Filed under: Hardware, Portables, Apple History
Rig of the Week: Newton as telephone
Who needs an iPhone when you've got a Newton 2100?Using a Nokia Card Phone 2.0 he got on Ebay for 10 Euros, a HDC-6D headset (Cost: 1 Euro), a prepaid T-Mobile SIM card (10 euros) and NewtSMS+ 1.10a beta (free), Marcus Hammerschmitt (original post in German and Google-translated) was placing calls with his Newt -- shades of 1997. He explains:
"I installed [NewtSMS+ 1.10a beta] on my Newton MP 2100. I put the SIM card into my Nokia Card Phone. Plugged the card phone into my Newt. Let NewtSMS+ know the PIN of my SIM card, and was ready to go...For my money (exactly 35 euros / about 48 USD in this case), the Newton does a brilliant job."
He goes on to note that the Phone Card also works with his eMate and old Compaq laptop, plus the SIM card works with his Nokia 6310i. Nicely done!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
blinkcowz182 said 1:34PM on 10-02-2007
Yeah I was going to do something like this on my iPhon...oh wait I can't install 3rd party apps! But the iPhone is the most revolutionary device ever made?!
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tim said 1:41PM on 10-02-2007
come on! Can we stop with all these newtonPhone posts all ready!? What is this? tuNPw.com?! ;-)
And to the first commented, way to suck the fun out of something
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tim said 1:44PM on 10-02-2007
ps-
I've been making a lot of spelling errors lately because I've been posting FROMy iPhone and get too lazy to spellcheck
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tim said 1:44PM on 10-02-2007
ps-
I've been making a lot of spelling errors lately because I've been posting FROMy iPhone and get too lazy to spellcheck
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Tom said 1:46PM on 10-02-2007
I'm sorry, I don't believe you Dave. NewtSMS only allows short messages, the post doesn't really seem to say anything about making phone calls:
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fconcord.antville.org%2Fstories%2F1696260%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
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Tony said 2:03PM on 10-02-2007
Enough with the Newton Crap...Already! It's 2007.
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Morgan Aldridge said 2:46PM on 10-02-2007
@Tom See Marcus's post (http://www.newtontalk.net/archive/newtontalk.2007-09/0441.html) to the NewtonTalk mailing list (as well as the followups starting here: http://www.newtontalk.net/archive/newtontalk.2007-10/0000.html). NewtSMS+ 1.10a beta does, in fact, offer some telephony features which he's taking advantage of to actually receive and place calls using the Nokia Card Phone 2.0.
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basscadet said 6:44AM on 10-03-2007
It seems there is a hint of Newton resurrection as the iphone crippling produced the Touch and everyone awaits the does-it-all iNewton to complement the series. After all, we've seen Apple create interesting concepts and then cut away many features so they fit a narrowly defined purpose or to tie Apple's hardware with iTunes.
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adrian said 5:15PM on 10-03-2007
I don't see what's wrong in talking about what people can do with older Apple gear. The Newton was a pretty decent machine in its day and i still like it now after all these years.
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