[Judge_Fire]

The upcoming Nokia 9500 Communicator looks kinda promising. I've been putting off getting a new phone/pda for years, annoyed by how features have been fragmented into different phones. But now:

- WLAN(!)/Bluetooth/EDGE/GPRS
- VGA camera
- Symbian OS, so lotsa apps, like Opera (xhtml browser) and Office compatibility
- Qwerty keyboard
- 640 x 200 widescreen (nice for web pages)

So it's missing the new air messaging feature, but otherwise it seems quite nice. Should be nice for moblogging and even command-line SQL via SSH (lol I even did it with a 6600, oh the pain).

More info at MobileBurn and Nokia.

Any takers?

J

[Timo]

I just got a 6600 (modern for the US) and it seems pretty good. This 9500 would really need to hit it out of the park for me to trade up, and isync would need to be smoother than the current symbian situation.

[Randman]

I've had a 6600 since they came out (got my in Singapore). It works with iSync perfectly.

[Talk2Angus]

Sound good to me!!!!!!!!!!!11

[Talk2Angus]

Sounds good to me

[Judge_Fire]

I used a 6600 for a week, and while very good IMHO, it was exactly the lack of a qwerty KB and sufficient screen size that I ran into daily.

It has good features and underlying functionality, but _because_ of that potential I got frustrated by having to access/view it through such a limited UI.

This new communicator seems to remedy both issues - we'll see.


I hope they can also cram vibration in, I'm not used to a ringing phone. For some reason the structure of a 6600 can handle it, while the communicators supposedly can't?


Oh and anyone know a Symbian based AIM client? There were news about a Symbian/AOL deal a year ago, but anything come out of it? With Wifi, it might even be 'trivial' on the 9500.

J

[Judge_Fire]

Originally posted by Randman:
I've had a 6600 since they came out (got my in Singapore). It works with iSync perfectly.

When I tested one this year, I couldn't get Address Book to notify me of incoming calls or SMS messages Perhaps 10.3.4 has fixed this?

J

[Timo]

Originally posted by Randman:
I've had a 6600 since they came out (got my in Singapore). It works with iSync perfectly.

I keep finding comments like this online, but I find (as do a number of people over in the Apple support fora) that some synching is problematic. In my case the calender will synch once but updates to it don't seem to register; and anyway the 6600 doesn't recognize categories assigned in iCal. Address book seems to sync OK.

Also, when I sync I often get some message that my Powermac can't find the Nokia 6600, and that the whole thing didn't work, when in fact some of the sync might have worked, and some of it might have not worked. Not what I'd call "perfect."

[mitchell_pgh]

Very cool, very large.

[f1000]

Impressive, but too bulky for me.

[Judge_Fire]

Well, it's smaller than the previous communicator generations

Honestly, I don't mind the size as I'm not a shirt-pocket kinda user anyway. I was ok with this sized phones 10 years ago, I can live with 'em now. But sure, I'll be first in line for roll-out screens when they arrive.

J

[Sealobo]

I believe that thing will get quite popular in Russia, cuz Russian got some serious big hands. I remember some mad Russian pianist can stroke two piano keys 15 slot away with one hand.

[velodev]

I'll stick with my Treo 600.

And when it gets updated with Bluetooth, I'll stick with "whatever that name it".

[Judge_Fire]

Originally posted by velodev:
I'll stick with my Treo 600.

I've never seen one on sale here , only heard of some rare imports.

Is the web browser any good?

J

[velodev]

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
I've never seen one on sale here , only heard of some rare imports.

Is the web browser any good?

J

It's Blazer. I find it to to be a lot better than PocketPC IE when it comes to formatting sites. There are a couple better browsers for Palms in which I use as backups. Blazer has a hard-coded proxy and sometimes it is down.