It has been on the market since this Monday: The new touch-and-go UIQ3 smart phone G900, a powerful package of WLAN, 5MP camera with Auto- & Touch-Focus as well as a photo light and a 2.4″ touch screen combined with a regular keypad to bring UIQ to the mass market.
The G900 you can see here is my little precious since Tuesday and it does great so far. The Dark Brown colour really suites it well. The QVGA display is bright and clear and a breeze to handle. I won’t give that much away for now as we’ll post an in-depth review of the G900, once Sony Ericsson sends us the review phone.
I’ll leave you with impressions of the new menu icons, the media menu and the new panels standby.
The G900 is available nearly everywhere now, pricing is set around £275 / 350 € / $525.
In a recently published article at Mobile-review.com, editor in chief Eldar Murtazin takes a look at his G702 prototype, running UIQ 3.3. In the article he covers most areas of concern, and there are lots of nice photos included in the article.
If you have not read it yet, I’d suggest you to head over to Mobile-review, and check it out now.
User captainsm over at Esato is selling out of his small stock of unannounced black G702s, and has already sold one, with only one left, unless you can convince him to sell you his third and last G702 for a higher price. He’s got pictures of the unit over at Esato as well.
He wants £400 for it, and for that amount of money you get a G702 boxed with charger, battery, headset and a USB-cable. Check it out!
As promised here’s a camera sample from the G702 also known as Beibei. As said earlier on, this phone packs the best fixed focus camera I’ve seen in any camera phone, and on the software side of things, Sony Ericsson has really upped its game. Even though this is a really good sample considering it’s a prototype, it can actually do better than this - at least it does do better in a few other samples I’ve got, although these can’t be shared (obvious reasons). We’ve removed pretty much all the EXIF data not to reveal too much, once again, our reasons are quite obvious. Press the thumbnail for full view.
It seems like a few people have already noticed the new poll on the sidebar. My question was when you guys think the next announcement will be. I knew the answer when adding the poll, and was interested in seeing what you guys thought, before I’d reveal it
The correct answer would be “Within 4 weeks”. The next product announcement is going to be at CommunicAsia in about a month’s time (the 17th of June). If everything goes by plan, a number of 5-6 devices will be announced, including both BeiBei (G702) and Paris.
While we’re at G702… Its camera is amazing! Yes, it’s a fixed focus camera sensor, but my god, it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen! I’ve got a few photo samples here, and the quality of these is definitely on par with the K770, if not better. The amount of details is amazing, and so goes for the colour saturation. You really can’t compare it with i.e. the W890 or W980. The photos I’ve got are still confidential, and can’t be shared, but I think we’ll have a few 100 % crops - make that full size samples - ready for you in a few days, if everything goes by plan Once again, it’s amazing!
Ah yes - the FCC has once again leaked a device before Sony Ericsson has announced it. This time it’s the Japanese-styled BeiBei. I quite like the design of BeiBei - or should I say G702? - although it seems to be marketed at women.
Along with lots of leaked external and internal photos of G702, a set of test results and the internal user manual was published as well. The user manual confirms just about every single thing we’ve told you about BeiBei earlier on, but to sum it up;
- Built-in GPS with WayFinder and Google Maps
- Opera Mobile 9.5 with web widgets
- WLAN
- UIQ 3.3
- The new user interface as in G700/G900
Oh yes - did I forget to mention that it’s got HSDPA, even though it’s running the old hardware platform? Well, that’s what the user manual says - and firmware strings for that matter!
Check out the FCC reports here and here. The most interesting reports including photos are this one and this one.
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