Phones To Watch
The 3Gsm show a few weeks ago gave manufacturers the opportunity to showcase their new handsets for this year. We’ve taken a quick look at what to expect in the next few months.
Nokia
The Nokia 6110 Navigator will be one to watch as Nokia has taken its mapping services to this affordable phone it’s should be available around July-August for around €250.
One of the big stories was the Nokia N95 we expect to see this in Ireland next month (no price yet), the N95 have some really nice features as shown here .
The Eseries (the E stands for Enterprise) also had some nice phones with Nokia showing that it is in a class of its own with business devices, despite struggling to get its head around fashion phones. The E90 Communicator was the star attraction with the same GPS capability as the N95. The E65 slider and BlackBerry-style E61iare expected to make an impact, too.
Sony Ericsson
The Sony Ericsson W880 it aimed at the slim phone market, this is a really classy looking phone but some people might find small buttons and screen as a potential source of frustration.
We expect to see the w880 for sale in the UK in early March with no date yet set for Ireland.
1GB capacity, holds 900 songs and up to 20 hours music playing time
Samsung
We have not seen a lot of phone from Samsung but they are really starting to produce a massive range of phone and I reckon we will see a lot more from them in the next year. They have come from a few silver clamshells to the D500, and the succession of progressively slimmer sliders, came to the latest stage in its evolution: Ultra 2. With operators like Vodafone, O2, 3 and Meteor making tough decisions on filling their ranges, and Samsung’s share of the Irish market under attack from Sony Ericsson and LG, Samsung is going for super-slim.
It wants operators to pick all three - slide, flip and bar - and argues that the handsets in the Ultra 2 category need to be stocked together as it is creating a ’sub-brand’ in ‘Ultra’. Like the first round of Ultra handsets, the U600 slider steals the show, but the U100 bar phone could be the surprise hit. It is ridiculously thin and epitomises Samsung’s current focus on super-slim.
Samsung has started to bombarded markets across the world with a huge number of phones, but it is not clear yet which will see light in the Ireland .
Motorola
Not so many phone announced by Motorola, The Symbian UIQ-powered Z8 RIZR replacement was the only major announcement from Motorola.
You can also check out the Video here to give you a better understanding of the slider that opens up into a curve.
Motorola is really pushing the phone’s video capabilities as the star attraction. It shows 30 frames per second with 16 million colours. It is also an HSDPA phone, with Motorola claiming that a full movie can be downloaded in less than five minutes in optimum coverage.
The stylish MOTOKRZR K3 is a clamshell phone with HSDPA connectivity. The SLVR L9 which we expect to see this sometime in Q2 2007.
LG
The LG Shine was on display (which was already on sale in parts of Europe) so far sale of this phone in the UK have been strong and we expect to see this in Ireland next month.
The LG Prada , LG bosses are quick to say its touch-screen device is being copied by Apple, rather than vice versa, given the inevitable comparisons.
Video of the LG Prada here
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March 4, 2007 | News
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