New British netwrok (and Orange break-away group) '3' has ordered 2 million 3G hansets from NEC. The new designs are pretty tasty. The one which caught my eye however, was the clamshell, QWERTY keyboard equiped PDA/Phone in one.
Out by December 1st in their new flagship store on Oxford St. the phone looks fantastic.
I guess you want to see it then? 😃
Head over to my webspace adn take a look at the three JPG images begining with 'P021023'
http://www.gurnah.btinternet.co.uk/images/
I didn't post them because of the limited bandwidth problems.
I think that the design is a very small clamshell (looks like that colour samsung size), and the non-clamshell qwerty looks like a blackberry. The size immediatly puts it into the Palm / Sony Clie category, so I doubt this is the 9210 replacement I'm looking for.
Ewan,
Have you considered an Orange SPV with a Targus foldaway QWERTY keyboard?
I have to agree with Ewan - as soon as I saw the 2nd & 3rd image I immediately thought Blackberry. - YUECH!!!!
Well, I thought Image2 was the most interesting image there!! 😉
I like the second one a lot, if it is successful, it could be the style taken on for the next communicator by Nokia. Obviously thats just my opinion rather than an educated announcment, but you never know!
[quote="omar_g"]Ewan,
Have you considered an Orange SPV with a Targus foldaway QWERTY keyboard?[/quote]
I hav a similar keyboard for the Palm III and I have to say that while it's "cute" it's still a Macgyvering of something that shuold be there. The hunt and peck keys (as the Sony Clie) are just as bad.
I have a pocket scrapbook (a Palm IIIx) so why do I need another one? My phone has an integrated keyboard that I can use in my hands while standing, or moving around, not something a stowaway can handle.
So much as the SPV is "cute" it's not replacing my Palm IIIx nor my Series 5mx (which the 9210 is still struggling to replace).
You use a Palm, a Psion AND a Nokia 9210? Wow, you must have a very active social & business life 😃
HA wait till you hear what I all use 😉 But the pictures look like nothing new. If it isnt the stupid blackberry they resemble, it must be a Handspring Treo look-a-like..... 😞
Try also this with the new phone (especialy M$ Phones 😃 )
But the pictures look like nothing new. If it isnt the stupid blackberry they resemble, it must be a Handspring Treo look-a-like.....
No way! The second design looks unlike anything else on market!
Roll on December 1st! 😃
Guys, Today I have played with the new Samsung.
This NEC looks like it. Excepting the keyboard, because it is more compact.
Have you noticed this?
nah!
i can't see the keyboard in the NEC man!
so.. forget it! 😉
it looks like the Samsung & Motorola.. nothing intresting. 😉
see ya