Mardi 29 septembre 2009
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nokia 5310 looks to me as though they also made the keys a bit bigger.
That's the first dumbphone from VZW that actually looks good to me.
The screen on this one is huge, the e-ink is neat, and the buttons aren't so cramped. So far, so good. The included ringtones suck though, but it seems easy to swap them out via sd micro.
Regarding that keyboard, it would seem to me to be more likely that it's one "large" E-ink screen with a bezel attached to form what appear as 40 individual screens/keys. Aligning and connecting 40 individual screens sounds a bit problematic.
What mystifies me is why they've put this keyboard technology on such a limited phone, rather than a smartphone?
I was looking at it the other day when I was looking at getting a new phone, but I didn't get nokia 5310 xpressmusic because I can't stand having my standard number keys so small for dialing. Overall, though, it's a much nicer idea than using touch screens for everything.
All I use my phone for is text messaging and calls. Good thinking, too bad it isn't on ATnT
A co-worker just got one of these last night and she likes it a lot. I was pretty impressed with the e-ink keys.
The overall surface area of the displays are far less than that of the Kindle, and it would cost much more to make one large display than several small ones. I think Amazon might be whoring out the whole thing a bit, though.
They should adapt this for full sized keyboards, I'm guessing some multilingual people would appreciate having adjustable key languages, or typing classes would like blanked out keyboards for testing key-memory, but without the cost of dozens of tiny LCDs.
You're thinking the Optimus Maximus keyboard from Art Lebedev, and it's so expensive because it actually uses tiny OLED displays, not LCD. An e-ink one would be really cool.
I really like the keyboard. I'm a simple person and these look nice.
Woah, that's actually really neat! I'd get one Cell phones if I was signed with Verizon and if it wasn't a dumbphone D:
That's the first dumbphone from VZW that actually looks good to me.
The screen on this one is huge, the e-ink is neat, and the buttons aren't so cramped. So far, so good. The included ringtones suck though, but it seems easy to swap them out via sd micro.
Regarding that keyboard, it would seem to me to be more likely that it's one "large" E-ink screen with a bezel attached to form what appear as 40 individual screens/keys. Aligning and connecting 40 individual screens sounds a bit problematic.
What mystifies me is why they've put this keyboard technology on such a limited phone, rather than a smartphone?
I was looking at it the other day when I was looking at getting a new phone, but I didn't get nokia 5310 xpressmusic because I can't stand having my standard number keys so small for dialing. Overall, though, it's a much nicer idea than using touch screens for everything.
All I use my phone for is text messaging and calls. Good thinking, too bad it isn't on ATnT
A co-worker just got one of these last night and she likes it a lot. I was pretty impressed with the e-ink keys.
The overall surface area of the displays are far less than that of the Kindle, and it would cost much more to make one large display than several small ones. I think Amazon might be whoring out the whole thing a bit, though.
They should adapt this for full sized keyboards, I'm guessing some multilingual people would appreciate having adjustable key languages, or typing classes would like blanked out keyboards for testing key-memory, but without the cost of dozens of tiny LCDs.
You're thinking the Optimus Maximus keyboard from Art Lebedev, and it's so expensive because it actually uses tiny OLED displays, not LCD. An e-ink one would be really cool.
I really like the keyboard. I'm a simple person and these look nice.
Woah, that's actually really neat! I'd get one Cell phones if I was signed with Verizon and if it wasn't a dumbphone D:
