Ericsson R380

Bucking the trend for smaller mobiles, Ericsson’s R380s is a bit of a fat boy. Styled in a deep blue, it weighs in at rather portly 164 grams- exactly double that of Sony’s CMD-Z5 WAP phone. But what you get for the extra weight is worth the added bulk because the R380s is a self-styled smart phone. With its flip closed it’s little more than a mobile, yet with flip open it’s a digital organiser capable of browsing WAP sites and managing your email. In the future perhaps all phones will be like this. From the front the R380s looks like a fairly normal phone. In this stand-by mode you can make and receive calls plus access a few basic ...  Read the complete review

Since I own my Nokia 9110 for one year now I was looking into the possibility of exchanging it against the new Flagship from Ericson, the R380. Like the 9110 the R380 is more a personal digital assistent than a phone. It is far less buky and looks more like a phone than the 9110 does. However it has some serious disadvantages against the nokia phone. The current model comes with 2 MB of memory, whereas the Nokia only features 1,6 MB. But unlike the Nokia thia memory is neither upgradeable, nor can new applications be installed to the phone. The Nokia features one memory slot which will take up to 16 MB exchangable memory modules. Ericson operates their ...  Read the complete review