Panasonic has the Panasonic Convention 2012-event the Eluga smartphone was introduced. The Android phone will in Europe and Japan to be sold and get a 4.3″-oled-screen with 960×540 pixels. The Eluga is dust – and splash-proof.
Panasonic clarified in december 2011, lift a tip of the veil about the sealed smartphone, but was then only summary details are known of the as yet unnamed mobile phone. At the Panasonic Convention, an annual event of the company, presented the Panasonic Eluga smartphone was officially. In style was in a vissekom dipped Eluga by Laurent Abadi, chairman and ceo of Panasonic Europe, fished and working at the journalists present will be shown.
The Eluga, which are named according to Panasonic derives from a combination of the terms ‘elegant design’, ‘user friendly’ and ‘gateway’, is equipped with a 1GHz dual-core chip in the Omap4 series, has 8GB on board and is equipped with a camera with eight megapixels. The 4.3″-oled-display has a resolution of 960 by 540 pixels, and this screen uses the pentile-subpixelconfiguratie. Panasonic has tried to manage the borders around the screen as thin as possible.
Panasonic has no front camera built-in and also there is no micro-sd slot for expanding the storage space. The smartphone uses a microsim. The Eluga weighs 103gr and has a thickness of 7.8 mm. In the first instance, the Eluga with Android Gingerbread, but in the summer the Ice Cream Sandwich update, promises Panasonic. The battery is not remove and Panasonic gives this battery has a standby time of 300 hours.
The device is equipped with nfc support. Not only can this be used for contactless mobile payments, but in combination with so-called “ic tags”, the functionality can also be used for personalization. She told me that one of the Japanese product managers that Panasonic is thinking about achterkantjes for the Eluga with an ic tag built-in which the interface is a new skin. Also, would an ic-tag can be used to unlock the phone.
The Eluga is from 1 april to obtain. The unit cost of los between 400 and 450 euros, and is thus just below the top of the market. Panasonic is in talks with unnamed providers, and expects two thirds of the Eluga smartphones using which way to convert. The company has this year as a goal of 1.5 million copies in Europe to sell. In the first instance, the smartphone will only in Europe and Japan be released, but according to projections, in 2013, China and the United States as markets recover. Total expected Panasonic worldwide by 2015 15 million units to sell.
Panasonic will this year have a number of other smartphones release. How much and what this will wanted to be the ceo not say. He was limited to diplomatic answer: “quite a few”. This will higher specified models, so knew Abadi to tell us. “You have to think about, for example, larger screens while also device with Lumix optics are not excluded,” says Abadi.
Tweakers.net the Eluga short in the hands and the unit is very light. Despite the low weight feels the Eluga solid and because of the D-profile of the back is sliding the smartphone to quickly get out of hand. On the back we see a on – off switch and a switch for the volume. Because of the placement on the bottom control not so good.
In addition, we see on one side the cover of the micro-usb connector, 3.5 mm audio jack and a cover for the microsim. The lids have a rubber ring for the seal, except the 3.5 mm jack, which is inside a sealed unit. The speaker is on the front right, while the microphone input on the bottom not right in the middle.
Despite the thin appearance, know the camera reasonable pictures to produce, but it takes about two seconds before the picture actually made, including focus. The Omap4 processor is doing its work well and the Android-interface, reacts quickly to gestures.
