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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>General Forum</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/13.aspx</link><description>The main Meeting Place for BeoWorld members, and the place for General Questions, Answers and things to say! 
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If you have anything to say - please tell!</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)</generator><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/24003.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:38:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:24003</guid><dc:creator>Stars</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/24003.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=24003</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;beodim:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Henry:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;p&gt;Are you that pretentious that you need to have a fashionable and cool brand advertised across the front of your phone (probably right ontop of&amp;nbsp;the screen, but you&amp;#39;re too cool to care)? Vulgar at the same time in my opinion, not to mention an idiot for buying a Sagem!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This being said by someone having a big Chanel logo in his avatar?&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/emoticons/emotion-5.gif" alt="Wink" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Haha! That just made my day, but if you want the real honest answer, it&amp;#39;s not for the Chanel logo, but for the curved lines instead on a completely opposite colour. That probably sounds a load of BS, but it&amp;#39;s true. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have to agree with Peter though, I&amp;#39;m set on the iPhone for now. &lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/emoticons/emotion-1.gif" alt="Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23969.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:18:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23969</guid><dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23969.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23969</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Now, now! Play nicely!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still have not seen anything I want more than the iPhone. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23952.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:00:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23952</guid><dc:creator>beodim</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23952.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23952</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Henry:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;p&gt;Are you that pretentious that you need to have a fashionable and cool brand advertised across the front of your phone (probably right ontop of&amp;nbsp;the screen, but you&amp;#39;re too cool to care)? Vulgar at the same time in my opinion, not to mention an idiot for buying a Sagem!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This being said by someone having a big Chanel logo in his avatar?&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/emoticons/emotion-5.gif" alt="Wink" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23932.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:17:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23932</guid><dc:creator>Stars</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23932.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23932</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;beodim:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;p&gt;Look at this one:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xonio.com/bildergalerie/x_bildergalerie_v3_27160377.html?show=0"&gt;http://www.xonio.com/bildergalerie/x_bildergalerie_v3_27160377.html?show=0&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pure aluminium &amp;quot;Porsche&amp;quot; design (could also&amp;nbsp;be B&amp;amp;O)&amp;nbsp;and fingerprint reading for security...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What on Earth is going on with all these crappy rebranded cell phones?! That Porsche phone is a Sagem, AKA material especially suited for the bin! I don&amp;#39;t understand why people buy these rebranded phones because they&amp;#39;re supposedly by D&amp;amp;G, Prada and now even Porsche! At this rate, Lee will soon be signing a deal with Motorola or some other rubbish cell phone brand to release the new and spectacular BeoWorld phone! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you that pretentious that you need to have a fashionable and cool brand advertised across the front of your phone (probably right ontop of&amp;nbsp;the screen, but you&amp;#39;re too cool to care)? Vulgar at the same time in my opinion, not to mention an idiot for buying a Sagem!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23922.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:02:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23922</guid><dc:creator>beodim</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23922.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23922</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Look at this one:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xonio.com/bildergalerie/x_bildergalerie_v3_27160377.html?show=0"&gt;http://www.xonio.com/bildergalerie/x_bildergalerie_v3_27160377.html?show=0&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pure aluminium &amp;quot;Porsche&amp;quot; design (could also&amp;nbsp;be B&amp;amp;O)&amp;nbsp;and fingerprint reading for security...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23742.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:12:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23742</guid><dc:creator>marcus</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23742.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23742</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Samsung is making a phone-only phone marketed as the &lt;a href="http://www.jitterbug.com/"&gt;Jitterbug&lt;/a&gt; (complete with dial tone!) I can&amp;#39;t help but notice a similarity between the shape of the Jitterbug and the shape of the design drawing representing Serenata.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#39;s an interesting commentary on &lt;a href="http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2007/06/20/jitterbug/"&gt;salon.com&lt;/a&gt; about the Jitterbug, especially the relatively novel nature of a mobile phone only being used to make and receive telephone calls. Is the feature-limited Serene the start of a new wave of phone-only phones?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23635.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:36:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23635</guid><dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23635.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23635</wfw:commentRss><description>no way this could be the new serenata. I have already seen this phone in flesh, it is a regular samsung cell phone, nothing more.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23570.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:41:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23570</guid><dc:creator>The Beonic Man</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23570.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23570</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I real hope this is NOT the new Serenata! I agree with Alex, surely B&amp;amp;O wouldn&amp;#39;t dare release something that looks like that! Great to see you back again Alex. Hope all is well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23557.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:18:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23557</guid><dc:creator>Stars</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23557.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23557</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Looks like an interesting concept, except I don&amp;#39;t expect B&amp;amp;O would let it look like a oversized tamagotchi!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LOL &lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/emoticons/emotion-61.gif" alt="Laughing" /&gt; Yes, it sure doesn&amp;#39;t look as good as some of Samsung&amp;#39;s other recent cell phones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t understand why someone would want the display of their cell phone to rotate. Maybe to watch videos / movies in widescreen, but I don&amp;#39;t think we&amp;#39;re quite there yet with cell phones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully the Serenata won&amp;#39;t be suprising us with any similarity to this Samsung when we see the first images!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23294.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:37:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23294</guid><dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23294.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23294</wfw:commentRss><description>Looks like an interesting concept, except I don&amp;#39;t expect B&amp;amp;O would let it look like a oversized tamagotchi!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23259.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:50:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23259</guid><dc:creator>9 LEE</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23259.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23259</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Serenata...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Interesting Phone</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23258.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:49:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:23258</guid><dc:creator>9 LEE</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/23258.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=23258</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Is this a new phone from Samsung?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Turn the image upside down, and it resembles the Serenata a little in its construction!&amp;nbsp; I wonder if the Serenata will have the pop-up LCD screen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lee&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>