quick, i need six hundred dollars
nokia e90 = 3.2mp camera, symbian os for expandability, internal 800 x 352 widescreen + external 240 x 320 screens, full qwerty keyboard, micro-sd up to 8gb, wifi, a web brower that can handle flash, and full access to all programs from the closed clamshell mode.
at less than an inch longer than my treo, this is the One Device i would need to carry with me, and have constant access to a smartphone / 3mp camera / wifi internet machine / umpc. if there’s a dos emulator for symbian i could also run like quake on there. there’s snes emulation, obviously, and a scumm emulator, if i tracked down all those old adventure games i keep hoping lucasarts and friends will port to the ds and the wii. (monkey island, indiana jones, goblins, and so on…)
speaking of, the new nintendo DSi, out now in japan, has a 3mp camera and sd slot. you can sync photos with the wii photo channel via the inbuilt wifi, and there’s a little bit of downloadable software. so far just brain age, a train route guide, and the slick ds version of opera. throw in some productivity apps, maybe palm os, and the ds could make a run at the netbook crowd.
if nintendo is smart, and the last five years shows that they are, they’ll sooner or later open up DSi access to the virtual console. since the hardware can already render anything up to the n64, this would more than compensate for removing the gameboy advance cartridge slot. nes, snes, n64, genesis, turbografx 16, gameboy + advance. mobile access to nintendo’s entire pre-gamecube library? yeah, i think that might kind of popular.
