Panasonic X300

[Dynamoo]

The Panasonic X300 (http://www.mobilegazette.com/panasonic-x300.htm) is a strange thing.. it's got a flip-out viewfinder like a digital camcorder. The only problem is that the rest of the phone is rubbish. It's almost as if Panasonic were living in a time warp 12 months ago.. they've burdened the X300 with a VGA camera and what appears to be a titchy little screen... sigh.

Come on Panasonic, you can do better than this!

[cdover]

Definately a weird phone. And it's more expensive than the Siemens CX65!

[manav]

Panasonic as a manufacturer isnt coming up fast. Like sharp, SE, Samsung, MOTO are giving NOKIA a tough time.

[Ack]

Its out now....not too much more than the Siemens.

Phone List (http://1010.hkcsl.com/jsp/per_handdev/per_handdev_handsets.jsp?lang=eng&brand=0&nodeid=1&childnodeid=10)

[shaheen]

its gota be the stupidest designed phone ive ever seen. 128x128 screen..wtf... 4mb internal memory, wtf... no expansion.. wtf.. vga camera.. its the stupidest phone ever..like who gives a damn that it can flip out.. big woopededoo

[Wyatt]

Haha, i guess dont really care about their mobile phones cause they got other products too, Unlike nokia and se.

[Dynamoo]

Haha, i guess dont really care about their mobile phones cause they got other products too, Unlike nokia and se.

Yes, but that puts them in the same boat as Sharp, who put in a *lot* of effort on their phones from a technical point of view (even if they're not as pretty as Panasonic). I believe that both Sharp and Panasonic use their own screens and cameras rather than buying them in, for instance, but the difference is huge.

But.. and this is a big but.. the phones tend to look quite pretty and they sell on looks alone. And if they're selling, well, then why should Panasonic care too much? Panasonic have about a 5% market share worldwide on this basis, which is not too bad I suppose.

Getting a little back on topic, the X300 is a very poor phone indeed with a crappy display and digital camera. Panasonic's unique selling proposition with this pretty much amounts to putting a hinged display in and moving the camera on to the site. Yes, it looks impressive at first glance, but of course it's rubbish. Now.. if it had the Sharp GX30's camera and display then it would ROCK.

[3ple4]

hey, the X300's the phone that i saw being advertised in Star Sports :D

[Jose_R.A.M]

hey, the X300's the phone that i saw being advertised in Star Sports :D
Omg, ive just seen it, held it (dummy one though), m8 thought he broke it! lol. Crap, kinda disappointing. Nice, in a derranged kinda way. Suppose newbie phone users wont mind it so much...oh yeah...arent samsung manufacturers of things other than phones too? does ne one remember that episode of the simpsons where they went to japan and the toilets multicoloured fountains coming from it? My first thought was ooh, then it was..samsung e100!......yes ...i know....samsung isnt japanese....theyre korean, no?

[Dynamoo]

Yeah Samsung make everything from electronics to ships. Although frustratingly they don't seem to do Bluetooth and phones tend to be dual band, they're still better than Panasonic.

In fact, it's hard to think of a manufacturer that produces less interesting phones. The odd thing is that the phones Panasonic make for the Japanese market seem to be really good. Go figure.

[cdover]

Yeah Samsung make everything from electronics to ships. Although frustratingly they don't seem to do Bluetooth and phones tend to be dual band, they're still better than Panasonic.

:) Yeah, Samsung (I believe) wasn't part of the original Bluetooth group, so they had to design and make their own (and just recently completed, which is why we havn't seen Bluetooth in Samsung phones yet...).

The odd thing is that the phones Panasonic make for the Japanese market seem to be really good.

Haha, yeah, phones made by all companies in Japan seem really good...

[Jose_R.A.M]

i prefer gd87 over the majority of samsung phones at the time that both were released...but now panasonic have seemed to relax on makin super phones and thought...hey lets make the wierd one sno one'll buy...for a laff

[cdover]

and thought...hey lets make the wierd one sno one'll buy...for a laff

Sounds like Nokia :D.

[Jose_R.A.M]

Sounds like Nokia :D.
6260 has near identical size as gd87! im def gonna get it! stereo radio/mp3 remote control, ptt! yay:D

[Box215]

Well going back to the topic of the thread, this X300 seems like one really crappy phone.

[cdover]

Well going back to the topic of the thread, this X300 seems like one really crappy phone.

Yeah! The whole screen-flip-out-useless thing is all too gimicky. Although any John or Jane Doe would most likely think it's the coolest :(.

[Box215]

I think its actually a worst gimmick than 262k screens

[3ple4]

Yeah! The whole screen-flip-out-useless thing is all too gimicky. Although any John or Jane Doe would most likely think it's the coolest :(.
I'm guilty *raises my hand* But it does it look cool... it's so different compared with the other phones in the market :D

[cdover]

I'm guilty *raises my hand* But it does it look cool... it's so different compared with the other phones in the market :D

Hehe, yeah, the idea was unique, but Pana could have made it look more attractive! :)

[Dynamoo]

Stick a megapixel camera in, removable memory and THEN the flip out screen and you'd be talking.

[cdover]

Stick a megapixel camera in, removable memory and THEN the flip out screen and you'd be talking.

And Symbian OS, laser pointer, holographic screen etc etc :D

[3ple4]

I finally saw the X300 in Semicon... only one word can describe this phone... UGLY!!!!!!

[cdover]

Who said its expesive, its one of the cheapest video camera phone i have seen in the market. Its only $229 at myworldphone.com

Well I said it was more expensive than another phone. Didn't say it was expensive.

[cdover]

Nice pics here at Mobil Idnes.

http://mobil.idnes.cz/mobilni_komunikace/mobilni_telefony/abecedni_prehled_mt/panasonic/panasonicx300rec040927.html