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.
Remember a simpler time? When smartphones were meant for men in six-grand suits and we all had to make do with mobiles minus those lovely extras? Well if you like harking back to the good old days, last week’s Mobile World Congress had plenty for you, with cool dumbphones galore.
So if you couldn’t care less about solar charging, social networking or having a phone that resembles a chocolate bar, make sure feast on our top five dumbphones from MWC 2010.
Sure we chowed down on an unreasonable number of Android treats at Mobile World Congress. But that’s not to say there weren’t some rather natty feature phones to help us get our geek on. From sporty mobiles to chocolate-themed casings, MWC had it all.
So what are you waiting for? Jump in now and find out our pick of the top five feature phones from Mobile World Congress 2010.
Call us sports brand junkies, but there’s something about the new Puma Phone that’s got us as sweaty as a session on the cross-trainer. It’s not just the fashion phone fun we’re all het up over, but the smart touches which truly set this apart from any sporty cell that’s ever come before. Jump in and we’ll tell you just what we mean.
Just because Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Microsoft decided to wade in early with new cells and slick OSs, doesn’t mean yesterday was a barren, newsless, desert at Mobile World Congress. Far from it.
We saw show stealing blowers, got a glimpse at Google’s plans for mobile domination and even a few neat smart-books to stave off phone fatigue. If you missed out, then dive in now and we’ll give you the rundown on what went on.
