Nokia, Sagem, Samsung, Sony Ericsson
Nokia
Nokia’s stand was one of the most crowded ones on the whole exhibition, everyone was curious about the multimedia monster, the N96. 2.8” QVGA display, front cover slideable in two directions, 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, HSDPA, 16 GB internal memory – which is expandable – , Symbian operating system – so it really has no deficiencies in terms of multimedia.
The other N-series newcomer is named N78. This is a musical model, and the best thing in it is that it can play back music for 24 hours. It doesn’t have any problems in the list of its other features either: it has a Symbian operating system, the display has a diameter of 2.2” and QVGA resolution, it has GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, the camera with Carl-Zeiss lens is a 3.2 megapixel one and amongst the included accessories we can find a 2 GB microSD card.
Besides the aforementioned devices Nokia presented two other handsets in Barcelona, the 6220 Classic and the 6210 Navigator. The earlier is a HSDPA-capable model with a somewhat low-keyed exterior and a 5 megapixel camera, the latter one is a phone specialized in navigation, the exposed piece was very slow in doing its job so we haven’t been convinced – for now.
Nokia 6220 Classic
Nokia 6210 Navigator
Sagem
We can say one thing for sure after visiting Sagem’s stand: they have hired a few new designers, or at least they have tripled the salary of the current ones. Every new device looks really good, but they are all part of the absolute low-en category (apart from one), but they have good chances there.
The only exception is the My721X, but not even this one could get much higher. 3 megapixel camera with fixed focus, metal case, QVGA display, Bluetooth, advanced music player – this is how we could sum up in a few keywords the quite good-looking device.
Samsung
Of all the stands at the exposition, we liked Samsung’s the least, they had serious problems with keeping people to comply with the "don’t take photos" rule, but of course this didn’t influence the new handsets. The hot shot was the U900 Soul: 12.9 mm thick metal case, 5 megapixel camera, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, OLED touchscreen display as control. There were some problems with usability, but besides that it’s not a bad handset, although we weren’t as fascinated as Samsung would have liked – as Soul was the most advertised device, on giant billboards through Barcelona.
The other novelty, the G810 fascinated us more. We’re talking about the brother of G800, which has a 5 megapixel camera. Although this is not it’s most important attribute, but the Symbian S60 9.2 operating system, so the device wants to become an opponent for the N95/N96. The latter might be too strong for it, however, as although the G810 also has WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth, its internal memory is not nearly as large as the Finnish model’s. We believe anyhow that gigabytes don’t mean everything and the Samsung model in a demanding metal case will also be successful.
Sony Ericsson
Most new devices were presented by the Japanese-Swedish manufacturer at a failed press conference. The greatest hit was the X1, alias Xperia, which is a Windows Mobile-based device with a 3” WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) display. We have asked a representative and we got to know that the device is running Windows Mobile Professional operating system, not a unique one based on the Windows CE kernel, so – although the manufacturer doesn’t specify this – the X1 is a PDA phone. There are no problems with the exterior; the QWERTY keyboard also seemed usable, although the exact release date of the handset is not yet known.
If Sony Ericsson, then Walkman, but strangely enough the manufacturer has only presented only one of this kind of phone, the W980i. The device weighing exactly 100 grams didn’t receive any substantial developments, except the FM transmitter, but there is nothing to wonder about this if we take a look at the refined predecessors. There is HSDPA support, the internal memory is 8Gb large, but unfortunately the 3.2 megapixel camera on the front has only fixed focus, so from this point of view the phone is at the same level with Sagem My721X and that is quite sad.
They have also presented two models from the G series, which only differ in the resolution of their cameras (G900 = 5 megapixel, G700 = 3.2 megapixel, both have autofocus) and the presence of WiFi (only the larger model has it). Their common attributes are the 2.4” diameter touchscreen, the Symbian UIQ 3 operating system, the HSDPA-support and the new user interface.
Sony Ericsson G700 és G900
The manufacturer presented three additional device: the Z770 is a phone theoretically specialized in web surfing, practically it doesn’t bring about any essential developments and the C702 and the C902 are two Cyber-shot models, the first one has GPS, the second is slim and has a 5 megapixel camera.
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