[sclug] OT mobile phones

[Derek M Jones]

Ed,

> Does anyone know of a mobile phone that can cover this sort of
> specification:

I have a P800, but the latest incarnation is the P910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P910
It is lightweight.

I would recommend my new phone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Kaiser
but it is much heavier and you would not want to jog wearing
it.

> 
> 1) mp3 player >= 4gig (external memory card storage can be considered)
> 
> 2) light weight - would be required for long distance jogging, so not
> too bulky either
> 
> 3) gprs and java midlets (for icq communications - txt messages can get
> expensive)
> 
> 4) pdf viewer - for reading ebooks
> 
> it seems to me that we're in a day and age where this should be
> possible. The reason I'm asking this is that for a number of weeks my
> ipod nano has been annoying the hell of out of me with it's slippery jog
> wheel and the stupid way that all songs are organised by id3, and if id3
> is not present then songs automatically get shoved into the 'all'
> category - totally unreasonable, file paths should be acceptable.
> 
> If you have advice about a stand alone mp3 player then that would be
> cool also, a phone/mp3 player combined would be good - being able to
> field telephone calls on the run would be helpful.
> 
> Finally pdf would be icing on the cake! Well, that's not true, being
> able to ssh would be the icing on the cake.
> 
> Thanks for putting up with this off topic post.
> 

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