New day. New Device. The new device is the Cingular 3125. The Cingular 3125 has just been introduced as the successor to the Cingular 2125 which in turn was introduced after the Audiovox SM5600 a year or so ago.
The Cingular 3125 purchase
The Cingular 3125 costs about $450 without a plan, but with the plan and the rebate, it ends up being about $200 (for more details about the Cingular voice and data plan that I purchased recently, please refer to day #57 on October 9, 2006).
The Cingular 3125, first impressions
As you can see, the Cingular 3125 is a flip phone, and it is small in size, weighs very little, and has a slick design. It is still a full featured smartphone. In uses Windows Mobile and provides a rich set of capabilities including phone, e-mail, Internet, contacts, calendar, tasks, in addition to the Office Mobile applications, as well as a host of multi-media capabilities (camera/audio/video and more).
The Cingular 3125 definitely qualifies as a social device for its size and design and as a business device for its capabilities. For those business users who may have security concerns relating to cell phone cameras, a non-camera version is available (it is the Cingular 3100 smartphone which is identical to the 3125 except for the absence of the camera).
Where it the Cingular 3125 keyboard?
No where. It is actually a keypad, and you can use the Multipress or the Text Input methods to type text. We will be going over these in more detail in the next few days. Obviously if you are a heavy “e-mailer”, the lack of QWERTY keyboard may make the Cingular 3125 less attractive to you. But for many users, this is not likely to be an issue. In addition, for the younger “text-messaging” generation, this is not an issue at all.
Tomorrow the Cingular 3125 will be out of the box and hopefully fully in action.
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