![]() ![]() The metal keys are too small even for a ladies fingers and they are way too small for my fingers. The metal keys are definetley not comfortable for typing long messages. The 262.144 colour, 240x320 Pixel resolution, 1.8 inch screen is utterly superb in every way. Pictures also look great and we have no complaints about the display at all. It is one of the best we've seen and the icons look great on it. The first thing you notice after having powered on the W880i is that the display is excellent. The size of this candy bar phone is 103x47x9.4 mm (HxWxD). The phone weights a mere 73g and that is with the memory card istalled. The phone features USB connectivity via the Sony Ericsson data cable, so you will be able to easily transfer photos and music to and from the phone. The M2 card is inserted at the side of the handset and it can be removed while the phone is being used. We expected magnesium alloy or something similar, but this is not too big of a deal. This is when you get disappointed, as your sexy phone has a plastic back cover. You need to open the phone to fit the SIM card and the battery. The first impression is that the phone is really thin and I believe that it is the thinnest phone I have ever had the chance to test. 2 GB is a lot of music, but so far there are no 4GB cards available. The One edition comes with a 1 GB card and in a retail store a 2 GB card costs about €40. ![]() It uses a Sony M2 memory card, which is one of the smallest memory cards you can get. This is the thinnest Sony Ericsson mobile phone ever and it looks really cool. Multimedia brings sound, video and pictures together and this is exactly what the W880i is all about. Motorola can bring out a nice device now and again and Samsung is still in the fight, but Sony Ericsson remains the top multimedia phone manufacturer. Sony Ericsson is the only real competitor to Nokia. Patent drawings are from the Microsoft filing here.Sample provided by: Multimedia shop, Vienna ![]() The Surface renders here are from the skillful CAD renders by designer David Breyer. What about you? Anyone else remember the Nokia E90? Were there any other double-hinged phones you can think of? Let's take a short trip down memory lane together. If I was a betting man, I'd put the appearance of a Surface Mobile (other names suggested have included 'Surface Note', but I'm sticking with my original guess) in H1 of 2018 at 2:1 'on'. Just imagine the same standard of hinge (only better and closer), with a slightly larger plan form factor for each device half, then think of thinner halves thanks to modern tech advancements, and finally 2018 internals and Windows 10 S as an operating system, with the 'CShell' Start UI.Īll quite exciting really. It's still satisfying, it's still sturdy, it's still flexible. Maybe I'm making too much of all this, but I did want to get the E90 in again (after so many years) just so that I could play with a double-hinged design in a phone form factor again. Plus it's also important to note that the E90 wasn't designed to unfold further than 180º, unlike modern double-hinged devices, which usually wrap all the way around. Of course, one chief difference in form factor with the E90, compared to the modern day renders of a possible Surface Mobile, is that, when closed, there's an external phone-centric interface, plus when opened, there's a hardware QWERTY keyboard. Certainly the wiring in the Surface Mobile renders we've seen so far would have to be routed in a similar way. Yet this particular, rather battle-scarred, Nokia E90 is still fully working, ten years later, so maybe the wiring worries can be put to rest. One possible weakpoint of a hinged design is the data cables that have to pass through the hinges, of course - repeated bending might result in failure and repair. Rinse and repeat.Īdmittedly there have been some laptop-size double-hinged designs in recent years, allowing 'tent', 'laptop', and other modes, but I'm struggling to think of any phones that included such design elements and ambitions. It's impossible to hold it and not keep opening the hinge, enjoying the different angles, closing it again. It's the same with this Nokia E90, arguably the last of the Nokia 'Communicator' line of business-centric smartphones. You may remember the old 'slider' T9 phones, also a decade ago? Anyone else remember sliding them open and closed, open and closed? Just because we could. Not least because there's a certain tactile pleasure in transforming a device. ![]()
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