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Wake me up when they open-source that piece of turd syncing software, PC Suite. Or does the newer versions actually give me the opportunity to select, for each conflicting entry, which one is the newest? That, and a bit of stability and the ability to set proper defaults based on the phone model would get me right back on.

one thing that does annoy me about the modern handsets is the sluggish interface due to the anti-aliased true-type fonts, animation, heavy operating system overhead (relative to the CPU), colour menus and other crap that gets in the way when you just want to make a quick call

I was quite proud of crashing my Nokia 7110, "an important phone", full of groundbreaking new features, none of them implemented very well.

why not have "Advanced user", "Normal user" and "Dimwit" settings

I hope you're not calling my mother a dimwit ;-)

My girlfriend and I were amused to find out that both our mothers carry their numbers round with them in their handbags on a crowded and worn sheet of paper. A phone with an easy to use directory system would be great for them. The ad for it could feature middle-aged people throwing away their sheets of paper!

These basic models of Nokia are very popular in India. And these are absolutely cheap (approx USD 65). In fact, considering the huge market for such cheap phone Motorola is coming up with a phone which costs only USD 40.

It was idiotic even trying to launch this thing in the USA. Carriers have a strange-hold over this market. Nokia has a range over over 100 handsets - you can buy about 6 of these on US carrier contracts, not including decent phones with WLAN and Bluetooth.

I cannot understand why Apple is sodding around with Motorola on this. They should have partnered with Nokia.

As an aside, Apple should also partner with Shazam. The best thing that an iPod/phone combo could do is recognize music from an online database and buy it for you.

The asian models 6108 and 3108 also have handwriting recognition, and they have been out for quite some time now.

It recognises latin alphabet too, but naturally it's primary use is for chinese letters, etc.

Much slower than tapping the keys, I can tell you.. I tried one back when they were new. :-)

http://www.nokia-asia.com/nokia/0,,61400,00.html

Well, there is also the Nokia 3108, which uses a rather nifty stylus entry system. I have one (imported from Hong Kong), and it works surprisingly well for both Chinese and English text entry. Alas, it doesn't have many of the obscure characters, but what can you expect? It's only a cellphone...

Oh, yes, and it supports Java, and MMS, and all that jazz. I don't know what the importing situation is in the US, but it shouldn't be too difficult to track down...

I hope my Nokia 5510 plays this

Shiny and small? This is my favorite: Nokia 8250
Of course, not available in the USA ;)

Here is a nokia music player press release dated March this year. It says 32megs for an hour of music. (Must be a pretty crummy bitrate though). Today's link claims 2 hours, but I doubt that's at the standard 128kbps. Anybody know how much memory in this thing?

While the whole process is working out less than ideal, I'm pleased to see the government taking an active stance on bringing 3G to the states. I know there are a couple of GSM cel carriers here in the states now but they don't really have the same coverage as the old CDM and TDMA (I think those are the acronymns) systems that AT&T and such have. I'd love to have some of the whiz-bang new phones (or one of the more stylish australian models) but because the rest of the world operates on a different system I'm out of luck.

Chalk it up to good intentions but (potentially) poor implementation I suppose.

Do you mean like the Nokia CardPhone 2.0?