New phone!

Behold, the Samsung SCH-i760. The Treo 600 finally bit the dust and a new portable device takes the throne.

The benefits:

• - Decent Bluetooth
  - Keyboard
  - Windows Mobile 6
  - Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint
  - ScummVM (plays LucasArts games)
  - DOSBox (plays 80s and early 90s DOS games)
  - MAME (80s arcade games)
  - Genesis, NES and SNES emulators also
  - Voice recognition calling

- 12 track digital audio workstation

The drawbacks:

- No unit conversion in its calculator
- A few more button combinations to use / tougher UI

A mini laptop, so to speak. I confess I'm taken aback by the fact that this thing can emulate an AdLib sound card that, when it was released twenty years ago was twice the size of this thing, and something that would have run so many applications would have been at least ten times bigger, ten times heavier and would have cost ten times as much.

Why then, has such advancement in capacity and capability come with automobiles? According to something my dad read, "cars would be the size of roller skates, would go the speed of light, and cost as much as a television."

Truth be stranger than fiction, my friends.

Comments

[Kitsunexus]

It's a cool phone, but I'm not sure the phone part's layout is ergonomically sound.

[traducteur letton . latvian]

What kind of "12 track digital audio workstation" did you mean? One that you'd install additionally, such as a DOS prog? I looked at the specs but they only mention a music player.

It also says:
"Currency converter - Yes
Converter - Yes"
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=mobilephones&type=mobilephones&subtype=verizonwireless&model_cd=SCH-I760ZKAVZW&fullspec=F