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Nokia 7600 All-in-One Phone
prostoalex writes "The new Nokia 7600, reviewed by people at MobileMag is a 3G/GSM phone with radically new design and built-in functionality of an MP3 player, multimedia browser and digital camera. The phone supports WCDMA as well as GSM 900/1800. Some pictures of the product are available at Nokia's site. This is perhaps Nokia's first attempt to marry mobile phone and PDA in a lightweight and thin formfactor."
You're breaking up! Can you hear me now? Hello? Can you heare me? Hello?
Aw screw it, I'll just sit here and snap pictures or play a lame game!
Does anyone else thinks this looks like a $600 football?
Makes me feel a little better for buying the 3650. Now I own the second ugliest phone in the universe.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." - Jack Nicholson
"The Suppository"
well, i wouldn't say that it failing to resemble a PDA necessarily makes it ugly, but yes, it certainly is. it looks vaguely like a simon (that's what that game is called) designed by someone who's read one too many ikea catalogs.
but this leads to an interesting question: what really is the ideal form factor for a PDA/phone? does it necessarily resemble something we've seen before? is the clamshell/ST: OS model the right direction?
the nokia designers appear to think that the compact CD player is a reasonable format but it's unwieldy, would be hard to hold to your ear for any period of time, and if you answer a phone too fast, you stand a chance of KOing yourself. i can just see it now:
[ring]
"doh!" [as owner accidentally smites self]
you know, i hope this thing is popular: maybe that way, my train ride will be quieter...
ed
I'm reminded of a quote I heard on Dr. Katz once (I believe the guest was Jon Stewart), "Wow, a futon, great! During the day it's an uncomfortable couch and at night, it's an even more uncomfortable bed!" Why make things crappier, just to put them together?
The main reason is that no, they are not small enough to be insignificant. I need my front right pocket for my keys and my front left pocket for my Treo and the back pockets break things when I sit down, where could I possibly put another device?
Aah, young 'un. Time was, back in my day, that phones were all circular dials like the 3650, and it was these bizarre three-in-a-row pads that were the weird ones.
Well...that's only just true - I'm not that old really. However, I was certainly around to see the dying days of the circular dials in the mid-to-late 1970s. Back then, men were men, women were women, small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri and phones were real phones. They were made of bakelite, had clicking dialing mechanisms and sported proper bells inside. An important side effect was that they were also heavy enough to be used as a decent murder weapon.
Not sure about this new thingy, but the recent 3650 just resurrected the good old days.
Cheers,
Ian
Pager ...
Cell phone
PDA
If I get one more device for my belt I qualify for a big yellow belt buckle the shape of a BAT.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
Do you really want to ask that question here?
Hey! Some of us have been waiting ages for an ashtray-mini TV hybrid!
Seriously tho'... hold one of these to your head to talk and you're half way to owning a set of Spock ears.
Actually, here in the UK where hands free kits are becoming increasingly common, there's a corollary to this - when you actually do get some disturbed character walking down the street ranting to himself, nobody pays any attention as they assume he's just on the phone to someone...
In Sovie^H^H^H^H^H Europe, Pager + Cell Phone equals "Mobile Phone".
.sig? No.
Looks more like a $600 contraceptive case.
If it becomes availble in pink, the young ladies can make a frantic dash to answer that important call only to discover they're answering a rubber diaphragm!
We're almost there...with bluetooth interfaces to implanted cochlear implants, and to visual cortex direct neural simulation stimulators, we can do away with the clumsy spinal taps with which Neo and friends have to put up.
Now, if we can just figure out how to teach the damn things to be suspicious of new acquaintances, we can beat the Borg via free-market alternatives to the one, monopolizing collective!
Well, my mobile is always set to Depeche Mode.
Hm? Why yes, it plays mp3s.