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New Ultra-Mobile Smartphone Neonode N1

Posted by timothy on from the smallness dept.

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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  1. WHat?? by jericho4.0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's hard to get details out of that silly flash site, but I did find this gem on the 'business' site;

    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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  2. Screen size is still too small... by dagg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Screen size is still too small... by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 4, Funny

      I agree, it is ridiculous. The screen is 220x176, the start button on windows XP is 99x32. That means about 10% of the screen is taken up by just [Start], I dread to think how much is left after you add the 'My Cellphone' icon, the clock, etc.

  3. Weird SMS conversation by Malfourmed · · Score: 5, Funny
    Has anyone noticed the SMS conversation here (last picture)? It appears to go something like this:

    Hello. Are you going to school today? Mom

    NO! I am going to John's place

    OK. See you later :)

    Wish my mom was that understanding...

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  4. Cell phones are great and all by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  5. SonyEricsson P800 by thefinite · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  6. The flash site is just so cool... by Nathdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... 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?

  7. Unit conversions... by bedessen · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.)