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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."
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??
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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?
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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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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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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... 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?
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
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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