I definitely agree with what you have written.

Actually in mobile phone available today there are a lot of annoyances that prevent the user to be a real “digital journalist”. To be honest I do not really see anything getting better in the very next few months.

The main issue here is that there is no market segment for these kind of appliances.

I think you have highlighted all of the main limitations we currently have.

It seems that there is quite a big gap between “journalist generated content” and “user generated content”. It is quite obvious that quality matters for the first and easy of use for the second.

This is definitely worth a post.

I’m using the N95 8GB since kinda a couple o’ months. When you *see* the software, at a first glance, it’s a great “wow effect”. great bunch of apps, great ideas. looks very complete

When you use the apps steadily, in depth, everything becomes really, really difficult

First of all, the digicam is absolutely under the minimum level required. The video recorder is a little bit better. Voice recorder is ok, but there are no standard mikes. No smart texting app. All the PIM apps are absolutely silly. Etc.

And, even if you accept to use it, you have “software annoyances”. But these, on a mobile phone, become giant ones. Every stupid error in typing requires to repeat the procedure. task switching (user side: let’s say u have to check an info in app A to fill in s’thing in app B) is quite impossibile. And so on

I mean: I’m quite a “digital journalist”. But I can assure it’s absolutely NOT up to the task

(and I’m very very sorry about that