Nokia 9500 Communicator

[albaker]

Nokia unveiled a new Communicator called 9500 in Cannes.

Check the information at :-

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,54108,00.html

and also

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6566,015_91,00.html

A bit disappointing for me because IMHO, a smartphone MUST have a touch-screen + proper keyboard. Maybe this is not the device that I've been waiting to replace my ol' netBook... :( Have to wait for the "Real" communicator which has Symbian OS + Series 90 :)

[2naive]

More pictures here:

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,33325,00.html?appId=9500

The Register comments:

"a price tag of €800 ($1000) should keep it out of reach of the consumer market"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/35736.html

[MartinMaxwell]

Wheras I do agree with AlBaker that a Series 90 Communicator had been preferable, not the least since Series 90 draws more on ER5+Eikon while Series 80 draws more on GEOS, the features of this communicator are impressive:

- TriBand
- EDGE (!!!)
- 80 Mbyte memory
- Camera
- WiFi
- Symbian Word, Symbian Sheet and Symbian Presentation with MS Office compatibility
- Bluetooth
- USB

and

- Symbian OS v7.0S

cheers
Martin