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Essentially a bigger, heavier Nokia 9300, the 9500 also has Wi-Fi and a VGA camera added. Its clamshell body opens up to reveal a beautiful 640- by 200-pixel color screen. The keyboard is better than that of the 9300, having slightly domed keys that are more welcoming to fingers, so you're not confined to typing with your thumbs; while you can't quite touch-type on the 9500, you can come close. With the clamshell closed, the 9500 is a huge phone, 5.8 inches long and weighing 7.8 ounces—heavier than other PDA/phone competitors such as the Samsung i730. Despite this, the phone's rectangular shape makes it feel much more like a phone than wider PDAs do, and the external color screen and phone keypad run the familiar Series 40 interface found on lower-end Nokia phones. In "phone-only" mode, you can make calls, access the address book, read (but not answer) e-mail, and read and answer text messages, although for some reason the 9500 doesn't have predictive text capabilities. |
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