Screen mode, does a really impressive job. However, if I find a site that still doesn't fit well - or is too slow to download - then I use Skweezer to reduce the amount of clutter in the HTML source code. Have a look at the original article when skweezed. Not quite as good as the print page version as linked by _PimpDaddy7_ below, but still a great improvement. There are some sites that I skweeze when browsing them on the desktop just to clean up the crap. I imagine even MySpace pages might look almost viewable using this site.

But you really should not get too hung up on the screen size issue. They are not intended to be desktop replacements. But if you need to make a last minute bid on eBay, then you can live with the slight inconvenience of having to scroll a bit more. It is more about connecting the internet with your life away from the computer, rather than reproducing the experience of sitting at your desk.

This is simply a CDMA version of an old Samsung F300 Ultra Music GSM phone. While form factor is new, music component in F300 is kinda bleh (and it was not positioned as iPhone competitor). I doubt this has changed in CDMA version.
But any new CDMA phone is good, given how few interesting phones are available.

In other parts of the world, this phone is known as the Samsung F300. Review, photos, and video of the GSM version is here.

I'm guessing the Sprint version is going to have a hacked up user interface. And of course, it will have a restrictive method of loading music into the phone.

Would you pay an extra $50 ($650), swallow your Mac pride, and by WM like the HTC Athena?

I still prefer good old sideways texting.

Feels much more natural and less typing due to the qwerty keyboard. I don't get why this style seems to have vanished in current generations.

Also, they want it positioned as a "premium" product, and they know idiots will pay full price regardless.

Nah, it only makes it into the semi-premium category. Now this is a premium phone: Vertu.

It sounds and looks awfully familiar. And that was 15 years ago. And more or less blown out of the water by the Newton and Windows 3.1 Pen Computing API. It's too big.
What I would pay for right now is a Blue Angel Pocket PC with an iPod mini/nano small hard or flash drive in. Running MacOS or Linux Tablet Edition. I'd never go in the office again.

ZX Spectrum: 256x192 (8 color bits per 8x8 square)

Commodore 64: 320x200 in HiRes mode

Apple II: 280x160 (according to http://oldcomputers.net/byteappleII.html)

Modern phone SonyEricssofn K608: 176x220 (256k colors) (http://www.mobile-review.com/phonemodels/sonyeric sson/sonyericsson-k608-en.shtml)

Modern phone Nokia 3230: 176x208 (64k colors) (http://www.mobile-review.com/phonemodels/nokia/no kia-3230-en.shtml)

Screen resolutions are approximately the same. Sure, there are more colors now.

ZX Spectrum: 256x192 (8 color bits per 8x8 square)

Commodore 64: 320x200 in HiRes mode

Apple II: 280x160 (according to http://oldcomputers.net/byteappleII.html)

Modern phone SonyEricssofn K608: 176x220 (256k colors) (http://www.mobile-review.com/phonemodels/sonyeric sson/sonyericsson-k608-en.shtml)

Modern phone Nokia 3230: 176x208 (64k colors) (http://www.mobile-review.com/phonemodels/nokia/no kia-3230-en.shtml)

Screen resolutions are approximately the same. Sure, there are more colors now.

Kind of bad review in my opinion. It completely lacks macromode (where N90 clearly beats K750) analysis and only have one users opinions.

Check mobile-review's review of there two phones: N90 & K750

Mobile-review.com got two much better reviews. Honestly, who reviews a phone with a 2MP camera and DESCRIBES the pictures in text?

Mobile-review.com got two much better reviews. Honestly, who reviews a phone with a 2MP camera and DESCRIBES the pictures in text?

There's also a good review of this phone here: http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-n90-en.s html

They both look very much like the Motorola ROKR. They can play MP3's and have the same 512MB storage capacity. However they also have 2 megapixel cameras built in.

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/sonyericsson-w 800-en.shtml

I have one of these via a relative in Germany. You can get any phone free with a 2 year plan. But the cool thing is that the minimum charge per month is only $5 dollars.

Nokia 7280 with a wheel and no number buttons.

Spark Fun Portable Rotary Phone with a rotary dial.

Enjoy!

I pay $20 for unlimited internet on my cingular http://www.mobile-review.com/articles/2004/se-s710 -pict-en.shtml Sony s710 and use http://slashdot.org/palm to read slashdot. If i did not have an unlimited plan, i would never use it.

• Some nasty Samsung phone back in the mid-90s
• A Nokia 5190 (for which I had a faceplate that matched my indigo iBook G3, the toilet seat edition)
• A Nokia 8290, still one of my favorite phones ever
• A Nokia 3390, which I never really liked (too big)
• Another 8290...
• An Ericsson T28 Worldphone (hands-down worst UI I've ever seen on a phone, but at least I could make calls from Italy on it)
• A 1st gen Danger Sidekick (actually, I had four of them... They kept dying on me)
• A Motorola Mpx200 running Smartphone 2002
• An Audiovox SMT 5600 (aka Typhoon) running Windows Mobile 2003

That said, I am pretty envious of the visual styling on the Moto Razr; those things are incredibly cool. But being able to sync to an Exchange server, and write C#-based managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 for my phone are totally killer features in my book.

I'm really looking forward to the day when I can just keep my music on my phone, or stream it over the network via gprs, instead of having to keep my iPod on me at all times.

And yes, I do work for Microsoft. And I do work on Visual Studio, so take my words with whatever grain (or grains) of salt you feel necessary. That said, I really do feel like the products we have in the marketplace today in this space are really cool, and well-worth looking into, especially since Cingular decided to keep carrying the SMT 5600 after their ATT merger.

I'm surprised nobody's put this link here yet but... http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/articles/wm2005-m agneto-en.shtml This is a link to a preview of a Magneto beta build. You can also download it for the XDA 2 [HTC Blue Angel] at http://forum.xda-developers.com/
Have fun!

Personally, I don't really have a problem with Microsoft (or any other company) copying as long as they do it well and add a few new features or a bit of additional polish to the mix.

There seems to be this Slashdot-think that companies should always come up with radical innovations. Even Google hasn't, after all, plenty of companies were doing searching, web-mail and news browsing way before them. They just took an idea, added a few new features and a bit of polish.

As for Microsoft, without sounding like zealot either way, everything they've tried outside of Windows has been a humbling experience but they are persistant. Last time I looked their PDA/Smartphone line is looking strong and their media centre isn't bad at all. The problems they've had with the XBox come down to the radically different style of market - you can't just throw out incremental OS releases on a month by month basis.

As I wrote previously, having suffered the painful experience that is the Sony Ericsson P910, I am actually looking forward to going back to the HTC Magician. Thats not to say that WinCE is heaven, far from it, but it has come on in leaps and bounds.

Here's a 2002 article from Mobile Review that discusses that studies regarding cell phones and avionics. And they are seriously considering permitting cell phone and wifi usage in flight, as indicated by this article from December.

This [pressesc.com] is how the story lead would appear on a cell phone.

with a phone from the stone ages maybe. the phone I'm using right now has a 240x320 screen that can be switched to landscape mode, good for reading web and books (which I often use it for).

So much for "all LCDs have problem." Even if that were so, not all LCD manufacturers address this the same way.

I just bought a 17" Mag monitor and it had no stuck pixels. My Averatec laptop has one and it's damn annoying when you are watching a DVD movie and during dark shots there's that fUx0r3d pixel shining like a flashlight.

Samsung info linky:

http://www.mobile-review.com/forum2/showthread.php ?t=19392

You can read a very interesting article on (K750i which is the base of W800) here

And their mobile phone products suck - they've even crashed. That is something mobile users aren't to accept, because other key players seem to have it worked out better

Actually hate to admit it but the HTC Typhoon (goes by many names) is the best smartphone I've tried (and I've tried a few, including it's lousy predecessors). It's very small and lightweight and has excellent battery life, and still full featured and easy to use smartphone. And I believe it's gotten very good reviews almost everywhere.

It doesn't crash on me, but non-MS-based Motorolas have..

Don't know about syncing with PDAs, but Panther handled syncing with my phone beautifully. I just bought my phone into range (Sony Ericsson T630), iMac detected it, displayed a picture of it on iMac screen, iSync kicked in and exported all my contacts and iCal across within a few seconds. I would expect no less with a compatible PDA.

The phone pictured running iTunes is the e398. It is a relatively cheap phone, released Q1 2004 and has MP3 playback already. A while back I read the Apple Motorola phone will be based on the e398, and again it springs up. I am pretty certain the specifications of the e398 will match those on the final Apple / Motorola phone. Whether it gets a new case or OS skin is a different story...

e398 Review

e398 Specifications

If you dont know this great device, check out this review: Qtek 9090 or Dopop 700

Actually, it worked for longer than it has in awhile (9 mins of gprs connect time..) it turns out there is a nokia field-bulletin for this issue that I just found. Now it's time to see if they'll replace my phone: information about my problem here. It appears the author of that page doesn't speak english as their primary language, but it's easy enough to find the answer for those Nokia 6230 GPRS+BT users.

seems to have excellent photo quality for a mobile phone. It has pretty much functions from normal digital camera that makes it very usefull. SE's S700i platform is the same from K700 phone but s700 supports memory sticks. You can read a very good review here:

Phone
Phone's camera

seems to have excellent photo quality for a mobile phone. It has pretty much functions from normal digital camera that makes it very usefull. SE's S700i platform is the same from K700 phone but s700 supports memory sticks. You can read a very good review here:

Phone
Phone's camera

It seem that Sony-Ericsson's hybrid phone-pda (P900 / P910) is more powerfull than Treo 650. I don't know about SE's CPU capabilities but _AS_ hybrid-phone it's much more usefull because of touchscreen and pretty imporoved Symbian OS. You can compare by yourself..
SE P910
Treo 650

I don't think these disposables will be much better than what the current phone cameras can do, scroll to the bottom on this forum for some examples. And you haven't seen photos taken on Casio's new 3.2MP phone camera yet. Granted, they're still expensive now, but costs will come down in a few years.

Personally, I would rather wait for the Sony Ericsson P900, also out soon.