{"id":2296,"date":"2009-07-13T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/13\/the-nokia-att-symbian-pager-or-the-surge\/"},"modified":"2009-07-13T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:45:00","slug":"the-nokia-att-symbian-pager-or-the-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/the-nokia-att-symbian-pager-or-the-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nokia AT&amp;T Symbian Pager (or the Surge)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announced today in the US by Nokia and AT&amp;T is the Surge, an S60 phone that seems to owe more to the US fascination with pagers than a true smartphone (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutsymbian.com\/news\/item\/10072_Nokia_Surge-ATampTs_80_Symbian.php\">details on All About Symbian<\/a>). beyond that, and the inevitable comments that it\u2019s hit every branch of the ugly tree, I find myself strangely drawn to it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"250\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image46.png\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>No I have no idea either. There\u2019s no wi-fi on the phone, the number pad is part of that weird tiny keyboard, the headphone jack is only 2.5mm, it\u2019s a 2megapixel tiny camera\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Still looks cute though. Can I review one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced today in the US by Nokia and AT&amp;T is the Surge, an S60 phone that seems to owe more to the US fascination with pagers than a true smartphone (details on All About Symbian). beyond that, and the inevitable comments that it\u2019s hit every branch of the ugly tree, I find myself strangely drawn to it. No I have no idea either. There\u2019s no wi-fi on the phone, the number pad is part of that weird tiny keyboard, the headphone jack is only 2.5mm, it\u2019s a 2megapixel tiny camera\u2026 Still looks cute though. Can I review one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[630],"tags":[314,158,300,1161,150],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symbian-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-att","tag-nokia","tag-s60","tag-surge","tag-symbian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-B2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}