Sendo, not Microsoft; Nokia, not Microsoft. And here's the phone!

Ron Schaeffer, product manager of Sendo, attempts to launch the Sendo X with a "low acronym count" presentation.

A little more background! Well, actually, a little less background; this story starts with the decision to license the Symbian operating system in November 2002. What about Microsoft? "Who?"

"Couldn't ask for a better partner. If we have a question, a Nokia engineer is on the plane next day to show us." Better than whom? not... Microsoft? No mention...

The point of Symbian and Nokia Series 60- it's an open standard. If we improve it, there's a framework under which we can license this back to nokia and symbian, and we're looking at this. And we're really taking advantage of the fact that we have source code access. All we can't do is break 3rd party compatibility - if you have a game, it has to run. Which makes sense!"

And with that, he finally introduces the phone. A picture of it. He holds it up! "You may have heard me say the same things about the Z100 a couple of years ago... the same things are true; it's a great phone, first. It's small and light."

Plus!
We have a co-processor for graphix, called GraphiX

-it does 2D graphics accelereation.
-it has a 30 frames per second viewfinder - no jump.jump.jump as you follow a subject
-it leaves the ARM9 processor free to run other tasks; it doesn't have to talk to the camera, write to the screen, but can run applications.

The screen is 176 by 220, 65K colour; "a bit bigger than the standard Series 60 dsplay; allows space for little indicators like battery power left."

This is one of the first phones with flash! - it has 16m colours in the camera. red-eye reduction.

"We have a video camcorder, too. it can use up to 90% of available memory."