3GSM 2007 On-site Coverage

3GSM 2007 On-site Coverage

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Published on: 11 February, 2007 by Pressian Karakostov and Nanko Rusev

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Neonode Booth
Neonode N2 is the second attempt of the Swedish brand to conquer the market with innovative and unique device which does act as a phone, but does not look as one. The first one was announced back in 2002, which was 5 years ago, but shipped just in 2004, and wasn't a success and didn't become popular. The N2 is announced now in 2007 and we hope this will also be the year when it will be available, but only time will tell.
Rumors about the Neonode phone appeared more than a month ago, and Neonode also advertised on their own by a rather strange "Pregnant Man Blog" whose "baby" occurred to be "new breed" , namely the Neonode N2. That's why in the Neonode booth we found a baby-bed and lots of nurses around it.


What is immediately noticed about the N2 is that it is TINY. It is only 3x1.85x0.57" (77x47x14.7mm) which puts it in the category "Small". Made of plastic, it is also very light-weighted and it is easy to put it in any pocket. The front side of the N2 packs only the touch-sensitive display and a small silver joystick below it (Neonode informated us that it will be replaced with one in black when the phone becomes commercially available) – this is similar to the iPhone, but the Neonode idea is much older.
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N2 next to HTC WizardN2 and RAZRleft-N2, right-RAZR


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As you already have guessed – the display is the main (and almost only) way to use the Neonode N2 – scroll your finger from the bottom to the top to open the menu, from right to left to get back, etc. Its interface is pretty user friendly and getting used to it will take to almost every person less than an hour – in our case it took about 5 minutes only (after Neonode’s CEO Tommy Hallburg showed us the way it is used). The phone is running on Neno interface over Windows Mobile CE platform, which means it can be synchronized via ActiveSync with Microsoft Outlook as a Windows Mobile phone. The funny thing now is that although the interface is up to date, it is almost the same as the one of the first Neonode N1, which menu you can see in the manual posted on the Neonode site. http://www.neonode.com/upload/Users-guide/users-guide.pdf

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The phone is capable of playing videos in fullscreen (landscape) mode and of browsing full HTML pages, but the low display resolution (176x220) is the main drawback for these activities. Still, videos are watchable, but we wouldn't encourage you on browsing the Net, as you would have to scroll a lot. If you want to listen to music, the phone comes with adapter for connecting of 3.5mm stereo headphones and you have miniSD slot for memory, with 1GB card coming in the box. N2 features 2-megapixel camera, which is an improvement over the VGA unit on the N1.

The Neonode N2 is quad-band GSM phone and according to the official information is expected to launch in May or June this year. The full-retail price is EU 400 which is about US$525 and in our opinion is just way too much for the functionality the phone provides. We feel that if the price was about $250, there is merit in purchasing one to show off with this extravagant device.
Neonode N2 Video

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