9500 good or bad ?

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In article <3yloe.45291$G8.37450@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
"surfsup" <surfsup@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Anyones opinions on the 9500 are welcome.
>
> Pretty much decided but I wouldnt say no to a few people loving to phone up
> just to push me over the edge )

I have not had my hands on either a 9500 or a 9300, neither being
available in the U.S. so far as I know--other than mail order suppliers,
providing the 900/1800/1900 European version. From the description, it
sounds as though the 9300 makes a lot more sense. It's much smaller and
has the same functionality except for camera and WiFi. WiFi, while nice,
doesn't strike me as all that important, given that you can access the
internet over the phone, even if with a somewhat slower connection.

Both of them remind me of the old Psions, of which I was very fond. What
I don't know is whether Nokia managed, as Psion did, the trick of making
a very small keyboard that you can actually type on.

Comments from people who have actually handled one or both greatly
appreciated.

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In article <42a2ce80$0$4648$e4fe514c@dreader4.news.xs4all.nl>,
"Ruud" <ruuddejong@ruuddejong.nl> wrote:

> After using first the 9110, then the 9210, I used some other PDA devices.
> When using these, I always found the communicator the best. The 9210 didn't
> have good options to use the internet, no wifi, no gprs, no bluetooth. When
> I heard Nokia were going to launch the 9500 with all these options on it, I
> knew straight away I wanted one of those.
> Now I'm using it for a couple of months and I must say it's worth every
> penny. It's a great phone to use, the keyboard is very good. The size is not
> a real problem to me, when you compare it with a 6310, you'll see that it's
> not that much of a difference.

Can you type on the keyboard with more than your thumbs?

On my Psion series 5 and Revo, I could actually touch type, using
everything except the little finger. It wasn't as fast as on a full
sized keyboard, but it was faster than handwriting--and I don't have
particularly small fingers. I was wondering whether the Nokias had
similarly good keyboards.

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On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:03:19 -0700, David Friedman
<ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com> wrote:

>
>Can you type on the keyboard with more than your thumbs?
>
No, it's a good keyboard but too small for touch typing.

(I came to a 9500 after years of Psion, Series 5mx latterly,
experience. I decided I wanted to carry only one device instead of two
and on that basis I can justify the 9500's bulk.)

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"jdavis757" <jdavis757.1qrcfz@nospam.cellphoneforums.net> wrote:
>
> I really wanted one. But I just can't spend 800 dollars on a phone/pda
> that doesn't vibrate. It's either loud or off, so I just can't see it
> being useful in situations where I can't have my phone going off
> without getting death stares, but I need to know if I'm being
> contacted.

I heard one innovative solution for this. Buy a Jabra vibrating headset,
and put the phone on silent. Jabra vibrates in your pocket when a call
comes in - you can either take it on the headset or get your phone out,
depending on the situation.

Al