Since I haven’t done this since the move to WordPress, I thought I’d break out the ol’ Apple Wireless Keyboard and see what happens when attempting to blog. It would be nice if the phone were in landscape mode, but no matter; this seems to be fine (even if I am habituated to hitting the space bar twice to get a period and space to continue).
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t intrigued by that Nokia C3-01; the design of it is interesting as far as having a traditional phone keypad plus a touch screen. Makes for a familiar interface while simultaneously getting rid of a bunch of extraneous keys. It’s the kind of thing that might have kept Nokia relevant if it had come out three years ago. As it is, the camera is reportedly inferior to the iPhone and the ability to just use the iPhone as everything else means that $130 would be better spent on topping up the existing burner phones on Orange and Virgin.
(Insert your own joke about “you should be used to not using the iPhone as a phone by now”. Now piss off.)
Seriously, though – 5MP camera with autofocus (and geotagging), 720p video camera, and the functions of the iPod Touch for media consumption and Wi-Fi internet access? All you need at that point is the cheap £10 candybar phoe and a pre-paid SIM for calling in reservations and receiving Twitter updates (when you can receive texts for free you’d be mad not to set up Twitter direct to the phone and make it your anywhere communication). Plus of course this fine keyboard for strategic blog-typing purposes, much faster and simpler than you can churn out on a glass pad.
Something to think about.