Puma Phone, Pictures: Phone Guide Germany

Dirt, mud, rain, dust or shocks – these are things you want to protect your Puma Phone with its cheap plastic body against. And just because this mobile has been designed by the same company that is famous for its sportswear, this does not mean that the Puma Phone should be used when doing track and field or cross country. It sports a run and bike tracker with assisted GPS, a pedometer, a stop watch, a speed meter a yachting compass, but that’s about as sportive as it gets. Rather regard the Puma Phone as a nice and extravagant accessory to take with you when hanging out with friends. The operating system has been developed by Puma itself and it looks nothing like other mobile OS.

This makes the user experience of the Puma Phone much different from the one of other mobiles. For example, the Puma Phone has three different home screens with lots of typical Puma icons which you can move and relocate according to your own preferences. You can flip menu pages in order to get to the application’s settings. The Puma Phone features a turntable music player which allows you to scratch by moving your fingertip over the touch screen surface. There is a nice looking contact photo gallery for speed dialing when making video calls via UMTS or HSPA. And the phone has an on-demand digital puma named Dylan as a screen saver who wags his tail or turns his head when you keep on bothering him by tipping on the touch screen.

The rest of the features is pretty much standard of current smartphones: The Puma Phone comes with a 2.8-inch touch screen display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, 3G support as well as bluetooth and USB connectivity. On the back plate there is an integrated solar panel for helping charge the battery in sunlight.

The Puma Phone is manufactured by Sagem Wireless and will be available in Europe in April at Puma retails stores and at the Puma web store for EUR 400.00 without contract. The worldwide distribution of the Puma Phone will start before the Soccer World Cup in South Africa this summer. Puma is also planning on launching an online community and some kind of download store with sports and lifestyle content and applications.

Specifications of the Puma Phone:
Operating System: Puma OS
GSM Networks: 850, 900, 1,800, 1,900 MHz
Data Transfer: GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA 7.2/2.9 mbps
Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB
Screen: 2.8-inch capacitive TFT touchscreen with 240 x 320 pixels resolution
Keyboard: virtual AZERTY
Camera: 2,048 x 1,536 pixels resolution with LED Flash
Other: Media Player with 3.5-mm headset jack, FM radio, Web Kit Browser, A-GPS, Solar Panel
Storage: microSD
Size: 102 x 56 x 13 mm
Weight: 115 g
Speaking Time: 5 hrs (GSM)

Read more about the Puma Phone at www.teltarif.de (in German).