Sony Ericsson
The Sony Ericsson stand design is the same of past years, and all products were present —even the Japaneese phones—. There were lots of working phones to play with, from Z1010, black and white T630 (this one will finally be available everywhere sim-free), K700, etc. But very few working S700. The firmware is only three weeks old and very few things are operative. Today I played mostly with the K700, tomorrow with the S700. Hopefully with some SO505is too.
The K700 phones had the same firmware version of the one I used during the Press Conference of March 9th, and the service menu still showed "Model: Z1010". I discovered a feature I didn't notice then: the Panorama effect of the camera (which helps you align 3 photos together and actually sticks them together to get a 180º view). Unfortunately it crashed whenever I tried to access the Camera Pictures folder (in any K700) so I wasn't able to grab the photos to show you samples. I tried the integrated flash light and altough it is useful, it doesn't seem even half powerful than the MPF-10 Flash Module. If I have time, I will take comparison photos of the MPF-10, the K700 flash and the S700 flash.
Yes! The video recording time is just limited by the memory (the internal 32 mbytes)
No! Can't customize the SMS tone
Volume buttons: In Video mode: brighntess; and in Photo mode, digital zoom. Very camera-feeling |
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Dump memory? I guess that's just something about this firmware version just-for-developers
The cool Panorama option. Notice how the previous capture appears transparent in the left part of the viewfinder to help you align the next capture. This is the result:
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UH!!! Bye bye to listening to the radio through the speaker :(
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Not only the SE phones show their Dual Front design ;)
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God bless 12x optical zoom and 36x digital: that is only a S700, not a secret prototype ;)
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 <<< First of all, that's me conquering the competitor! Excellent photograph by Michael from Mobileburn.com. I hope no Sony Ericsson lawyer comes to me asking to "refrain from showing the photograph on your web site for it represents unfair competition" or whatever :D.
Since the A920, Motorola has been making some serious P800/P900 competitor smartphones, especially those with the same Symbian 7 UIQ operative system Sony Ericsson uses (Motorola has various smartphones covering all the current operative system range, from Linux to Microsoft). The A920 was that frightening brick with everything on it (UMTS, GPS, many hardware buttons, rotating camera and even external antenna) and its successor, the a925 (portraited below) is nothing smaller but certainly better looking. Anyway, just two words: TOO - BIG. The interesting one is the new A1000, just a little bit taller, thicker and wider than the P900 but with the advantage of the joystick and the rest of the buttons that surround the screen. This design makes it possible to (breathe in) run the Mophun 3D game "Rally Pro Contest" full screen (landscape mode). If you missed the Mophun 3D for P900 preview some weeks ago, you will now be really dissapointed to know that this game ran at little more than half screen in portrait mode, due to the lack of hardware buttons in P900, and also the lack of support in Flip Closed mode. The Mophun 3D engine —only for Symbian— is still under development though, let's have some faith.
The V80 "ROTOMOTO" is smaller than it looks
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Rally Pro Contest (Mophun 3D) running on an A1000
But how many words are these guys going to make out of "MOTO"???
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Everyone has been talking about the Sendo X for almost a year so I was curious about this a Nokia 6600 and Siemens SX1 almost-clone. Because of its rather more original interface, it was my favourite at first, but I found it bigger, thicker, less comfortable in navigation and more "vulgar" than the latter. I'm not a big fan of the Series 60 world, and this phone would have really dissapointed me if it wasn't for the great accesory portfolio Sendo has prepared. The coolest one: the keyboard.
WOW: "There's not going to be one next big thing there's going to be many things working together"
Michael Zafirovski, president of Motorola
Siemens PenPhone. Okay but it doesn't actually draw on paper so what... Well, anything innovative is always welcome :)
The huge Siemens stand
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Panasonic videocamera-style X300, with the VGA camera on one side and laterally swivelling screen:
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The Samsung stand
The LG stand
All the tiny phones from Panasonic
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Like most of the times, the most remarkable thing about Nokia is not its phones, but its domineering presence in the fair. Their stand within the main mobility hall wasn't the biggest, but in the outside they had two or three more exclusive halls for themselves. One of them, the Nokia 7610 lounge, had these cool tables with Nokia Frames built-in. Oh... did I just say cool? Well, they did look cool FROM AFAR. This Nokia Frame thing is just useless. You beam images to it via Infrarred (no cards no Bluetooth) and they are displayed randomly but you won't see anything if you don't stay still in front of it. If you move just a little bit to a side, bye bye to the image. The screen is like one of those 128x128px 4k LCDs of Series 40 phones, oversized. Photos of the phones, maybe another day.
What's in there? Not interested
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How far away is Clubsonyericsson from having an exclusive Lounge in CeBIT? Hehe...
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Sid and Michael from Mobileburn.com
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Me teaching Tablet PC to Sid
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Michael (Mobileburn) and Eric Levine from Engadget.com
with the freakiest thing he could find in Hannover. Oh, and there's some laughing Infosyncworld.com editor-in-chief in the top left corner :) |
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<<< First of all, that's me conquering the competitor! Excellent photograph by Michael from Mobileburn.com. I hope no Sony Ericsson lawyer comes to me asking to "refrain from showing the photograph on your web site for it represents unfair competition" or whatever :D.
