…and in the Blue Corner, the Nokia 9500!

[Jonathon Watkins]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4636.html' target='_blank'>http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4636.html</a><br /><br /></div>Quite a day for official announcements. Today <a href="http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54106,00.html">Nokia announced the 9500</a> (what a coincidence – Nokia 9500, say hello to the nice Motorola MPx :wink: ) and <a href="http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4636.html">Infosync World</a> have managed to get their hands on a unit.<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/Nokia.gif" /> <br /><br />"The 9500 features tri-band GSM capability (two variants: 900/1800/1900 MHz and 850/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS/EGPRS (EDGE), wireless LAN (802.11b), a built-in VGA camera for MMS messaging, Bluetooth for audio and data, USB for synchronization and J2ME. The device runs Symbian 7.0 as its operating system. <br /><br />Connectivity takes the form of an e-mail client supporting POP3, IMAP4, SMTP and SyncML, while browsing is possible via HTML / XHTML and JavaScript 1.3. Full security is present through SSL/TLS and Ipsec VPN. Documents in a range of popular formats can be viewed directly on the device.<br /><br />The latest Communicator is equipped with two colour screens, one running at 640 x 200 16-bit, displaying Nokia's Series 80 user interface. A second screen runs at 128 x 128 pixels and features the Series 40 interface. The device has 80 MB of memory for users."<br /><br />That's quite a set of features. 8) Oh – and it has a Full QWERTY keyboard as well. :mrgreen: Nice. It's expected to be available in volume during the fourth quarter of 2004. The price (unsubsidized) is expected to be around €800 in Europe.<br /><br />It's really good to see devices with decent keyboards in the mainstream again (forget thumb-boards). More please! :way to go:

[sundown]

Yes indeed on the nice qwerty keyboard. Thank you sir, may I have another?

[Eraserhead]

I love this device, and I hope that in time the price will fall to about 500$, and then I definetly will buy one of those.

[SassKwatch]

It's really good to see devices with decent keyboards in the mainstream again (forget thumb-boards). More please! :way to go:

a-M-E-N-!

[The PocketTV Team]

> It's really good to see devices with decent keyboards in the mainstream again (forget thumb-boards). More please!

This reminds me of the HPC's that no-one wanted to buy. Maybe they should have put a cellphone in the Jornada 720, it would have been the killer product!

Just kidding :)

[Jonathon Watkins]

This reminds me of the HPC's that no-one wanted to buy. Maybe they should have put a cellphone in the Jornada 720, it would have been the killer product!

Nah. :D The 720 was just too..... chunky. The Psion Revo was (IMHO) the perfect balance of size and function - small enough to be truly portable, yet large enough to type comfortably. I could live with a PDA a bit larger & heavier, but not much.

Still, this is a good trend. :mrgreen:

[dMores]

the communicator runs symbian 8 on the inside, symbian 4 on the inside, must be a typ-oh in the article.

i wonder why they don't give it a touch screen. it just begs for it.

[Jonathon Watkins]

the communicator runs symbian 8 on the inside, symbian 4 on the inside, must be a typ-oh in the article.

No - it could be right. Symbian 80 is more suited for large screens, Symbian 40 is better on smaller screens. Look Here for a matrix of Nokia phones (http://www.nokia.com/nfb/overview_matrix.html). Notice the range of Symbian Series 40, Series 60 and Series 80 phones, each with different sized screens?

It it actually makes a lot of sense to have a different OS/UI for each screen.

Each is optimised for a different task & you don't have to open the phone up to take a call. It solves a lot of problems!

i wonder why they don't give it a touch screen. it just begs for it.

True - that's odd. Or maybe not - not everyone wants to 'mess about; with a stylus. Scares the horses?

[Sheynk]

the moment i see it for sale is the moment i buy it.... 8O

[Gremmie]

Too bad that I have Nextel, I guess we'll get the cool phones sooner or later--probably later.

[jlp]

It's really good to see devices with decent keyboards in the mainstream again (forget thumb-boards). More please! :way to go:

If the 9500 is anywhere the size of the 9110 I had a while back then the keyboard is nothing else than a thumbboard; albeit quite larger than the HP4xxx one, you can't touchtype on this one; as with all pocket-sized HPC devices you hold the device left and right with your fingers below the device and your thumbs hunt and peck at the keyboard. It may be more comfortable than tb on vertical oriented devices, but it's still a tb.

Anyway to use it as a classical keyboard you still need a flat, stable surface and even then normal adult fingers can't all fit normally on such a small keyboard.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Kind of true, but then you will always need a flat surface for a real kb experience - part of the deal.

However - I could touch type on my Psion Revo. I will look up the dimensions of the KB area - as mine is in storage at the moment.

[denethor]

Answer to MPx with piece of brick I dont think so :mrgreen:
I' ve used both 9110 and 9210. I could go for 9500 but after MPx no thank you Nokia. MPx will be ready for Q3but this device is schedued for end of Q4 it s too late for this kind of all-in-one configurations. I believe that even HP will release 6xxx before Nokia 9500.
Thanks to Motorola for entering MSMobile market. I used 3650, 5450, 5550, 9110, 9210 all of them needs at least 1 soft reset per day. I bought MPx200 3 months ago until this day 0 soft reset...

[Scott R]

I had been anxiously awaiting this announcement, but I gotta say I'm pretty disappointed. Like the previous version, the keyboard looks too big to be used comfortably as a thumbboard, but too small to be used as a full-size keyboard. Maybe I need to get my ruler out, because maybe I'm assuming the size is bigger than it really is.

Scott

[azur]

the communicator runs symbian 8 on the inside, symbian 4 on the inside, must be a typ-oh in the article.

No - it could be right. Symbian 80 is more suited for large screens, Symbian 40 is better on smaller screens. Look Here for a matrix of Nokia phones (http://www.nokia.com/nfb/overview_matrix.html). Notice the range of Symbian Series 40, Series 60 and Series 80 phones, each with different sized screens?

It it actually makes a lot of sense to have a different OS/UI for each screen.

Each is optimised for a different task & you don't have to open the phone up to take a call. It solves a lot of problems!



actually the phone runs symbian 7.0s on the inside, the outside is a series 40 (or 45) UI (nokia's own, not symbian,) which might be customized with less menus, the 9210 didnt have any access to the settings menu from the outside.