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I hope that they offer a keyboard tray of some sort.

It has bluetooth support. Get any bluetooth wireless keyboard, or this one from Nokia.

I wish it had a sim card

Try the 7710 instead. Granted, that does not run Linux (its a Symbian Series 90 device); Tis device (the 770) is more of a screen enlarger for those with existing mobiles (with bluetooth)

I hope that they offer a keyboard tray of some sort.

It has bluetooth support. Get any bluetooth wireless keyboard, or this one from Nokia.

I wish it had a sim card

Try the 7710 instead. Granted, that does not run Linux (its a Symbian Series 90 device); Tis device (the 770) is more of a screen enlarger for those with existing mobiles (with bluetooth)

here

The FAQ confirms that "the user interface has its roots in the smartphone Series 90 user interface."

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet's software is upgradeable and currently runs on the Linux-based Internet Tablet 2005 software edition. There is a planned launch next year of an operating system upgrade - the Internet Tablet 2006 software addition - that will support additional services, including Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging.

Nokia's press site has some high-resolution images.

My Mum wanted a new phone, without too many features so got one of these. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,42112,00.html I thought it had been produced for people like her, wanting simple phones, but could easily be wrong.

This is all I ask for - a tiny, lightweight phone with Bluetooth. I don't want a camera, no large color screen, email, etc - I just simply would like something I can stick in my pocket and forget about it, then just optionally use a bluetooth headset when making calls. I could even do without a keypad, and just use voice recognition or a scroll wheel for dialing. The Nokia 7280is the closest thing I've seen to what I'm looking for, but its waaay too expensive and has gadgets I don't want (FM tuner, camera). I bet there's a large market for this kind of phone.

you'll want a nokia 6310i then.

Reliable, insane battery life, worldwide (well, tri-band), conservative and modern, etc

no speakerphone, but everything else that you want, i think

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.

I agree, and WTF is up with a battery sucking colour screen on a "basic" phone that doesn't take pictures or recieve media messages - what the hell do they expect it to be useful for?

I really don't get why people are always bitching about the lack of basic phones anyway. You want basic, you can buy a brand new, SIM free Nokia 1100 for less than £30 (below half the price of this new one from Voda, and in my experience Sagems are shit anyway although that's just personal preference). Alternatively, buy any other older model phone from eBay - they're not expensive.

Combine them and make them better than the sum of their parts and I'll happily give up my iPod.

I saw a friend use a new Nokia phone that surprisingly enough used only a scroll wheel for the interface. It didn't have any numbered buttons, just the "Navi spinner" which is the name for their scroll wheel. It wasn't even a touch-sensitive surface and actually rotated mechanically, like the first generation of iPods.

If this interface is actually being applied to mobile phones, then there is no reason a newer generation of iPods can't have built-in mobile phone functionality with just a little hardware modification and very slight alterations to their outward appearance. The design can be simply altered to have an innocuous earpiece added to the top and a microphone on the bottom, and it would be nearly indistinguishable from current iPod models. Headphones can double as hands-free kits as well, or bluetooth headsets could be used. iPods already have displays and address books like mobile phones.

I have never found myself out of range of GSM anywhere other than Japan (CDMA/WCDMA only) in the last few years.

I would recommend something like a Nokia 9500. Importantly, get a foreign SIM that will roam across multiple US operators. You will always get a signal from one of them. Bingo - ssh, vnc, web browsing, sms, mms and IM over gsm, gprs and WLAN all in one pocket device.

Seriously - do you really need satellite? Because you are going to have to carry a bigger battery, a laptop (because the devices themselves are less capable) and a car mounted aerial.

I had a Tungsten W all in one device and had problems with it. It was a nice device and lovely to type on, but the phone part was shite. Also, you can't really use a PDA to send a text message when it's raining, in case it damages it. My current phone is much better as a phone, and I now only use the PDA functions of the Tungsten.

So this nokia phone with a 4GB hdd has slipped passed your attention then.

Nokia N91

good cameras can't be combined with cell phones, the physics of photography demand a lens aperture that won't fit in a phone.

This use to be true. However, as sensors become smaller, but gain higher resolution and lower noise, the optics can be shrunken in proportion. Take a look at the examples of what the upcoming Nokia N90 can do (scroll to the bottom), for an idea of where camera phones are heading.

I'm not saying camera phones will replace professional cameras, but they have a good chance of replacing point and shoot -class devices.

Is this something like Nokia Sensor?
http://www.nokia.com/sensor/

And who the hell is going to care... but... a little quick research on the host reveals the following:

Obviously it's behind a Firewall at a pretty decent looking data center. It looks like a minimum security prison on the outside:

http://www.consonus.com/

The thing that pisses me off... (IF) nmap fingerprinted the OS right. Is that this IIS6 box is behind a Nokia IPSO.

http://www.nokia.com/cda1/0,1080,43324,00.html

If you look on the right hand side of the page you will notice that Nokia credits the UNIX roots of IPSO.

So this Windows zealot is hiding his IIS6 box behind a big, bad ass, UNIX gatekeeper. For contest to prove that Microsoft rules... Shouldn't ISA Server be protecting the brave little web server?

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx

It really pisses me off that he advertises the ability to put together an impenetrable IIS6 environment and that a key solution is a UNIX firewall.

If Microsoft ever makes a statement about this contest in their marketing and it was in fact behind an IPSO they should feel silly, not proud.

I find it unlikely that Nokia would make a phone that looks like another manufacturers. However, Nokia can still make design icon phones (which that SonyEricsson effort will never be) Try this one: Nokia 8800

My Nokia 3410 is serving me well. The battery lasts a week (and I've had it for a year or so now), it has a black and white screen and it does phone-like stuff. They still seem to be on sale, too -- in the UK, at least.

Thankfully, it looks like this new phone has a headphone socket - a REAL headphones socket, not a stupid proprietory connection. My current Nokia has a MMC flash card MP3 player built in, but I've only ever used it once because you can only use their hands-free kit with it, which is a pain in the butt (and not very good quality).

Any phone that wants to provide a decent music listening system MUST have a headphone socket, and according the technical specs here, this does.
(warning - horrible Flash usecrime ahoy!)

Err.. yes. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,42112,00.html and http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=gb&lc=en&ve r=4000&template=pp1_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10002 and I can't be bothered to list EVERY SINGLE MANUFACTURER who makes a phone without a camera, mp3 player, garage door opener etc. etc.

So, I guess I see my chances of EVER just buying a phone slipping even further away. Sigh.

Nokia 6021 (out soon, maybe even now [check the various online retailer]).

Bluetooth, no camera. There you go :-)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Nokia announced a whole new line of phones, the Nokia Nseries (press release).

In this series, three models were introduced:

• N90 (photos, press release)
• N91 (photos, press release)
• N70 (photos, press release)

Don't worry about the price tag; give it a few months. If their previous attempt at a MP3 player phone is anything to go by, they'll be pretty cheap (or at least, not much more expensive than a similaraly sized MP3 player) in a few months time.

The 5510 went from being one of the most expensive phones in the shop to being the cheapest within a few months

For the record: the "MP3" player function on the 5510 sucked. It was unstable, and I found that when there was silence/near silence in a track, the weird format that the phone used cut it out completely (as in: there would be a jump in the song through the quiet bit). The bundled software was pretty bad (but not as bad as SonicStage) and it would convert your MP3's to some weird format (I forget what that format was...)

I still use the phone though. But the MP3 player function is avoided.

Well, there already is a python port
Personally, I'd like ruby, but each to its own I guess.

increase revenues further and maintain ARPU[1] growth.

sorry http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54106,00.html

They're more than around the corner, I have one on my desk: [url]http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54106,00.html[/ url]

Excerpt from http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,,034-821,00.html

Python for Series 60 allows developers to execute Python commands and run Python scripts and applications in devices based on Series 60 Platform.

Python for Series 60 is capable of running applications that use native resources of Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS. It is well suited to the development of prototypes or for building proof of concept applications with a simple and consistent language. Python for Series 60 is an idea choice for starting to create application for devices based on Series 60 Platform.

nokia makes a very small, no button cameraphone aimed at clubbers that just accepts your SIM card then uses voice dialing.

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,62371,00.html

Hate to sound like a phone geek, but my new Nokia 3220 with this standard mod has this feature, supported by 'Java motion' for programming, and ships games that use it...

Yeah, a Nokia 7710 could never support anything more than a half-arsed browser.

I've tried surfing the web with cellphones for several years now and it's been very frustrating since even Lynx does a better job displaying complex sites than the browser+phone combos I've had.

But nowadays I'm using this (got the phone because I'm beta-testing 3G mobile TV) with Opera, and I'm loving it; it's fast and works like a charm.

Now, there aren't that many situations where I actually need the web on my cell, but I'm happy it's finally possible - without frustration.

well, I have the Nokia 9500 http://www.nokia.com/phones/9500, which is Symbian OS 7 based, Opera is indeed the default browser, and there are no Ads, hence, the license deal.

to type even the most rudimentary messages on it...hit 2 three times for C...another button to get a symbol.

Predictive text input enables fast and easy writing. Instead of pressing each key one, two or three times, press it just once. The text input software decodes the keystrokes and scans the internal dictionary for matching words.

Most people in the UK use this method. I can type about 20-30 words per minute on a phone using predictive text. Ideal for sending short messages in long boring meeting,

I just checked with my 3650 and the TV remote. They are sensitive to IR but the remote is nowhere near powerful enough to use as a torch. I'll have to do some further experimentation.

Open Source programs for SymbianOS

http://symbianos.org/

Symbian OS software development kits

http://www.symbian.com/developer/sdks.asp

Python for Series 60

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,,034-821,00.html

here it is : NOKIA 3300 : http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,5819,00.html Also, most phones now play MP3s..... The SE one, just has a dedicated button to bring up the playlist... so the user does not have to navigate to the files.... i.e. make it easier for Joe Bloggs to use.... bah humbug big deal..

And then there's the Nokia 9300. Newer, smaller, cheaper and better looking than the 9500.

A much better deal if you can do without the camera & Wifi of the Nokia 9500.

http://nokia.com/phones/9300
http://nokia.com/phones/9500

And then there's the Nokia 9300. Newer, smaller, cheaper and better looking than the 9500.

A much better deal if you can do without the camera & Wifi of the Nokia 9500.

http://nokia.com/phones/9300
http://nokia.com/phones/9500