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The Cocoon is getting blogged, blogged and blogged BIG time…

The Cocoon is well infiltrated in to the blog-o-sphere. It helps that we’ve got some pretty amazing fans around the world blogging it- such as as Fosfor in Sweden, Heron Preston in NY, Nalden.net from the Netherlands, the French Laurence-Hélène, Neville Hobson from the UK, O2’s own blog and many more far afield from Japan to Latin America. Or perhaps the Cocoon give-aways helped a little ;) We’ve got one more for you! We’re offering an unlocked Cocoon to one of you who will tell us what you like about the story of the Cocoon. Just drop your comment about why you would like a Cocoon of your very own-and maybe you’ll get lucky…

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• On 10.02.07 Omar McFarlane wrote these pithy words:

  Win a free Cocoon? Amazing! I’ve been following this phone since it popped up on Engadget hoping that a stateside carrier would be smart enough to pick it up.

  As far as what I like about the story, and the phone itself, is the immaculate attention to detail and simplicity. I mean when I looked at the picture of the phone while it’s docked, I thought, “Well that’s kind of silly, now you can only hear out of one speaker.” However, this was not an oversight and you guys added the underside air holes. That’s the sort of thinking that so many other companies lack, which results in their products losing value.

  While I’ve not had the pleasure of holding a Cocoon myself, I’m sure it lives up to the press it’s been getting and seeing the videos around the web, like the ones on Heron’s blog only make me long for it more.

  Congrats on such an amazing phone, and if I don’t win, I hope at least you guys are pushing stateside carriers to pick it up so then all of America will be winners!

• On 10.06.07 Des Brambley wrote these pithy words:

  I’ve had my Cocoon for less than a week. There are some points I’d like to raise…

  Design - it certainly stands a good chance of becomming a classic. It has a look and style that sets it aprt from the other ‘phones, sort of. The volume control is readily accessible and easy to implement during a call. The ‘nest’ or cradle is a convenient and useful item that really does turn the handset into a radio alarm clock - as someone else stated elsewhere, an excellent substitue for a travel alarm. So far, so good.

  The interior buttons are functional and easy to access, the feel is good, and the ‘click’ they make is very user reassuring and well thought through.

  Surely this phone can’t be perfection, can it? Of course not. The software that runs on this phone really is damned frustrating and there are crucial oversights that have to thought through for later releases:

  Exterior display - why isn’t there a function to turn this off? Does every user really want to advertise to any passing muggers that they’re using a Cocoon? Why can’t we have it that it only operates when it is plugged into the cradle? Is it too much to ask that form and function should meet in a symbiosis of user end variables that give control to the customer, rather than relying on dictatorial design parameters to limit functionality?

  Battery life - I don’t believe the hype. Either I’ve got a dud, or there is no-way that the battery actually gives five hours talk time. A twenty-minute phone call knocks a third of the life out of mine. I’ve also found that all too often on closing the phone, it shuts down, turns off, becomes a brick. Which I’m not overly thrilled about, I can tell you.

  Cameras - can anyone one the designers explain why they’ve set the video camera to display as a portrait image, yet every TV known to man (apart from those dodgy monitors sunk into desks in cheesy 1970s sci-fi films), is in landscape? Why did they choose to do that? To shoot the video in the standard landscape the user has to either over extend the tendons and wrist joint of the hand holding the phone or stand with their elbow out making themselves look like a total fool. A big oversight, setting the video to portrait… Did no-one stop to watch TV during the entire design process? Sorry to moan about it, but it really is day one, page one stuff - video is in landscape, not portrait…

  Packaging - Waaaaaaayyyy too much packaging - and include a printed instruction manual. The pretty and pretty bloody useless advert that’s in the box where the instruction manual should be is absolutely pointless - by the time the owner of the handset gets to that point, they’ve already purchased the phone/package which includes the phone and you don’t need to keep marketing to them anymore. Day one, page one stuff again… Once sold to the client, stop selling and start aiding them to use your fabulously designed handset.

  So, if you are planning to design any more phones, let me use them for a week, I’ll give you a full and frank appraisal.

  I’m sure there are other things that I will find, and you can be sure that I’ll be back with more comments.

  see ya.

• On 10.09.07 Kieran Jones wrote these pithy words:

  Does anyone know how to install java applications onto this handset?

  if its possible at all?

  email me if you know :] cheers!
  x

• On 10.24.07 Des Brambley wrote these pithy words:

  Well, after two handsets, both of which didn’t work properly, I’ve given up on the Cocoon and gone for the N95.

  Ta-ra

• On 02.18.10 Mead Lai wrote these pithy words:

  Hi Kieran Jones,
  I am puzzled by the same stuff, like you.
  I created some games & applications, but I could not install them into Cocoon, damn…
  Well, I really can not believe nobody know how to install Java Applications into this handset.
  If you did sucessful, mail me, appreciate you very much.
  laiqinyi#at#gmail#dot#com

• On 02.18.10 Mead Lai wrote these pithy words:

  Well, If Cocoon only allowed to download Java Applications into cell phone,
  than I build a website by myself and put the Java-jar onto the web, finally,
  via that web page I made, download this Jar application, Can it works? Anyone try to do it? I just do a small test, and it looks like failed…

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