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The O2 Cocoon blogger outreach has been reviewed in Revolution Magazine. It’s a really great review and definitely worth checking out. You can see the article here

It is actually the first time I have ever seen a cell phone that is nice. And this one is almost beautiful! But how do we poor Danes get hold of it? Must you be a British citizen to buy it?

Can any one please help?

as posted by Wil on UnWired 

“So it’s true that o2’s next music phone to be released - yes, that one - might be getting most of the attention. But the Cocoon is a neat little clamshell phone that’s a bit different, a bit quirky and really quite fun. The design is certainly unique, and that’s a good thing in the sea of mediocrity that is the mobile phone market at the moment. If you don’t want the iPhone in your pocket, this might do the trick.”

as posted by Laurence-Hélène on ‘blog till you drop’

I have been an O2 customer for years, and every year around upgrade time, I start looking into the different types of mobile phones on the market.

I have to say that advertising is very influential because it’s very difficult to escape ads on the Tube! In addition to advertising, I usually browse the O2 website as well mobile phone reviews sites hence the importance of viral marketing especially in the case of O2 who do not advertise their phones.

I had a little look at the phones available and the Cocoon is currently featured on the front page under the phones section – so far, so good!

However when I clicked on the picture of the Cocoon to get more info about it, I felt the description on the site was letting the phone down – what about the alarm clock feature, the nest, the map of the O2 arena? In addition, I could not find a link to the Cocoon’s blog or the Cocoon’s webpage!

Can someone point me in the direction of these links?
Why did O2 set up a webpage for the Cocoon, a blog as well as sending a free phone to bloggers if they are not going to clearly advertise it on their site?

Written by Gordon McLean on InformationallyOverloaded

DISCLAIMER: I was given an O2 Cocoon by a PR firm. I am under no obligation to blog about it at all, nor was I to only mention it if the ‘review’ was favourable. If this post offends you, then feel free to leave. But if you were thinking of buying one… read on. 

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been playing with the new O2 Cocoon. I’ve been using it as often as I can and ‘living’ with it since then, bar a week away in

 It’s not a stunning ‘must have’ gadget, but it does have some nice touches, alongside a few annoying quirks. 

The OLED embedded on the ‘outside’ of the phone is a nice idea. Subtle and effective and probably my favourite feature. However it suffers through implementation. There are two possible scenarios, both centred around the use of the display when receiving text messages. One is when an unprompted text message is received, the display lights up and scrolls the name or number, and then the message itself, across the outside of the screen.  

Now if I have it in my pocket this is kinda useless. If it is on my desk it is in full view of anyone who looks, again not so good.  

However if I’m in ‘text conversation’ mode, sending messages back and forth, then the scrolling is too slow to be useful, and I don’t need the name/number anyway. So, a smart idea that just feels a little like ‘an idea for ideas sake’. But that’s only on the text message front. The other uses - time, alarm, MP3 track details - make more sense. 

Hardware-wise it feels nice in your hand, until you open it and answer a call. I’m happy to concede that it might just be that I’ve got a funny shaped face but the phone never felt comfortable when I was on a call. However the call quality was good and clear, as was the signal strength, of course it may just be that I was in particularly good coverage zones for the O2 signal. 

As a It has most of the usual features of a mobile phone and, by and large, the software and features are nothing out of the ordinary but, as it’s being sold as a music player/phone/lifestyle gadget I’ve spent more time trying to use it with that in mind and, on that count it’s not too bad.

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