Nokia E61 on Amazon
I’ve been lusting after the E70 for a long long time. Everyone knows, it’s definitely not a secret. I’ve got this thing I’m working on and it just needs a real keyboard on a device capable of getting SMS style messages and the occasional blip of high bandwidth activity. E70 seemed perfect for that, but the US version is still nowhere to be found.
I considered the E61, but it wasn’t as compelling for me. Then Russ went and got one and started spouting off about it. And spouting and spouting, and just literally gushing over how cool it was. So I went over to check it out. And it has a nice browser, and SSH via Putty on the thing rocks, and Agile works, and the calendar kicks some ass, and 2gig MiniSD cards are only $80. The final nail in the coffin, it’s available right now from Amazon. 30% off. Madness!!! Mine arrives on Friday damnit.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:31 am
[...] It’s probably no surprize to anyone that I agree. Recently I’ve been thinking even more than normal about how to get control of “mobile” into the hands of the people using it. By which I really just mean making the mobile networks and building mobile applictions more like building internet applications. Things like replacing or blending cellular access (one of the reasons I’m so jazzed about my dual access method device) so that we end up less dependent on the cellular network, or replacing centrally controlled messaging architecture with systems like XMPP. [...]
July 21st, 2006 at 7:55 pm
[...] I stayed home today to wait for my E61 to arrive from Amazon. I figured it was a short wait. When I got up this morning I was greeted with this latest line on the tracking page: Jul 21, 2006 07:51:00 AM MENLO PARK CA US Out for delivery [...]