CES: Maybe My New Cell Phone
Met the Samsung folks at DigitalLife and those guys just can't stop making cell phones. Fortunately, this time wasn't like when I was in their goofy showroom in NYC where 80% of what you see isn't available in the U.S. Everything on the display table here is or will shortly be available stateside, including two phones that may well take the place of my present talk clunker.
The i830 and the i730 are practically clones of each other: Both are based on Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC 2nd Edition with big color screens and slide-down QUERTY keyboards. Both do Bluetooth and EVDO, do full stereo speaker sound with 3D sound support and use Windows Media Player as the "bundled" MP3 player. Both have speakerphones, 64MB/128MB flash memory and both can seriously expand memory and file storage using SD expansion cards.
Where they differ is only in connectivity. The i830 is a quad-band phone, so it's usable worldwide. The i730 doesn't support that, but it does do WiFi. Supposedly it'll also cost a bit less than the i830. (You won't see either one of these in broad availability till then end of January.) I handled both of these bad boys and they seemed solidly made phones--though oviously a mite pricey, but who cares? I'm on a gadget binge.
I haven't checked out the Treo 700 yet--that's tomorrow--but so far these things are serious contenders.
Met the Samsung folks at DigitalLife and those guys just can't stop making cell phones. Fortunately, this time wasn't like when I was in their goofy showroom in NYC where 80% of what you see isn't available in the U.S. Everything on the display table here is or will shortly be available stateside, including two phones that may well take the place of my present talk clunker.
The i830 and the i730 are practically clones of each other: Both are based on Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC 2nd Edition with big color screens and slide-down QUERTY keyboards. Both do Bluetooth and EVDO, do full stereo speaker sound with 3D sound support and use Windows Media Player as the "bundled" MP3 player. Both have speakerphones, 64MB/128MB flash memory and both can seriously expand memory and file storage using SD expansion cards.
Where they differ is only in connectivity. The i830 is a quad-band phone, so it's usable worldwide. The i730 doesn't support that, but it does do WiFi. Supposedly it'll also cost a bit less than the i830. (You won't see either one of these in broad availability till then end of January.) I handled both of these bad boys and they seemed solidly made phones--though oviously a mite pricey, but who cares? I'm on a gadget binge.
I haven't checked out the Treo 700 yet--that's tomorrow--but so far these things are serious contenders.
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