The trip gave me the opportunity to scratch one of my biggest technology itches. When I went to Korea a few years ago, I saw a society that was rapidly moving away from the laptop computer and toward hand-held super cell phones. But between the language barrier and my own awe, I never really figured out why the Koreans could watch video on their phones and I could only check my voice mail.The answer to my question came from Mark Squires, head of communications for Nokia UK. Rather than give me a technical answer, he reminded me that it’s "Knock-y-ah†and handed me an impressive chunk of aluminum, silicon and glass. It looked something like Spock’s tricorder.
The Vulcan’s machine only worked in three dimensions, however. This N93 is on paper a 3G (Third Generation) cellular telephone. But in fact it shoots high quality still and video photos, displays them for you on a 2.4-inch active matrix screen or connects to a standard television, downloads any Web page you want, produces copy on Microsoft Word, displays your presentations on PowerPoint, keeps your expense account on Excel, opens that e-Book on Adobe Reader, records the mayor’s speech in digital audio, phones Mongolia free on Skype, polishes your shoes and teaches your kids Latin.
Well, maybe not the last two. But it does include a bar code reader if you are ever curious about those thick and thin lines.
I’m not a technologist, but I proudly speak basic Geek. Nevertheless, I was overwhelmed. Maybe hyperwhelmed.
Source: Online Journalism
Nice read that describes how this guy, along with his students, used a Nokia N93 and were simply left stunned. I love the last line of this article:
And who knows how we will do journalism when Nokia gets to the N203? Beam me up.
You get double brownie points for the star trek references.