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#49
Originally Posted by fms View Post
IMHO, Nokia should just follow along with the public impression of the device, add a limited office suite and a PIM to it, and start bundle it with its lightweight phones like E50/E51.

For me, the ideal would be:

1) YES, GET THE PIM SUITE ON THE DEVICE AS OF YESTERDAY. Calendar, Todo, and the ability to at least read doc and xls (and hopefully power point). As well as the ability to sync with at least contacts/calendar/todo/bookmarks with Google Apps, Thunderbird/Firefox, Apple Mail/iCal/Safari, and probably Outlook/IE.

2) Software for the NIT platform that lets you completely control a Nokia phone. There's a library/app out there that gets you half way there, but not all the way. Complete support for hands-free control of your phone: make calls, answer calls, be the handset for calls, sync contacts (and other data on the phone, so if Nokia has a standard format for their embedded calendar apps, sync those with #1 above), view caller-id, send and receive images/sounds, send SMS/MMS, read SMS/MMS, receive notifications of SMS/MMS, etc. Basically, the ability to treat any Nokia phone like a non-user-interactive device IF you want to (ie. a device that sits in your pocket and only comes out to get charged).

2a) it would be nice if the software for #2 was somewhat open source, in that it should be possible for people to adapt it, as much as the vendor supports those protocols, to other phones. As far as I know, gnoki (sp?) is Nokia only, for example. Knowing I could at least somewhat use #2 with my Samsung SCH-R410 would be nice, for example.

3) Offer bundle _options_. Pick a CDMA/1xRTT phone, a GSM EDGE phone, a CDMA/EVDO phone, and a GSM/HSPA phone. Offer them in bundles through Nokia's web store, AND get carriers to offer the N800 and N810 as _ACCESSORIES_ for the Nokia phones that they sell. (so, when you go to the page that shows you a nice wide array of bluetooth headsets and chargers for your phone, the top of the list of accessories should be the N800 and N810)
 

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