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]