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Nokia 9290 Finally Available in the US

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the finally-we-get-some-good-stuff dept.

AmyZ writes "The new Nokia 9290 Communicator has finally become available for US residents. Europe has had the 9210 for over a year now. Its a GSM based phone and well as a PDA that uses Symbian as its OS." I still don't quite feel that the PDA/Cellphone combo has come of age, but its nice to see another entry. That machine does looks to be sufficient for basic web tasks.

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  1. One thing I just don't get.... by L.+VeGas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    About the mobile phone/pda combo. Unless you're using an external headset or something similar, how can you take notes while you're on the phone? That's one of the things I use my pda for all the time.

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  2. Phones by Gingko · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was actually at Symbian on Wednesday night at their Cambridge office. One of the things that struck me about the new things they are talking about is that application installation will be a lot easier on the newer phones they are working with. This will help with the PDA / cellphone merge, since the behaviour of the phone is no longer "hard-baked" with the release. If nothing else, it may mean that bug-fixes may become available without having to send off your phone.

    Some of the new phones look very cool indeed. Japan is a good indicator, as it tends to be about 1.5 years ahead of Britain (and, ooh, a decade or so ahead of the U.S. :)

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  3. Not much phone for the money by bsa3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For $600, you don't get:

    • Bluetooth
    • GPRS
    • 900/1800 MHz
    • A reasonable amount of RAM

    So you've paid a lot of money for a PDA/phone, and then you've still got to fork out more for additional memory, yet another phone to cover the other two bands, and (if applicable) a Mac OS sync program (which isn't even compatible with Mac OS X). And what's with the non-standard units of measurement on the specification page? Nokia are probably trying to disguise the fact that this sucker is 16 cm long and weighs 250 g.

  4. Re:Oooh this bugs me... by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are insane, you realize that, no? How will a qwerty keyboard the size of a large candy bar give you RSI in a way that a dvorak one wouldn't? We're talking hunt-and-peck all the way.

  5. Re:Oooh this bugs me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Do you seriously believe that the dvorak layout helps with a keyboard
    you use with your thumbs?