Have you ordered E61s for yourself and Mark yet?

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steve

I now feel I want to just revert back to…a simple candy bar phone for calls/text; my ipod for music; my Canon Ixus for photos; my 4GB usb memory stick for all my files; and my Acer Travelmate “light as a feather” laptop for true mobile-pc experience. They may not all fit in my pocket but they are all 99% bug free and they all quite simply do what they say on the tin.

Call me in 5 years when manufacturers have caught up with what we’ve all been discussing for what now seems like donkey’s years…

steve/itagg.com

Has anyone ever seen a device with so many buttons on the sides – even after four months I still struggle to remember what they all do! I have come close on several occasions to throwing the bloody thing across the office. Mobile Phone Rage?

Now, if you look at the specs and the functionality of some of the converged devices, then surely we should be able to get at least an 80% solution shouldn’t we?

But it would appear that everyone is struggling to get a single device that ticks all the boxes. Why is this so?

We are now into the 3rd and 4th generation of these devices and yet it seems that we are still faced with some fundamental problems.

For now I think we will all end up with a couple of different devices (Ewan of course will continue to have at least five). That’s us in the industry at least, normal people won’t put up with that kind of nonsense.

I do wonder about how much usability testing is actually done before these devices are unleashed on unsuspecting customers.

Device consolidation? Nope looks more like device fragmentation at the moment.

Incidentally, I too was told the E61 was the best of the bunch but like a foolish child I decided to ignore the advice. Serves me right then

Jim

LG shine – yeah sexy man. and the Chocolate LG – oh yeah baby, looks great!! is this out yet? Where can I go and see them to play with?

Go to the Chocolate LG website and you get soothing music and feel all calm and relaxed…very sexy…it’s like I am suddenly lying down being massaged by 3..no 4 exotic masseuses. this is my kind of phone…

…but then I read the spec…it is now 2007 and I can put 4GB of data on a stick the size of a cigarette lighter; and LG have put a reasonably impressive 60MB (which still isn’t 4GB but it’s getting there) inside this phone. Yet in such a day and age this super sexy “form over function yet a bloody gain” handset can only hold 1000 address book entries and can only remember the last 40 calls I made. Sorry but this is trash…looks sexy as hell but its performance is dross.

Oh I am soooooo depressed about the state of the mobile device industry…

What am I missing? Is it only me who would rather a phone remembers ALL my recent phone calls rather than have a “satin finish stainless steel casing”.

steve/itagg.com

I got back to my Nokia E61 -which I anyway considered vastly inferior to the Treo 650p in most aspects- and I am mildly happy, because i still believe there should be a Treo worthy of that name.

I agree with Ewan though – for full Keyboard Qwertyness – then yeah – E61(i or not) is the way forward.

In fact – Ewan – I’m not sure I mentioned, I recommended the E61 to a buddy of mine who’s starting his own business… One of the best decisions he’s made so far apparently!

Thing is – I based my recommendation on how much YOU rave on about it!