Thursday, September 04, 2008
Nokia 6600 fold Unboxing Product Review
The package comes with the phone, a battery and a charger, a handsfree, a USB cable and a user’s guide. It also comes with a tiny pouch for you to carry it around safely. It only has 15MB internal memory so you will need an optional microSD card for storing your music collection.
The transparent protection sheet invites you to tap the phone twice. What happens after the double-tapping? Well depending on the situation it can reject call, display time or show you the new messages. Since it is a single-color display you can’t expect it to play videos like the Motorola V9. Regrettably there is no heat-sensitive buttons for controlling music.
While the large keys are responsive and easy to use, they don’t quite match the elegant feeling of the exterior surface.
The 2MP camera comes with a double-LED flash but it does not have auto-focus or optical zoom. Image quality is about average. It also has a front camera for 3G video call.
The phone is 15.9mm thick when folded, which is quite thick even for a flip phone. There is a release button located on the right side, press it to unfold the phone smoothly without effort.
The phone comes with a stereo handsfree made by Nokia. The handsfree does a reasonable job in blocking external noise but it is not good enough for music. You may need to buy a good pair of earphones to fully explore the high fidelity music delivered by the 6600 fold.
I think it is correct to put the microSD slot beneath the battery. The slot will literally ruin the beautiful design if it is placed on the sides of the phone.
It’s the S40 interface again. This interface had been with us for quite a long time, maybe it’s time for a change, Nokia! The phone has some useful software such as Nokia Maps and Opera Mini but they are not very useful without the appropriate hardware (GPS and a high-speed data connection).
The phone has the usual music enhancement features such as equalizer and Stereo Widening. The latter feature increases the difference heard by your left and right ear when you are listening to a stereo track.
I like the design and operation of the phone a lot. The phone comes with some really useful software, but they are limited by the lack of hardware support (GPS/HSDPA). If you can cope with the 1.6cm thickness and mediocre camera, this phone may be your perfect match.
Motorola MOTO ZN200 Quadband Unlocked Phone Product Review
Just finished the Nokia 6600 slide, this time a slider phone again, Motorola ZN200. They are both go back to mid-end level. Is it a trend to hit the budget market or just going to have some refreshing ideas inject to the market? Whatever...They are slider phone though, with totally difference in their design. 6600 slide is elegant simplicity however ZN200 is lovely and cute which is designed to appeal to women. Which one you like the most?
The package comes with a Battery, a Charger, a headset, and two Manuals.
The fashionable slider that comes in high-gloss metallic pattern and well-proportioned design with keypad in pink. It looks feminine and cute just like a colorful nails of a pretty woman.
There is a big medallion on the slider for four way navigation and surrounded by four small chrome plated keys. However, the touch and the sensitivity are very good.
The number keys closed up. The brightly white light colored the number keys with glossy blue together with the round shiny arc. However, they are small in size and fit in the body you may not say it is small. A bit top-heavy I think. It seems like well-suited to those girls who are with slim fingers. 
2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom located at the back and there’s a stylish pattern on the slider. It looks cute.
And the speaker is located at the bottom of the back. We have tried the CrystalTalk technology (uses sound-canceling microphones to filter out background noise) of the phone out in the canteen. It really provides best-in-class audio that allows me to hear and be heard. 
The volume control and the USB slot lie on the left hand side. 
However, the screen is only in 1.9-inches. It is a bit small in size.
And one interesting function of ZN200 I like very much is the status icons on the top of the device (which didn’t show on the above pictures) .You may have instant updates on missed calls, new messages and Bluetooth activity through winking its lights to signal. There’s nothing really spectacular about Motorola ZN200 handset. Nevertheless, it provides us with all features we normally need.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Nokia 6600 slide Quadband 3G Phone Unboxing Review
The package comes with a Battery, a Charger, a USB cable, a headset, a nice-looking leather case and Manual.
The 6600 slide with a smooth arc design and glossy black finish. It stays true to its name as it smoothly glides open in the hand. Really, it is compact.
I do appreciate the bigger buttons as if a banana-fingered still can work with it well with no doubt. And the clear layout of the number keys together with the aluminium center key which is on the slider constitutes visual simplicity.
At the back of the 6600 slide, it is in glossy black also and equipped with 3.2 megapixels camera with flash.
It is one of Nokia's smallest sliders with only 14mm thick. Well~ just like holding the soap in your pocket with its sleek curvy makeover. Its size, though small, fits in the hand perfectly.
With the back cover open. You may find that it is made of high quality steel like the one used in E71, which added the luxurious touch for the phone. It is in understated elegance but ease-to-use.
The micro SD slot located at the back and inside the back cover.
A standard Nokia menu layout. It looks clear and simple.
And I would like to mention my discovery of my magical touch on it. When you are tapping on it twice, it will wake up and show you the times, or even can snooze alerts, silences or rejects incoming calls. It sounds fascinating. Moreover, enough juice reserves on standby that you can take it to everywhere for a fortnight without your charger. 6600 slide packed full of the features you need on the phone with simplicity. Will you think simple is the best after this?
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Motorola A810 Triband Unlocked Phone Unboxing Product Review
The A810 is Motorola’s fresh attempt to bring a budget model to the crowded smartphone sector. Hmm, no body would expect it to earn the gold medal, but the A810 surprises us all with a load of useful features that deserve more than honorable mention. How does it perform? Read on.
The package comes with the phone, a charger, a battery, a handsfree and a User’s guide with a CD. Given the limited battery life of about 210 minutes, Motorola should have thrown in an extra battery, but it didn’t.
The A810 is a pretty small slab phone at 14mm thick and 51mm wide. The front surface was treated specially to prevent fingerprints and give a rougher touch. The white version has a clean and elegant feeling while the black one looks more reliable and serious.
The phone comes with all of the essential business applications: email, English to Chinese dictionary, calendar, enhanced contact that can save multiple numbers for one person and a basic calculator. It also has simple music and video players plus a web browser to spend the time.
The phone groups icons in a logical manner. The Multimedia tab shows only the 7 relevant applications so there is no need to “hunt down” your application by scrolling up and down.
Here is a close up of the specially treated front surface. You can also see the Answer/Reject buttons, the joystick and the microphone. The buttons are NOT touch sensitive.
The stylus is stored in the bottom part of the phone and the back cover is made up of strong steel which unfortunately makes it quite slippery. Unlike the A1600, the phone does not have software to read barcode or name cards. The 2MP camera is hidden in the red rim. This camera does not come along with flash, focus or zoom and so it is purely for entertainment only. But I would not complain about it. Hey it’s a business phone, not a play phone!
The phone lock button returns! Slide the lock button down to release the phone from automatic screen lock or push upward for a manual lock. The camera button lies next to the concealed mini-USB port.
The A810 has a standard 3.5mm earphone jack that can take most earphones without an adapter. The volume keys are large and easy to locate.
The microSD slot is beneath the battery so there is only one way to change card.
The A810 has a lot of “business” applications out of the box to help you manage your schedule and email. It also has some multimedia capabilities to make life more colorful. The only limitation is in the 2.2” screen which seriously affects your user experience. You need to scroll down pretty often when you are viewing email or SMS, and don’t think you can finish your favorite film on this tiny screen – the screen is too small for any prolonged usage.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Motorola ROKR EM30 Quadband Unlocked Phone Review
The package comprises the EM30 phone, a battery, a charger, a set of earphone, CD-ROM and a user’s guide.
EM 30 has an upright candy-bar design. The red rim exudes a youthful vibe. However, the 2.0” screen can be larger.
When the phone is on, the D-pad and number keys are illuminated in blue against the black keypad. Functional in dark while looking good in daylight.
I am not a fan of flat-key design because it is not really finger-friendly. I press the wrong key always when I text. Lucky that EM30 has this little dot on each flat key to make it easier for the fingertip.
ROKR EM30 is a music phone. It has high-fidelity audio, which definitely is pleasant to the ears. It supports a variety of music format which enable users to have a larger and wider collection of music. FM tuner with the RDS technology allows users to read information of the song playing. There’s Windows Media Player 11 which gives freedom to download music from more than 200 online music stores worldwide.
EM30 has inherited from E8 the highly acclaimed ModeShift technology that allows you to switch between music and phone modes. Red keys are illuminated when music mode is on. Unlike E8, camera mode is absent. As the camera is only 2.0 mega-pixel and is not really powerful, it is happily backgrounded.
3.5mm headphone jack has to be a necessary feature for the music-highlighted phone cause I can get rid of the crappy earphones that comes along the package.
There are shortcuts on the keypad like the vibration switch. How user-friendly.
As the phone itself does not have a larger internal storage, it has a MicroSD slot allowing upgrade up to 8GB, yet you have to remove the back cover to get access to it.
The main theme of ROKR just fits the EM30 phone very much with a firework-like stormy artworks.
ROKR EM30 is a rocker like its name. Music is definitely its best attribute. The design also echoes with the phone’s youthful character. If it supported 3G, it could really be rocking.
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