George Stelling, Nvidia CIO, a billion years out of date with his 8700 Blackberry

Link: Favorite Gadget: Nvidia CIO’s BlackBerry – vnunet.com

There’s a quantum shift happening in the marketplace. We’ve done Blackberry. We really have. Been there. T-shirts. Got’em. It is no longer cool, nor slightly hip to tell Forbes magazine that your favourite gadget is an 8700 Blackberry.

Check out George’s interview at the above link — I cut and paste this choice paragraph.

What would you change about it [the Blackberry]?
There are three things I’d suggest for improvements. First, I’d love to get satellite radio on it. Fox News, Bloomberg and BBC would be great to listen to on demand.

Get a Nokia E61. Put on Good Mobile Messaging. Buy a $30 2gb MiniSD card. Put your MP3s on it. Job done. If you really want to get whizzy, use ShoZu to send pod/videocasts directly to your handset.

Second, I’d want the ability to download and play news clips and videos

On a Blackberry? Get real 😉 Get a Nokia E61. Real Player is factory installed. Job done.

…and perhaps do some interactive gaming with others. With 3G, the world is moving toward mobile devices with high quality video and online games. Having this in the 8700, RIM would really round out its capabilities.

Get a Nokia E61. Job done. The Blackberry’s only ‘capability’ is email. It did that very well, for a time. Then, enter Good Mobile Messaging = next generation Mobile Messaging. Job done.

Finally, I wish I had a voice recognition application on it that would let me dictate e-mail in the car and also read aloud e-mail that I’ve received on the speakerphone.

Get a Nokia E61. Put Nuance Talks on it. Job done.

Seriously George, put away your Blackberry, phone up Good.com, tell’em you’re with Nvidia and you’ve seen the light, they’ll surely send you out an E61 with their Mobile Messaging system on it to test.

Then convert. Next!

(Just using the E61 as an example, you could very well use Good on Windows Mobile or the like)