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I just came across Sony Ericsson’s G705 via Gizmodo earlier today and I have to say that I am drawn to it’s simplicity. At first I scrolled right past it, thinking it was just another lame music player, but upon further inspection I realized it was just another lame phone! No, in all seriousness the Sony Ericsson UI designs are by far the most fluid and beautiful designs I have had the pleasure of working with. I like how square this phone is, it doesn’t look like most of the slider phones I have seen simply because of how square it is at the bottom. I will however miss the slight curve at the bottom of the phone (like the s500i for example), it really helped to grip and slide the handset open with one hand. Other than that technical specs seem to stack up fairly nice, with a 2.4 inch TFT that has auto-rotation, A-GPS DLNA, 2.0 Bluetooth, FM radio and 3.2 mp camera with a built in flash! So overall it looks like a fairly well equipped handset for the everyday user. According to Sony, they beefed up the browser for full html (about time), and its packing Exchange ActiveSync for email (although without a full qwerty do I really want all that email on the little phone?) The US version looks to be launching sometime around early 2009 but no word on pricing just yet. If this comes in under 300 I think it would be a good handset to pick up, it looks like it has some higher end features that would bump the price kind of high but for a simple looking slider I don’t know if I would drop more than 300 for something like this when for a little more I could get a phone with the same features and more with a full keypad.

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