Two New Phones To Drool Over
Yes, the Treo 600 is coming out at the end of the year, and yes it looks wicked cool. But I get the feeling that no matter how rugged it is, I’m not going to feel comfortable carrying around a $500 phone in my pocket when I drop my current one on the floor at least a couple times a week.
The main things I’m looking for in a phone are: Bluetooth (so I can use as a modem for my PowerBook and my Palm), good support for text messaging (including sending short messages to an email address), and possibly a built-in camera (just because). Two phones which have been intriguing to me lately (besides the basically solid T68i) are the Nokia 3650 (funky buttons though) and the 6800 (damn, no Bluetooth).
Gizmodo has things for me to look forward to:
The Nokia 6850 will have the same bad-ass fold-out keyboard of the 6800, with integrated Bluetooth and a camera.
The 3660 looks pretty sweet as well…ah, never mind, the 6850 is where it’s at.
At the same time, there are some great looking accessories coming out for the Palm Tungstens.
there’s some store in manhattan that sells stuff from japan and other places pre-release…mainly cellphone-type stuff. if you are interested, i can ask ari where that store is. he bought his mega-battery for his powerbook there (it charges up and can run his powerbook for 24 hours — if it’s spinning a DVD the entire time, about 11 hours).