MWC: Sony Ericsson’s G-700 is a Touch-screen for everyone
Rating: The personal organiser phone is back
I was chatting to Martin Winkler @ the MWC show yesterday about the UIQ driven G-700 which Sony Ericsson has just launched. His take on this handset is “Who said that a touch-screen phone must be for business.
The main point that Winkler was trying to convey about the G-700 is that it is a slim mobile phone rather than cumbersome smartphone. Plus that the touch interface makes life a lot simpler for the user. In many instances it was easy to show one touch taking you to a handset function that could potentially take ten clicks.
Another point about the G-700 and its slightly bigger sister, the G-900, is that it’s intended to be a cross between a personal organiser (you remember the Filofax) and a mobile phone. Rather than merely being described as a ‘feature phone’ or – at the other end of the spectrum, a smartphone.
The G-900 appears to boast a 5 megapixel camera as the main differentiator from the 3 megapixel G-700.
Winkler showed how the Touch facility comes in useful when taking pictures, too. You just touch the viewing screen to influence the cameraphone’s auto-focus facility. So, for example, you can cause the camera to focus on an object in the foreground rather than a person standing behind it.
Sony Ericsson hasn’t gone overboard with the handset’s touch-sensitive control. There are still a couple of dedicated buttons like the one which takes you directly to the mail facility.
Although Sony Ericsson would be the last to admit it, the G-700/900 represents it’s reply to the infamous iPhone. At least it has made a move, unlike Nokia where we are still awaiting the Series 60 Touch.
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