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Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone
Barence writes "Nokia has revamped its E-series of business-oriented smartphones with two new models, including the 'world's thinnest' QWERTY device. The GPS-enabled E71 is the slimmer successor to the Nokia E61, with a thickness of only 1cm. It's HSDPA-enabled, offers switchable home screens, and gives a claimed 'two full days of heavy, heavy use.' The E66, on the other hand, is a slide-phone with a conventional numerical keypad and a built-in accelerometer. At the same event, Nokia also gave a tantalizing hint about its plans for an iPhone rival, with its senior vice president saying, 'we will have touchscreen devices coming this year.'"
there was a *much* older nokia phone with a slide that exposed a good size keyboard, a friend of mine used it quite a bit to keep an eye on a large serverfarm.
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here is an image of what the phone looked like:
http://www.mobileburn.com/media/nokia/9300/9300_open-IMG_9425.jpg
also there is this old
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I was wondering about this -- my Blackberry Curve (8310) doesn't actually feel like it's thicker than 1cm. So I looked it up -- it's 0.91cm thick (0.36"). How is the F71, if it really is 1cm thick, the world's thinnest?
AT&T will carry this phone, according to this
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Well, the iPhone is a great --- kidding! :)
;)
The E70 looks pretty good. I had its predecessor (the 6822) for a while and quite liked even that.
There's also a good review here.
I do happen to think the iPhone is great, but if you want a good keyboard, it's probably not what you want, and I found that the fold out keyboard seemed easier for me to use than most on mobiles.
Tweet, tweet.
I've got an LG Voyager and it's got the row for numbers.
Sony Ericsson has one with normal keyboard.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/seethephone/x1?cc=is&lc=is
(actual keyboard changer/driver)
;)
http://nokia-9210-software.epocware.com/InterKey.html , it is very old but proves that it can be done on Symbian.
http://www.soft32.com/download_159680.html
"PopOnTop Keyboard 1.05
Pop the keyboard on top at the click of a side button. Keyboard layouts from Qwerty to Dvorak, full screen or part, large keys or small, upright or sideways - even design your own!"
I bet there are better solutions but it is really hard to find "Dvorak" in mobile phone thanks to that guy named Dvorak.
That is the bonus of being able to install anything you like unlike some other device claims to be smart
The Nokia E70 had a row for numbers, and much more. This device sucks in comparison. I only got a cursory look at TFA, but it looks like they are selling out on their own innovations and going with the stupid blackberry look.
Here is the current version.
If you were a good mod, you'd mod him flamebait for "cock sucking", "ass-licking", and "chumps". If you can substitute brands and still feel slightly offended, it is probably flamebait.
Yes, the data sheet clearly states GPS and A-GPS (GPS assisted with tower data to get initial fix).
Calling cell tower approximation (what Google Maps uses on phones with no real GPS) any kind of "GPS" would clearly be false advertising and just calling for trouble.
This is not Nokias first GPS model either, they routinely seem to put GPS on their new models. What really interests me how good is it. If initial fix takes minutes it is basically useless for quick "was the address I'm going to on this block or the next one"-type of usage. N95 (at least the early firmwares, I'm not sure if the newer ones have A-GPS) was terrible in this respect and keeping the GPS always on was not an option either because of the increased battery drain.
You can use Ctrl-I instead of TAB key on E61 (at least in putty).
Nice flame. You forgot to mention that the iPhone has only 5% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that represents only a small fraction of the mobile phone market.
Is it a good phone? Sure. Is it a way better phone than anything Nokia sells? No.
Are Nokia getting "a little desperate"? laugh.
Nokia have three times the annual revenue that Apple do, and a similar profit margin. Apple should be thanking Nokia for the skill and talent they've employed to create a market for Apple to move into.
I'm looking forward to seeing Nokia's offerings towards the end of the year. I'll also have a play with a new iPhone.
You see, I do think differently, and better. I think beyond the shiny marketing message rammed down my throat.
Most wireless phones in the Nokia's N series beat the iPhone feature by feature, it's just that Nokia's marketing department in the US seems incapable of getting this across to anyone.
There's this:
http://www.pocketputty.net/
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It is simple. US carriers have entered into a devils bargain with the subsidized phones for contracts. The carriers demand control over their networks and more importantly will only carry phones that are bad enough that people will be desperate to upgrade them 2 years later. This has created a cadre of American mobile users who are more interested in initial capital cost rather than technical quality and low price service for the duration. Also because the 4 carriers (read not a free market) are terrified of free WiFi combined with VoIP. This means they will not carry phones that will support WiFi and VoIP. Iphone you think, um well they have locked down a BSD based phone so it cannot multitask for the simple reason they do not want a VoIP app resident in memory. In fact Skype has refused to release mobile versions because they "cannot guarantee quality of service over mobile networks." in a world with WiFi enabled phones this is a lie has illustrated by Fring et al.
This comes to the basic fact that WiFi if implemented freely and openly (let alone WiMax) could be the end of mobile phone service for most metropolitan users. Imagine a world without channels in the spectrum just one open cloud from top to bottom, imagine multi-spectrum chipsets and antennas that could be peer to peer nodes relaying from phone to tower etc until it reaches the nearest fiber. Imagine each peer buying an selling service as needed from any other node on the network, each peer interaction based on a system of free market a micro payments for the bridging service. Once again oligopoly cripples technology for pricing.