Archive for the ‘Music Phone’ Category
The Latte Boom phone will quickly draw stares and even inquisitive looks as you take it out and start dialing. It looks different than any other phone on the market, thanks to its narrow shell and twin, dominating speakers on its face. The speaker panel slides open to reveal the phone, but, closed, the phone looks simple and clean, like a very tiny boom box . Open, the keys are tightly packed, as you would expect on a phone that is just more than half as wide as our Palm Treo 700p, but the numeric keys aren’t our biggest complaint. The dedicated music button and the camera button also act as soft keys, but their placement makes using the phone’s menus less than intuitive. The “send” and “end” keys flank the lower speaker, which is where we would have liked the soft keys, and so we kept pressing those keys instead. Also, the only navigation key is a sort of click-rocker, which lets you move up and down menus step-by-step, and depresses for selections. Too bad Latte couldn’t have incorporated a five-way button into the lower speaker; that would have seemed like a more intuitive solution.