Yakkety yak yak

Photos from asia.cnet.com

I thought that my rather unfortunate affair with my modest Nokia 6610 put paid to Nokia's tryst with me. Who would have known... That i would be clamouring for yet another Nokia phone, albeit a clammy. My new found penchant for clammies is of no extraordinary coincidence, having being impressed by the sleek form factor of the Samsung X200 despite its mediocre features.

Why not go for the experts when it comes to the clammies, you ask? Tres bien... Nothing against Samsung but i feel that they are placing increasingly more emphasis on aesthetics rather than on build reliability and apparently they are charging steeper premiums for their products, having struck gold in a market long wearied by a staid Nokia.

Anyway, these 2 svelte beauties here really got into my good books. The style... an exuberance of elegance but not to the point of a swagger and specifications wise, i am pleased. No 3G handsets for me. For one, i do not foresee myself poring over a teeny weeny screen watching TV programmes in the metro as of now. And video calls? Forget it, it's just a frivolous feature meant to fritter away my battery life.

On a sober note, it will do well do take note that even as 3G struggles to reach its targeted penetration rate, mobile operators and phone manufacturers are already tinkering with the idea of HSPDA (High-speed downlink packet access) which is also known as 3.5G. Basically, it is a deft piece of communication technology wizardry that will allow the existing W-CDMA[Wideband Code Division Multiple Access] downloading bandwidth to be hiked from 384kbps to a mind-boogling 14Mbps... for peanuts [From the financial perspective of telcos, that is]

So even if you are indeed determined on acquiring features on your phone such as video streaming, broadband internet access and video conferencing, why not wait till HSPDA arrives with pomp? As far as i know, HSPDA is backward compatible with W-CDMA. But definitely your W-CDMA compliant handset will not be compatible with HSPDA.