{"id":551063,"date":"2006-12-12T06:29:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T06:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551063-avoid-it.html"},"modified":"2006-12-12T06:29:39","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T06:29:39","slug":"avoid-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551063-avoid-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Avoid it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This year, the company has introduced a number of smartphones based on Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Mobile 5.0 platform. We took a look at its 130 g, triband g-Smart i device, which proved to be a reasonably good phone\/PDA combo. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The touch-screen smartphone includes Wi-Fi and has almost everything else you&#8217;d expect in a device like this, including support for BlackBerry-style push e-mail. Critically, 3G support is lacking and this is reason enough not to recommend it. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The device includes a 2,1-megapixel digital camera and a fast, 400 MHz Intel processor. There&#8217;s Bluetooth, a built-in FM receiver and a mini SD card slot for expanding the phone&#8217;s memory. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The g-Smart i&#8217;s most distinctive feature is a built-in analogue TV tuner. It doesn&#8217;t work too well, though, even with the earphones, which double as an aerial, plugged in. I couldn&#8217;t get much more than a snowy picture. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The g-Smart i is not a bad effort for a company new to the mobile phone market. Right now, though, there is better value to be had elsewhere, especially given this machine&#8217;s steep price. Avoid. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Financial Mail<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese company Gigabyte is best known for its PC components, especially computer motherboards and graphics cards, not for mobile phones. That looks set to change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}