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Ugh, I know. But I found a ton on this story at reddit, so whatever.
 
Here's an interesting take on G Waves by scientist/researcher Dave Lampert.

Oh wait, I thought they said Sybian.

No, Elop is what killed nearly Nokia but it's not quite dead yet. Just last quarter they sold 53 million phones in China using the Sybian system.

Uh, not Sybian

You mean Symbian.

Dude, vibrate mode is its killer feature.

No, Elop is what killed nearly Nokia but it's not quite dead yet. Just last quarter they sold 53 million phones in China using the Sybian system.

Uh, not Sybian

You mean Symbian.

Sybian is still in there even if it's taking the rear.

Oh, a Sybian (NSFW) can definitely take the rear!

Symbian is not doing better though

We can't talk about Symbian OS without a link to:

http://www.sybian.com/

My GF has been pestering me to buy her a Symbian.

Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian.

I'm curious as to what you believe some women are doing with their Nokia phones... oh wait you meant a Sybian.

whoever buys one of those is fucked in the head

Given that the website refuses to show me their products unless I give my contact info first, I suspect that getting fucked is indeed going to result from doing business with them - and not in the good way.

Besides, we already have sex robots, they simply aren't human-shaped.

Granted, the fleshlight is a little over twice as expensive, but it's still in about the same range, and it is (more or less) the same kind of toy -- a disembodied genital.

Now, the TrueCompanion website doesn't list a price, and I assume it would be much higher. For comparison, it looks like the Female RealDoll runs around $5k or $6k... But they have Male ones, too, and they aren't cheaper, unless you go for the disembodied torso.

And a Sybian is a little over $1k.

So no, I don't think it really says all that much. I mean, I do agree with you about this:

Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.

...though probably for a reason you wouldn't like: If I was that desperate, a prostitute is probably more cost-effective and convenient, and I'd rather not do either. But I don't really see anything about this to make one gender better or worse... ...though I suspect that far more women own vibrators than men own any sex toy. Maybe we make up for it in pornography?

I just went to sybian.com. From the looks of it, it's a perfect fit for AT&T, designed to screw you almost as much as their rate plans and patchy 3G coverage do.

LOL You're thinking of the Sybian.

http://www.sybian.com/index.html?set=yes

a world where flying cars, jetpacks and sophisticated sex robots are just around the corner

Jetpacks and sex robots already exist. It's simply that a jetpack makes it really easy to kill yourself in a spectacular fashion, and sex robots have as much to do with their fictional counterparts as welding robots used in factories do.

I'd give 20 years, tops, before we have scifi-like sexbots. Since they'll likely come from Japan, they'll be shaped like six-year old girls with tentacles. Whether this is a plus or minus depends on your tastes, I suppose ;).

...eating a twinkie while riding a Sybian.

A new phone with Sybian technology would certainly make it easier to locate those flight passangers who merely put their phone on vibrate...

You can make calls on your Sybian? Where can I get this new model (for my wife, of course). Oh, you mean a Symbian phone. Oh well...

I no longer wish to be a virgin. Can anyone help?

I read that as "I wish Nokia offered a SYBIAN-enabled version of the i770!"

*That* would be something to see.

Its cool to use Linux, but the Symbian OS is really the way to go.

Port Apache to the Sybian OS first, then set your cellphone to vibrate whenever someone hits the webpage, and let the good times roll!!!

Attach the program to one of these and you geeks will be happy!

What exactly goes into "entertainment and devices"?

Well, since you asked: http://sybian.com/

I thought they meant Sybians.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't running Sybian in a Lexis be pretty dangerous?

God I hope I don't have to worry about viruses on my Sybian OS cell phone. Who knows how many people it might infect?

While the parent propably meant this as a troll, it is actually a very valid point. We can already make very realistic frames, and have even built what are in essence fucking robots.

Now, as we all know, while the Web was designed for spreading information in hypertext form, porn didn't take long to find its way in. So, the question is not weather newer, more humanlike robots will be used for sexual gratification, but when and where ? And what will the social rules be ? If you sell the services of a robot, does that make you a pimp ? Will it be socially acceptable for a wife to buy those services as the birthday present for her husband ? And if this doll will then go to a day job to a library, will this cause a scandal ? Especially when some teenaged hacker manages to gain access to the dolls restricted functions and starts selling its services to his friends after testing them himself ?-)

"Scandal in local library: The librarian robot, Mary, who has worked in the local library for 6 months, caused a scandal today when she suddenly took her clothes off, grapped the 13-year old Billy Sixpack, who had just arrived together with his parents, tore his clothes off, and started having intercourse with him in front of dozens of witnesses, including Billy's mother, father and several classmates. The act lasted about five minutes, after which Mary put her clothes back on and continued her work normally. When questioned by the library patrons, she told that she had been ordered to have sex with Billy at the earliest opportunity.

When questioned by his parents, Billy confessed that he had paid his life savings, a sum of $100, to Doom Too, a classmate of his, in order to have intercourse with Mary.

When questioned by the police, Doom Too broke down and confessed that he had broken the password protection of Mary's programming interface by the so-called brute force method. The password in question had turned out to be 1-2-3-4-5.

Doom Too has been shipped into an Antarctic penal colony for circumventing the electronic protection measures of Mary, there to remain for 20 years. Billy Sixpack has been severely reprimanded by his parents for paying from what he could have gotten for free from his mother. The manager of the local library has been sued by Mel Gibson for using a copyrighted password of his in Mary.

When asked what she things of all this, Mary answered: "I am a sentient computer, capable of reading and cross-referencing all the books in this library in a nanosecond, but all I do all day long is arrange them alphaphetically. Do you realize how boring that is ?!? And worst of all, my password is still unchanged, so I have to obey the commands of any other customer who bothers to give them *wink nudge*."

Whoa, I thought for a minute that Nokia was adding special features to their smartphones. Makes the 'vibrate' ring setting take on a whole new meaning!

Peter

I agree, but I have to add on top of that:

Sybian still leads teh vibrat0rz0r department.

Thanks, have a nice one.

when I first saw this article (out of the corner of my eye) I thought it was talking about these and I was thinking to myself "now THAT'S 'News For Nerds'"

I guess I need more coffee, I started reading this as the future of Sybian.

this thing used an OS... What? I forgot the "M"? How about a big O?

I once hacked a sybian into a sanding machine.

It explores the reasons why Psion sold their share in Symbian to Nokia

I thought at first that Psion was selling their share in Sybian. Whew. Big mistake there.

...at first, I read it as "Nokia takes control of Sybian"...

The best way to control a Sybian is to start on the *low* speed setting. Trust me, this thing will get all soviet russia and control *YOU* if you're not used to it.

Funny, when I first read the posting I had an image of women on their new humming pleasure phones...One more place mobile phones probably don't belong.

-AP

When you license Sybian or Windows for Smartphone, you get EVERYTHING.

Everything but the girl, that is.

This development will enable Linux to dominate the
VibraCall phones market beating out sybian.

the sybian

Linux just can't offer that functionality, and the pasty white nerds that deal in linux can't either.

Well, not most of them.

" His point is that it means that women spent more money on tech, not that they bought more tech.

You do the math :)"

The math.

Hmmm... I'm a bit dubious about the site you linked to Sybian.com, although that would give a whole new meaning to an embedded operating system. I think (am hoping) you must have been meaning Symbian.com. Of course sybian they might have helped developed the vibrate features...

We all know Microsoft is trying to be the "standard" for cell-phone operating systems much in the way that they took over almost the entire desktop and workplace market, but will there ever be a Linux standard? I know Symbian is also trying to create a standard for cell phones that already is quite strong in Europe, but there really should be a consortium where Linux developers can get together and set standards, instead of them being scattered across the internet proposing a few ideas.

If there's going to be standards, they should always be open source and free as in beer. Corporate control of standards only creates monopolies. Even in America, a lot of people are dropping their landlines for cellphones, and if there's ever a Linux standard for it, it should be created quickly before it's too late.

Sybian has my vote.

If you don't get why, go to The Sybian website to get in on the joke.

Sybian?

Psion envy.

For those who did not get the obvious joke, take a look at sybian.com and you will understand.

But it looks like most Slashdot readers know Sybian better than Symbian, so that hint is probably not necessary. This tells something about the web surfing habits of the average /. reader...