Clinton Does The MWg Zinc II

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Aug 23 2008

Since MWg took over O2 Asia, we have not seen a bevy of new devices. In fact, as Clinton himself noted, MWg were rebranding O2 devices. Seems though, that MWg have stepped up to the plate and are tossing out some nice looking, original devices.

The Zinc two(II) looks to be one such device, and as Clinton notes it may take some getting used to, but it does look like a sweeter Tilt.

The biggest challenge with the Zinc II’s keyboard is getting use to the key layout.  Many items like numbers and punctuation are accessed with the Fn key which can take a bit of getting use too.  I fully admit that the first few days with it were very frustrating but after a week or so I was texting and typing with no more errors than with my AT&T Tilt.  The bottom line is give the keyboard a few days to grow on you.

It sort of  reminds me of a Razr keyboard/touch pad. Maybe cause the back light is blue?

Nice to see MWg forwarding the device designs and not sitting on the old O2 form factor!

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