(keitai-l) Re: lust

From: Benedict Evans <ben_at_ben-evans.com>
Date: 11/15/04
Message-ID: <58077.217.161.24.17.1100506080.spork@webmail.ben-evans.com>
You should be be to get one any day now. Very nice - except that it
doesn't work with isync yet. And I have to Acquire Virtual PC to run the
DRM program from SE so I can use my own MP3's as ring tones...

> I have never owned a Motorola mobile but I do remember one of the
> interface gurus over at Ivrea used to challenge students to find the
> address book on hers so perhaps a Sony Ericsson with A1000 specs is
> what I'm really lusting for.
>
> Back in the real world, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the
> 802SE (Sony Ericsson V800 everywhere else) when Vodafone Japan releases
> a new batch of 3G mobiles later this year.
>
> Kyle
>
>
> On 2004 Nov 15, , at 11:12, Frengle, Nik, VF-JP wrote:
>
>> Kyle,
>> Lets hope the A1000 is substantially better than the A925 was: This
>> was probably the worst experience as a user that I have had with a
>> mobile phone. While I don't own a PDA, I can't imagine it being very
>> high on the PDA user experience either: Crashes were constant, battery
>> recharge necessity the only speedy thing about it, and buggy little
>> features that reminded me that this was not a phone, not even a PDA,
>> but a little computer, which showed me the command line when it was
>> unhappy, all made it painful.
>> I think that, if this phone was any indicator, Symbian still has a way
>> to go before it will ever make my own lust list. The Java model,
>> sitting on top of a rock-solid RTOS just seems to work better for
>> adding functionality.
>> Best,
>> Nik
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