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with both pen and keyboard input but no pictures
Nokia to unwrap the new communicator!!!!
i'm soooooooooo very curious how it looks 😃
Simply brilliant!
Keyboard & pin input! I love both! 😃
As I read today, the new communicator should be available in May 2004. My P800 warrenty will run out by then, perfect timing 😃
Can't wait !
So it's Hildon instead of Hilden?
Can't wait...
You betcha!😃
I dnt care wat it looks, coz im sure as hell that it wud be great!
and as long as it stil has d full size keyboard! & all the other cool features & ups wed bin dreamin of havin, rest asured its gud news for most of us!😃 😃
Any news thus far?
Hopefully at this press release at 11am CET 😊 Just a shame I'm in a course then.
Rafe and Ewan should be there to give us the lowdown 😉
Well, is there another event we can look forward to another announcement? Or that's it?
Well, that was the biggest anti-climax of the century... P900, here I come.
Well from what ive heard from a Nokia guy is that the new communicator "THE NOKIA 9500" will be announced in Dec 1st week. It looks a bit like the Psion Revo, Will of course have bluetooth, GPRS, Touch Screen + Keyboard & also will have a WiFi + what already has been mentioned above.
& the release date is May 2004... was actually April...but not anymore..
Hope all this is true though... cause th communicator has to have a keyboard... i dont like the 7700 at all...
Regards
HyPeR
If this were true, it is perfect for my purchase cycle. And if the new UI is Series 90, that's great PLUS all the supposedly features mentioned.
I guess, I won't have to run for the P900 just yet 😃
Originally posted by HyPeR
Well from what ive heard from a Nokia guy is that the new communicator "THE NOKIA 9500" will be announced in Dec 1st week.
The Norwegian website ITAvisen has a confirmation from a real, live Nokia executive!
http://itavisen.no/art/1302175.html
For those of you who do not read Norwegian (a minority I'm sure 😊 ) here's a summary:
Head of Nokia Business Applications, Marko Luhpala says that Nokia is working flat out on the new communicator, and it will be ready soon. He refuses to give details, but confirms that it will be in the same style as the 9210, i.e. able to replace the laptop for many people.
He also says that the communictor series is a cornerstone product for Nokia, but that they perceive the 92xx to be different than PDA type phones like the P800/P900. He also says that as 56 million in western Europe have their phone paid by their companies this is a important market for Nokia and they want a range of products for this market.
But he does not give any comments on actual features of the phone.
Arild
Do I understand it correctly that he doubts that there will be WiFi? That it consumes too much battery power?
What is EDGE? 😕
EDGE is a different modulation technology based on [E]GSM/GPRS & gives roughly 3 times the bandwith/speed of GPRS data.
Some call it 2.75G, if GSM & CDMA are 2G, GPRS is 2.5G and UMTS/WCDMA/IMT-2000 & CDMA2000 are 3G.
thanks 😊
Originally posted by LAuRA
[B]Do I understand it correctly that he doubts that there will be WiFi? That it consumes too much battery power?
Hm, if that's true, they're going to be at a disadvantage with respect to PalmOS & PocketPC devices. Some of the newer machines on both platforms have it built-in, or addable via SDIO or CF. A machine without WiFi's going to have a hard time being accepted in the US, where Bluetooth's less widely used. Leaving WiFi out now would be like leaving out GPRS & Bluetooth in the 9210 - something that would definitely raise eyebrows, & not in a good way.
A lot of the original 9000 & 9110 machines were chosen by sysadmins & savvy users who wanted to log in & do stuff on their networked machines. Nowadays, I can't help but think that 802.11 is something that the current generation of sysadmins would demand. Bluetooth isn't designed to replace WiFi, & leaving the latter out of their top business handset/PDA sounds like a bad idea to me. Plus, if they're touting the new Communicator as a modern notebook replacement, surely some sort of ethernet connection is pretty much a requirement (even if it's only a plug-in ethernet card as an add-on)? Mucking about with a Mocha client connected to a slaved, networked PC via third-party software just doesn't cut it in comparison to rival products (for startes, it means you ned to have a computer there already, which sort of defeats the object of the exercise). Couldn't they just have the WiFi switch-offable, like IR or Bluetooth?
Alternatively, here's an idea: has anyone manufactured a pocketable, battery-powered Bluetooth-WiFi bridging hub yet? Something along those lines would probably work OK.
Incidentally, if LAuRA's right in her translation, then looking at the article, I guess we can forget the idea of internal GPS as well. A shame, but not as big a loss as WiFi would be.
Or maybe the 9310 won't have it, but the 9310i will...
Originally posted by CharlieBrown
Well, is there another event we can look forward to another announcement? Or that's it?
Kip ur cool man!
Have faith in what u make!😃 😃 😃
Is there another mobile event happening in New York anytime soon? Could this be the event?
if the 9210 was and still is the greatest phone ever created i wander how the new one will be!!
anyone got new news
whoooaaaa!!!!! At long last!!!!! ive been trying to find a phone to replace my 9210 but just cant seem to fine a good one....well if there really is a new communicater, I cant wait to get my hands on them.........
any new info ppl??
At last....can't wait for its release!!!!!
Eh?
future new communicator user here!!!!!😃
U can add my name to that list of buyers!
WOW WOW I can't wait!
Huh? What's up with this? Any news?
how bout this article from allaboutsymbian site itself
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/devices/viewarticle.php?id=52
Looks very promising
Folks, you should all know by now that you should never, ever, EVER believe Andrew Orlowski has the Communicator inside scoop. He's been trying to predict this, and been wrong every time, for two years now. From that latest piece:
Nokia has eschewed pen-based phones, believing that without a keyboard, phones should be operated with one hand. (It's conceded the principle only in Asia, where writing characters is faster than typing them).
Ahem.
Sorry folks, but the Nokia Roadmap for 2004 does not show a new communicator, only Nokia 7700 Series 90 stuff:
I think I might even consider the 7700, but the idea of putting it on my ear sideways seems so ridiculous... Maybe with a headset...
I think I'd take the white one 😊