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Phone lust

December 13, 2006 on 11:36 pm |
Categories: google, technology
Tags: google, technology

I am very happy with my current mobile phone (the Nokia E61, a.k.a. the BlackBerry killer). It does everying, and very well. It does all my email; I can blog from it; it’s a great calendar/to-do system; it has a GameBoy emulator; it has WiFi; it runs Google Maps Mobile; it has an SSH client; it’s built very sturdily; and apparently it’ll even make phone calls.

The one thing that I would improve about it is that it doesn’t have any kind of camera. I suppose the rationale for this is that it’s aimed at business/government, where trade secrets and suchlike may be an issue. And omitting a camera allows the phone to be a bit slimmer.

Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks that the E61 suffers from this oversight. I hear that there’s an E61i in the works, the main difference being a camera. Tempting, so tempting…

Nokia E65 and E61i details:

Nokia have added a number of user agent profile files to their website including ones for the as yet unannounced Nokia E61i and Nokia E65 models. Careful reading of the user agent profiles reveals that both devices run on S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS 9.1. The E61i appears to be a tweaked version of the E61. Changes from the E61 include the addition of a camera and a change to the MicroSD memory card format. Read on for more.

(Via All About Symbian - News).