gadget
I am patiently awaiting the arrival of my Nokia N82.
Is it a phone? Is it a camera?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N82
Since I'm constantly accused by my friends of being a geeky tech gearhead, I figured I'd give in. It's a Symbian based S60 phone so there are a lot of apps for it out there to give it functionality beyond that of a normal cell phone (even the iphone). Among these, I have the ability to SSH, skype, do Assisted GPS mapping, watch youtube and lots of other things.
Moreover, this phone has a 5 megapixel camera (Zeiss lens and xenon flash). A quick review of flickr for images made with the camara are impressive for a phone-camera. Agps can geo-tag the images. Video capture is impressive and the microsd slot can hold it all. I got mine in the tasteful little black version from buy.com since they were having a decent sale price on it.
The only things missing are 3g and qwerty. The newly released E71 adds those features but loses the quality of the camera. The E71 was very compelling, but I don't have the same issues with qwerty keyboards as others do and well we'll see how long I hold out until I need faster speeds. I banking on making do with using WLAN connections with the N82 for things that need speed.
now to deal with symbian security issues.
Is it a phone? Is it a camera?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N82
Since I'm constantly accused by my friends of being a geeky tech gearhead, I figured I'd give in. It's a Symbian based S60 phone so there are a lot of apps for it out there to give it functionality beyond that of a normal cell phone (even the iphone). Among these, I have the ability to SSH, skype, do Assisted GPS mapping, watch youtube and lots of other things.
Moreover, this phone has a 5 megapixel camera (Zeiss lens and xenon flash). A quick review of flickr for images made with the camara are impressive for a phone-camera. Agps can geo-tag the images. Video capture is impressive and the microsd slot can hold it all. I got mine in the tasteful little black version from buy.com since they were having a decent sale price on it.
The only things missing are 3g and qwerty. The newly released E71 adds those features but loses the quality of the camera. The E71 was very compelling, but I don't have the same issues with qwerty keyboards as others do and well we'll see how long I hold out until I need faster speeds. I banking on making do with using WLAN connections with the N82 for things that need speed.
now to deal with symbian security issues.