The G series

February 10, 2008, Barcelona. We had a pleasant weather when at a Sunday evening we went with my colleague Bocha to a small event hall at the edge of the town to have a look at Sony Ericsson’s great announcements for this year. This is where Xperia has been introduced, which has undoubtedly been the hero of the evening, but everyone had suspected that the other newcomers, two phones from the G series, will probably be launched earlier.

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Since then G502 has also joined G700 and G900, so officially this new series from Sony Ericsson has three members. (But some sources say that G702, codenamed Beibei, is also coming soon.) Common aspects of G700 and G900 are that they both use Symbian as their operating system and have a touchscreen. They also have real buttons too; this is why members of the G series look more like phones than PDAs. This is no problem, as even though this design requires larger handsets, but having real buttons too besides the touchscreen will be very useful during daily use.

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I’ve been using G900 for almost two weeks now, and even though this phone is not perfect either (as such a phone doesn’t exist), we still got acquainted enough to give me enough inspiration to write a longer review of it. Fortunately I had lots of experience with UIQ-based Sony Ericsson phones lately, so I could analyze this one knowing the features of previous ones, but in the meantime we had for testing lots of S60 Nokia handsets too, not mentioning the Windows-based devices that are gaining more and more features. G900 is somehow a competitor in both classes, but we could also say that it’s kind of halfway between them, as there are still no touchscreen Nokia phones available and Windows-based handsets rarely have both a touchscreen and real buttons (with the exception of a few ASUS products).

After a lots of organizing and asking for help we managed to acquire a black dark brown edition too besides the wine-red one, and this brown phone had the final software version (this is going to be shipped to stores), came with the full package (it was untouched, I just loved tampering with it) having all the accessories, so we can finally show the packaging too. Besides the phone the box also contained a charger, a headset, a USB cable and an extremely thick stock of papers too. Unfortunately I was looking in vain for a memory card.

A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!