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Nokia Announces 7710 PDA/GPS/Internet Phone
Tufriast writes "The Register has an interesting article on
Nokia's internet ready/GPS/PDA ultra phone. It boasts music playing capabilities and features the Series 90 Software. Its attractiveness, and 'No side-talking' (NGage) capacity alone makes it a handy utensil."
Always have to dissapoint me, don't ya? The GPS is an ADD-ON... BFD.
There are too many devices like this available already. Sure, some of the specs are nice (screen/camera resolution), but again, no mention of the browser supporting JavaScript.
This phone uses the Series 90 system (the only phone to do so), which has shelved as of yesterday. See this Reuters article:N ews&storyID=6698762
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=top
Blame the US mobile providers. They don't buy them.
If you have T-Mobile you can just buy the Asian or European version and it will work (since their network is 100% 1900Mhz). With Cingular you could use that version but you won't be able to use it very many place since most of the network is 850Mhz.
I got my 7610 from Singapore. It rocks and was well worth the $380.
HAL 7000, fewer features than the HAL 9000, but just as homicidal!
I have been using 7700 and 7710 as long as they have existed in the internal Nokia line. As you can find out of my posting history. I was touting 7700 features to all the world as I loved the features but hated the hardware desing. Nokia finally made the same decision and 7700 was reserved only for internal partner usage. Not another N-Cage sidetalkin' fiasco!
Now that I have got to use 7710 as my primary phone for a few months and seen the software improve in quality gradually I must say this is my absolute favourite phone/pda ever. You have to account in that I haven't been using any other PDA's all that much. Only some SonyEricsson (P800 et. al.)and generic WinCE products (I'm a contractor).
What I use it for...
I kill time on almost 1hr bus rides to work reading slashdot with the Opera web browser.
I read my emails using SSL encrypted communications with my server. (SSL on top of Exim and uw-imapd, please don't impale me for my servers of choise. I just like them)
The contacts and calendar functions are pretty flexible too. It's just that I don't manage my time too much. It's handy when it reminds me about appointment which I have synchronized in.
I don't like the handwriting regognition too much because I have terrible handwriting which I can't decipher myself. The virtual keyboard does the job thou. I could write faster with a real keyboard, but nothing in the VKB itself isn't keeping me from typing faster.
Sometimes I make phonecalls too!
I guess that's all. There's a ton of features but even as an 'insider' I haven't touched many of them.
Anyway, you can consider this post as paid advertisement by Nokia because I am contracted to them ATM.
Simple the best! (Exactly the same phrase I used to describe P800 when it was still in proto stage)
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The only carrier who will touch 900/1800/1900 phones is T-Mobile. Cingular/ATTWS haven't used a non-850MHz phone for a long time. So while you might see it here, the chances of picking it up at the reduced price that carriers charge for phones is slim.
"My head hurts, My feet stink, and I dont love Jesus." -Jimmy Buffett
...can't wait to get my hands on it!
:)). And a display very nice for reading books.
After a nice experience with 3650 (which is of similar size, btw), I tried to select which cell phone would best fit my needs, and I just couldn't find one. 7610 comes close, but it's sound sucks. Sendo X is a good alternative, but with a VGA camera it's kind of limited (the led flash is nice, though). P900 (and P910) is very nice, but, again limited camera and sound. Same goes for Treo 600 (and 650). Others have too little memory, etc.
So, what does 7710 brings? Stylus-input. Radio. Stereo sound. Megapixel camera. Enough memory to run Doom (and load my DVD collection...
So, how to dial? I don't know about you, but I have been dialing most of the time through voice or the contacts application on my last three phones, so I don't expect 7710's awkward dialing to trouble me much.
(8-DCS)
From only two days ago:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/03/12572
It runs Symbian OS, so it can be programmed with SymbianOS' native language (C++). It also supports Java and MIDP 2.0
My $0.02
Check out http://suunto.com They have watches with compass, GPS, Heart rate monitor, altimeter, barometer, .... Now. That's nice and all. But when they add basic phone into it, that's killer.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Symbian is not Linux.
Symbian is the evolution of the Epoc operating system developed by Psion for their Series 5/5mx/7/revo and netbook hand held computers.
Psion spun off Symbian as a subsidiary to do OS development and eventually sold all of its shares in Symbian, which is now owned mostly by Nokia,and Sony-Ericsson.
The premise of Symbian was to be an OS which never required rebooting, crash or hang, and would multitask while conserving battery power, as well as have a small memory footprint. Traits which were suited to a handheld computer and are ideal to a PDA or cell phone.
Not crashing is what allows you to be confident you can make that 911 call.
The no-rebooting characteristic is important so that your PDA could turn on instantly from a suspend mode.
Multitasking lets you be productive and use multiple applications at the same time, unlike PALM OS which must relaunch and close an application each time you want to do something else.
No one has a right to their *own* opinion. They have a right to the TRUTH.