New Handphones
Raymond finally gotten a new Samsung X700! The high-res hi-color display is simply stunning. The bundled wallpapers looks so good! The bulit-in stereo speakers sounds very good. The user interface is responsive and intuitive to use, unlike a Motolora phone. In fact it feels like a Sony Ericsson cross with a iPod. The irriating i center button stills go to the internet when pressed on the home screen, but now serve as a okay button too on other pages. The camera takes wonderfully clear photos unlike my lousy O2 mini. This phone uses the new (maybe not so new, I mountain tortoise ok?) Transflash card which is so small (about 1 cm). I wonder if anyone drops it inside his ear? :P
Still on new handphone, paperd finally gotten a new handphone! And it is the newest model from Motorola somemore! The new Motorola Razr V3i with iTunes! It looks so cool in black shiny brush metal finish. The user interface is standard Motorola, except for the iTunes part which feels like, well iPod! :P Of course it also comes with the now standard features like color display, mp3 ringtones, web browser, MMS, camera and video cam. paperd was showing off the video cam features to us just now. I went like "Hello! We had been using video cam feature on our handphone for a year now...". papded must be the last of my friends who used a monochrome handphone!
Well, not anymore, he has the newest coolest iPod phone to boast about!
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Wow. Seems like a lot to compare and compete about out there. However, I wonder how Motorola is responding to it's interface speed, and texting shortfall as its loosing popularity because of this. Just like the Nokia, which is also facing issues of slow interface speed.
Btw, anyone knows of whether any phones actually have their software Mac compatible?? I am reluctant to switch brands because of this. And I'm sure I'm not the only one here. Especially Apple fans. Even with Mototrola incorporating iTune! I wonder how Apple will respond!
PaperD here. The software is mac compatible. if you're already on mac you're probably better off - you'll be used to the iTunes interface.
still, a few gripes about the phone. i've owned only nokia phones prior to this and the texting interface of the new moto phone falls a bit short of nokia's interface. still, this is not a major problem in itself, and i probably need to just adapt to the new texting interface.
more irritating is the iTunes thingy. you can't get any music into the phone without using the iTunes software.
and because of the DRM (digital rights management) issue, your music needs to be encrypted and encoded.
result: spending a few minutes per mp3 song to encode it into the encrypted format the phone plays. it took me the better part of an hour to fill the phone with mp3s i already have (coz they needed to be re-encoded and copied). and you obviously can't use the phone to transfer mp3s between different machines.
compare this to my previous old MPIO mp3 player (died already after 3 years), where you can copy the mp3 files into the mem card and it is playable straightaway.
finally visited the Mole's Wall to take a look at the pic of my HP.
Some Gripes about the X700 as an MP3 player:-
1. Only 1 play list.
2. Supplied Earphones too big - Hope SAMSUNG makes something like the plug-in ear type like Sony - soon.
But then I do not have the same problem as paperd when transfering MP3s. Grinz!
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