My handphone got stolen, so I bought a new one.What can I say, the little techno-junkie that I am, I went and got one of the more expensive models in the market. It's sleek, it's slim, it's tiny, it's stylish, and hell, it's got a sliding keyboard! Drool...
Seriously though, the whole reason I bought the damn thing was for the sliding keyboard. The Dopod 838 does its big brother, the Dopod P900, proud having all it's features minus the 3G stuff, in a much smaller format.
It doesn't have the fastest processor around, what with it packing a OMAP 850 chip with a measly 195MHz of err, horses? It makes up for this deficiency by having 128MB's of Flash Ram on board plus a further 64MB's of RAM. If you were a car aficionado you'd say that what it lacks in horsepower, it makes up for in power to weight ratio. The downside though is that the OS is windows based, Windows Mobile 5, so I'm expecting it to hang and crash a lot. To give it credit though, this is Microsoft's latest Mobile OS so maybe they managed to iron out all the bugs the last version had. The upside is that since it is a Windows based OS, synching with my PC was dead easy, I just plugged it in and voila. Aside from that it came with both Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. Also, it's got a 1.3 Megapixel camera, both for stills and video which it records in 3GP format, whatever that is.
Further more, with a deal that I got from my dealer, I got a 1 GB Mini SD-Card to boot! So right now as I'm typing out this wee little report I'm listening to the smooth, Cuban tunes of Ibrahim Ferrer which I uploaded from my Windows Media Player right o to the phone. Playback is excellent as the little headphone set has excellent sound. You can't, unfortunately, listen to your MP3's over a Bluetooth headset, but if you believe Dopod's web-site, they're working on it.
And yes, last but not least, the slidy keyboard. I don't know what it is, but a slidy keyboard adds that little je ne sais qua to a phone. O2 first embarked with a slidy keyboard with their highly successful O2 IIi, and it was then that I fell in love with the idea of a phone with a Qwerty keyboard. So far most incarnations of the Qwerty on phones has been a bulky affair, if it wasn't bulky it was ungainly. Dopod nailed it though with the 838, the phone's dimensions is barely larger than a standard Nokia, though a wee bit thick. The slidy keyboard does increase the phones Star Trek factor, that playing with makes you feel like you should be waving it around over stuff saying pseudo-scientific statements like, "there is a distinct increase in the gamma-photon fields sir, though if we use a double pulsed plasma binary manifold we should be able to decrease it." Ah yes, the phone makes me feel like Mr Spock every time I use it, so what more could you ask for?
Beam me up Scotty, and Nanu-Nanu.
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