O2 has been design unusual and attractive clam shell phone in the UK during August. It’s name Cocoon with very elegant look handset with highly specified device.

The chassis of O2 Cocoon has hidden display panel with large LED-style letter. It’s like Sony Ericsson Z610i concept which external display can show track information, caller ID and other messages.

When ypu open the O2 Cocoon, the minimalist design continue inside of it with uncluttered layout. Feature wih QVGA (240x 320 pixel) display with autofocus 2 megapixel camera. There are also a MP3 player, FM radio with RDS, expanded memory until 2GB with mini SD card. The keypad is pretty simple with media control and discretely mounted on the outside. Cocoon also come with web broser and email client.

Other feature which make Cocoon clever it’s called the ‘nest’. It’s just a docking station with built in charger but turn the Cocoon into desktop MP3 player/radio/alarm clock. It’s very cool!!

The O2 Cocoon will be release August 2007 in UK market but the pricing is not known at present. [ Via mobilegazette ]

Computer Electronics Review

White Pearl O2 Cocoon

There’s a slide-out keyboard too (the photograph is of a German QWERTZ keyboard). The weight is not known, but we anticipate that it will be about 160 grams. We believe that the Hermes used microSD expandable memory.

The XDA Trion’s operating system is Windows Mobile 5.0, and it comes with Pocket versions of Outlook, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Currently the HTC Hermes is being advertised as “coming soon” by O2 in Germany as the O2 XDA Trion. No doubt it will also turn up as a T-Mobile MDA, Orange SPV and an i-Mate and Qtek handset. As always, don’t expect to get this if you’re a UK Vodafone subscriber as Vodafone can’t be bothered to sell this kind of kit to consumers.

[ Visit ]

Computer Electronics Review

O2 XDA Trion Review

The M240 / X7 is very similar to the Samsung E800. The similarities are more than skin deep though, the weight, screen size and feature set are almost identical to the E800, plus the camera is hidden by the sliding mechanism when closed, in a similar way to the Samsung. The major difference is that the O2 X7 / Grundig M240 comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera and the Grundig is a little smaller and lighter all around than the Samsung.

The Grundig M240 is a compact sliding phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera, also badged as the O2 X7. The handset is actually made by Spanish company Vitelcom who licence the name from Grunding in Germany. There are a variety of handsets made under the Grundig Mobile name, but the M240 will be one of the most widely distibuted under the “O2 X7″ name.

It’s a lightweight phone though, the O2 X7 / Grundig M240 weighs 83 grams and it has a reasonable 4 hours talktime and 7 days standby. The O2 version does look quite attractive, probably more than the original version.

It’s a pretty basic phone apart from the camera, with a 128×160 pixel display in 65,000 colours, no Bluetooth, no expandable memory (and just 4Mb of internal memory) and no significant multimedia features.

However, the handset is just too basic in our view. The 1.3 megapixel camera is crippled by the lack of internal memory, and you’d expect to see Bluetooth on a handset like this. To be fair to Grundig Mobile. they do have much better handsets in their range than the M240. O2’s branding of the handset as “X7″ is misleading though – it makes it appear to be a high-end handset, while really it’s just an entry-level handset. However, price-wise O2 are pricing the X7 on prepay at around the same cost as the Nokia 6020 and Sony Ericsson K700i which makes it pretty reasonable value for money.

[ Visit ]

Computer Electronics Review

O2 X7 the Similar with Grundig M240