Old and boring messaging smartphones are going down hard this spring - get an insight into what's happening here.
While business smartphones owned the smartphone market just a short while ago, the multimedia smartphones are currently about to take over the scene completely. More advanced and heavy variants of earlier seen communicator and connected handheld form factors also seem to take a second stab at the smartphone market.
It is worth keeping in mind, however, that the multimedia smartphones will most likely not ship free of software bugs and network issues. But that’s a price we’ll have to pay as long as the mobile evolution continues at its current speed. And the list below tells us that, above all, a rapid mobile evolution is what people want.
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Nokia N73
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Score: 97% When: August 2006 Worth: $500
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The hotly anticipated Nokia N73 camera phone has nearly every bell and whistle under the sun; we've put the 3.2-Megapixel wunderkind through its paces.
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Cingular 8525
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Score: 67% When: November 2006 Worth: $400 Carrier: AT&T
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HSDPA support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth -- they're all present and accounted for in Cingular's new Windows Mobile powerhouse. Does the 8525 steal the 3G smartphone crown?
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