The my501C: Sagem adds a low-end clamshell

by Chris Ziegler posted Aug 22nd 2006 at 8:03PM

Sagem must've gotten a distinctly different feel for the level of market saturation in the low- to midrange clamshell field than we have, showing their latest my501C model, which is (you guessed it) a low- to midrange flip phone targeted at the European arena. To their credit, the spec sheet sounds decent enough, with a 1.3-megapixel cam, 256-color OLED external display, music player with AAC support, 32MB of internal memory, and expansion via microSD. As long as Sagem prices this thing on the lower end of the low to mid range, they seem to have a solid entry here -- but in a field with literally dozens of solid entries, it'll be no small feat if the my501C ever gets its 15 minutes of fame.

Filed under: Handsets, GSM, GPRS

Tags: clamshell, flip, my501c, sagem

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George Koutis @ Oct 14th 2006 10:11AM

A low - to mid range flip phone??? No way... Actualy, a rather medium - to high range. This phone is packed with features: 1.3Mpixel camera with 8x zoom, 32MB int and expandable ext memory, hands-free, MP3 player, bluetooth, GPRS,..., name it it has it. The only thing that slightly puts it down is that it only has 65k screen and not a 256k or 262K one. The spec sheet isn't decent enough: it's great! Many of its much more "ilustrious" competitors have, for example, VGA 0.3Mpix cameras with 4x zoom. And a black and white ext screen, not a 256 colour like this one. Be carefull, we're talking flip phone here. There is only 1 3G phone in this category, and only a couple with a 2Mpixel camera, and these and only these are clearly superior to the my501C, in the "high range". All in all, this is actualy a high range flip phone and, IF priced competitively, it is bound to be the star of its category. Unless, of course, people get turned off by it being a "Sagem" and not a "Motorola", "SonyEricsson", "Samsung", or some other "ilustrious" big name.

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Buddhika @ Dec 20th 2006 6:38AM

my501-c phone have loked in sri lanka.Please help me

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