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Where is the Nokia 9300?

BargainPDA asks "Where is the Nokia 9300?" and I have to offer my answer:

I think the few hundred that were made were stacked together with some mortar and now house the formerly homeless. What I mean to say, the things are bricks. Sure, it is the tiniest, coolest little kinda-sorta laptop (with a somewhat crippled OS and a hard-to-use joystick that only an IBM laptop user could love) when it is open, but when it is closed, the worst of the weaknesses are revealed. Being closer to the size of a brick than the size of a cell phone is A Bad Thing when you're marketing a phone, be it a smartphone, a dumbphone or a home phone.

Not only is it a brick, it is a very lame phone, something that is understandable when dealing with a tiny mobile the size of your thumb but is inexcusable and unacceptable when the phone is the size of my foot. The screen on the front of the phone is lame and the joystick pad is too hard to use (I almost always end up clicking up or down when trying to select a menu option, so I end up selecting something I didn't want almost every time)

I think a coworker's comment about the phone sums up the phone's shortcomings. I was in someone's office, had the phone (closed, in phone mode) sitting on the edge of his desk. The coworker walked in, saw the monstrosity and asked "what the @#$* is that?!" When I answered "a phone", he picked it up and busted out laughing at it.

Another coworker, a few days later, was looking for phones for a photoshoot. "Does anyone have a cool phone?" he asked. I held up the Nokia. He repeated the above sentiment, "what the @#$* is that?!", making the question, in my mind, much more appropriate than "what is it?"

Published Friday, May 06, 2005 11:21 PM by sjh
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