I bought myself a new toy. It’s a mobile phone, a Nokia E71. I have to admit I am really proud of it, and can’t let an hour go by without carressing its tiny keypad, and looking at the new messages that have arrived. [In other words, he’s become a technobore]
It has a GPS, and with google maps I can walk around the garden using the mobile to navigate with. [I can walk around the garden using my eyes]
It connects to the wirless wan as well as the mobile network, and has skype support and ipphone support. So I can make cheap or even free phone calls on the mobile, and receive phone calls from my IPphone number. It’s a video phone as well. There is the normal camera and a small video camera on the keyboard side to video me when I am making a call.
Of course it it web enable, so I can browse the web and email on the move. The email is always running, so I get little sound notifications when a new email arrives.
Finally I have discovered a wealth of applications which run on the phone. I was really impressed when I found ptty which runs on it. For those who don’t know, ptty is a secure terminal emulator, and allows me to logon to unix boxes in character mode and run basic editors. Sad I know but a great tool.
I really just love the build quality of the Nokia E71, the solid cold feel of the metal case of the slender phone. It was love at first sight. [Humph]