I Love To Turn You On

I came across ( literally ) a most erudite site today at ooonews - although I doubt that their news sources are totally reliable and I suspect that they overuse certain expletives for comic affect; there can be little doubt that they are bringing a fresh and interesting slant on many news stories.

The site is based upon a CMS by Microsoft which is all I need to see to know that they are trustworthy individuals and use an easily recognised colour scheme to help both the normal browser and those with accessibility concerns - vital these days.

There are stories about Pete and Jordan, Jade Goody, Steve Jobs and some other people I have never heard of from this international news source.

Anyway, check it out for yourself : ooo news

Well, I am nearing the end of a contract and looking rather desperately for the successor to the Nokia 6500. To tell the truth I thought it would be more like an N Series phone when I ordered it and did not realise that was not S60. Still it has proven a reliable and rugged gadget and has logged 100’s of hours of gaming time thanks to the RBS Rugby 08 game installed on it. ( the 09 looks rather silly so far).

So, I look around and the Nokia 5800 shouts out, like imagine a touchcreen S60 - sounds great, oh and I am dying to get back to a standard 3.5mm jack plug as anything else really does not work the same - way too fiddly.

Nokia Announce :
“As Nokia’s first mass-market device with a touch screen, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic turns a ‘user interface’ into a ‘human interface’ by truly putting people first. For example, we’ve introduced the Nokia Contacts Bar, which is like a digital RSS feed on your life,” said Harlow. “By adding the benefits of touch screen technology to S60, the world’s leading smartphone interface, Nokia is taking the familiar and giving it a human touch. We have used touch technology where it really adds value such as the Contacts Bar, Media Bar and clever shortcuts from the homescreen to menu items such as calendar, profiles and clock. ”

The phone has, as we now expect, everything , like every thing you can imagine from a mobile. Lay it on me.

Worth mentioning in retrospect that the Nokia N95 survived the fall into the toilet and total immersion.

Well this morning it happened, either carelessness or Mobile Suicide took place. The Nokia N95 leapt from safety to the bottom of the toilet bowl.

It was swiftly retrieved and stripped down and put out to dry.

Mobile phones seldom survive complete immersion and I will be expecting meltdown when I next try to fire it up.

Seems sad, and it is, that such a powerful and beautifully designed piece of kit should die.

bye bye baby bye bye

It has been replaced with the 6500 Slide for now.

Nokia have recenlty unveiled the Nokia N86. This latest of the superb N Series mobile phones boasts an 8 megapixel camera with Karl Zeiss lens.

This will be a beauty I am sure. They have steered further away from the almost boxy exterior of the N95 to deliver a curvaceous chassis which is reassuringly solid to the touch.

These days one does not need to list the features of an N Series mobile, save to say that it does everything we have come to expect from a mobile phone.

Additionally - the phone somes with an accellerometer to allow you to take N Gage gaming to a new level.

what is more the phone - as you see - comes in white as well - wowee

I am totally in love with my Samsung Omnia, but I do miss the Nokia N95 days of total faith in a phone and not having to look at it to do everything.

Well, I want to turn one on, would love to I reckon.