Hands On With the Else Emblaze Smartphone: Welcome to the Retrofuture

It ’s a odd - field product : atouchscreen smartphonewith totally new software package , which will have to fend for itself among well - establish monster . Conventional wisdom would say it ’s doom , and conventional wisdom may be right . But damnit , I really like the Emblaze .

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The software ’s the star here , but here ’s a straightaway refresher on the hardware , construct by Sharp :

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The Else Emblaze , aside from being one of the first telephone to utilise Access ’ Linux Platform v3.0 OS , is a 3.47 - inch 480×854 slab of French telephone , with an OMAP 3430 CPU , 16 GB of intimate memory , a five - megapixel photographic camera , A - GPS , and 3.5 millimeter earpiece jack .

It ’s immediately more striking than your typical touchscreen smartphone slab on report of its blue illuminated side buttons and touchscreen ikon tray , which some might find superfluous , but I find proudly nerdy . If you carried this this around , citizenry would ask about it .

But today , a smartphone is only as good as its software , and that ’s where the Else ’s swell strength — and potential weaknesses — consist . The “ carte du jour ” system , though Else would rather not practice that word , is a serial of concentric grade and sublevels , which you could theoretically navigate with one thumb . I say theoretically out of natural mental rejection , but I have attempt it , and it does act upon — the learning curve is in reality very slight , and finding your way around the phone ’s basic functions is something I could do instantly . It construct good sense , it ’s saucy , and the concept is apply evenly throughout the OS .

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Newness count for a lot in the phone world , and the Else Emblaze is nothing if not new . But glow carries its own burden , like a total want of apps — there will be an SDK , evidently — and rough edge , as certify by the phone ’s sometimes jerky video operation , and the periodic awkward interface concept — make out any new OS has . But the construct is solid , the on - CRT screen keyboard is smart , and esthetic is terrifically retrofuturistic , and the equipment works . So far , so safe .

Else wo n’t go any further than to say they ’re “ affirmative ” about US carrier aspect , but that could mean a lot of things . And it ’s hard to imagine a small upstart like this stand much of a chance against behemoth like Google and Apple , who do n’t just have the basics nailed down , but an full ecosystem of apps to lean on . But maybe calling this thing a smartphone is a misnomer : in a elbow room , it ’s like the ultimate featurephone ; one that can do most of the clobber an app - ified smartphone can do , in a genuinely novel mode . If it costs as much as a smartphone — which is probably will — it’ll have to slant on its freshness . But technical school folks are jaded , so that ’s full currency .

So , good luck , I guess .

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