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New Ultra-Mobile Smartphone Neonode N1
luigi writes "Swedish startup Neonode announced its Neonode N1 Smartphone. The touch screen phone runs Microsoft Windows CE.NET v4.1 with a custom user interface. The Neonode N1 includes a digital camera, MMS, eMail, mp3 player and games. The handset is only 52 x 88 x 21mm small and weighs 90 grams. It should be available on the market february 2003. I4U has hi-res images of the device."
Why do manufacturers think people want to run MS-Windows on a teeny-tiny screen? I think they'd be better off adding the cell-phone functionality to the Tablet-PC, then they are adding Microsoft-technology to a cell phone.
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When will phone manufacturers learn that using a touchscreen to dial a phone is incredibly annoying?
It's great that they keep adding all these cool features to cell phones... But when are they going to start working as phones?
Here is a typical cell phone conversation:
(Ring, Ring)
Hello. Hello? Can you hear me now? I said can you here me now? Hang on.
Or maybe the service is just crapy where I live.
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PR isn't always a bad thing. Would you have known about this phone if slashdot didn't tell you about it? Would you get to see all these "but it runs windoze, it suxors!" posts?
Should we not discuss new products here?
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My next phone is either going to have bluetooth, or I'm not going to bother with a GPRS phone plan.
I don't see the use of having internet service and not being able to browse using my laptop or pda via the cellphone. Why buy another GSM PC or CF card for every device I potentially would like to connect to the net?
Like most people, I want a small cell phone. This is directly at odds with a screen of the size needed to surf the web reasonably. The phone's own screen would be great for proofing pics before sending and getting emergency directions I guess, but not for browsing.
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forgot to mention that orange in uk & denmark and probably more countries where they exist have cell released under their name which is if i remember correctly manufactured by spv. it runs mobile phone version of microsoft pocket pc. during some tests in one newspapper it froze.... offcourse this is probably going to happen even in more advanced phones by ericsson, nokia and other big phone manufacturers as (usually)
more advanced phone == more software == more bugs
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I've played with one of these a bit, and I must say that the physical design needed a lot of work. The mounting for the stylus is nothing short of awful. Shaped roughly like a wooden coffee stirrer, it fits flush into the side of the device. To remove it, you push up on it with your thumb. Then, with it pinched precariously against the side of the device, you have to shift your grip to grab it. Since it's flat, this may be difficult for the less dexterous. To make things interesting, it's translucent blue, and nearly transparent. Should you drop it on the floor, you'll need a good bit of luck finding it again.
Just because it works, doesn't mean it isn't broken.
I thought a Treo would be cat's pajamas, but when
I got it I realized that I was unconsciously
depending on tactile feedback to dial in a suprising
number of situations, driving, etc... I gave it
away and got a P800 instead.
Phones need keypads.
What is this WinCE crap? The thought of BSODs
on my phone does not amuse me.
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