i860 - The REAL First Cameraphone On Nextel
We admit it. We got a bit overzealous when we discovered the i930 at JavaOne. It will be the first smartphone on Nextel, but it will be the second cameraphone. The first cameraphone due out for iDen will be the i860 - which is a bit of a hybrid between the new skinny i830 and the i930 smartphone. Like the i830, the i860 is slimmer and smaller than iDen phones past.
From the i930, the i860 gets a huge external display and the same VGA camera outfit on the outside. On the inside, the i860 shares the i930's 176 x 220 screen and roughly the same keyboard layout. Even though the i860 is not a smartphone, it can run Java applications like the other iDen phones. The difference is that the huge screen and wicked fast Java engine make this phone a pleasure to play games on. I tried Prince of Persia on this at JavaOne (I never bothered to flip the phone closed to discover the camera, sorry.) and it was fun as hell, even if it was the side scrolling version from like 1994.
