S60 Open to new features

Our "S60 Agent" word of mouth marketing program is now in full swing. Here's one of my favorite reports from Agent "Joe":

>A few friends and I rented a house for the weekend in Dewey Beach,
> Delaware.
> The place was a total beach town, populated with college students and
> families on vacation. For our trip down there from NYC my friend had put
> the address into the GPS software he downloaded for his Verizon phone.
> Since we had four hours to kill, I whipped out my laptop and proceeded to
> tether it to my N93. This definitely drew comments from the other
> passengers in the car with me. I explained to them that the USB cable and
> Nokia PC suite made it all easy to do this, all for $2.99 a month on a
> tmobile tzones plan. Unfortunately tmobile had a lot of dead spots on the
> way down, but that's another issue L. The laptop, with n93 still
> attached,
> was quickly passed around as everyone used it to check their emails and
> even
> IM. They balked at the price of the phone however, a common reaction from
> many people I come into contact with J. As we got closer and the streets
> got smaller, the Verizon gps began to fail. Now if I had an N95 or E90
> perhaps, I could've just fired up the built in GPS feature, but this was
> not
> the case. Still tethered to my laptop, I fired up google maps and
> basically
> talked him thru the last 30 minutes of directions. N93 saves the day!
>
> Google maps has been a tremendously useful application for me. I would
> say
> it's the most used 3rd party application that I have. Now this would be
> useless if I had the N95, but I promised myself I would at least keep the
> N93 for a full year before getting a new phone! It next came handy when
> we
> were deciding on a place to eat dinner. No one knew the area, so I
> searched
> the area for our food of choice, which was sushi. In minutes I had a
> location, directions, a phone number and even reviews. This was done all
> while sunning myself out on the beach! Needless to say, everyone was
> impressed. I on the other hand spent that night drying to blow sand out
> of
> my keypad. They said they would all consider an S60 device for their next
> phone, but the main problem is the prices. I've seen enough people's
> faces
> when I tell them the prices to know this is usually the main issue that
> stops many people. I just explained that this is more than just a
> cellphone, and that I've proved that just now. I usually recommend one of
> the S60 v1 devices to try out. They have gotten significantly cheaper but
> still have many more capabilities than a lot of phones out on the market
> today.
>

Great stuff from Joe! If you want to join the New York agent pilot campaign, stop by here. (Remember that for the pilot stage we are only accepting agents in the New York City area).