Nokia Launches Airtexting Mobile

Nokia’s new 3220 camera air phone is an effort on the part of the company to gain market share that has been slipping away to manufacturers of mobiles considered trendier than Nokia’s older standby models. A motion sensor in the 3220 makes the lights blink in a sequence that spells out letters when the handset is waved. Joi Ito ponders the joys of an airtexting enabled BlackBerry and its potential as a hecklebot