Thursday, July 17, 2003
New York Times Reviews Samsung i500 & i700
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 12:30 PM
"If you want tiny and sleek, you get the i500 - and make do with a slightly squinty screen. If you want every feature known to Microsoft, you get the i700 - and carry around what feels like a slice of lead. Which is the better approach? Clearly, even Samsung couldn't decide, so it made both. To be sure, not everyone is willing to risk carrying around a single, expensive eggs-in-one-basket communicator. But if you are, one of these two new models is likely to be just your size."
While I don't think the i700 is a slice of lead, I have to give David Pogue serious credit for the first balanced article I've seen the major press give over a Pocket PC Phone. He clearly accepts that this is a power device, it's intended to be a bit bigger to give you such functionality, and gets over that and focuses on the device's ups and downs, instead of saying "oh, it's too big, no one will use it". They also give the i500 PalmOS phone fair treatment: it's amazingly tiny, although you give up some comforts in return.
While I don't think the i700 is a slice of lead, I have to give David Pogue serious credit for the first balanced article I've seen the major press give over a Pocket PC Phone. He clearly accepts that this is a power device, it's intended to be a bit bigger to give you such functionality, and gets over that and focuses on the device's ups and downs, instead of saying "oh, it's too big, no one will use it". They also give the i500 PalmOS phone fair treatment: it's amazingly tiny, although you give up some comforts in return.
