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Nokia 7600 All-in-One Phone

Posted by michael on from the no-kitchen-sink dept.

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."

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  1. Ugly, not designed for human use... by Fnkmaster · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Sorry, but I want a cell phone with PDA capabilities, not a PDA with cell phone capabilities, and certainly not a weird square looking communicator device.


    By far my favorite so far is the Samsung SPH-i500 (see it here), and it's upcoming successor, the SGH-i500, which will be the GSM version, with Palm OS 5 and other goodies.


    This is what I've been waiting for, for some time - a cell phone, with a Palm OS PDA built in, and complete integration between the two. You can manage one address book, click on your Palm address book and dial from there, search Zagat.com with a Palm web browser to find restaurants while walking the streets of New York, and pretty much do all the stuff I've always wanted to do with a PDA, but couldn't because it didn't have an internet connection, and getting one added on was too bulky/expensive, and browsing on your cell phone was waaaay too awkward for anything other than the simplest polling of your email to see any new subject lines, maybe reading a short email from a friend.


    The CNET reviews are definitely mixed, but I spent an hour or two playing with my friend's SPH-i500 and I'm totally hooked. Now I just need to convince myself to spend 600 bucks on it, after my last large PDA expenditure on a Clie that I use once every month or two.

  2. People have no clue when they say ALL IN ONE! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 3, Interesting
    When a phone/watch/whatever can do what Keysuite v2.1 does on the Palm OS, wake me up and maybe I'll take a look. And no, basic calendar and todo list are NOT enough for people in the real world who make money with their time (sales, office execs, etc, especially sales and self employed people). Having contacts in multiple catagories, viewing all past/present/future activities and todos for a contact, associating contacts with referrals and companies, etc, all that makes the difference between making a sale and letting a prospect slip through the cracks. For homework and chillin' wit Yo 133t kewl crew, ok. But for professionals the cal and todo and contact list on cell phones, even the new combo phones, is a joke.

    For anyone who lives and dies by their palm, take a look at KeySuite. It blows everything else away. The sync NEVER fails and it can have as many cals, address books, and todo's as you want, even from public exchange folders! YES! MULTIPLE!

    PS. I am no shill. I just LOVE that program. And every time I hear that "SomethingXYZ(TM) can replace your palm!" I fear my time is being wasted by a reviewer who is younger than than Palm OS itself.

  3. Re:New Ugly Duckling by Zebbers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You need to buy the Nokia headset, nokia did not conform to the bluetooth headset specs.

    The 3650 isnt really ugly...its shaped like a normal celly and really the only unorthodox thing is the keypad, which doesn't take much to get used to and is actually good for typing with t9.

    Its larger than average cell phones but not larger than ones of the past. I went from a Mitsubishi t250 to the 3650 and the nokia was lighter.

    And...the beauty of gsm is the sim card. just buy a smaller more compact 'normal' phone for the times you just need that.