Sony Ericsson AB-900 : Innovative Car Kit from Sony Ericsson

When you're driving in highway and suddenly your boss calls you, you know how hard it is to concentrate to the call while keeping car's speed and course right. Well that's why car kits created. Nokia has been providing lots of types for these kits, while it's quite a while since we heard of Sony Ericsson car kits.


Sony Ericsson just announced AB-900. Essentially, it is a car kit, plus some more features. It can wirelessly stream music from your phones, so you never run out of songs when you have long driving. AB-900 also equipped with 5 buttons to shortcut call to your 5 favorite numbers. And it can also store radio. The best part, though, it does not need any installation and battery operated. Most likely the sound will come out from the device internal speaker, though there is no confirmation yet about this.

The competition Nokia CK 600 offers bigger color display, and other features of Sony Ericsson AB-900, as well, except that Nokia CK 600 did not have FM radio in it. Aesthetically speaking, Nokia wins. The drawback of Nokia CK 600 though, is inflexible, because it has to be installed into car's electricity system. With Sony Ericsson AB-900, you can take it to any other cars you have without having to uninstall it.

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Sonim Sonim XP 3 Enduro : The undestructible phone from Sonim

If you never heard of Sonim before, that's perfectly fine. Not only because Sonim does not put aggressive marketing efforts as other manufacturers do, but also because Sonim's phone serves a specific niche, those who work and play outdoor activities intensively.

These people need a phone that can go with them through air, water (1 meter deep for 30 minutes only though), and remains working after some light fall. Hence the military standard Sonim XP3 Enduro.

This phone is the second release of Sonim XP series. The older model is Sonim XP1. There is the facelift of the navigational buttons of XP3, and a few strengthened features. That is, the XP3 can now withstand 2 meter fall to concrete, compared to 1,6 meter drop resist of XP1.

XP3 is also water proof, which is IP-57 certified, submersible to 1 meter depth of water. XP1, on the other hand, is only IP-54 certified, it's only water resistant but not submersible.

Other than that, XP3 has the same features compared to XP1.

Definitely not everybody's phone, since neither XP3 nor XP1 carry any entertainment feature whatsoever.

No MP3 player, no memory card slot, no camera, only the indestructibility of the phone.

So care for a tough life?



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Motorola Adventure V750 : the not-ugly military standard phone

As we can see from Sonim, Sanyo, and Motorola i365IS, military standard phones usually don't come up in pretty faces. Straightly speaking, they are ugly. Primarily because they are often blanketed with some kind of rubber which protects water, dust, and shock protection required for the standard. And for the market segment who buys military standard phones, physical design is often not important.

But Motorola offers something different here, let me introduce the tough member of V-series, Motorola Adventure V750. Don't be fooled by its look. It may look like just another V-series Motorola, but this guy qualifies the military standard phone. This mean it can withstand rain, dropped from 1 meter height to a concrete, and shock and dust resistant.

It is CDMA2000 1X 1900/800 band and locked by Verizon, offers 1000 contacts capacity, and a 2 MP camera, with 128 memory on board. Well you can save and play like 20 songs with this capacity. But no external memory slot.. quite understandable because external slot can expose the phone's internal memory to water or dust. Surprisingly it also features aGPS, which can be handy feature to locate yourself on a map.

Source : Cnet
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