Neonode N2 officially coming to the US
It might be lagging a bit behind its European cousin, but Neonode is finally committing to bringing its N2 to the States in 2008. The finger-friendly touchscreen device is the follow-on to the N1 -- a phone that never even crossed the pond -- and features a 2 megapixel camera, expansion via a rather unusual miniSD slot, and mere GPRS data to ferry bytes down from the network. Without 3G or even EDGE, our excitement's tempered, but we're still curious to find out how it feels and functions in the hand. Look for availability and carrier agreements (yep, it sounds like someone will be officially offering this -- T-Mobile, perhaps?) to be announced in the second quarter.
[Thanks, Kristofer B.]
[Thanks, Kristofer B.]
























Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nick Santella @ Feb 17th 2008 7:53PM
Is this thing comming to Canada as well any news on that?
PEZ @ Jan 4th 2008 4:58PM
I remember some pinhead being exited about this when it only offered GSM. They could not get the stack working correctly to offer a 2.5G solution. This thing is already 3 years behind - at least.
Jonathan @ Jan 4th 2008 3:40PM
Not even edge? Then it's definitely going to T-Mobile as (1)they're the only ones without a 'look at OUR iphone!' phone and (2)i highly doubt anyone else would pick this up without even edge other than t-mobile or virgin mobile
i would have been interested...but no edge? really?...are we sure? pitty. i'll wait around for the openmoko freerunner, then.
tnkgrl @ Jan 4th 2008 6:00PM
I've used a Neonode N1m (tri-band GPRS) and I like it a lot - it's a really interesting phone and it's faster than other GPRS devices I've used:
http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/category/n1m/
I'm looking forward to the N2.
Atanas Boev @ Jan 5th 2008 10:13AM
I also have used N1m and it was a great phone, but quite problematic if you need to repair. It was typical product of a small company - great idea, mediocre realisation, poor service support. Hopefully the situation improved now, its already the "magic" third version (N1, N1m, N2) :)
However, its a bit too late for N2. For 500Eur I could buy SGH-P500 "Armani" Samsung, and it fall in the same "iphone nano" category. Still, Neonode has great interface, firmware updates (think iphone), and can be charged via usb. But then again, its Neonode vs. Samsung...
Volcano Kango @ Jan 5th 2008 4:36PM
I used one of these (or one virtually identical) in Europe last year -- a friend's -- and the keypad is excellent. VERY intuitive, very easy to use. I just hope it's someone other than T-Mobile that carries it stateside.