New Nokias
I don’t do much gadget-talk lately, mostly because the new stuff doesn’t look quite as exciting lately as it used to, but nokia’s new n-series looks mighty intriguing. They introduced their n70, n90 and n91 a few days back, all 3g series60 phones with 2megapixel cams. The n70 looks like a solid base model, but the n90 and n91 are something to get pumped up about: the n90 is a clamshell which can be swiveled and contorted in a few interesting ways with a v-v-high-rez 352×416 display - four times the resolution of current series60 phones - and autofocus. Even more exciting is the n91 with its internal 4gb harddrive to double as a portable music player - infosync fittingly calls it “Steve Jobs’ wet dream”. Most interestingly it also features wifi-support in 802.11b and 802.11g flavors, a blatant attempt at bypassing carriers if i’ve ever seen one. I expect nokia to make some moves in the online-music-store business pretty soon.
Please just slap a samba server on there and make that harddrive easily mountable over a wireless connection.