21st
Help me not buy a new phone
(image from techrepublic)
Help me. I’m already saddled with a phone mullet- Business in the front pocket (a Windows Mobile Treo for work email/contact/calendar) and an iPhone in the back (personal email, txt, web, music/podcasts, maps, etc).
And yet I long to acquire a Nokia N95.
See, it does two things that I really, really want in a mobile, internet-connected device: take really solid pictures/video and allow the use of an external, full-size bluetooth keyboard for writing longer emails, blog posts and documents.
My Treo can do the external keyboard, and so likely will the iPhone once Apple gets around to releasing the SDK and someone eventually writes a driver. But the treo has a small, hard-to-read screen not at all suited to writing longer emails or posts. I also have an HTC TyTN (yes, you now begin to see the depth of my depravity) but it’s so damn buggy I can barely stand to touch the thing.
The Nokia might take the place of my Treo for work/exchange connectivity, but that’s somewhat speculative as I’ve never actually used the mail4exchange software on a S60 device. It doesn’t have an onboard qwerty keyboard and I’d be forced to become a T9 devote, which I can unfortunately admit gives me a strange, youthful buzz and emotionally has become a positive, rather than negative attribute.
The one thing that neither of my current devices will EVER accomplish is to have a 5MP camera with true auto-focus with a Zeiss lens. I’ve got a number of digital cameras, from a Canon 5d to a little Canon Elph, but I long to be able to post straight to flickr from my camera. $600 is a lot to ask for that capability. And I know as soon as I buy it someone with announce a camera phone with RAW capabilities (my current, unattainable holy grail).
I must resist.
