Comments on: Doug Blows Off Steam: About WM5 Smartphones

By: Judie

Judie — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:04:22 +0000

But it’s just a BT enabled handset; I want it to be the whole phone.

By: Kismet

Kismet — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:50:43 +0000

Where would you put the SIM card.. XD I kind of like this concept: LG

By: Judie

Judie — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:52:37 +0000

That’s pretty cute.

Now find me something this small and I’ll buy it!! http://geardiary.com/?p=123

By: Kismet

Kismet — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:47:06 +0000

Note to self, use html tags. -_-

By: Kismet

Kismet — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:46:15 +0000

The phone is fairly large, the pics are deceiving…

How about this?

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/the-smallest-cellphone-weve-ever-used–exclusive-haier-black-pearl-gallery-207927.php

By: Judie

Judie — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:56:35 +0000

Ha! The phone kismet pointed out isn’t quite as tiny as the Walkman you mentioned. If it were, then you could say you were “behind the curve”. As it is, I think you are safe enough.

By: dougom

dougom — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:26:30 +0000

See? I’m behind the curve again! Whenever I do reviews, I should call them “Behind-the-curve Reviews, for you late adopters!”

By: Judie

Judie — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:16:12 +0000

Yes, it’s almost tiny enough! Make it small enough to hang it from a necklace and we’re in business.

By: Kismet

Kismet — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:45:06 +0000

Nokia 7380 would fit the bill…

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_7380-1332.php

By: Judie

Judie — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:03:54 +0000

“I think there�s a market for a phone the size of a gherkin that has a tiny display and no fancy features, but looks cool (say, like the new Sony Walkman) and allows you to just make phone calls.”

I would love one of those for times when I don’t really have a place to carry a phone or PDA; certain dressy occasions come to mind.

By: dougom

dougom — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:24:43 +0000

See, I firmly believe that the market is wider than the cell phone companies currently do. I think there’s a market for a phone the size of a gherkin that has a tiny display and no fancy features, but looks cool (say, like the new Sony Walkman) and allows you to just make phone calls. And I believe that there is a market for a phone that is the size of a brick and has the rapid-processor-from-hell and allows you to do everything short of launching nuclear weapons remotely. And several platform levels between. But right now, they’re suffering from a lack of imagination.

In my opinion, anyway.

By: MitchellO

MitchellO — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:02:45 +0000

Well, there are more problems than that (some of them are the size of bricks, others use crappy processors or come with no thumboard) but 3G rules them out of consideration right away for me.

By: MitchellO

MitchellO — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:59:03 +0000

My only problem with most of these handsets is that they lack 3G! I can’t buy a phone without 3G these days as my carrier is 3G (and they roam on the GSM network) and they use USIM cards.

By: netsyd

netsyd — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:01:44 +0000

Very well said. You’re right about all of it.

Most of the current devices you are really doing nothing more than choosing between one set of shortcomings or another. For example the G500+ has GPS but no keyboard, the JAQ is about the size of an aircraft carrier compared to the i320 from Samsung and half of them don’t support the GSM 850 band – which makes them useless for Cingular users that didn’t start off as a AT&T city.

It’s frustrating to say the least … the real question of the day is how do they think they can charge $750 (non-subsidized) for a phone, when one with similar specs from a different company is only $400. That’s the amazing thing to me.

Brandon
http://www.justanothermobilemonday.com