Nokia 7700 - "Multimedia Terminal"

howler.fi writes "Nokia today announced a Series 90 -based "multimedia terminal", the Nokia 7700. It's not really a phone or a PDA, but something inbetween. The device sports nicely sized 65k touch screen and the usual features you'd expect from a device like this. Should offer interesting competition for the Sony-Ericsson P900, though the 7700 is not expected to ship until Q2/04."

Comments

Nice try, but it's no Sidekick

[ChaoticChaos]

I keep waiting for a device that has the functionality of my T-Mobile Sidekick (IM, email, web browsing, phone, scheduler, notes, etc.) that is as thoughtfully made (screen flips up to reveal a solid thumb-board and every bit of data I enter is automatically backed up on T-Mobile's servers) that is anywhere close to the price point ($300).

I bet this Nokia device is plenty expensive and I could send out an email 10 times faster with my Sidekick thumb-board than you could peck one out with the stylus on this device (if you could find your stylus ;-) ).

http://www.t-mobile.com/products/overview.asp?ph on eid=195184

Phones.. now with television

[Anonymous Coward]

According to Reuters there's television as well..

TheFeature's coverage

[haunebu]

There's a bit more info about the Nokia 7700 available on TheFeature as well.

Re:Sega Game Gear

[Anonymous Coward]

There already is a TV tuner for it..

The Nokia 7700 will also support the Nokia Streamer SU-6 accessory, the first mobile IP Datacast receiver designed to demonstrate the mobile phone television experience using the DVB-H network. The Nokia Streamer can be attached to the Nokia 7700 like a battery pack, and will be used in pilot projects to showcase the future of digital broadcasting on mobile devices.

This is from the press release .

Re:The Form Factor is all wrong

[Kunta Kinte]

i assume like the N-Gage and 3300 you have to remove the back and the battery to swap cards.

To swap memory you mean?

I played with an N-Gage once. Note, you do not have to remove the battery to swap a game. You had to remove the back and battery IIRC to change the memory card. The the memory I think is understandable since I guess you'd only swap memory cards once in a while.

All in all, the machine was a lot cooler than the impression I got from slashdot.

Re:The Form Factor is all wrong

[FRiC]

N-Gage games come on the same type of cards as the memory card (MMC). So to play these special N-Gage games, you not only have to remove the battery, you have to swap the memory card with the game card.

Re:Q for Nokia/Cell geek

[Acrobat]

The term 'Series XX' refers a specification that groups frameworks which provide a common programming base and physical similarities. That way a developer who wants to make an application or service will develop it according to the Series specification, thus making his software compatible with all the terminals that follow that specification.

So, all Series 60 devices wil have the same operating system (Symbian OS), same screen size and same user interface. Series 60 is recognized as the "Smartphone" specification.

Series 40 and 30 refer to devices with less capabilities. If you want detailed specification in this subject I recommend you go to: http://forum.nokia.com

Re:Q for Nokia/Cell geek

[ecki]

Here you go:

• Series 40: Nokia proprietary OS
• Series 60: Symbian OS based, one-handed operation, UI developed by Nokia, licensed to other OEMs
• Series 80: Symbian OS based, keyboad-centric, closest to the original Symbian/EPOC world
• Series 90: Symbian OS based, PDA-centric (pen input), UI developed by Nokia

As you see, everything but Series 40 is Symbian-based. That means that applications which are UI-independent can be used across S60-S90. Otherwise, a UI adaption layer is necessary.

Within say Series 60, applications should in most cases be binary compatible between models from different vendors.

The naming scheme for Nokia cell phones is not helping here at all. It seems rather random to me, the only thing you can count on seems to be a zero at the end.

Re:The Form Factor is all wrong

[haunebu]

If you really need to wedge the thing between your shoulder and your chin, you're screwed. In such case you really should be using a handsfree (Bluetooth or wired), or the speakerphone anyway. I haven't seen anyone wedge their mobile phone like that in the last few years anyway, since most are too small to hold that way. That's like trying to hold your wallet between your shoulder and your chin - not gonna work, and extremely uncomfortable.

64MB of internal RAM is plenty for a Symbian device! It's far more than any other has had to date, and four times as much as the last Nokia Communicator (9210i) had. 64MB is par for the course when using a Pocket PC, but that's absolutely massive for a Symbian unit. You're right about the 128MB MMC cards though, that stinks. Nokia should really be using the SD card format - which is cheaper and more expansive.

Your iPod is far and away the best mobile music player out there, but this thing is in a different league. It's got EDGE (384Kbps) capability, and a full Opera browser. It's got a digital TV receiver for Christ's sake. Nothing else compares at the moment.

Re:infoSync's coverage

[Anonymous Coward]

OK other stuff... This uses an OMAP CPU/DSP it will have hardware accelerated video, sound and OpenGL graphics. The MMC is hot swappable from the side, MP3, 3GPP, and Real Media plus the TV Adapter. Mobile Opera rocks. Touch screen is nice. Its multitasking it good. This is the n-gage done RIGHT.

I work for the elves, and I have used an early hardware version.

Re:Interesting form factor

[haunebu]

Yep, it's a taco. But it's not that bad, actually.