Nowadays more and more manufacturers begin to release their self-branded phones, so as to exploit our lust with luxurious appearance and exorbitant price, such as Prada, Giorgio Armani, Lamborghini, Aveda, and Christian Dior. Sagem Puma phone M1 is different from them, focusing sports and eco-friendliness, with a less luxurious but natural shell, eco-friendly package, a solar-powered panel and innovative functions for sports lovers.
1. Sagem Puma Phone M1—Appearance
(1) Puma Phone M1—Front
Sagem Puma M1 Phone is easy to grab with the dimension of 102×56×13mm and weight of 115g. Puma M1 Phone packs a small 2.8-inch QVGA TFT touch screen for its mini body, but the 240 × 320 pixels resolution is comparatively low. Puma elements are seen everywhere. To our surprise, this silver Puma marked on the face is actually a receiver, together a front camera for 3G video chatting.
The touch keys of dial, menu and power are present underneath a 2.8-inch screen.
(2) Puma Phone M1—Rear
Puma phone M1 innovatively introduces the solar power to meet its energy needs. The rear cover of Puma phone M1 is actually a solar panel. At present the conversion efficiency of Puma M1 from solar energy to electric energy is not high, so the solar power is only an emergency or expedience and Li-ion battery is still a fast and effective way to power the phone. At any rate, solar panel of Puma M1 is still a big progress in phone industry.
The battery of Puma M1 will give you up to 350 hours of standby time and 4 hours (3G) or 5 hours (2G) of talk time.
Similar to other phone, Puma M1 equips with a 3.2MP camera with 6x zoom and a LED fill light. The Puma logo appears again.
Camera shot
(3) Puma Phone M1—Keys & Connectors
There is a hole for decoration and microphone at the bottom of Puma M1 cell phone, a micro USB slot with a dust-proof cover on the left, and a volume and shutter keys on the right.
3. Sagem Puma Phone M1—Interface
Sagem Puma M1 give us a bran-new interface. Its background color is still Puma red, and the characters and icons are white. When you enter certain categories, the background color will be dark with high-contrast red characters. Different from showy interface of other phones, the concise style of Puma will left you a deep impression.
(1) Puma Phone M1——Sport Style Interface
As Puma slogan says: “I’m not like all those other phones!” As a sports company, Puma offers distinguished functions for sports lovers, containing jogging, bike, water sports, coach and stopwatch modes. Sagem Puma M1 phone is rugged enough, but it is not a rugged phone after all. Hence, you also need protect it when you are doing sport.
a. Sagem Puma M1—Jogging Mode
In jogging mode, the built-in pedometer, speedometer will calculate your steps, calories consumption, distance and speed and so on, when you are doing sport.
b. Sagem Puma M1—Bike Mode
In bike mode, Puma Phone M1 can record your miles and speed.
c. Sagem Puma M1—Water Sports Mode
When you are doing water sports, Puma M1 will be your digital compass, which shows you direction and fuel quantity left, so that you can regulate your route.
d. Sagem Puma M1—Entertainment Modes
If you want to have a break during sport, you also can find entertainment functions in sport style interface, such as news, stock, yahoo wireless information.
(2) Puma Phone M1—Lifestyle Interface
In lifestyle mode, often-used functions contain phonebook, multimedia, browser, message, FM radio, navigation.
a. Sagem Puma M1—Phonebook Mode
This menu of Puma M1 phone would remind you of old-style telephone. If you flick this “old phone”, the true dialer interface will appear.
Intuitive phonebook interface
b. Sagem Puma M1—GPS Function
Puma M1 phone also supports GPS, compass and additional GPS tracker, which facilitates your journey.
c. Sagem Puma M1—Puma World
Sagem Puma M1 phone adds new service, called “Puma World”, which includes Puma news, apps, and stuff and so on.
3. Sagem Puma Phone M1—Unboxing
(1) Puma Phone M1—Package
The first thing that caught our eyes is that Puma’s “tool-box” package! You will be attracted by the distinctive and eco-friendly gadget at the first sight.
The rear of this “tool box”
a distinguished slogan marked on the box: “I’m not like all those other phones”.
(2) Puma Phone M1—Accessories
Let’s open this “tool box”. Each “tool” is ready. Puma M1 comes with an 800 mAh battery, data line with USB connection, a charger, and micro SD card. The eye-catching Puma red everywhere reminds us it is a Puma phone.
Can you see Puma logo in earphone?
Eye-catching Puma red phone case and phone strap
4. Sagem Puma Phone M1—Summary
Sagem Puma phone M1 catches our eyeballs, with Puma element, distinctive function for sport lovers, eco-friendly solar power panel and package, although the configuration is not excellent, comparing to mainstream phones. However, it is a worth recommending phone for collectors of Puma merchandise.
5. Sagem Puma M1 Phone—Specifications
- Networks: GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 – HSDPA 900 / 2100
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, USB 2.0, lacking Wi-Fi
- Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
- Dimensions: 102 x 56 x 13 mm
- Weight: 115 g
- Display: 2.8-inch TFT resistive touchscreen (QVGA 240 x 320 pixels)
- Battery: Li-ion 880 mAh, up to 350 hours of standby time, 4 hours (3G) or 5 hours (2G) of talk time
- Memory: microSD up to 8GB, 2GB included
- Camera: 3.2MP with LED flash and secondary VGA front camera for video calls
- Multimedia: MP3 audio player / WMA / eAAC +, Video player MP4/H.263/H.264
- Phonebook: Call records (20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls)
- Other Features: solar panel with integrated charge indicator, Bike Tracker, Run Tracker, Pedometer, Digital compass, Services PUMA, FM Radio, GPS with A-GPS support
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December 13th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
how do i change to the old dialing phone? can’t find it!! vincent(Quote) (Reply)