Black Carbon
Posted: December 26th, 2006Samsung’s latest and greatest is the SGH-D900 better known as Black Carbon. You can see a small video of it here. To match the amazing design it also has what looks like a great interface. It’s not easy to judge from 1 minute of video if the interface is as cool as it looks. It does remind me a bit of the interface of my sony camera (the p200).
I’ve been looking at possible replacements for my Nokia 6230i (which I didn’t actually chose in the first place). It’s a bit slow and I don’t like the interface but my main problem with it is that it just feels like a huge brick in my pocket.
While my 6230i and it’s limitations can sometimes annoy me, I’m in no hurry to switch. But when I do, I’ll probably switch to Samsung: I never liked the Nokia bricks, Motorola sucks in both hardware and software quality and I have yet to meet anyone happy with their Motorola phone, Sony-Erickson seems more interested in selling Walkmans that actual phones and do other brands even exist nowadays? Besides I like the Samsung design and features – even if their interface is still lacking… I wish they’d license Palm or something. The thing is, I don’t want to listen to music, watch TV, play games, browse the internets or whatever manufacturers and carriers are trying to push these days. I want to make/receive calls/SMS and it’s is extremely convenient for me to have a camera on my phone since I don’t usually carry around my camera. That’s it. How hard is it to make a phone with those features that looks good, feels good (i.e. doesn’t feel like a brick) and has a decent, fast, responsive, easy to use interface? Apparently either I’m the only one to have these requisites or it’s mysteriously hard because manufacturers sure seem unable to do it though the only one that seems to even be trying is Samsung.
UPDATE:
Review: http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=2733
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