People ask me this over and over. With the recent jump in traffic to this site, I've had no fewer than 30 people ask me directly through comments here, YouTube comments, YouTube mail, Skype, or regular Email. Finally I lay it all out and explain it in Volume 4 of Coffee with ThoughtFix. Watch the video below.
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Awesome, dude! You don't know how many people ask me day-to-day about "that phone", what provider it's on, what sort of data it has, blah blah blah.
I heard you can put a SIM card in the external memory card slot and there is a hidden cellular phone hardware easter egg.
No, really - it's true, Nokia told me in a secret meeting. Or maybe it was my wife's friend's sisters husband who is a high powered exec at Nokia that let it slip.
We love the 800 (got one). We love the 770 (got one). I use 'em every day. We think Thoughtfix is great and can't wait to read and view all his stuff. So it is with the greatest respect to him and his ideas that I send this comment.
When I need a quick infofix, anywhere, anytime, I reach for my left pocket and pull out my Treo. For one reason only: it has Full Time Connection (relatively high speed).
I am not tied to my home, or high priced coffeeshop wifi points. I do not have to search for a connection, or worry about finding five nice signals, all of which are locked down.
With a few additional touches,the 800 would be the thirdgen iPhone IF ONLY it had a cell connection IN ADDITION to all it's other goodies. It would be significantly better.
This dumb equation proves it: n800 + C = FCE where C= cell connection and FCE means Full Connection Everywhere.
FCE is the holy grail of mobile computing. There is no reason, and no time, where, given the same piece of hardware, it is better to be without net connectivity.
If only RMN's comment were true...(it IS Nokia after all), and they DID sneak the FM radio in on us.
Now that I can talk on Skype, I often look at the 800 and say "if only it had a phone". I could, anywhere, anytime:
-watch all 200 channels of junque on my cable via Slingbox,
-have the best radio I own (the 800 ) bring me all my favorite stations, worldwide, anywhere, anytime.
-have immediate access to everything the web contains (wow!) anywhere, anytime.
So, I'll keep loving and using my 800, but if Treo or Nokia brought out a unit exactly the same as the 800, with a Sprint label on the front, I would Craigslist my 800 and my Treo in 3 nanoseconds.
Then I'd enjoy it while waiting for Bluetooth contact lenses that put the web in 3D anytime, anywhere.
You want FCE? get an iPhone! It has it.
I think nokia has the right idea. Check out his article that appeared in USAtoday this morning:
www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/
2007-07-09-wireless-telecom_N.htm?imw=Y
Nice coffee :)
I just wanted to say that Apple is working (as rumors suggest) on a osX based iPod. I guess they are going to enter "indirectly" the internet tablet world. Well... I may guess wrong :)
Anyway your point is valid. Better have an iPhone without the phone, hence the N800!
I want to carry a single device in my left trouser pocket that gives full mobile connectivity, takes pictures and plays media. The tablet form factor has the space to do that. I would reduce the bezel so the screen filled the whole front to get a bigger screen, but the form factor is fine.
It would raise the cost to put a phone in, but surely must less than buying a whole separate N95 does.
Yes, this would be a linux iPhone, but that is why my friends split into Mac and Linux camps. It will be interesting if Google's gphone announcement on Monday views the world the same way.
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