Video: Sagem’s weird PUMA Phone for the Sporties out there

Posted by Mike Evans in Events on February 16, 2010

Sagem have got together with Puma and released the PumaPhone at MWC 2010. The PumaPhone is, as you’d imagine, a ‘lifestyle’ phone – specifically, designed for someone whose lifestyle revolves around keeping fit, running, cycling and generally moving about a bit.

There are dedicated apps for keeping track of your performance in a variety of activites, from running to cycling, as well as the usual obligatory MP3 player (complete with novelty deck for ‘scratching’ – yes, it needs the inverted commas, just check it out for yourself in the video below!).

See the video of the PUMAPhone after the jump.

The PUMA Phone is an odd beast. It’s got the features you need for sports – GPS, compass, stopwatch, etc. It’s got many of the features you usually associate with mid-range phones – 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, 2.8″ touchscreen, etc.

It’s even got a solar panel on the back, which apparently is good for 35 texts for every hour of charge (not with the UK’s sun, of course!)

Unfortunately, it’s also got an awful user interface and a ridiculously high price – 400 Euros before subsidies! Seriously, when you can buy a T-Mobile Pulse Mini for £99 PAYG, which comes with even more features, and install tonnes of sports-realted Android apps onto it, why would you bother?

Check out the video below, to see if you fall in love with the thing.