Nokia's New All-In-One Phone

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on Nokia's new phone, introduced today and hitting the shelves in July. The N93, costing $660, will supposedly fill all of your needs for electronic equipment on the go. From the article: 'Should anyone miss the point, Nokia's press extravaganza in a spiffed-up Berlin warehouse ended with a video in which the camera slowly panned across a tableau of dusty, discarded electronic equipment -- including digital cameras and a cobweb-covered iPod. The message: Nokia plans to make these products obsolete.'"

Trying to outdo the NGage

[AuMatar]

As the greatest stupidity in consumer electronics.

Re:Obligatory

[livewire98801]

AAGH MY BRAIN!

[gets a mop]

Linkage for those curious. . .
technical specifications [nseries.com]
N Series overview [nokia.com]

OK, get it over with

[randyest]

Cue the asshat that appears in every convergence thread to cry "I just want a phone to make calls and nothing else" in 5, 4, 3, . . .

That's nice and all, but...

[Crazyscottie]

... Does it run Linux? </cliche>

Re:Phones are so close to replacing the iPod

[gozar]

The cell phone solution to add twelve buttons instead of five like the ipod has. Put the buttons in a standard dial-pad orientation. Then replace the wheel shape with a rectangular touchpad.

I think someone already perfected a rotary dialing interface [flickr.com].

Nice collection of images

[mo]

Here's some images of this thing.

http://www.dexigner.com.nyud.net:8080/forum/index. php?showtopic=5892 [nyud.net]
http://www.dexigner.com/forum/index.php?showtopic= 5892 [dexigner.com]

Seems like they could have thrown in a keyboard for such a big phone. Seems more like a camcorder-phone than an all-in-one device.

Target market:: Corporate droids

[EmbeddedJanitor]

The press release has enough buzzwords to give a corporate climber a bigger stiffy than Viagra. "Digital life", "global convergence"... Geez I better buy one so I'm corporately compliant!

Re:New?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's so great about the nokia?

Well, after you use the Nokia for 10 minutes and exhaust its battery, you can put the phone in your sock and use it to knock someone out and steal their phone if you have to make a call.

Re:Trying to outdo the NGage

[flyingsquid]

Why are these companies not at least attempting to court the market of professionals who can't bring cameras into their place of business?

How's stuff treating you at Abu Ghraib these days, anyhow?