Sony Ericsson C905A Mobile Phone

The Sony Ericsson C905a is a true Cyber-shot camera phone. In addition to its 8.1-megapixel sensor, it features face detection, auto-focus, a Xenon flash, PictBridge printer support, and GPS tagging—all great for snapping off important shots whenever you don't have that point-and-shoot handy. The C905a's feature array puts it in direct competition with the Motorola MotoZINE ZN5 and the Samsung Behold SGH-T919, T-Mobile's pair of heavy-hitting camera phones. In fact, the C905a fills a hole in AT&T's otherwise diverse handset lineup; none of the carrier's other devices can take pictures like this one.

The C905a is a bit bulky. It 4.1 by 1.9 by 0.7 inches and weighs 4.8 ounces. That's not terrible, but something to keep in mind when comparing it to other feature phones. My test model was nicely finished in Ice Silver plastic; you can also get the C905a in Night Black or Copper Gold. Plenty of useful, chrome-finished shortcut buttons adorn the sides, though the proprietary charger connector and lack of a standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack were disappointments.

The 2.4-inch screen features 240-by-320-pixel resolution and displays up to 262K colors. Below the LCD are a five-way control pad and six hardware buttons. Unfortunately, the Send and End buttons are in between the others, so careful aim is required. Slide the front panel up and you'll reveal a recessed, membrane keypad finished in matte black. The keys are quiet, but a little too stiff for easy dialing. The slider mechanism itself was solid, though, and snapped into place with a reassuring chuck. There's a built-in accelerometer, which was useful for navigation as well as gaming. In short, not the most ergonomic phone on the planet, but perfectly usable.
The C905a is a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM and tri-band (850/1900/2100) HSDPA handset. That means it's a true world phone with high-speed data capability both here and overseas. Voice calls sounded clear and loud in both directions, with good wind resistance, although slightly on the nasal side through the earpiece. Reception was solid, with a lock on 3G even in a rural area of Massachusetts that trips up other AT&T handsets. The speakerphone was a tad harsh but had decent volume, and the C905a sounded fine through a Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth headset. Battery life was on the low side at 3 hours and 46 minutes.

The home screen features colorful, alternating wallpapers that fade in and out every few seconds. Once you dive into the user interface, it's easy enough to get around. But that's mainly due to redundancy; the C905a features the same triple-menu, jam-packed system that plagues unlocked Sony Ericsson W995a. It could use some serious editing, but at least it's responsive. There are a few nice sounding ringtones on board, and plenty of options for buying new ones or assigning your own MP3 or AAC files. The NetFront Web browser is good enough for WAP sites and offers a mouse cursor. But it made a mess of desktop sites and took forever to load them even over HSDPA.
The C905a is AT&T's only camera phone with more than 3 megapixels, so it's by far the best the carrier has to offer. The 8-megapixel camera has lots of options (including face detection) and a very powerful flash for a camera phone. It lit up simulated indoor and night shots surprisingly well. But in outdoor daylight, the default exposure metering washes out bright areas and the edges of things appear just a touch soft. Thanks to the much better low-light performance, this camera comes out ahead of the W995a, but I still prefer the Samsung Memoir's daylight photos. You can tweak your photos after the fact with Sony Ericsson's PhotoDJ software, which lets you alter levels, fix contrast, or add captions.

The C905a's autofocus comes at the cost of a painful 1.4 second shutter delay, which can be eliminated by pre-focusing—it's all the desperately slow autofocus mechanism. Sony's BestPic technology is supposed to give you the option to take photos both before and after you click the shutter, but autofocus killed that option: with BestPic and autofocus, I just ended up taking photos 1.7 to 2.8 seconds after I pressed the shutter.

The movie mode takes compressed-looking and somewhat washed out 320x240 videos at 30 frames per second, but with a bonus: the VideoDJ editing software on the phone lets you trim and paste together videos without using your PC. However, the iPhone 3GS has a much better video mode, though its still image capabilities fall far behind the C905a's.

The BlackBerry Bold is a messaging and e-mail powerhouse and also offers more screen resolution than the C905a, but it looks dowdy compared to the Sony Ericsson's sharp lines. In short, if you're tired of cell phones that take poor quality photos, the C905a should be at the top of your list.

LG Crystal GD900 - The Crystal Clear Transparent Mobile Phone

Technology has no bounds. Proving the saying right is the all new flashy and swanky phone from LG, the LG Crystal. This LG Crystal pertains attributes that go well with its name "CRYSTAL". The LG Crystal GD900 sports an unbelievable transparent keypad. This transparent, slide-out keypad is no gimmick. It is a true extension of a touch screen phone created by LG. LG has christened it 'Crystal'.

LG Crystal (LG-GD900) is a unique concept. It is a premium phone with a slithering glass swagger about it. The see-through tempered glass is a keypad with a cool glow to be visible in any light condition.

It is made of highly durable tempered glass and is framed and reinforced by a band of liquid-metal, a composite alloy that is ultra-strong and able to absorb shock and vibration. It is sleek, slender and has seamlessly placed volume and camera button on the sides.

But LG Crystal is not just a pretty face. Not only does it dish up the digits, the keypad also transforms itself into a laptop style mouse pad that offers easy phone browsing and navigation. With the first of its kind shortcut method, this glow-transparent-pad can create magic. Just drag your finger to write an alphabetic letter, maybe an 'M' on the keypad, and watch the music menu come alive on the screen.

Once you've reached your favourite song, you can savour it in the best audio quality. LG Crystal gives you Dolby surround sound and more options to hear your song. Crystal uses LG's signature S-Class user interface. It has a 3D cube style menu that is always a pleasure to navigate.

The menu can also be viewed in a simple format. It is laid in four categories for easy access. Contacts and music widgets can be viewed in a pretty reel format. It is no less than a smart phone. Crystal offers quick shortcut features for emails like copy and paste, you can do that with messages and notepad.
Viewing online pages is a breeze with the keypad gesture control and easy zoom in and out options. There is handwriting recognition as well. Multimedia features are aplenty.

LG Crystal has a 8 mega pixel snapper, video record with various light controlling and speed controlling options. There is Google Maps, YouTube and FM player. Fun features are quite different from other phones in the games section. There are motion sensing games and the bubble game. Blow wind on the phone to activate the bubbles.
The Salient Features Of LG Crystal Are:

* Transparent touch pad
* Gesture command on touch pad
* 3D S-Class user interface
* LCD touch screen
* 8 megapixel camera

Even a simple feature like calender and organizer, that one uses daily, is given a new design. Date, time and memo format look smart and fun to use. All in all this Crystal will creat magic in the mobile market in India when it launches in August.

A little birdie told that the LG Crystal will be priced around Rs 30,000.

T-Mobile Dash 3G Mobile Phone

The HTC manufactured T-Mobile Dash 3G has now finally made an appearance on the T-Mobile website. This T-Mobile Dash 3G Mobile Phone seems to be commanding a price tag of $169.99 with a 2 year contract although the suggest retail price is $349.99.

For putting your signature to that agreement you’ll get a Windows mobile 6.1 Standard Edition based T-Mobile Dash 3G with a full QWERTY keyboard, and a 2.4 inch QVGA display. Design-wise, the Dash 3G is relatively sober with a plain black and red color scheme. The left side of the handset has the volume rocker, which is usefully broader than on other models from the company. However unlike most HTC smartphones the charging/headset port is on the right-hand side of the handset, not the bottom. This makes no real difference when recharging, but does get in the way somewhat when using the supplied hands-free headset. T-Mobile also include a headset adapter in the box with the Dash 3G, so that you can use your own headphones; it’s a nice addition, but it does protrude significantly from the side of the smartphone making the whole thing unwieldy.Up front, there’s a 2.4-inch 65k color LCD display, running at QVGA 320 x 240 resolution. It’s a bright panel, certainly, but compared not only to other Windows Mobile devices but to rival platforms it looks small and light on pixels. Happily the trackball makes navigation relatively speedy, but we did find ourselves wishing for at least a 480 x 320 panel.

The T-Mobile Dash 3G Mobile Phone features Microsoft Exchange support, GPS, WiFi, 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, and available in red accents that makes the original Dash seem somewhat outdated.

Lets just keep our fingers crossed until the T-Mobile Dash 3G Mobile Phone is launched into the market, so that we cam make out the trth about this seeming to be dashing, T-Mobile Dash 3G Mobile Phone!

Nokia 6700 Classic Mobile Phone

The Nokia 6700 Classic replaces their popular 6300 model, living breathing proof that not everyone wants a smartphone. The 6700 takes the candybar form and our review version was chrome, which looks utterly stunning: it gets a little smeary, but looks cracking.

The 6700 measures 109.8 x 45 x 11.2mm and is only 116.5g, small enough to fit into any pocket or bag. The front is divided between the all-metal 12-key keypad at the bottom and the 2.2-inch display at the top. Between the two is the normal run of calling and navigation buttons.

The screen has a 320 x 240px resolution, so despite its size, it looks nice and crisp and it is bright enough to cope with sunny conditions too. Things are a little cramped on the screen compared to some of the larger screens, but in return you get a compactness those other devices lack.
The phone runs the Symbian S40 user interface, which whilst not exactly cutting-edge by modern standards is simple to use. For those who want a simple handset, then it is free from confusion. To aid you in your navigation the home page does offer a shortcut bar to jump you into Nokia Maps, the browser or Nokia's Ovi sharing portal.

Customisation isn't available to the same degree as on rival platforms but you will be able to tap into the Ovi Store to download relevant applications, such as a Facebook app. But being a simple interface it is fast to navigate and extremely stable.

The all-metal keypad looks good with its single-piece design and gentle backlighting. One thing to watch out for ladies, if you use your nails to press the buttons, you might find that the cut characters on the keypad act a little like a nail file and roughen the ends of your nails. Otherwise we found it fast and responsive and backed by Nokia's reliable T9 system makes for some fast texting action.

But the 6700 doesn't offer retro connectivity, it is packing in the full range of GSM, GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA, so your handset will happily lap up data on the move. It doesn't have Wi-Fi, so you won't get the advantage of fast free surfing at home through your phone.

However it does have AGPS with Nokia Maps, which we found to be good and responsive, whilst Bluetooth 2.1 will allow you to connect to your PC or stereo headset. The bundled headset connects to the Micro-USB connection on the bottom of the phone. It's of the hard plastic ear bud variety and does leave a little to be required, but incorporates the handsfree kit too. The headset acts as the aerial for the FM radio as well, so you'll probably be stuck with it.

Around the back of the handset you'll find a 5-megapixel camera, a generous offering perhaps, considering the "Classic" tag. It features an LED flash that is as good as useless for anything other than candid shots to share online, giving your subjects a telltale yellow cast. There is a dedicated shutter button on the top of the phone, which is perhaps a little sensitive.

The camera performance is pretty good overall for a basic handset and you'll have no problem capturing still shots in good light, but it doesn't compare to the performance of Nokia's camera phones packing a better quality lens.

Video can also be captured at a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 at 15fps which isn't so impressive, although a smoother 362 x 288 30fps option is available, which will do for basic sharing on YouTube. If video and imaging is important, then perhaps you'd be better off looking at some of the more dedicated handsets on offer.

The Nokia 6700 Classic is miserly, giving you 170MB of internal memory, although our review model came with a 1GB microSD card in the slot (hiding under the back cover). Nokia claim that it supports up to 8GB, although it happily accepted a 16GB microSDHC card.

The Nokia 6700 Classic is a great little handset. It looks and feels good without scrimping on features like HSDPA and GPS that you really want. Ok, so some features are missing, but for many, the 6700 will give them that they want: a compact handset which is well connected.

The quality of the metal sandwich construction is unquestionable too and we love that polished chrome finish. For some though, the screen might just a little too small, and the lack of 3.5mm jack is immensely annoying.

Toshiba TG01 - The World's Fastest Mobile Phone!

Smallest and fastest are the words that haunt the gadget industry. People love to say my gadget is smaller than yours! Likewise people also equally love to say "my gadget is faster than yours!" Keeping the people's hunger for speed, Toshiba has launched the all new mobile phone, Toshiba TG01.

Toshiba Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company's main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components. Toshiba is now trying to create a mark for itself in the Mobile Phone industry with the all new Toshiba TG01.

Toshiba launched the TG01 on the Orange network in the UK today. It's based on Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon, the fastest processor in a mobile phone to date.
Toshiba's emphasis is on media handling on the move, so the phone is mostly screen - a 4.1-inch resistive touch display - and at only 9.9mm it's almost as thin as a freshly purged supermodel.The Toshiba TG01 Mobile phone will be available on a 24-month, £39.15 per month plan from Orange as of today. Unfortunately the phone is let down by its OS - Windows 6.1. The INQ had a fumble with the handset at the launch event last night, but even the Toshiba and Orange demonstrators found it a tad cumbersome to navigate at times.

The WM6.1 is hardly the best way to show off the power of the processor behind it. Toshiba has promised an update to WM6.5 when Microsoft finally gets around to releasing it. There are some firmware additions by Orange, which could also have been the reason for our slower than expected handset experience.
But then if you wait around for a few days website Xda-developers will surely have an Android ROM for the TG01.

On the whole, Toshiba TG01 is the fastest mobile phone so far, still there's long time to go before we could talk about the usability and performance of this lighting fast device.

Huawei Android Phone - The Next Big Android?

Huawei Technologies ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions worldwide, today showcased its first Android-powered smart phone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This smart phone will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2009.

"Huawei is delighted to showcase its much anticipated first Android-powered smart phone. As a terminal solutions provider with all-round capabilities, Huawei has an acute insight into the drivers of the communications industry and in-depth understanding of operators," said Mr. James Chen, Director of Huawei Terminal Marketing Department., "A pioneer in mobile broadband devices, we look forward to expanding a compelling mobile communications experience for end-users whilst providing customized services to our operator partners via the Android smart phone."

Huawei partnered with an established design consultancy to develop a robust and user-friendly interface, creating a powerful customer experience that is able to evolve with operators' differentiation requirements. The touchphone hardware is decidedly iPhone-esque, and almost seems too button scarce to work with the traditional Android interface, but that's where the rest of the story comes in: Huawei is working with an "established design consultancy" to develop its own custom interface for the device. The as-yet unnamed phone will be coming to market in Q3 of this year, and Huawei is currently in talks with a carrier who will rebrand the device -- the lack of finality there left much of the rest of the info on this phone shrouded.

Smart phones are expected to account for more than 24 percent of the global mobile phone market by 2011, and this figure is set to exceed 30 percent by 2012.

HTC Hero - The Flash Android Phone

Andorioid phones are flooding the market of mobile phones these days. Mobile phone developers are competing with one another to bring out the best Android phone so far. There seems to have developed a wild goose chase in the development of Android phones. Turning a new leaf in the book of Android Phones is the all new HTC Hero.

The HTC Hero is HTC's third handset to be powered by the android operating system. Announced at a press event in London in June, the HTC Hero is one of the best spec'd HTC Android devices to be launched across Europe.The HTC Hero is a purely touchscreen device that features a 3.2-inch TFT-LCD display with a 320 x 480 resolution, 5 mega-pixel auto-focus camera, 3.5 mm audio jack, and a custom built HTC user interface.

Like the T-Mobile G1 and Google Ion/HTC Magic, the HTC Hero has the signature curve at the bottom, but it's a bit more svelte at 4.4 inches tall by 2.2 inches wide and 0.5 inch thick. In addition, it features a 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen with an antifingerprint screen coating.
However, the real beauty of the smartphone lies beneath the surface. The new Sense UI allows users to customize the device to their needs and give them more access to the information they want at a glance through widgets, customized profiles, and consolidated views of all communication with a contact, whether it be e-mail, text or multimedia message, Facebook status updates, or photos. In addition, HTC said that all of its future devices will use Sense UI.

HTC Hero delivers a more complete web browsing experience and allows mobile users to access a broad variety of Adobe Flash technology based content available on the web today. As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform. With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go. Search just about anything, anywhere on your HTC Hero. The dedicated Search button combs through tweets in Twitter, locates people in your contact list, finds emails in your inbox, searches through appointments in the calendar and very nearly finds needles in haystacks.

Detailed Specification Of HTC Hero:

• Qualcomm's MSM7200A proc running Android at 528MHz
• 512MB/288MB ROM/RAM
• 3.2-inch TFT-LCD display with a 320 x 480 resolution
• 900/2100MHz HSPA and Quad-band GSM
• Trackball
• Internal GPS
• Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP support
• 802.11b/g WiFi
• 3.5mm Audio Jack
• 5 megapixel auto-focus camera
• microSD expansion
• G-sensor

The HTC Hero Android phone will launch across Europe in July, followed by Asia, and the US later in 2009. The HTC Hero phone will be available in 7 different colour styles including black, white, yellow, pink, gold, red and turqouise, and will include the much anticipated custom HTC Android user interface 'Rosie'.

Blackberry Tour

The latest phone from Blackberry that has sent waves of surprise all over is the new Blackberry Tour. The Blackberry Tour has a set of dazzling features to attribute it. The Blackberry Tour feature a full QWERTY keyboard along with a sharp 480x360 screen, Bluetooth, 256MB of storage and an MicroSD/SDHC expansion slot.

This Blackberry Tour not only has the professional features like a full fledged keyboard and huge screen, instead it also has a camera. Yes! The Blackberry Storm has a the Storm-reminiscent 3.2MP IS camera with autofocus, GPS-enabled geotagging and video support.
The Blackberry Storm will be carrier glued as usual. It has been said that Sprint and Verizon will both offer the Tour this summer. The price looks to be around $200 with rebates. This surely doen't sound sky high, for a phone that hosts a load of eye catching features!

LG enV Touch Review

LG has come up with a new phone the "env Touch" which I feel is a diversion from LG's recent range of sweet named phones like cookie and Lollipop! Following the successful launch of phones like Voyager, LG has released the LG enV Touch, which is the new and improved successor to the Voyager (despite the enV name).

The enV Touch is much improved over the Voyager, but still has the similar clamshell form-factor with internal QWERTY keyboard. Both displays are now 3" diagonal, with WVGA 480x800 resolution and support up to 1.6 million colors. You can really see the difference. Naturally, the external display is touch-sensitive, but seems to require more pressure than the LG Versa, about the same amount as the LG Dare.

Talking about the features of this wonderful phone, LG env Touch comes with a side clamshell form factor ,non-touch 3-inch display, Full Qwerty keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, Bluetooth and slot micro SD.
The QWERTY keyboard in LG env Touch has undergone a few changes, and now has a single space key in the middle, instead of two on either side. The keyboard buttons also more curved around the edges and the d-pad is slightly larger. The camera is now up to 3MP and features auto focus, LED flash, and a Schneider Kreuznach lens.
All in all, the LG enV Touch is a worthy successor to the Voyager. The handset’s feature-set gets a fair amount of upgrades, so if you owned the original Voyager, you’ll be happy to see the new upgrades. The handset is available for $149.99 after a $70 rebate and 2 year agreement.

Motorola Clutch i465

Motorola has officialy announced the Motorola Clutch i465. The Motorola Clutch i465 is Motorola’s first device that combines the power of push-to-talk and the convenience of QWERTY keyboard.

The Motorola Clutch i465 features a 1.79-inch TFT display with 64k colors and 128 x 160 pixels, Bluetooth, VGA camera, 20MB internal memory, talk time up to 205 minutes, standby time up to 100 hours, 112.8 x 54 x 14.9 mm of dimension and 96 grams of weight.
Specifications Of Motorola Clutch i465:

• 1.79 inch TFT display with 64k colors and 128 x 160 pixels
• Bluetooth
  
• Threaded messaging, MMS, email
• VGA camera
• 20MB of internal memory
• Talk time: up to 205 minutes
• Stand by time: up to 100 hours
• 112.8 x 54 x 14.9 mm / 4.4 x 2.1 x 0.6 inches
• 96 grams / 3.4 oz

It is rumoured that the Motorola Clutch i465 phone will be available sometime in June although we have no prices for it so far.

The AlessiPhone

The Landline home phones have always been traditionally simple. There are hardly any innovations for these humble phones, while their mobile counterparts see innovation every now and then. But contrary to the conventional innovations that apply only to the mobile phones, The AlessiPhone is a contemporary home phone.
Designed by hip designer Stefano Giovannoni, the AlessiPhone is a cordless phone that's certainly worthy of a place in your high-end plush pad, offering sleek, minimalist looks and a shape that's both symmetrical and aerodynamic. Not that the latter is much use unless you're in the habit of throwing phones around the house.

The AllessiPhone features a stylish, sleek minimalist design, it is made from a high polished polycarbonate, and features a 65,000 colour OLED display, polyphonic ringtones, and a built in contact book where you can store up to 200 of your friends.

AlessiPhone has a constrasting black interior, a 65,000-colour OLED display, pre-loaded background displays and some uber-cool polyphonic ringtones exclusively produced by Japanese DJ Gak Soto. The AlessiPhone also boasts a high quality hands-free function, a contact book with room for 200 names and numbers, a blue backlit touch pad and a clock/alarm. Don't all these features sound a bit hefty for a simple home handset?

The AlessiPhone will go on sale in the UK in May, there is no word on pricing as yet.

HTC Touch Pro2 Mobile Phone

HTC has announced a new version of its HTC Touch Pro handset at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona bringing with it a host of new features aimed at convincing business users to move away from their BlackBerrys.


The new handset, that will sport a thinner, more curvier design, will come with a 3.6-inch WVGA touch screen that slides out and stands upright as well as a slide out five row qwerty keyboard. The connectivity features of HTC Touch Pro2 Mobile Phone is worth a note. With HSDPA (7.2Mbps), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity the handset will be powered by a Qualcomm processor (MSM7201a, 528 MHz), although not a Snapdragon one as sported by Toshiba and its TG01. Users can enjoy 512MB of ROM, 288MB of RAM and storage for files provided by microSD card.One wont have any fear of getting lost in the wild with the HTC Touch Pro2 Mobile Phone. GPS and A-GPS will help with direction finding while photos can be captured with the 3.2-megapixel auto-focus snapper on the back.


HTC Touch Pro2 Mobile Phone runs an enriched version of Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, rather than the yet to be announced 6.5 OS that promises a number of new software innovations that users won't find elsewhere.
HTC Touch Pro has an all new conferencing feature. Turning the phone face down on the desk will allow you to turn the device into a portable voice conferencing system. Sporting two asymmetric (not the same size) speakers and full-duplex support, the service will allow business folk to hold mini confabs from their phone rather than having to rely on one of those triangle phone things you find in the office.


The HTC Touch Pro2 will be available across major global markets beginning in early summer. No word on prices as yet.

New LG Viewty S-Class 3D Phone

LG Electronics announced Viewty Smart, an upgraded version of its Viewty camera phone series. This new model now comes with an Intelligent Shot Mode that makes it easy to take great pictures by automatically analyzing scenes and adjusting camera settings accordingly. LG released the new Viewty with is better with S-Class 3D user interface.

LG’s engineers addressed this issue in the Viewty Smart with Intelligent Shot Mode, which analyzes the subject, background, and lighting conditions and compares the data against seven pre-programmed scenarios to take perfect pictures every time. This feature, still rare on high-end stand alone compact digital cameras, is a first for a camera phones and only available from LG.
It come with 8M pixel camera with LED flash light and the ISO up to 1600. Another features of new LG Viewty like multi-face detection, 3-inch WVGA touchscreen display, GPS, and Wi-Fi for internet connection.

Viewty Smart also includes the easy-to-use 3D S-Class UI, which debuted on LG’s ARENA earlier this year. LG has tailored S-Class around Viewty Smart’s camera features with an on-screen dial for instantly switching shot modes and a thumbnail viewer that shows recently taken photos without having to switch to the photo gallery.

The facilities for LG Viewty really great! The storage is upto 1.5GB of internal memory and the external support microSD has storage of up to 32GB. LG Viewty also allows you to watch and record DivX movies. The price is not available yet.

Nokia 8208 Dual-slide CDMA Mobile Phone

Good News for Nokia fans. Here comes one more wonderful Nokia mobile phone. Nokia has officialy announced its new CDMA phone, the Nokia 8208. Nokia 8208 already approved by FCC, as Nokia RM-384. Nokia has made the CDMA 8208 not for US market but for China, India and other countries. The Nokia 8208 has a dual-slide design like the Nseries smartphone.
The Nokia 8208 phone is said to be a music phone that will make its way into the Chinese market. It is dressed in black with glossy piano finish. The dual slider of Nokia 8208 reveals the standard numeric keypad on sliding one way while sliding the other way shows all its multimedia controls.

The Nokia 8208 features a 2.2 inch display with 240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors, Nokia S40 UI, External music keys, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 3.5mm headset jack, FM Radio, 3 megapixel camera with flash, 150MB of internal memory, MicroSD card support, up to 16GB and much more. Not detail yet about price and availability of the Nokia 8208 Dual-slide CDMA Phone.
The Nokia 8208 offers multimedia as well as navigation. It is said to have dedicated music playback keys. We hope it packs in some more goodies. Without speculating much, let’s wait for an official announcement. There has been no word on pricing.

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic

The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is expected to be the latest addition to XpressMusic Touchscreen mobile Phone series from Nokia after the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic will be most likely a XpressMusic phone with Symbian S60 v5 OS.

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is a touchscreen phone similiar to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic also comes with Symbian S60v5 OS, just like Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

It is in the air that The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic will boast a 2.9 inch touchscreen display, 3.2 Megapixel camera, 3.5mm headset jack, FM Radio with RDS, 150MB of internal Memory and MicroSD card support.Detailed Specifications of Nokia 5530 XpressMusic :
* 2.9-inch Touchscreen Display
* 3.2 megapixel camera
* 3.5mm headphone jack
* FM/RDS Radio
* WiFi
* Approximately 150Mb of internal memory and support for microSD
* Symbian S60 v5 OS

The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic has all alluring features! Isn't it? But sadly we have had no rumors about the price for this wonderful phone. So lets wait and watch for its price. The new Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Touchscreen mobile Phone is expected to be launched by September 2009.

BlackBerry Storm 9500: The Iphone Killer?

The new BlackBerry Storm is the latest mobile phone from BlackBerry and the Storm is also BlackBerry's first touchscreen mobile phone. The Storm, with its slick candy bar style looks is also one of the best looking BlackBerry's and is most definitely not eye diarrhoea to look at.

The term "iPhone killer" is clumsily tossed around by bloggers and journos to describe almost any phone with a touchscreen, but by trying to actually innovate rather than imitate, RIM has conjured up the phone most deserving of the title yet. The BlackBerry Storm features a fantastic high-resolution screen and an incredibly innovative multi-touch UI. The Storm's touchscreen features what BlackBerry call ClickThrough, what this means is that you have to press down until you hear a click for it to work. So in reality, the BlackBerry Storm's screen is just one big button, cool!
The Clickthrough, changes the way you type in data into the phone. So you have to push the touchscreen like a button every time you do something. Typing with it takes some getting used to, even if you can fly on an iPhone or other touchscreen device, because you have to retrain yourself to actually lift your thumb back off of the screen to let it pop back up between every single letter. Since you can't "flow" continuously in a stream but are pounding out a series of clicks, it's hard to tell how fast you would be able to go once you're completely re-trained.
Other features of the BlackBerry Storm include a built-in GPS system, media player, 3.2MP camera, BlackBerry maps, a 3.5mm audio jack and a memory capacity that can go up to 16GB. One thing that is for sure is that the BlackBerry Storm is a media and entertainment friendly mobile phone.

Talking about the internet access the BlackBerry Storm has, EDGE, GPRS and HSDPA for super fast internet so you can get quick, no fuss access to site such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook as well as all important fast Email access.
Though mot really an "Iphone Killer", Blackberry Storm is unquestionably a high quality mobile phone and is great value for money.

Sony Ericsson Idou - A New Generation Camera Mobile

Sony seems to be working hard at its camera phones. The fact is clearly evident from the kind of camera phone models that sony has deep in its pipeline. Sony unveiled one of its proposed camera mobile project at the Mobile congress recently. At the recently held Mobile congress, Sony Ericsson launched a 12.1 MP camera mobile phone codenamed Idou which is a smartphone having high end camera features and is based on Symbian OS.

The SE Idou holds a bundle of high end features. Sony Ericsson Idou has a 12.1 MP camera having features like Xenon Flash, Geo Tagging, Auto Focus, Smile Detection, Face Detection and advanced camera touch features.

In addition to theawesome camera,SE Idou also has a 3.5 inch TFT Touchscreen with 360 x 640 pixels supporting 16 million colors amd 16:9 widescreen format support. Idou also offers great flexibility in the Connectivity. Connectivity mechanisms supported by Idou include 3G, Wi-Fi, DLNA, GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0. FM Radio along with GPS with A-GPS support are also present.
The Media Menu in Idou is optimized to support the 16:9 format and will enable you to play your favorite movies, music etc. The phone’s memory can be extended by using microSD cards.

The Sony Ericcson Idou is expected to be launched in the second half of 2009.

HTC Touch Cruise 09

In the recent times HTC mobile company has manufactured a phone which is HTC Touch Cruise 09. It is one of the smartest phones that one has ever used. It can be said that it is amongst those phones which can be used by everybody whether he is an office goer or a teenager. It has all the latest and advanced features. It has a touch screen of 2.8 inches. The display of this screen is excellent. Moreover it acts like a mini pocket computer which has many useful software like word, excel, outlook etc. For surfing the websites and music etc finger gestures are used. It also has fun features like radio, multimedia player etc. for teenagers and young people. It has no comparison with other mobile phones.

HTC Touch Cruise 09 is a very sleek and slim phone which has the dimensions of 110 x 58 x 15.5 mm. Apart from this the total weight of this phone is 130 grams only which makes it easier to carry. It is equipped with 3G technology which allows its users to have full advantage of various excellent features like GPRS, EDGE, and WLAN etc. It also has the Bluetooth feature which helps in the on air transfer of data.
Moreover it has an additional feature of instant messaging which helps the user to contact his friends or relatives immediately. Other than this it has other messaging services like mms, sms, e-mail etc. HTC Touch Cruise 09 has an excellent stand by time of 450 hours. The battery backup is also very good. In short it can be said that it is a wonderful mobile phone which is produced with the most advanced techniques. It provides all those features that one can ever think of and it’s very easy to handle.

Samsung M8800 Pixon

Samsung M8800 Pixon can kick start your life with new things and new energy. Like many other top notch phones from Samsung, this touch-screen phone too is filled with vigor and energy. The phone packed with TouchWiz and a massive screen makes it the perfect gateway for 8 mega pixel camera phone with real high end videos unleashed.
The Samsung M8800 Pixon humbly gives a blow to all high end phones because of its smart inclusion of features of powerful multimedia and full touch screen.

The Samsung Pixon gets a respectful welcome from all mobile gadget critics because of its serene beauty and powerhouse stock inside it. The admirations are not useless and the features are too tempting to resist. To begin with even 8 mega pixel camera is present in some Sony models too, but the exotic feeling of this camera with some amazing features like - autofocus, video WVGA@30fps, and QVGA@120fps, flash, face, smile and blink detection, camera geo-tagging, auto-panorama shot and advanced shake reduction is to be found no where.

You will have innovation as another name for this new Samsung M8800 Pixon. The key features of this quad band phone are as follows:
3G network support of HSDPA 2100
3.2 inches large TFT touch-screen display with resolution of 240 x 400 pixels
Accelerometer sensor
200 MB internal memory, card slot to extend memory up to 8GB
GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA 7.2 mbps
Bluetooth and USB port
Email, SMS, MMS
WAP browser, with RSS feedback
Built in GPS navigation receiver
MP3/eAAC+/WMA/AMR/DivX/XviD/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4 player
Surround Sound System with Virtual 5.1 CH.
TV out
Fm radio
Organizer
Office Document Viewer
Hands-free
Battery back up of nearly 4 hours

Lenovo Poison - Transparent Concept Phone

Lenovo has come up with a radical concept phone called "Poison". The distinguishing feature of the phone is that it holds a transparent LCD. With the transparent LCD feature, Lenovo has brought up a revolution in the mobile industry. Poison seems to be Lenovos answer for the transparent keypad phone introduced by LG recently.

The phone has a mystic design. Sources say that the transparent LCD combined with the black keypad is intended to take uo the shape of a poison bottle and hence the name Poison. Still there are opinions that the pink tinted transparent LCD gives the phone a perfume bottle look. Anyways the sleek phone is definitely a zenith of designer phones. All credit goes to the artistic thoughts of Designer Ryan Ma who has creatively fluxed his artistic views with Lenovos transparent LCD technology to bring out an eye-popping phone. So lets wait for the dazzling phone to come into the market so that its usability can be brought into light.