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Nokia 5510 - Cell Phone and More
matthew.thompson writes: "Nokia have released a phone to give the RIAA nightmares - it includes built in MP3 playing AND encoding and an FM stereo radio - so you can MP3 up tracks from the Radio or from an external source via a line in jack. It's also got a full qwerty style keyboard and GameBoy Advance style layout. RIAA headache inducing features here and piccies etc here." I'm not quite sure how this works - Nokia's page says the gizmo plays "secure" mp3 files, which sounds to me as if it is crippled. Here are some hi-res photos. Update: 10/11 12:59 GMT by M : Ahh, my misreading. It says "secure AAC and MP3 files", and apparently "secure" is intended to apply only to AAC. According to the FAQ, the phone is crippled - only stores crippled AAC files, not unencumbered mp3's. A shame.
Unless you were writing this from a WebTV pad, your claim carries no weight with me!
Just some light-weight trolling...
Reality or nothing.
Now *that* will be a great ... ahh ... err ... phone?!
Actually that brings up an interesting point. While gabbing away in heated conversation is the primary feature, more and more um..."useful" features are being thrown into the little plastic case. It's not unlikely that phones will serve wide purposes in the near future.
With that in mind, I wonder if Nokia will eventually allow for general 3rd party development for their devices. Right now it appears to all be closed, but it would be cool to allow random developers to build small applets (no not necessarily Java...I'm fine with zippy little assembly apps). I know there's WAP support, but WAP hasn't isn't exactly a stellar experience. There are issues of security, of course...I don't want someone's random app bringing down my conversation. I'm sure some people will point to the Java ME SDK...but I haven't really played around with this yet.
Anyway I'm sure the first thing would be games, probably ports of old simple arcade games. And then someone will probably throw Linux on there (god forbid).
My favorite thing to do is pull up next to someone talking on their cell phone while on the freeway, make sure nobody is behind me (the most important step), and yank my emergency brake. The tires squealing makes them immediately shit their pants, drop their phone, and focus on what's important. I know how my car handles with the e-brake on, so don't go try this at 90mph. Yeah, I go through tires pretty fast, but it's worth it. Pirelli love smy business.
In order for me to buy a phone, it needs to be two things 1) shiny, and 2) small.
I love Nokia phones, esp the two I have, the 8860, and the 8890 - and they pass the "smaller than my penis" test. and they are shiny as all get out.
but this monster looks huge. how exactly are you to carry it around? and only a small part of it is shiny.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Well, in watching my younger brother and sisters chat on the internet, i can tell you that they all already know the ones they want to use, which is pretty much limited to cya, wtf, rofl, lol, brb, and ttyl... figure they would never say for what its worth, be back in a bit, in my humble opinion, and away from keyboard in meatspace, so why would they say it in cyberspace? One thing im surprised about is the lack of "stfu" adoption. And IANAL. :)
It may be a neat gadget, but this lady on their page is having way too much fun with it.
If I ever reach a point where this phone can give me that much joy, I'll have bigger issues to address in my life.
//ct
Strange thing. In Norway, Mongo is a rather rude term for a person with Down's Syndrome. OK, Norway is a small country, but about 95% of people aged 15-30 own a mobile phone, most of them Nokias, and after all, Finland (home of Nokia) is pretty close to here. Why choose "Retard" (actually, it's a lot worse :-) as their mascot name?
Beats me.
get a Free BSD!