New Nokia 6275iThe Nokia 6275i is another phone from Nokia's line but I would stop short at calling it amazing. The CDMA phone has features one would expect but it's only available in Canada. The 6275i sports a QVGA screen, a 2 mega pixel camera with flash (not bad), a memory slot, and Bluetooth. It weighs 3.7 oz, so it's not heavy and the dimensions stay the course with a candybar type design. I've always been fond of candybars, real or fake, because they make logical sense when it comes to portable electronics. If you purchase the 6275i get ready to talk on this badboy all day with 210 minutes of talktime and/or 10 days of standby idle time. The battery will not disappoint the loyal Nokia followers.
The display is a standard LCD able to display 262,144 colors at 240 X 320 pixels. One problem I have with this phone is the screen size. Cellphones are becoming multi-faceted devices that are expected to live up to our demand and with a small screen it's hard to multitask, run several programs, and text without the screen freezing which confuses the user. This equates to the solution; we need more screen! Okay I must admit, the screen is fine by many standards but a more landscape feel would do the trick. In addition, the 6275i has 21 MB of memory built-in, a 500 capacity phone book, infrared, Bluetooth, Wap, MMS, txt, an FM radio, and the built-in player supports a variety of formats for playing back toons.
For your safety it is GPS compatible, but not in the sense that you can install applications and they tell you where to go. It has GPS technology built into it to share emergency contact information with the authorities, cell towers, and phone companies in case you are lost. For many the Java support, T9, and flash might do the trick but I see the Nokia 6271i as a typical Nokia phone with features that I've used for years. On the flip side, the size is a plus, the features are standard, and a long battery life can't hurt. Currently available in Canada and it can be bought for $200 depend on where you find it.
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Dual-screen cellphones are nothing new, after all, flips have long offered anemic external displays for caller ID and the like with a bigger, higher resolution screen on the inside for taking care of business. Still, two folding screens emerging as one bigazz display a la the 701 ThinkPad's butterfly keyboard would be a welcome addition, right? Seok Hong Jeong thinks so and is presenting his \"dual LCD mobile phone\" prototype at the Seoul International Invention Fair 2006 in Korea. He's already applied for patents in \"overseas markets\" which we presume means the USPTO among other freewheelin' entities. Godspeed sir, and please get Sammy on the horn for a couple of those 0.82-mm slim LCD's they like to brag about -- let's keep the bulk down, eh?
This is more like it! No sooner had I posted out of focus leaked photos of the new Sony Ericsson Ai, much better pictures have emerged, showing the Ai in its shiny silver and brooding black finery. The keys are small, the phone is slim, and it looks set to challenge the LG Chocolate in the looks department.
Sony Ericsson have a few designer phones up their sleeves for next year, and although the Ai (or W880i as it might officially be known) is being pitched as a Walkman phone, it's got the looks to be a designer phone in its own right.
More pictures of the Sony Ericsson Ai after the jump.
