Cingular Owns 2007
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Last summer it was looking very bleak for Cingular in the smartphone division. Verizon just launched the Motorola Q and Treo 700W and ruled the world. Well a few months later Cingular dropped their 1st good smart phone with the Nokia E62 and the hits kept coming. Shortly after the E62, the Treo 680 and the Samsung Blackjack made their way onto the scene with all 3 phones under the $200 mark (promotional rate). Now Cingular will get the Treo 750 which sports the slimmed down look, no external entenna and windows mobile. No word if phone quality has been improved but it does give Cingular a very tough lineup for any other cell phone company to compete against. I know all of this can change in a matter of weeks but for now, its all Cingular.
I have been raving about the Nokia E62 for a while now, I have almost committed myself the the phone (well next version if there is a camera) but the Samsung Blackjack may sway me. I have had to setup a number of these over the last couple weeks at work and by far they blow away the Motorola Q and come close to the E62. The saving grace about the Nokia is the size of the screen but it is a bit bigger than the Blackjack. With Apple rumored to enter the cell phone game, expect Cingular to score that model and with their 3G (3rd generation network) and world phone capabilities, they will keep all of us happy.
BTW, I got to play with a Blackberry Pearl but its not worth it. The phone may be small and sleek but its buttons are way to small to actually use and well its a Blackberry....
Posted by mardenhill 1/03/2007 10:01:00 AM
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