N70?

When i got out of Paal 9/11, my office premises and walked to the metro station, my eyes came to stop at a cute guy, working in the same office as mine, waiting for the metro 54. Little did I know that I would be sitting opposite to him in the bus 300. If Nostradamous had predicted this as well, then I would have worked longer today.. till 2100 hours.

I reached the Bijlmer station only to see the bus 300, still 13 minutes into near future. Meanwhile my colleague, let me call him A started chatting with the cute face, call him B. The conversation veered towards mobile phone, Nokia N70, since the cute face was toying with it. Before I forget the details of the conversation, let me pen it down...

A: Which cell is that?

B: N72..

A: How much do you use it?

B: what??

A: How much of it do you use? Are you well-versed with all the applications that this box comes with? I have come to hear that it the closest to a computer.

B: Ya, I have used as a modem to connect to the net, to read pdfs, word documents, listen to music, PDA, take pictures, of course. But it is pathetically slow. This is the major problem. Not that only my handset crawls, but all the N70 boxes are sluggish.

A: Is it cos of the memory?

B: I dont know. Not pretty sure of that. Actually, I can install my own applications on this, MSword, Powerpoint, Excel, etc. The OS is not symbian, this is another contributing factor for its slow response time. Though Sony ericsson is fast, you can only install applications from a custom menu. In N70 it is awesome, it is custom. It also needs an anti-virus and a fire wall since you can connect to the net so easily with this.

Me: When will oranjebaan arrive? Why is the bus chugging along like a rope train in Ooty? Kabhie hum raste ko, aur uske haath mein rahe N70 ko dekhate... Hmmmmmmmm...

A: Nokia is coming up with an application that can sync with google..

B: Nokia?????? . With my current phone, I can sync my email contacts with any mail server. Pull down all my contact lists, calender, even read my personal messages from my mail accounts... Awesome it is. I wonder how many contacts he has? You know, I have tried reading pdf docs on this. We have to scroll left and right to read a line completely. Mess it is. I could however view power point ppts on this.

Me: Yaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn..

A: Now that the iphone is here, i wonder how long will N series hold the center stage. The Nseries is not acceptable for executives, nor is the iphone. Nseries is the "thing" for them.

B: Of course, even the blackberry.

A: The blackberry has a problem. The executives need a keyboard. I do not think it is handy with a joy stick. Anyways, ipods and executives do not look good, you know, not an executive match. Did you see the rush for the iphone in the US? Sold out on the debut itself.

B: Hmmm.. yes. I did. And you know regarding the iphone.....

And then Oranjebaan arrived and I got out.