{"id":327028,"date":"2010-02-16T08:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T13:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5469793"},"modified":"2010-02-16T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T13:05:24","slug":"hands-on-puma-phone-makes-me-want-to-go-to-the-gym-more-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327028","title":{"rendered":"Hands On: Puma Phone Makes Me Want To Go To The Gym More [Phones]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_puma-hand-1wtmk_01.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>A few <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5469156\/a-blurry-look-at-pumas-sporty-solar+powered-cell-phone\">blurry pics<\/a> and a viral video that was <a href=\"http:\/\/recombu.com\/news\/puma-phone-spotted-on-youtube-is-that-a-solar-panel_M11406.html\">promptly yanked<\/a> from YouTube have led to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5469941\/puma-phone-sporty-yet-styled-from-the-solar-panel-to-puma-os\">official announcement of the Puma Phone<\/a>, aka, the phone that makes me wish I was more sporty.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, if someone turned up wearing Puma sneakers instead of Nike\/Adidas\/Converse, they were ridiculed. Looking back, it was pretty harsh, but had we known Puma would be putting its name to a phone this stylish, I doubt we would&#8217;ve hung that poor kid from his shoelaces on the monkeybars. (I kid, obviously&mdash;it was from his braces.)<\/p>\n<p>Despite this phone being made by Sagem (not exactly a brand you can boast about), it&#8217;s a pretty incredible device&mdash;the specs are decent enough, but the overall experience of using one is amazing. It&#8217;s been styled to an inch of its life, with every corner of the custom OS looking like it&#8217;s stepped out of a graphic designer&#8217;s wet dream.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5470566,7,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty ordinary touchscreen phone shape, feels nice in your hand with quite a good build (it actually reminded me a bit of the first HTC Touch in terms of size and shape, only painted with gloss), but not as well built as the stuff coming out of <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5472640\/htc-legend-is-official-and-officially-the-nicest-android-phone-money-can-buy\">HTC nowadays<\/a>. It&#8217;s light, but does feel quite plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Flipping it over though reveals the kicker&mdash;a solar panel for charging in the sun. It&#8217;s not the first phone with a solar panel, but Puma&#8217;s paws have got right into the nitty gritty of the functionality&mdash;with the phone telling you how many minutes you&#8217;ve got charged up by solar power, and what that translates to in terms of messages you can send, minutes you can talk for, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>It also rewards you, with the minutes being exchanged for Puma merchandise in the store. It&#8217;s a really neat touch, and will definitely be an incentive to charge as much as you can by mother nature&#8217;s rays.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it&#8217;s the screen that lets the hardware down&mdash;it&#8217;s a 2.8-inch QVGA TFT capacitive touchscreen with 240 x 320 pixels, and while it was responsive it just wasn&#8217;t the sharpest picture we&#8217;ve seen on a phone. It may do with the fact that every single screen is bright red, but even looking at Dylan, the <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #pumaphone\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/pumaphone\/\">Puma Phone<\/a>&#8216;s pet puma, who strolls past the screen roaring at you, it was a bit of a muddy image.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5470598,4,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s two ways you can go on the homescreen&mdash;towards the sports side, or the lifestyle screen. Sports has all the fitness programs, like a pedometer, bike tracker, run tracker, compass, alarm, stopwatch and RSS for sports-related news. Every program is very Puma Phone&mdash;bright red, and stylised.<\/p>\n<p>The lifestyle screen has everything else you could possibly need&mdash;music player (which is a very cool turntable, where you see the arm dropping the Puma logo-record onto the player and then spinning around&mdash;it actually lets you scratch); messages, email, camera and so on. The social app opens up to display your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube accounts, which are pretty basic but quite clear and easy to use.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting photos on the 3.2-megapixel camera was pretty similar to the experience of using an Android phone&mdash;very easy to use, and the LED flash and 6x digital zoom worked well too. I took a few snaps in the bright strip lighting-lit room and they were clear with no visible complaints. It also handles video conferencing at VGA resolution (see that forward-facing camera, there?), but I didn&#8217;t try that out.<\/p>\n<p>To make a call quickly, or get to one of your other oft-used apps, the &#8216;magic carpet&#8217; can be pulled up, almost like the opposite of Android&#8217;s curtain, which comes down. There, you can make a quick phone call or see the Puma store.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I think it&#8217;ll be a real shocker at Mobile World Congress. While Microsoft&#8217;s big Windows Phone 7 was surprising, we kind of expected it to deliver on the good stuff. The Puma Phone has come out of nowhere, and I can definitely see it becoming a viable second phone for anyone sporty-inclined. It won&#8217;t replace your smartphone, but there&#8217;s enough new features and incentives to continue using it (charging the solar panel to collect enough points to buy Puma stuff), so it&#8217;s definitely worth your attention. 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When I was a kid, if someone turned up wearing Puma sneakers instead of Nike\/Adidas\/Converse, they were ridiculed. Looking back, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}