Hi Chris
The 7600 is small because it is based on Series 40.
By having tested the 7600 I can say that is not really such an
interesting phone:
No videocall supported
No memory expansion
No triband
Series 40 based software (No Symbian applications)
If you put togheter these weak points is difficult to justify
the design as an interesting selling factor. :-)
I agree that we have to wait the announcement of 23rd to see
(Hopefully) something interesting based on Series 60 2.0 coming
from Nokia.
By now the real problem is that they have been unable to make a
WCDMA Series 60 phone with decent size and battery.
The really need to shrink the size of the Series 60 hardware and I
expect that a new hadware platform will come out soon.
Maybe also the planned Panasonic X700...
Giovanni
Il giorno 19/feb/04, alle 01:09, Chris Wooldridge ha scritto:
> Think small? The 7600 is small.
> I'm guessing that the 7600 is about half the volume of the Sony 505i.
> Remember this is a WCDMA/GSM 900/1800 Dual Mode handset. Now I
> haven't been
> in Tokyo since last July, but as I recall, all of the 3G handsets were
> substantially larger than this.
>
> Although the 7600 takes a bit of getting used to, as soon as you use
> it you
> realise that a great deal of thought went into the design. For
> example, if
> I hold the handset in my left hand my thumb falls on the left hand
> side over
> the volume controls, the camera lens falls in the gap between my thumb
> and
> index finger and my index finger itself hovers nicely over the shutter
> button.
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Received on Thu Feb 19 13:20:52 2004