
It’s almost precisely what the Apple iPhone is not: a device designed with serious work in mind, where the keypad(s) are the data-entry systems and where multimedia creation carries a higher value than playback. ...
This device, not yet officially on sale in the U.S., has game-changing potential for journalism. If I ran a newsroom and could talk the money folks into it, I’d hand out E90s to some of my journalists and Web developers. I’d tell them to experiment like crazy, and to watch what other people are doing with these and other powerful mobile systems. I suspect they’d do some amazing things.
I haven't seen the device yet (though intend to). Offhand, though, this seems like a device more suited to journalists in new media operations and to business people rather than to most citizen journalists in the field, who are more likely to use lightweight camera phones and mobile video cams you can fit into your pocket.
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