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New Nokia Phone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-never-get-cool-phones-here dept.

John writes: "infoSync has posted the official information about the two new Nokia phones which is going to be unveiled today. Quote: 'The Nokia 7650 will be the world's first 2.5G Symbian OS mobile phone with advanced messaging and imaging capabilities ...' It looks like ICQ on the mobile phone is closer than ever!" Includes a built-in camera and various comments about this not coming to North America anytime soon.

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  1. Oh, you said "Symbian"! by Deagol · · Score: 5, Funny
    As I skimmed the headline, I first thought it said "sybian". My next thought was, " Great -- I'll by my wife one of these."

    Next, I re-read and thought it said "simian", and I thought, "whoah -- a phone for my spider monkey!"

    Damn, what a boring phone...

    --
    Method of processing duck feet
  2. ICQ -- not new by TheTomcat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is not meant as a troll, but:
    I've been able to ICQ to/from my GSM handset (as SMS) for ~1 year now.

    More info here.

    Apparently, one of our local CDMA carriers (Tellus) is offering AIM on their phones, as well..

  3. Includes a built-in camera? by iBod · · Score: 5, Funny
    How the hell am I supposed to lie to my wife about my whereabouts now?

    It was bad enough having to do 'busy office', 'stuck in traffic' and 'on the train' sound effects - and now this!

  4. Re:Ugh. by WinstonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    When American Standard releases a new toilet, are we gonna hear about it here first?

    Probably not. I submitted this way back in April, but it was rejected.

  5. Re:Arghhhhh! by GauteL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not at all... but why are you complaining like this? This isn't even insightful, it is just a typical ranting.

    You can actually buy a completely different phone if you want to, you know that right?

    People have different usage-patterns, and thus there are lots and lots of different phones on the market. If you feel you belong to a group that are not covered, I suggest you write a letter to the phone-makers and argue why you think it would be benificial to both you and them to create "your dream phone".

  6. ICQ? by saintlupus · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like ICQ on the mobile phone is closer than ever!

    Great! Now I can use my mobile phone to get in touch with people!

    Uh...

    --saint

  7. Re:Very slick by RedX · · Score: 5, Informative
    For some darn reason they always do that, North American GSM seems to be low priority for GSM phone builders.

    Perhaps because the marketshare for GSM in the US is so far very low? Because CDMA and TDMA carriers currently offer vastly larger coverage areas than their GSM rivals, and there are plenty of CDMA and TDMA handsets that also offer analog roaming, GSM service is limited to pretty much only people that will be staying in and traveling between large metro areas. This will hopefully start to change once AT&T gets further along with their national GSM roll-out this should start to change. Of course, we start to get into a chicken vs. egg argument when you consider that more people (definitely me) would jump on the GSM bandwagon if some of these sweet Nokia handsets were available in the US.

  8. You can write your own programmes by streetmentioner · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I think the most important thing is that you can write your own programmes (in C++ or Java) for it. You can download the SDK from www.nokia.com.

    (Bias: I work for Symbian)