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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."
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MS actually found a cell phone provider willing to put thier os in a phone. Lets see how long they use it until they dump it like Nokia did.
Didn't Nokia find it too unstable / restrictive?
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Anyone know what sort of processing power this thing has? I checked all the sites besides the flash one, 'cause it doesn't work on my browser, and found nothing. With all that functionality, though, it would need a beefy CPU, no?
If you believe that 8-to-5 should be more than a black hole in your life, Neonode is the place where you should spend it. If you want to attack the average usual, kick it and stomp on it until it gives in and becomes something better, more useful, nicer and cooler than it was, then you are a friend of ours.
What??
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
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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My question to you all is, how does one go about loosening their nickers? They say that brandy is dandy and liquor is quicker, but in my experiences, it's difficult to get them to drink one beer, let alone half a dozen shots of Whiskey.
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Thank you for your time.
When will phone manufacturers learn that using a touchscreen to dial a phone is incredibly annoying?
OK it's running WinCE.net 4. something can do all these fun things and hrm it's running windows CE it's tiny CE is still a pig so the proc must run this thing down in what a few hours of use. I'm sorry I'm waiting for something that I can talk on etc for at least a normal 9 hour work day before recharging and not under a tower. I have a Nextel now 180 minutes of talk time not to bad but if your in a bad spot for range for a long time 48 hours of batter life on standby turns to 10.
No sir I dont like it.
Wish my mom was that understanding...
a world in progress...
A Handspring Treo using Windows CE!
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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It had become a regular occurrence. Rob Malda would visit on Saturday morning, if his sister did not spend the night, and get his cock sucked and fuck my ass. At times it was still very exciting but all to often it seemed that we just went through the motions, meeting out of habit more than anything.
With Rob's birthday coming up I asked what he would like to do, hoping for something different and exciting. After some thought he asked if I would do anything he asked and I said yes, short of illegal or pain. At that he told me he would let me know what he wanted on his birthday.
As the fateful day rolled around I had still not heard a word about what he wanted. That evening he called to tell me to keep Saturday open for him that he would collect his gift then. For the next two days I wondered what it was he wanted but reasoned that he would just be over to cum in my mouth and ass as usual.
Saturday morning at about 10:00 Rob showed up. As I answered the door I was surprised to see he had brought three friends with him. I had no idea what this meant but reasoned that he was passing through and would return later by himself. I invited them in and after introductions got everyone a beer. As we sat and talked I looked over Rob's friends. All were around our age, one shorter than Rob, one the same height but thinner and the last tall and well built. All were average looking and friendly likable everyday people.
I had stopped thinking about Rob's gift and was just enjoying the company when Rob mentioned to his friends that I was the one he had told them about. When I asked what it was he told them he just smiled and said that I was the one who sucked his cock and took it in the ass. I could feel my world come to and end. He described our get togethers with them as I sunk lower into the cushions, my eyes closed, face red and praying to die then and there.
As Rob described what we did I noticed that his friends were asking how much he enjoyed it, how it felt, how long did he last and other questions. It became apparent that they did not condemn me or Rob but rather, were interested in what we were doing. Soon they were asking me what it was like to have a cock in my mouth, did it hurt to get fucked, did I like the taste of cum. As I got over the shock and embarrassment of the situation I slowly became involved in the conversation wondering were it was going to lead to. Soon Rob was pulling my hand to his cock letting me know that he was hard from the conversation.
After rubbing my hand over his crotch Rob unzipped his jeans and pulled his cock from his pants. We all watched as he stroked himself a few times then he put his hand behind my back and tried to bend me over towards his hard cock. The room was suddenly quiet and again I felt embarrassed, yet at the same time excited. I put up a little resistance and he told me that this is what he really wanted for his birthday. I was surprised to find that I was excited that Rob wanted to have his friends watch as I blew him, that they would watch me suck his cock. Grabbing his cock and stroking him I slid off the couch and down onto my knees and took his cock into my mouth. As I started moving my lips down Rob's cock the room became very quiet, soon the only sound was Rob's breathing and his cock pumping in my mouth.
All the time I sucked his cock I kept thinking that when I was done I would watch someone else suck cock and got more and more excited. Rob seemed more excited than usual also and soon blurted out that he was going to cum. As his three friends looked on he blew a huge load in my mouth, blast after blast of hot rich cream into my throat. I kept sucking until his cock started to soften in my mouth and the last of his cum was swallowed. As I straightened up and looked around I could see that all three of them had their pants open and were stroking hard cocks. Funny how the first thing that hit me was how their cocks fit the person.
The shortest had the smallest cock, 3" and thin, one like Rob's 4" but not as fat and the last about 6" and thick. As I started to get up from my knees Rob gently placed his hand on my shoulder and held me down, then pushed me over towards his small friend sitting next to him. I suddenly realized that he wanted me to blow his friends, not sit back and watch them. Without a second thought I moved over and swallowed his friends 3" cock and started sucking. In just a few moments I could feel his cock stiffen even more and start to pulse as he blew his load into my mouth. Again I sucked his cock until it was soft and empty before moving on to the next. He was very similar to Rob in size and felt almost familiar as I took his cock in my mouth and started swallowing it. As I slid his cock out of my mouth and dragged my tongue along the vein he started cumming, filling my mouth with another load of rich hot sperm. I then turned to the 6" cock , holding it in my hand and admiring it before taking the head between my lips. This cock I really loved, his big spongy head running over my tongue, rubbing my checks. The shaft so thick and hard on my lips as he pushed more into my mouth. I started sucking as much as I could, rolling his balls in one hand and stroking him with the other. He lasted about 5 minutes before I felt his cock pulse and knew he was about to cum. I swallowed as much as I could when the first blast hit the back of my throat choking me. He came in long hard bursts, like a fire hose going off in my mouth. I tried to swallow each load but for every drop down my throat another fell from my lips onto my chin and beard. Still I sucked for what seem hours until his cock softened and no more juice dripped from him and into my mouth.
I was surprised how tired I felt and hunched over for a few minutes to rest and calm down. As I rested Rob brought out a face cloth and began wiping the excess cum from my face and beard. As he cleaned me up he began to remove my shirt, then my pants and underwear. His friends seem to take this as a signal and began to strip down until the five of us were naked. I noticed that Rob's cock was hard again as he produced some lube and began to lather up his cock. At this I asked him "Your friends too?" and he just nodded. I said, "OK but smallest t biggest." At that Rob said, "Fine but I'm first."
As his friends watched on I got down on my hands and knees before Rob. He had always fucked me on my back before but I thought that this would give the best show for the others in the room. I could feel his cock slid down my ass crack until the head came to rest on my asshole. I slowly pushed back onto his cock until I felt the head enter me. I was surprised at how much longer his cock felt as he sank into me from behind and slowly started fucking me. Once buried up my ass Rob grabbed my hips and started slowly to fuck my ass for his friends. My own cock felt like an iron bar swinging with Rob's pounding into me. My ass began to heat up with the friction of his cock and I slammed back into him, squeezing his cock with my ass to make him cum. Soon he buried himself as deeply as he could up my ass and I could feel his cock spasm and his hot cum began to cool down my ass. After pumping into me a few more times Rob pulled his softening cock from my ass and I could feel the cum start to drip down my legs.
His small friend quickly moved to take Rob's place, kneeling behind me and driving his cock into my ass using Rob's cum as a lube. The smaller size and the big load of sperm in my ass allowed him to slide into me up to his balls easily on the first stroke. Grabbing my hips he started pounding my ass driving his 3" cock as deep into me as he could. With each stroke I could feel Rob's sperm leaking from me as he tried to replace it with his own. Sliding one hand under me he started stroking my cock as he pumped into me asking how I liked it. I started telling him to fuck me, fuck my ass and fill me with his cum. As I started talking he picked up speed, calling me a slut and quickly filled my used ass with his own offering of sperm.
As his cock, along with a big load of cum, pulled from my ass the next got into position. He did not seem in as big a hurry and rubbed the head of his cock around my ass and in the sperm before slowly sinking into me. After the last cock his seemed to stretch me more making me feel the full size of his 4" cock entering me. I pushed back into him wanting his cock buried deep in my ass. He started a slow steady rhythm in my ass and kept it up for about 10 minutes. I could feel his cock thicken and stretch as his pace quickened and knew he was getting close. I started moving back into him and squeezing my ass on his cock as he pulled out. Holding his cock deep in me he blew another load in my ass. By the time he pulled his cock from me cum was rolling down my legs, cooling and thickening. My ass was beginning to feel sore by this time but all I really thought about was the size of that next cock.
He got up from his chair and stood in front of me, giving me a good view of his big cock and grabbing it in his hand rubbed the head around my lips. I opened my mouth and started sucking the head as he stroked himself. He asked if I was ready for him and I said yes, fuck me with that big cock. He got behind me and slowly started pushing his cock into my wet open ass. Even with the fucking I had taken I could feel my ass stretch around his thick meat. I lowered my head to the floor as he started pumping, with each stroke sinking more of his cock up my ass. It wasn't long before I could feel the full length of his 8" cock moving into me, opening me up even more than I already was. Once in he placed his hands on my shoulders and pulled me back onto his cock. I lifted up onto my arms to help him and started rocking my ass back into him, taking him as deep into my ass as I could. His hot hard cock seemed to radiate heat throughout my ass as he fucked me. The smaller man then lay on the floor beside me and sliding under took my cock in his mouth. As the cock in my ass pushed me forward my cock would slide deeper into his mouth and soon the three of us were rocking back and forth in unison, moaning and groaning almost in harmony. I thought that it could get no better but then Rob stepped up and offered his now hardening cock to my mouth.
Here I was having my cock sucked, a huge cock fucking my ass and Rob's familiar cock pumping my mouth. I started cumming right away. As I tightened up and shot my load I could feel my ass squeeze that big cock and It started jerking in my ass. Soon he was cumming what seemed gallons up my ass and Rob was shooting his load down my throat.
We all collapsed after that and I took some time to clean up. They stayed until 6:00 that evening, fucking my mouth and ass, sometimes alone, sometimes in teams for most of the day until they could not get hard again. Rob certainly had surprised me but I think I got the birthday present.
This was my most exciting adventure and sums up my move from straight to bi bottom. I have had other adventures, some left out and some later and if the demand is there I will put them to paper also.
Let me check my list. I promised myself I wouldnt' buy any portable device until it was all the following in one.
Cell-Phone
Pager
mp3 player
digital camera
PDA
wireless networking enabled
touch-lcd screen interface w/color
Does it have wireless networking? If you look back I'm sure you can find the slashdot story where I asked for this and everyone said it would never happen. Sure it's got Windows on it, but who cares?
I'm poor now though, but I'll definitely be buying the second generation of these things no matter what. Holy crap!
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This is strikingly similar to the P800. I am not sure how they compare spec for spec, but the P800 is Microsoft free!. (It uses Symbian instead.) I was holding out for the P800 until I was able to get the T68i on Amazon for $25. Comparing just the looks, the P800 wins. Plus, it has a pad to flip over the screen so you can both protect it and dial with real buttons.
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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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i was going to get a panasonic gd88 until i discovered it didn't have portable Java... only thing it's missing though!
If its display is not colour, how will the victim er user see the BSOD? As if cell phones don't have enough troubles, now we will have "Sorry, my phone blue screened!"
These stuff are just imitations of the pogo device. www.pogo-tech.com.
I wonder why the pogo device never hit the US market, but maybe it was neither a success in the UK. anyway, looks like the same thing to me. Now, when are they going to release the new zaurus. I hope they still use linux on it.
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.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
...and notice it's not linked. I'd genuinely like to know what the dangers are of clicking on these links, now part of /. lore, (which is why I'm asking this here...), without actually going to whatever the site is. Anybody care to offer any enlightenment.
... it makes me wanna own one of these things, drink a new coke, drive a compact car-du-jour, and do all my clothes shopping at the gap.
Of course, following this I may need to upgrade my friends with some fresh-faced young dance-party hipsters but, hey, clearly sacrifices have to be made.
Shit, I wonder if they're going after a demographic?
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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.
For the second day in a row I clicked one of the buy.com banner ads and got:
The URL you requested from our site could not be found.
The page may have been moved during our site redesign, or it may no longer exist.
I have bought from them previously so the ad I saw seemed worth looking at. Oh well..
Yes you, with your ooberleet underground neo-hipster lifestyle. You're much cooler than those people, and nothing proves that better than your presence on slashdot.
I think it's great that not only are you a nonconformist, but you take time out of your day to deride those beneath you. How fuckin l33t is that, d00d?
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It's as much like a Treo as a Porche is like a bicycle. By your logic anything handheld with both PDA and phone functions is a Treo clone.
I own a Treo. It's a little early to tell, but my initial impression is that I'd much rather own one of these things.
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A Beowulf Cluster of These.
A Beowulf Cluster Imagines YOU.
Someone port Doom to one of these!
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Now when you encounter that annoying cell user they can have a photo reminder of where you had them shove their phone.
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For all of us lazy US folks, the phone is approx 3.5" by 2" by about 13/16" thick, and weighs around 3.2oz (for reference, an alkaline AA battery weighs about 0.85oz, so this thing weighs less than four AA batteries, 3.75 or so.)
Infosync has a pretty picture of this phone.
The small size is very tempting but I'm afraid that this is a case where small is too small. There is no physical keyboard or keypad -- one or the other is necessary for a real phone. The phone is also running Windows CE with a proprietary shell which means that it won't run PocketPC applications. In fact, little or no third-party applications are likely to be available unless it becomes very popular. It's storage (16MB with an SD slot) and battery life are nice.
I think I'll keep my Treo for now. But the Kyocera 7135 is a very nice alternative with a more traditional form factor.
Does this
And up your ass!
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.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
I disagree about the need for a physical keyboard/keypad. I find those tiny keys clunky and aesthetically unappealing--in fact they're the main reason why I refuse to invest in a PDA. The touchscreen makes for a bigger screen, and an economy and purity of design. And it offers more possibilities as a software feature than it would by being tied down to a specific hardware configuration. I think we've reached a kind of milestone as far as miniaturization/integration are concerned. With a bit of luck Apple is concocting something similar to this for its updated version of the Ipod or Digital Lifestyle Device.
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Technical Spec of Neonode N1:
GSM features:
GSM dual band mode 900/1800 MHz or 900/1900 MHz (US). GPRS Class 10. SIM card can be accessed without removing the battery.
Operating system:
Windows CE.NET version 4.1 running our own shell called "neoshell". We do not use Pocket PC or Smartphone 2002. Pocket PC use a minimum 240x320 pixel resolution and Smartphone 2002 requires a numerical keypad.
CPU:
96 MHz ARM 7
Display:
2.2" TFT LCD with 262140 colors (18 bit mode), 65535 colors (16 bit mode), 70 Hz frame rate, 176 (H)x 220 (V) pixels, 96 kb video ram. Touch screen with 4 navigation keys + YES and NO (Power on/off) buttons.
Memory:
16 Mb SDRAM, 73 MHz, 64 MB SD-Card included in price. Avaliable today: 512 MB.
Camera:
Built in camera with 640 x 480 pixels and 16M colors. QQVGA(160x120)/QVGA(320x240) and VGA mode(640x480). Continous recording 160x120 pixels at 15 frames per second to SDCard.
Audio:
Built in 1W speaker (for ring tones, conference calls etc) and receiver and microphone (for GSM talk). Built in connector for a stereo headset and microphone.
Audio Codec:
48/44/22/11 or 8 Khz, sampling rate, 8 or 16 bit stereo or mono. Mixer for GSM audio(input and output) and internal audio stream(input and output).
Communication:
12 Mbit USB Host function capable of 100mA/5V output to low power devices such as mouses, keyboards, joysticks..
12 Mbit USB Function communicating with PC or other Host simulating a serial port up to 12 MBit/sec (appears as a COM10 on PC). This port can also be used for Microsoft Acivesync 3.6.
115k, 1,1M and 4 Mbit multi mode IRDA port (This port can be used for Microsoft Activesync 3.6)
Remote Control Ir function for 36-44 KHz modulation mode simulating a TV Remote control up to 10 m.
Battery: 1100 mAh, 3.7V. Charge-time 2.5 hrs
Operating parameters:
Operating up to 10 hours for games/mp3 (Radio in standby), Talk time 4 hours and standby time up to 250 hours.
Size:
88x52x21 Weight: 93 g
Software:
Camera, Mediaplayer, File Manager, Address book, notepad, SMS, MMS, WAP-Browser, E-mail, Internet Explorer
In the windows world, .net signifies having to DL 12MB+ runtimes, and slow interpreted code instead of compiled.
so r they selling this device based on it using more of your ram for the OS and running slower than PPC2002?
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Slashdotters: "Boycott Microsoft! Bill Gates am teh DEVAL!!!! *sees smartphone* Ooooooh, pretty! Where can I get one?"
They're small enough please work on one of the following:
1) Increase durability - using the unit as a hockey puck with no worries would be nice. Waterproofing would be nice too.
2) Increase battery life - I know this isn't directly under your control, but invest in some startup battery companies or something
3) I really, really don't care for a camera, web browser, or even a color display. Just make it cheaper and watch as I buy myself and grandma one.
Agent Red, a fellow MAC user, said that this "vaguely insulted" him, although he "couldn't put his finger on why."
To explain why he feels so uneasy, and indeed to unveil the true plight of MAC users everywhere, I have taken it upon myself to draw the parallels between MAC users and the H.O.M.O.'s of the world:
Well, think about it:
They're ten percent of the population.
The object of their desire comes in rainbow colors.
They are constantly vocal about their preferences for fear of being snowed under by the rest of society.
When people try to get them to switch, they scream and yell about how it's the right thing for them and ask them to "try it just once and see if they like it."
Most of them have been this way for years; it's not a decision they just made overnight.
Although their functions are criticized, the moral majority STILL agree that they are tastefully designed, have an innate sense of colour, and are always on the leading edge of style and fashion.
Too, they are often emulated by the majority with thinly-veiled knockoffs of their style.
And, no matter how we are begged and pleaded, no matter how they may tear their families apart with the shame and stigma of their choice (and some still say it was never a choice!), still they'll never change them.
Finally, their biggest and most visible supporters are in San Francisco.
It's official: Apparently, all Macintosh users are honorary homosexuals.
FAGGOTS !
More info at http://www.gmug.org/
I don't know... a touch screen in my pocket, together with the car keys... It must be a tough touch screen to survive that!
-- Cheers!
I went to the company's website and searched as much as I could, and I
could not find one lick of technical info. Their flash doesn't load up on
Mozilla and when I used a winders box, the flash was very unpolished. If you
go to the corp HTML part of the site they have a zip file with 3 press photos,
Infosync posted one.
The photos all have retouched screens and it's clear that the phone in the
pictures is simply a mockup. The hole for the USB jack at the bottom is empty
and there is no SD port on the side. Also, there is an interesting texture
to the case, almost like it was hand made and painted.
The major issues for me are no detailed specs and the fact that they list no
pricing and the featureset is too unrealistic. If you go and actually look
at all the phones with which they are comparing, they are all significantly
larger. The reason is due to functionality. The spec they released for the
battery was 1100mah, this is 50% more than the competing phones which are
larger; how did they magically increase the power density? Why would Nokia
settle for 750mah if these people can make a 1100mah battery?
For a company that is supposed to release a major telephone product, they are
conspicously unrefined on the website, lacking in details, and rather ambitious
with specs. Hell, they said they were only making 1000 units! That is a
paltry number of units when you take into account that an importer in the UK
has 40,000 Nokia 7650 phones (comparable) sitting in stock ready to ship
to somewhere else in the world!
I smell vaporware and a BS job, they don't even have a press release on their
website!
Nokia is the one of the few companies that have always had usable phones that never crash.
The hardware spec below was posted in Neonodes forum FAQ section. It has a 1100mAh battery that will get you 10h of MP3 time which sounds great but the talktime is only 4h. My fully charged T68 claims 11h talktime whit it's 700mAh battery so the radio part is probably not the most efficient in the word. A couple of other interesting flaws has come up in the forum. It has no vibrator function and apparently the touch screen is more like a glidepad, it has no per pixel sensitivity so handwriting recognition is probably out of the question.
All in all it looks like an almost perfect phone that will be out in limited release in february (only about 1000 units!). After that the plan is that the phone will be marketed by the service providers since Neonode is a very small company (only 15 people) that don't have the resources themselves.
We probably have not seen the real camera phones from the big manufaturers yet, just communicator models like the Nokia 7650 and SonyEricsson P800. I'm expecting something like the N1 from all of them. They at least has to compete with the Panasonic GD87 and similar.
But I would be extatic if the little guy would suceed, it's allways fun with new competition to shake things up.
GSM features:
GSM dual band mode 900/1800 MHz or 900/1900 MHz (US). GPRS Class 10. SIM card can be accessed without removing the battery.
Operating system:
Windows CE.NET version 4.1 running our own shell called "neoshell". We do not use Pocket PC or Smartphone 2002. Pocket PC use a minimum 240x320 pixel resolution and Smartphone 2002 requires a numerical keypad.
CPU:
96 MHz ARM 7
Display:
2.2" TFT LCD with 262140 colors (18 bit mode), 65535 colors (16 bit mode), 70 Hz frame rate, 176 (H)x 220 (V) pixels, 96 kb video ram. Touch screen with 4 navigation keys + YES and NO (Power on/off) buttons.
Memory:
16 Mb SDRAM, 73 MHz, 64 MB SD-Card included in price. Avaliable today: 512 MB.
Camera:
Built in camera with 640 x 480 pixels and 16M colors. QQVGA(160x120)/QVGA(320x240) and VGA mode(640x480). Continous recording 160x120 pixels at 15 frames per second to SDCard.
Audio:
Built in 1W speaker (for ring tones, conference calls etc) and receiver and microphone (for GSM talk). Built in connector for a stereo headset and microphone.
Audio Codec:
48/44/22/11 or 8 Khz, sampling rate, 8 or 16 bit stereo or mono. Mixer for GSM audio(input and output) and internal audio stream(input and output).
Communication:
12 Mbit USB Host function capable of 100mA/5V output to low power devices such as mouses, keyboards, joysticks..
12 Mbit USB Function communicating with PC or other Host simulating a serial port up to 12 MBit/sec (appears as a COM10 on PC). This port can also be used for Microsoft Acivesync 3.6.
115k, 1,1M and 4 Mbit multi mode IRDA port (This port can be used for Microsoft Activesync 3.6)
Remote Control Ir function for 36-44 KHz modulation mode simulating a TV Remote control up to 10 m.
Battery: 1100 mAh, 3.7V. Charge-time 2.5 hrs
Operating parameters:
Operating up to 10 hours for games/mp3 (Radio in standby), Talk time 4 hours and standby time up to 250 hours.
Size:
88x52x21 Weight: 93 g
Software:
Camera, Mediaplayer, File Manager, Address book, notepad, SMS, MMS, WAP-Browser, E-mail, Internet Explorer
Arch those sexy feet and rub them on by dick!!
Ladies, give any man in your life a footjob for no reason (foot jobs arent monogamous sexual acts, merely alot of fun.
Did you see those hot chicks on the front of the phone? I wonder if I can get their number ;)
-- Probability does not dismiss possibility --
hmpf, if it was Ericsson they would have used Linux! :) :D
like I would use a cell phone that runs win.. I don't want a BSOD when I'm talking to my friends
Am I the only one who thinks this looks a little suspicious? First of all, the perspective on the "photos" is different. For example, the three white buttons on the bottom of the screen are various sizes among the three photos. Secondly, there is a distinct drop shadow on the left hand side of the screen on the first one. Not to mention the cheesy depth of field blur.
How about the red glow on the "metal" around the screen, even where there is no red? Also, the device looks like it has some underlighting in the first photo, and taking the other lighting angles into account this would have to be floating.
Now let's move on to the obviously pasted in UI screens. Overlay some POV lines, and they clearly don't even fit into the angles of the device. I think the third one is the most blatant. Look on the right side of the screen. On the bottom of the device, the screen goes all the way to the edge, but closer to the top there is a noticeable gap.
Now, the device is supposed to have a 220 pixel tall screen. The SMS text on the last one is about 1/3 of the total height. So, 6 lines of text (plus padding) leaves you roughly 7-8 pixels for each character. That doesn't look like a 7-8 pixel font.
Not bad for 3DS Max. Isn't Wired still taking submissions for 2002 vaporware?
And this thing is a tad small. Perhaps for some people it'd be nice, but once you're older than about 7, that thing is just too small to easily use.
And that touchscreen doesn't seem like the best interface.
http://www.competencepress.com/kista/competence.ph p?ArtId=1614 (in Swedish) has interesting info about the company and product. Radio/network is from Texas Instruments, MS provides to OS. The company has a total of 15 people, but none of them are getting salary. I just wonder if they have the resources to pull this through..
...does that sound like a manga title or what? ;-)
What's with the girls gone wild pictures on the phone?
http://www.i4u.com/images/neonode1.jpg
This isn't going to be one of those tiny vibrating phones that get "stuck" in certain unmentionable places is it?
I agree with the first stop whining. Slashdot has always posted info on the latest-and-greatest gadgets and that's one of the reasons I come here.
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This phone is no different and belongs on
Palm is dying on the PDA front as companys are convenced that Windows is better.
But on the cell phone Palm is growing in popularity.
This is a repeate of history.
Pen tops come in Microsoft pushes out the Pen Windows os on a 'tablet pc' that is entirely too expensive and nowhere near what people wanted.
It never makes it into the mass market.
Of all the pentop failures PenWin was the biggest.
Palm is successful in transforming the idea into todays pda and succesdfully captures the market.
Microsoft eventually creates WinCe to have it trampled. But at lest they got it out.
Still it takes years of stagnation of Palm and FUD from Microsoft plus an ecconomic down turn before users actually consider Pocket PCs. The drop in price was key to making this happen.
And Linux PDAs are also making a hit.
But the road to mass introduction is a long rough one.
Palm smartly recognises Palm os must move to the cell phone to survive.
Smart cell phones still need to be cheap. After all the hardware the computer needs to be less than $100. Palm os can go there Windows can not.
Eventually Microsoft will offer a number of poor designed cell phone oses giving WinCellphones the image of 'expensive defective brick'. People will depict the 1980's brick cell phones as 2003 Win Cells even thow Win phones will be in the ounces vs the bricks pounds.
Still all this makes Microsoft look trite to the manager who might not know enough to see WinNT defects but will recognise Win Cell defects and can see for himself that palm os is better.
Then Microsoft will forge a high end market where they can sell cellphones. Thats when Linux enters the market and scoops it up. Evetually palm os will die or move into the next big thing. Moving on is the most likely.
Then Linux will have a number of sereous compeditors who eventually push windows cell phoned off the market and punch a hole in Linux.
Linux and Windows move on to the next big thing. Palm os (or someone else) dose it right. Linux will be off but not by much. Windows in the market will be a joke.
Then comes the FUD... and the rebuttles from Slashdot, Business week and many other Tech or business related news entitys.
Each new statement by Balmer becomes a mem like 'all your base' to laugh at.
"Supper cell delux is the best thing we ever made" - Steve B
'I belive it' - annon Biz week poster.
I don't actually exist.
Dont want my phone to crash the ways my pc does. please take windows outta my phone.
Never fails to surprise me... do business with the devil thnking that you are going to do well.
d _t op
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