Samsung H1 Vodafone 360 social netwoking phone
Posted December 1st, 2009 by admin No Comments »
By Sandra Vogel (via reghardware.co.uk)
Review Apparently, you are nobody today if you aren’t connected to hundreds of other people through a web of social networks. If you aren’t poking, tweeting, linking, posting, chatting, emailing and texting, you’re living in the past.
Samsung’s H1: built for Vodafone 360′s social network centric UI
No wonder, then, that everyone in the communications biz wants a piece of the social network action. Vodafone’s latest attempt to cash in is to launch its own service, Vodafone 360, and to do so with an exclusive handset, Samsung’s H1. The H1 runs a new operating system, sort of. That’s three things for potential buyers to get their heads around, and we aren’t sure they’re going to want to.
The H1 isn’t a bad phone. But we aren’t convinced by Vodafone 360. While it’s easy to use once configured, and has the great pluses of cloud-based backup and a usable web-based service so you can also access your information on a computer, it’s complicated to set up, isn’t sufficiently two-way and ultimately relies on people signing up for 360 itself. Read the rest of this entry »
