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Here’s a great selection of photos taken by, or of, the O2 Cocoon. We hope you like…

Some great images of the Cocoon in Second Life, you can also find these on Flickr, here

 I love the Cocoon. I’m a Art and Design student and it’s one of the best looking phones available in the market today. The buttons are large and easy to use, they’ve layed out well, the camera is decent, I love the silent ringer and bluetooth buttons, The MP3 buttons are very simple and easy to use too, I love the way the video conference camera is hidden away, from view.

The biggest let down is the software. For such an un-standard phone, the software is very standard. Whilst fairly well layed out, there are a couple of features that need a simple update to make the cocoon that much better.
The biggest issue is that the OS is very slow, it takes time to respond, and predictive texting can often take a while to respond, which with the large buttons you would have thought that texting would be a priority.

Also the MP3 player suffers from being a little slow, especially when the cocoon is closed. The volume may tell you when it’s changed, however it wont actually change for a couple of seconds (which can seem like a life-time when you accidentally press the buttons in a library). Along with this the MP3 player has an unusual nag, where the next-and-previous song are placed below and above the current playing track, the method of selecting the next track is pressing right, which doesn’t quite correspond with the OS. Whilst not a huge issue, its a little thing that would make a big difference.

Thirdly accessing an installed memory card isn’t easy, no sort of file viewing application on there.

Apart from that I’m very happy with the Cocoon, and there are a lot worse phones available today.

After seeing some of my freinds sketches… what better way to customise your phone than with a ’sharpie’.

I think this is a really impressive idea and hope to see someone else have a go! some of his other work can be seen here

Cheers Mikkel!!

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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.”