Pay less, get more with the CVSCD-8500: A Chinese touchscreen smartphone

Target consumers: High-end users who appreciate Chinese products

Should they buy it? Yes

Why? If you are someone who doesn’t bother about brand names but is more concerned with the functionality and features of a device then this Chinese made touchscreen digital cell phone CVSCD-8500 is the one for you. The sleek design of the touchscreen phone with multimedia features, Mobile TV and the optical zoom lens camera can perform every task that you expect from a branded smartphone.

Technical Specifications: DVB-T, TV and radio, MP3/MP4 player, 2MP digital camera and video, dual SIM card slots, 3-inch TFT LCD WQVGA touchscreen display, GSM, 512MB TF Card/microSD card, Bluetooth

Pricing & Availability: You can shop online at Chinavasion.com for $189.38.

What others are saying? According to cellaz.com

The CVSCD-8500 comes with a 3″ touchscreen, dual SIM slots (Chinese love dual-SIMs), Bluetooth support, DVB-TV tuner, and a digital camera with optical zoom.

via:GeekAlerts

Written by arpita on September 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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Swivel Widescreen Multimedia cellphone is a single-USP disappointment

Target Consumers – Multimedia addicts

Should they buy it? – No

Why? - Intelligent consumerism scoffs at single-USP claims. With the Swivel Widescreen multimedia cellphone, the only stand-out feature is a rotating 3-inch screen. Like some of the phones launched in recent times, the portrait-landscape mode switch just requires a swivel effort. However, we believe a multimedia phone looking to break through the clutter should focus on offering the ‘extras’ that we always swear by. At the end of the day, the bias against Chinese phones still exists, perhaps for justifiable reasons. If we had to pick, the carrier-free usage is the only ‘pull factor’ offered by this phone.

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Written by alpheus on September 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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