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Should Cell Phones Just Make Calls?

by Joshua Fruhlinger on March 20, 2007 at 10:21 AM

Trio TV5
Device convergence can be great: if you're going out on the town and don't want to carry a camera and a phone, you can just bring your trusty Nokia N93. But as companies stuff cameras in cellphones, movie players in gaming devices, gaming devices in cellphones, and even pedometers in music players, it seems they start to lose focus on the quality of those individual features. Take, for instance, the Mach Speed Trio TV5 recently reviewed by Crunchgear. On the surface, it sounds wonderful: it plays MP3, movies, takes pictures, and does photo slideshows. Sounds like a great companion to a road trip, right?

Turns out the Trio TV5 is a jack of all trades, master of none. According to Crunchgear, the device does none of the above functions all too well. The 5 megapixel camera was disappointing in low-light situations as it sports no flash. The video and mp3 playback appeared fine at first until one considers that the onboard memory of 512MB (upgradeable to 2GB) leaves one with very little headroom. It seems the the Trio TV5 does everything on paper, but in the real world it seems to disappoint.

What do you think? Is device convergence a wonderful convenience, or do you carry each device to make sure you're doing things right?


Tags: cameraphones, convergence

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