Introduction, packaging
The name Neonode is known only by a few here in Hungary and to tell the truth I haven’t heard a lot about them either. It is a Swedish company established in 2001 employing about 20-30 people. They have releases their first phone, the Neonode N1, after lots of delays, in 2004. In Hungary it didn’t became popular at all, what more we couldn’t even really hear about it, although at its time it was the world’s smallest smartphone running Windows CE with its 86 grams. Its successor, the N1m, hit stores in 2005 and contrary to previous news it did not have any WiFi radio, so the great breakthrough did not come then.
That’s all about the portfolio of the 5 year old company, as except of the phones listed previously they have produced only one more, which is the subject of our current review, the N2. It too had a life of vicissitudes; it should have arrived originally in February, a date which changed at first to summer than to December. Last week we have personally attended the press conference presenting the handset, but the review of the test-phone has also had a delay of a week, but I am really not surprised by this. Most important is that it arrived and spent six days with me, which was enough for me to get to know it completely.
I’ve been talking to the owner of XXL GSM five times a day about the ETA of the phone before the handset’s arrival; I have been really expecting it to come, but there were some problems at the wholesaler. Just before the weekend I was on my way home when suddenly I received a call that the Neonode has arrived. I was running to get it with a childish excitement and then opened the strangest mobile phone box I have ever seen. I’m talking about a plastic "chest" composed of two separate parts which hides a lot of accessories belying its size. Near the handset we find a bit simple textile case, a Sennheiser CX-300 stereo earphone, a microphone extension cord for this, a 1GB miniSD card, a data cable and the charger.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
