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Like water-jigging silk-shirt-wearing Dance-Lord Michael Flatley, the Cingular 8525 finally breaks cover and sashays into the marketplace. With the grace that only a fairly chubby Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone with slide-out keyboard and 3G HSDPA wireless data connectivity can possess, it twirls and preens, offering itself to our greedy eyes for a mere $399 and the promise of a two year contract.
The mobile-mavins over at LAPTOP Magazine have already coaxed the 8525 into performing for them, praising its range of data connectivity options, 2 megapixel camera and software package, scolding its unevenly lit keyboard and whispering of the push-to-talk upgrade coming in 2007.
Cingular Press Release & LAPTOP Magazine 8525 review [via Engadget]
2 Responses to “Cingular 8525 Launched”
electro^plankton November 6, 2006
Do you guys have a shot of the keyboard lit? Is this device made by HTC? I just recently purchased the HTC S620 and love how evenly lit the keyboard is. I was going to recommend this phone to a friend but wanted to read reviews for it first since I didn’t get my own to review. :(
NeutralChris Davies November 6, 2006
Judie over at GearDiary posted some photos of the HTC Hermes, which Cingular have rebranded as the 8525, yes. One of them shows a low-light picture with the keyboard backlight on: http://geardiary.com/?p=31
It looks okay to me, but the LAPTOP Magazine people thought it was uneven. I haven’t had a chance to try one out myself yet.
[quote comment="6275"]Do you guys have a shot of the keyboard lit? Is this device made by HTC? I just recently purchased the HTC S620 and love how evenly lit the keyboard is. I was going to recommend this phone to a friend but wanted to read reviews for it first since I didn’t get my own to review. :([/quote]
Neutral