Neonode

Well, here we are. As soon as the wait comes to an end, there certainly someone must find another object of devotion.

What the hell are you - addicted to waiting? 😉

Did you look, when this was first mentioned? And where?
Besides, it is not a Symbian based phone.
Are you sure it's not vaporware?

Jimbo

An old link: http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=894

Seems real enough,

http://www.neonode.com/

Release in Feb 2003 (sound like anything we know?!) Uses SD Cards not MemoryStick.

http://www.mobil.se/nyheter/visa.asp?id=6040&sid=1

Only concern I would have would be battery life. If the battery life is OK, it will clean up, Pocket PC or not.

People predicted that if SonyEricsson delayed the P800 long enough there would be real competition...

Apealing looks!
With VGA cam, bundled 64MB SD card, 16MB RAM, small size, good looks and atractive price point it has all it takes to be the N7650 killer.
If it has (has it ?) GPRS & Bluetooth it could be used as a GPRS BT modem for a future VGA BT PDA.

Definitely looks great,but what about specs? What OS? Does it have Bluetooth?

One more thing.Where is the keyboard?
I tried looking for some info on their site,it was very hard to find anything about the phone.Loading took ages and i still could not find info about the specs or anything else but some pictures and animations.

it has a touchscreen instead of a keyboard

*drools all over it*

it looks nice! any more info on it? when will it be out?

Does not look real to me.
vaporware - I love the expression 😃

The best specs sumary I could find
http//www.ixbt.com/mobile/phonemodel/i-node.shtml

GPRS confirmed but no Bluetooth. Standart USB host (yes, USB keyboard could be used if someone writes the SW driver for the neode) port tough!

Yes, under favorites I have a subfolder "Vaporware" and the "neode" is here (as was the P800 until SE released the SDK bundle)...

Check this LOL :P :P :P When you go to the neonode site and click on info, you see some comparisons to things like your hand, a beer can and some strange Swedish and Finnish Bricks :P

Got to hand it to them,really brave comercial 😃

This Neonode device is running Smartphone2002.

very interesting fone, amazing how they can fit all those features into such a small fone.

They have yet to prove it. Just Googling around smells alot like vaporware. And looking at their website it sends me a message - that's not even intended to be your next phone. BTW, MS software in it - no thanks.

Jimbo

when would it be avaliable?

Let's get serious. This is a Symbian oriented forum. So, for this kind of information you'll probably have to look somewhere else.

BTW - isn't it all to common for M$ (remember, Neonode will have it's OS) that when some product gets out, they immediately announce their vaporware.

Anyone trying to say, that it is coincidence, that Neonode made some press contact on the same day that P800 got into sell?

Jimbo

p.s.: Both Sony and Ericsson are reputable companies with immense background, and they still had problems getting their product out. Do you seriously think that M$ based unexisting device will be any better or even sooner?

p.p.s.: looking at the Neonode website one can in a blink of an eye get it, that this device is more competitor to 7650 than a true PDA/GSM combination which P800 is. Look at the pictures and you'll see who their customers are going to be. 😉

Hey, it's not even about that. With such a small screen/effective working space, how much work can you do? Can you possibly read an e-book on it? View MS office files on it? Not to call it useless, but I think it'll only go as far as the 7650 where usefulness is concerned.

It has its own merits, but to call it an alternative to the P800, that would be a bit of a stretch.

I dont get the peoples need for smaller phones. My 7650 is just small enough
for me, maybe even too small.

IMHO, there is no point anymore making phones any smaller.

(sorry, just visiting again 😃 )

[quote="Yann"]This Neonode device is running Smartphone2002.[/quote]

So we have a non existent device runing MS OS,really bad! 😃

This is brave: to show a non existant phone at CeBIT last year claiming that it exists and is not vaporware.

Why would a company show a phone at a respectable and very large convention if it had been a mockup phone? That is brave 😊

so, i believe the phone exists and works and will be released. A Norwegian news site listed these specs:

16Mb internal memory + 64Mb SD-Card
176x220 260.000 color screen (too small somebody claimed?)
camera takes pictures at 640x480

software includes mediaplayer (music and movie player), email reader and web browser.

If the company can release the phone at the claimed low prize is another question, and if the phone will be easily available or just available in some shops in some markets. :-?

The people who believe this device will ever be created by that small company, with all those features and size, etc., are exactly the same people who believe in Santa Claus and other fictive things. 😊

hehe, maybe it's not realistic that it will be produced and sold in large numbers, it's more likely that it will not considering it's a small company. But i still believe the phone exists otherwise the company would not have shown it at CeBIT at all 😊

[quote="eidrian"]The people who believe this device will ever be created by that small company, with all those features and size, etc., are exactly the same people who believe in Santa Claus and other fictive things. 😊[/quote]

Hmmm, maybe, I too have my doubts about this device, but it could be that they are subsidized by Microsoft to make a youth phone based on the Smartphone 2002 OS, so that wouldn't be the biggest problem with this phone.....

Youth phone? Dont you think they should have a regular phone first? The SPV doesnt count....its crippled 😊

[quote="MaleBuffy"]Youth phone? Dont you think they should have a regular phone first? The SPV doesnt count....its crippled 😊[/quote]

I guess they were counting on Sendo to make it, but we all know what happened when the people at Sendo had a bright moment 😉

I really have fun telling the MS VS Sendo Story to my friends.It sounds cool every time 😃

All specs ive seen state it runs CE 2002 (PocketPC) not Smartphone 2002 and ive never seen a PocketPC device run at such a low screen res, its always 240x320 which means unlike the XDA all the back catalogue of software wont run on it. Either that or more than likely its just a dream.

Stezos

[quote="JyriK"]I dont get the peoples need for smaller phones. My 7650 is just small enough
for me, maybe even too small.

IMHO, there is no point anymore making phones any smaller.

(sorry, just visiting again 😃 )[/quote]

A little late but,i totally agree.
I once said that my dreamphone is 92XX device,with a small upgrade (Bluetooth GPRS etc etc),still is! 😃

i want my 0210 thinner. And Iwant also the p800. 😉