Mobile Phone Guide

Also on the table at Sony Ericsson’s booth is the new ultra-light flip, the W350i. We’ve covered the important tech bits on this thing already and we were pretty stoked about its slim svelte look, but sadly, this fella still needs some tweaks to make it just right. We wanted to get at least a couple pics of the user interface, but it wasn’t cooperating with us at all, any attempt to get the handset’s demo rolling ended up in complete video madness. We can overlook software glitches as the handset isn’t close to hitting retail, but this phone’s flip is cheap, and I mean real floppy cheap. When in the closed position the flip doesn’t actually seat — we saw this on two different handsets — nor does it have an I-will-last-a-long-time feel. Those points aside — and it may be those issues go away before it hits retail in the second half of this year — we’re really digging the look of this set.

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Well, will you look what the cat’s dragged in today? Another rumored Motorola iDEN delight for us to feast our eyes on, this time a pretty stylin’ looking refresh on the Motorola i335 called the, ah, Motorola i335. Gone is the funky and lumpy look of the i335 we saw late last year, this refresh apparently adds a VGA camera, updated Bluetooth, and improved music functionality. Apparently due out in Q4 of this year — we still can’t speculate on just how real it is — with yesterday’s news of the “CABO” it seems iDEN is making something of a comeback — or is it just starting? — in the cool handset department.

[Thanks, iDENguy]