Puma started a teaser campaign a few days ago for a product called Puma Phone. It attracted moderate interest, but, really - how excited are you supposed to be about a feature phone from a sports apparel company? Well, they've officially used MWC 2010 as the platform to make it official.
Developed by Puma and Sagem, the device is a feature phone with capabilities that are geared towards sports and outdoor use. It's sufficiently small (102 x 56 x 13 mm) and light (115 grams), making it easy to carry throughout the course of an active day. Billed as having been “engineered to facilitate and encourage an active way of life,” it comes with a slew of sports-oriented applications that include a bike speedo, a run tracker, a pedometer and a sailing compass.
Phone details include a 2.8” QVGA touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera module, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, a 3.5mm audio jack, FM radio, microUSB port and microSD expansion. It comes with 7.2Mbps HSDPA and 2.9Mbps HSUPA data speeds. Battery is an 880mAh Li-ion with a rated talk time of 5 hours. It uses a custom carousel-based UI
Since it's geared for outdoor use, the Puma Phone has been outfitted with a solar panel around the back to add a little trickle of charge. Release is slated for April, although price hasn't been announced.
[via Unwired View]
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OMG, I hate those “Puma”, “Adidas”, “Nike” and so on stuff… The battery is weak. For sports it is okay, but for normal use, not.