| Sagem WA 3050 |
| General |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 |
| Announced | 2001 |
| Status | Available |
| Size |
| Dimensions | 130 X 80 X 17 Mm |
| Weight | 198 G |
| Display |
| Type | Greyscale Touchscreen |
| Size | 240 X 320 Pixels, 60 X 80 Mm |
| Ringtones |
| Type | Monophonic |
| Customization | Download |
| Vibration | Yes |
| Memory |
| Phonebook | 500 |
| Call Records | |
| Card Slot | No |
| Data |
| Gprs | Yes (for The Gprs Model) |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | Yes |
| Usb | |
| Features |
| Os | Microsoft Windows Pocketpc |
| Messaging | Sms |
| Browser | Wap 1.1 |
| Clock | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Games | Pocket Pc Games |
| Colors | |
| Camera | No |
| | - Mp3 Player
- T9 |
| Battery |
| | Standard Battery |
| Stand-by | 170 H |
| Talk Time | 130 Min |
|
Sagem - WA 3050Sagem WA 3050
Advantages look , price , functionality
Disadvantages brand
This Sagem WA3050 is a Mobile Phone and Pocket PC combined with large High definition: 240x320 pixels (1/4 VGA) screen and Extra wide touch screen: 60x80 mm
This allows good quality pictures and word processing to name but a few ideal uses.
It is Dual-band 900/1800 Mhz so this will allow use in the main mobile using areas, uk eroupe and the states.
Another neat aspect of the sagem is the Built-in vibrating device, to let you know about a call in busy loud areas when a ring tone may not be heard.
The phone comes with Pocket Internet Explorer for use trawling the internet and an Infrared port
to allow interaction with desktop pcs or laptops, to pass on holiday pics or sound messages to use with emails.
Their is also a wap option for phone to phone picture messageing or gaming even mobile internet use via wap.
This could also bring the voice recording function to light as a funky tool as you can record phone calls or use it as a dictaphone.
The phone has an excellent Hands-free function with loudspeaker and Direct headset connection + microphone for using on the road.
This is especially good as the new laws on mobiles in the UK deem it illegal to use a phone while driving so the lud speacker and handsfree utilities are a great advantage of this phone.
A good security feature is the Handwriting recognition this is like predictive messaging on usual phones but for a tool on lines of microsoft word.
This is an ecellent phone by the budget phone makers sagem, it seems they are trying to battle the big guns here and seem to be doing quite well a highly recommended product.
Microsoft's aim to access the information you need wherever you are, by any means, is only partly served by putting a Pocket PC-powered PDA in your pocket. That's fine if you can synchronise what you need back at base. But to really meet the aims, your PDA has to be able to communicate at any time. Enter Sagem's WA 3050 and the only other GSM-enabled Pocket PC, the Trium Mondo.
The WA 3050 offers everything you'd expect from a Windows-powered PDA, but it is also a dual band GSM mobile phone. When devices like this and the Mondo were first mooted, the aim was to launch as GPRS devices. The slow rollout of GPRS has meant this hasn't happened, but you should be able to buy a GSM WA 3050 and upgrade to GPRS later on. In the short term, data speed may be an issue - you can send and receive emails, faxes and SMS messages; you can download documents as email attachments; and you can use WAP and browse the web and all with a larger screen than any phone offers - but at GSM speeds. The WA 3050 has a monochrome screen. The 240 x 340 pixel resolution ensures it is sharp, but anyone used to Pocket PC on a colour display may feel let down by the return to greyscale despite the knowledge that this helps keep the unit cost down and conserve battery life.
The 206MHz StrongArm processor keeps the WA 3050 chuntering along at a fair old lick, and the 16MB RAM is adequate, though not especially generous. You can buy a Compact Flash adaptor that piggy-backs the handheld, and then use this to add more memory. We weren't able to try one of these, but suspect it may be a little cumbersome.
Compact design
Surprisingly, despite having a battery and all the GSM functions on-board the WA 3050 is small and light. Its protruding aerial is a bit of a nuisance when carrying it in a pocket, but this aside Sagem has done a good job of keeping the hardware design neat. There are seven buttons on the front of the unit - the on/off switch, four application shortcut buttons (Contacts, SMS/Fax manager, WAP and Calendar), one button to start a call and another to end it. There is a rocker on the left-hand side of the device for selecting applications from the Start menu. The main Pocket PC applications are no different to the range we are used to seeing on other PDAs. Contacts, Diary, Tasks, Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, the Windows Media Player (there is stereo sound output to headphones), Microsoft Reader, Money, Pocket Internet Explorer.
There is also a Fax/SMS tool, a WAP browser and a utility to copy a date from your SIM to Contacts. Internet email connections are possible using both POP3 and IMAP 4. You get the ActiveSync software for sharing data with a PC. The connection is made via a docking cradle using a USB connection. If you require serial, you'll need to buy the optional adaptor. There have been some changes to enable GSM communications activities within standard Pocket PC applications. For example, click the Tools option in Contacts and you can tap to Call Contact.
The display
There is also a new dialling screen that provides access to features you'd normally expect from a mobile phone. At the top is a status bar with icons indicating battery level and signal strength, pointing to the presence of voice messages, and indicating whether data, fax or voice calls are in progress. Beneath this is an area which can show caller ID data. Via touch icons you can access the call log, control audio features, display basic contact information about the caller, and provide information about the status of up to four calls in progress. Beneath that is the number pad. We couldn't find any way of configuring a bank of speed-dial options - it would have been easy to implement a second screen on which a series of speed dial numbers were retained, or place a small row of icons beneath the number pad for this purpose.
It is possible to make a voice call while holding the WA 3050 to your ear - the speaker is located above the screen and the microphone in the bottom panel near the bank of buttons. You can switch to hands-free mode and then access the contents of the WA 3050 during a call. Speaker volume is reasonable, and there is an on-screen control and a rocker switch with which it can be adjusted during a call. Altering the volume for telephony has no effect on the overall volume, such as for MP3 playback or alarm volume. Sagem's WA 3050 is a good idea, but there are some flaws. The greyscale display is a nuisance, and the lack of integrated Compact Flash expansion is a real irritation. As an integrated solution, though, it is neat, very portable, and extremely easy to get to grips with. |
| Common misspellings on this brand: |
|
