Another game-changer? Emblaze hopes so. Running on Access Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0, which if I had guessed correctly is a cousin of Nokia’s Maemo. What Emblaze intends in their First Else phone is a mobile experience that is the most intuitive yet. This is the Else Intuition OS. Eldad Eilam, the Emblaze CTO, is obviously confident of what they have: “Android’s a game-changer… [but] people need to consider that Android doesn’t bring good user experience. Most have failed. The Droid is improving, has a great infrastructure but they treat Android as just a component.”
On the hardware side, the First Else (hopefully there’ll be a Second Else), has the TI OMAP 3430 processor made famous by all the famous phones in the market today like the iPhone 3GS, Droid and Palm Pre. It has a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen which supports a 854 x 480 resolution. It doesn’t exactly support HD viewing but the 480p videos at 30fps is more than enough considering the screen size. A multiedia phone, eh? What about the UI? Well, it’s quite amazing at the first impression. The fanlike menu is more intuitive than anything outh there. To put it briefly: one-hand navigation is back.
Other features include a 5MP camera, amazing OLED indicator lights, WiFi, HSDPA, Bluetooth and a 1450mAh battery. Availability and price still unknown. Read on for the videos.
[via engadget, akihabaranews]
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November 25th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Looks really nice. Clean & responsive with a well thought-out UI. I have the Android G1 and admit that it’s not the best phone.
The only thing that I see as a ‘problem’ is that even though I’m a rightie I more often use my left hand to use my phone. Even though the buttons on this are on the right, an option to set the UI to have a leftie option would be good.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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November 25th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I like the videos which give full information for the facilities and application related to the Alp 3.0 and their different features and capabilities.As comparison to the apple product ,it is far better technologies which has High resolutions and User interface.Emblaze First ALP 3.0 phone can be compare with each and every model of apple iphones.