Don't know who Amico is? That makes two of us -- but the beauty of
Android is that it's free and open for anyone who wants to have a crack at wrapping the platform with custom hardware. The Taiwanese firm was showing off a reasonably nice-looking full touch set at
CTIA this week running some post-
Cupcake build, but there was one little issue: they'd decided to slap a fake Sony BRAVIA logo (with the "I" conveniently removed, naturally) along the left side of the face. We understand the desire to ride the coattails of a well-recognized brand, we totally do -- but we would've liked to see Amico have the self-confidence to say, "You know what? We made a pretty decent phone here, so let's let it stand on its own two feet." Just saying. Anyhow, we're told that the phone's gone back to the labs to be retooled with 3G (it's only doing triband EDGE right now), but the rest of the specs are pretty solid: 3 megapixel autofocus cam, 624MHz Marvell core, microSD expansion, and a 3-inch resistive WQVGA display. If Amico's got a level head on its shoulders, it'll kill the BRAVA noise and switch to capacitive while it's upgrading the radio. Follow the break for video.
posted Apr 4th 2009 8:07PM
Amico is italian for "friend" (like "amigo" in spanish or "ami" in french) , and while "BRAVIA" means absolutely nothing in any language " BRAVA" , again in italian, means "able", or "capable", or "Good at" ( it's the feminine of "bravo") ; so I'm really not sure that Amico named its telephone in imitation of the Sony televions, if they did so ironically they bettered it giving it a real meaning.
You're telling an Asian mobile phone maker, which is targeting the Asian market, to use a capacitive touch screen (which doesn't allow for stylus use)?
Maybe this one is especially resistive to Tomato Sauce?
Asians don't have fingers?
D Mac: Asians have fingers, but they can't just type their languages - they need to be written, hence the need for a stylus and resistive touch screen.
I can't speak for all the Asian languages but I know for sure that when texting in Chinese, 拼音(pinyin-phoneticized Chinese) in conjunction with T9 is significantly faster then pulling out a stylus and writing the characters. Just like the character I wrote above, all you need to type on your phone in "pin yin" and you've got 拼音. It's that easy!
Bravo Brava
Enough already about the capacitive touch screens from the Iphone legion! I don't want have it on mine, don't WANT it on mine and don't NEED it on mine! I get around using my fingers just fine on my HTC Titan, thank you very much and if I need something done with precision, there's the stylus (oh, wait, the Iphone people don't know what 'precision' is, do they?). Give it a rest, already.