N82
Hmm. The Nokia N82 was released while I was offline. On the plus side, if I look at getting one sometime early next year, that gives the online retailers six to ten weeks to get it loaded into inventory and spidered by the shopping comparison sites.
As this period includes Christmas, it will probably be made available on at least the major telco package signup sites and the usual major retailers, and may drop slightly in price after the new year. Plus, hopefully, by this time the bleeding-edge types will have all bought theirs and pestered their telcos sufficiently that the support areas will have built up basic documentation on what it is, where to get it, and how to make the various functions work with their voice and data networks.
Not to mention that the S60 forums will have picked over the entire thing and hammered out procedures for things like VoIP over 802.11g to a home Asterisk box as a virtual transmission tower with seamless failover to the pay networks, and how this differs from, for example, using it as a Skype, Gizmo or Jajah handset.
(Note to self - must have a look at foldable Bluetooth keyboards.)
Current international prices peg it at around $A750, but it may be all over the place locally.
It'd be nice if a single handset could do voice and data in Australia, North America, and the UK/Europe - these being the places I'm most likely to travel to if travelling gets on the cards at any point.
As this period includes Christmas, it will probably be made available on at least the major telco package signup sites and the usual major retailers, and may drop slightly in price after the new year. Plus, hopefully, by this time the bleeding-edge types will have all bought theirs and pestered their telcos sufficiently that the support areas will have built up basic documentation on what it is, where to get it, and how to make the various functions work with their voice and data networks.
Not to mention that the S60 forums will have picked over the entire thing and hammered out procedures for things like VoIP over 802.11g to a home Asterisk box as a virtual transmission tower with seamless failover to the pay networks, and how this differs from, for example, using it as a Skype, Gizmo or Jajah handset.
(Note to self - must have a look at foldable Bluetooth keyboards.)
Current international prices peg it at around $A750, but it may be all over the place locally.
It'd be nice if a single handset could do voice and data in Australia, North America, and the UK/Europe - these being the places I'm most likely to travel to if travelling gets on the cards at any point.