Oh Puma Phone. We wanted to love you, really we did. Fashion phones have come and gone before, but none tried to be as outlandish as you, with your cheeky sense of humour and kitchen sink approach. A solar panel on the back? How could it fail? Read on for our full Puma Phone review where we dissect why it’s such a drab debut.
The Puma Phone was the star of the show at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February. Fashion branded phones have always been mediocre offerings at best until now, but the daft sense of humour in this here European handset promised to change all that. It certainly does things differently, but find out whether that’s for the better or not in this section of our Puma Phone review.
UPDATE: Sagem has got in touch with us to say that the counter on the Puma Phone only goes up after you’ve sent messages or listened to music, rather than giving you an equivalent of battery charged in an easy to understand format. Yes, it’s a bit counter intuitive, but it means the battery percentage indicator itself is the best measurement of how effective the solar panel is – you can read about that below.
The Puma Phone proudly proclaims that it’s “Not like all those other phones” in Puma’s marketing, and we don’t dispute that. Most noticeably, it’s got a great big solar panel slapped on the back of it. Does it work? We’ve been trying to get it to charge from the rays of the sun all week and keeping a log: see if there’s any point in this eco kit in a British Summer in this part of our Puma Phone review.
We went hands on with the Puma Phone for the first time way back in February of this year, but you can’t judge a phone until you’ve spent some quality time with it out and about in your pocket. We have now, and we’ve got the findings for you right here in this here build section of our Puma Phone review.
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Ah Puma Phone. We knew the star of this year’s Mobile World Congress was silly, but we’d forgotten quite just how dappy until we got our hands on the finished version today. See it coming out of its quirky egg carton right here in our Puma Phone unboxing gallery, and check out all the nutty additions we’ve found so far.
We’re a little over-excited at Electricpig towers today, getting geared up for tomorrow’s testing event with the Nintendo 3DS. We’ll be getting hands on, and testing out Nintendo’s glasses-less 3D gaming we’ve heard so much about. We’re sure you’ve got a million questions you want to ask, so drop us a line in the comments…
The Puma Phone with its solar-panel charging smarts and sporting features is finally coming to the UK. It’s hitting the Puma Online Store this month with tie-ups with mobile operators following in the next few weeks. Want a reminder of the slightly mad feature set packed into the Puma Phone? Head on through to remind yourself…
