When Is A Smartphone A PDA?

August 14th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I finally got around to picking up my Nokia N95 yesterday from the London Transport Lost & Found office. I’d left my N95 in the back of the cab although luckily the cabbie had handed it in, in order to receive an award that I had to pay.

I didn’t mind paying the £20 reward, as admittedly the alternative would have been to pay £400 for a new Nokia N95. What I did find funny though, was that the award fee was based on the type of device that was handed in, and I had to pay a higher fee because my Nokia N95 was classified as a PDA.

I decided to have a bit of fun with the customer support agent and she played along. I said that my Nokia N95 was definitely a phone and not a PDA. She asked if it could send emails and access the internet, and I said yes, but pointed out that so could many other ‘phones’ and that didn’t make my N95 a PDA.

She then asked if it could sync contacts, which I thought was a very good question to try and trip me up. I said yes, but, pointed out again that so could many other simplier phones. I think she got bored at this point, and admitted that they’d put ‘PDA’ down because they couldn’t find my model number and because my N95 looked ‘flash’. I gave in at this point, and said ‘well, it must be a PDA then!’

Maybe, I should have told her that actually Nokia are trying to market the Nokia N95 as a ‘Multimedia Computer’ :-)

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Jack on 14 August 2007:

    Wow…You’re really lucky enough to get this ‘Multimedia Computer’, but in our country (INDIA), still we’re awaiting for this N-series. Hope I’ll get one once it is launched…

  2. #2

    Comment by Bush Mackel on 14 August 2007:

    I don’t think my LG Choclate qualifies as either. (#);)

  3. #3

    Comment by TipsoSaurus on 14 August 2007:

    @ Jack : Come out of your village! N-95 is available in India from last 1 month…I think it came the day it was launched. Nokia can’t ignore India’s market with this kind of phone!

  4. #4

    Comment by Brad D. on 14 August 2007:

    I recently purchased the Sony EricsonW300i, and if it’s not a PDA it’s definitly the swiss army knife equivlent cell phone. It has built in bluetooth, infrared, comes with it’s own sync cable included, all the usual calendar, alarm functions, book reader, games, camera (1megapix), obviously with webbrowser and email ability, SMS ..of course

    It doesn’t have a nice qwerty keybard or Wifi, but it does make me wonder why I’d ever want anything else..oh I can write programs for it as well.

    Please tell me more about this “Required reward system”. I’m not familar with it. Is it that that the lost and found will post your missing item if you offer a reward to anyone who find it?

  5. #5

    Comment by Everton on 14 August 2007:

    @Brad

    The cabbies are encouraged to hand in lost property because they get a fee from the owner, if the item is reclaimed.

  6. #6

    Comment by Brown Baron on 14 August 2007:

    That sounds like a nice system. At least you have a better chance of getting your item back.

  7. #7

    Comment by 3gp on 16 August 2007:

    lolx this sounds really funny.

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