Οι νέες Vodafone live! συσκευές στο myPhone

Vodafone live! & Sendo X :alien:

EΡΧΕΤΑΙ??? ;)

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Αρχικό Μήνυμα από το μέλος SuRfer ( 7 Οκτ. 2004 , 17:09)

 

Vodafone live! & Sendo X :alien:

 

EΡΧΕΤΑΙ??? ;)

 

http://www.sendo.com/news/imagegalley/tLS-SX-6-P.jpg

http://www.sendo.com/news/imagegalley/tX-FrontNow2.jpg

 

Έρχεται??? Δεν μας λες όμως..:)

Αρχικό Μήνυμα από το μέλος konstantinos_bei (18 Οκτ. 2004 , 21:57)

 

Έρχεται??? Δεν μας λες όμως..:)

 

Αυτό που ξέρω εγώ... είναι ότι βρίσκεται σε "trial phase" ... και έχει "εγκριθεί" από 3 VF χώρες (ως live!) στις οποίες έχω "πρόσβαση"... τώρα λεπτομέρειες για ημερομηνίες, τιμές και το τι θα γίνει στην Ελλάδα... μη με ρωτάς... γιατί δεν ξέρω!

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It's been a long journey for Sendo's first smartphone to actually to come to market, but given the much-publicized cancellation of a product that was to be based on Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 platform and subsequent switch to Nokia's Series 60 platform, one could hardly expect anything else. What matters is that it's here now - and with it, there's another smartphone contender in town. Can it stand up to offerings from larger vendors?

 

Design

 

Although not as sleek-looking as the recently released Nokia 7610 (also based on Series 60), the Sendo X is certainly no dud in the design department. At 11 x 4.9 x 2.3 cm and 120 g, it's roughly comparable in volume to the Nokia 7610, as well as its predecessor, the Nokia 6600, but has a slightly 'tougher' look to it - sacrificing slenderness for a thicker form factor which is both narrower and a tad shorter than most Series 60 smartphones.

 

Offering up a good first impression, the X has a standard-variety keypad which offers excellent tactile feedback and a very pleasing white backlight. Unfortunately, some small snags appear after some time of use, such as keys being hard to press, making high-speed texting mildly strenuous. The five-way navigational pad placed just above the keypad also offers excellent feedback, but is placed too close to its flanking send and receive buttons, making it prone to ****dental presses.

 

Pausing for a moment to touch on what's just above the aforementioned soft buttons, we find a crisp and clear 16-bit display complete with adjustable brightness. Usable from the medium setting and upwards, it is no match for Nokia smartphones with regard to brightness level, but it is certainly on par with the Siemens SX1 - and likely contributes to the long battery life of the X.

 

Returning to buttons, Sendo chose to place the Edit button on the left side of the X, just below the 2.5 mm handsfree kit jack complete with an annoyingly fiddly rubber insert. Incidentally, this is also where the sufficiently comfortable set of bundled handsfree kit slash stereo earphones plugs in. Above these, we find a large infrared port, and a quick gander at the right side of the handset reveals the Voice button which activates both voice dialing and voice commands.

 

Lastly, the top of the X harbours a power on/off button, while removing the battery lid from the back reveals the SD/MMC Card expansion slot at the bottom of the phone. Also, the back of the handset is where we find its integrated 0.3 Megapixel camera, complete with a vanity mirror and photo light.

 

Connectivity

 

Besting Nokia, as well as any other product from Series 60 licensees to date, Sendo has included an SD/MMC Card expansion slot in the X. Although not capable of SDIO support to enable input/output accessories to be used with the X, it does at the very least broaden users' options with regard to memory expansion, for which Sendo deserves credit. Furthermore, cards are hot-swappable - but only to the extent that they have to be manually stopped prior to removal.

 

For input/output accessory purposes, the X sports a bottom connector that will let owners synchronize the smartphone via the included USB cable, and to which a foldable keyboard accessory will also connect. As with other Series 60 phones, synchronization is also possible via Bluetooth, for which the Sendo X offers good support and all of the most frequently used profiles - although its transmission range could be better.

 

Most important of all for any phone, however, is of course WAN connectivity. The Sendo X offers tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz coupled with GPRS Class 8, which should be sufficient for most international travellers. Signal reception is outstanding, and with support for HSCSD as well as Fax Modem capabilities the X is a good all-rounder, complete with excellent overall audio quality.

 

Specifications

 

Powered by a 120 MHz processor and with a dedicated DSP for audio and video processing, the Sendo X performs better and redraws screens faster than any other Series 60 smartphone currently on the market. Fitted with 64 MB of memory, of which 32 MB is available to users, the X is also the most spacious Series 60 smartphone available what regards internal memory.

 

As for the Lithium Polymer battery of the X, this is a sizeable 1050 mAh, which reflects itself in a claimed talk time of 7 hours and 170 hours of standby time. In our tests, the X chalked up just above 5 hours of talktime, yet oddly almost 190 hours of standby time - a bit off the mark by Sendo, but impressive nonetheless for a smartphone.

 

Software

 

As touched upon previously, the Sendo X offers excellent performance due to its speedy processor. Response is comfortably snappy in most areas, and impressively so when in graphics intensive areas; the frame rate of the camera viewfinder hovers in the 30 FPS range, which is a pleasure to behold. Sadly, the frame rate of recorded video is nowhere near this, yet fully acceptable and with slightly better performance than offerings from Nokia.

 

Furthermore, the X offers a solid software setup, including its own Sendo Now! application which replaces the standard standby interface of Series 60 phones with a considerably improved one. Utilizing a paned interface, it is similar to Microsoft's Today screen concept in that it presents important information such as upcoming appointments, messages and more at a glance. It can even be personalized, and views user defined application shortcuts so as to allow users to avoid the application launcher interface almost entirely.

 

There's also a host of other software on the X, which includes a very capable camera application complete with flash control, red-eye removal and a quite apt night mode. Picture quality is fully on par with Nokia smartphones, and the flash works well despite its range being unsurprisingly limited.

 

Moving on, we find the well-known RealOne Player; a standalone MP3 player; DocView, which views files stored in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat and ZIP formats; and ImageEdit, which adds frames and effects to pictures. Other useful tools include a rebranded Opera web browser, and of course the speaker independent voice solution, which looks up contacts and initiates applications with aplomb.

 

On the less-than-bright side, our particular review handset suffered from the introduction of intermittent and inexplicable static in voice conversations, and we also found the X to have a bad habit of taking it's sweet time to react to anything regarding incoming calls: commencing ringtone playback, picking up the call and halting the vibrating alert so as to prevent it from being picked up by the microphone.

 

Availability

 

The Sendo X is now available in select European markets, and at the time of writing sells in the 550 USD range without subscription.

 

Conclusion

 

Despite being a first-generation product, the Sendo X has become one of the more polished smartphones on the market. Based on Nokia's Series 60 platform, it's stable, robust and comfortably speedy, all whilst offering a rich feature set through a finely tuned software offering. Its ergonomics would have benefited from a wee bit more attention, but power users are sure to find the X a handset that'll see eye to eye with the best of the rest.

 

Αρχικό Μήνυμα από το μέλος pininfarina (18 Οκτ. 2004 , 21:29)

 

ti tha ginei tha to ferei to p910 i voda i tha minoume me to oneiro emeis logo epidotisis . Prepei na ginei kati as to poun kalitera oti tha fernoun mono live oi mages ....

 

Θα "έρθει" το P910 σε Vodafone live! version.

Στη νέα "έκδοση" του P910 live! δε "βλέπω" τους περιορισμούς στα IrDa και BlueTooth (όπως ανέφερα παραπάνω) για την trial συσκευή που είχα στα χέρια μου τον Ιούλιο... ;)

Για να δούμε... τι θα φέρουν στο Ellada! :D

Αρχικό Μήνυμα από το μέλος konstantinos_bei (18 Οκτ. 2004 , 21:57)

 

Έρχεται??? Δεν μας λες όμως..:)

 

Χμ... κάτι θα ήξερες εσύ, για να ρωτήσεις.

Δεν έχω πολύ χρόνο και δε "διαβάζω" προσεκτικά... :(

Ξεχνάω τα Γερμανικά μου... :confused: :(

Λοιπόν, όντως το Sendo X δε θα "έρθει" στο VF live! range.

To Sendo X "εμφανίστηκε" για πρώτη φορά σε Ευρωπαϊκό δίκτυο κινητής στη Vodafone UK - αυτή ήταν η "είδηση". Πέρασε από κάποια tests για live! αλλά επειδή είχε "παλιώσει" το απέρριψαν.

Τα μπέρδεψα με άλλο Νewsletter (όταν είπα ότι έχει "περάσει" από τα live! tests 3 δικτύων Vodafone), το οποίο ενημερώνει ότι θα έρθει ένα live! Sendo, κατά το Δεκέμβρη - ακολουθεί η περιγραφή του (exclusive live! handset).

Sorry για το λάθος... :(

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Dual-band GSM / GPRS

Screen: 128x160, 65.000 colours

Camera: 640x480 pixels

Size: 108x45x20mm

BlueTooth: No

IrDa: No

Polyphonic Ringtones: Yes

Java: Yes

Battery life: 7 hours talk / 16 days standby