With the 7900 Nokia have taken some steps to making it a more appealing proposition. The glossy-plastics on the front are of a much-better quality than before and feel a lot more solid. The only reservation I have is when glossy materials are used it usually means that fingerprints are inevitable and on this occasion it’s no different. More noticeable however is how slippery this makes the phone, something that didn’t seem to be a problem with the earlier 7500. What Nokia give with one hand, they take away with the other.

The same unique diamond-style keypad still remains and is very nice to look at, but all of the keys seem to be a lot flatter than before making typing more difficult than I found in the 7500.

In terms of new features, the main attractions will be 3G for both video-calls and data transfers and a new OLED display, which will surely make the 7900 look like a better option than the 7500 ever did.

A new display feature bizarrely titled “living wallpaper” is now being utilised, which basically means the backlighting which comes through the keypad changes dependent on the time of day, battery life and signal strength. First impressions relating to the effect that this has on the battery life are good, but this may change once it’s in use for more than a few weeks.

Sadly the same 2MP camera module that we had in the 7500 is still present and shows no signs of tweaking and/or adjustment in any way. Considering the quality of the display, a 3MP offering would help to sell the 7900 Prism a lot more.

A major issue that is worth pointing out is regarding the memory available. As there is no slot for a memory card, a set amount of 1GB has been included, but regardless this really is a major oversight considering that the inferior 7500 does have a card slot and supports card capacity up to 2GB.

Even though the 7900 is an excellent looking handset with an impressive display and bold design, the lacklustre capabilities make it doubly disappointing. The lack of a memory card slot, mediocre camera and slipperiness of the materials used in construction mean its frankly a poor offering and is probably more of a let-down than the 7500, which trust me, is saying a lot.

Nokia 7900 Prism is currently availble to purchase on O2.

 Samsung-E890 At a touch, the display turns into a virtual keypad. This handwriting recognition touch screen lets you communicate at the speed of thought. And lets you have fun at the speed of your reflexes. Scribble or doodle with Pen Memo whenever inspiration strikes, on the large 2.3″ 262K colour QVGA TFT-LCD. Send an SMS in Mandarin with a quick scribble, thanks to Chinese character recognition. Expressing how you feel with the E890 is instinctive and as easy as a-b-c.

 With the large screen, it should come as no surprise that the E890 is loaded with multimedia functions like 1.3 Megapixel camera with high-quality video recording and a music player that supports most formats. And just imagine listening to your favourite tunes while using the Pen Memo or playing touch screen games.An innovative and convenient Touch UI combines the keypad and TFT display into one, turning the SGH-E890 into a super compact mobile communicator.

  And enjoy a full range of multimedia features. This amazingly versatile phone boasts a camera, camcorder and music player, and allows you to transfer media files and personal data to other devices via wireless Bluetooth technology.

 The Samsung E890 also includes Multimedia Messaging Service, e-mail, Java-based embedded games, and a handy alarm function. Samsung SGH-E890 is a tri band GSM slider. It features 262k color touch screen, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, TV-Out and microSD slot for memory. Please Purchase Online http://www.phoneandbeyond.com

General Features:

The Nokia 6260 Slide is a stylish yet sturdy 3G phone available in striking colours as black and silver.
With the fitted batteries, the weight of handset is one hundred and fourteen grams, a bit bulky to carry. Although with a measurement of 15.4mm by 99.4mm by 46.5mm, the handset becomes quite operational.
The Nokia 6260 Slide has an in-built quad band network and HSDPA 2100 network enabling user with better roaming facilities.

This smart phone is incorporated with WLAN Wi-Fi technology allowing one to use the Web with high speed. This gives them the freedom to multi task too using their handsets.
A USB port attached with Nokia 6260 Slide enables one to connect their phone to laptops, PCs etc. and its Bluetooth® technology aids in wire free connections.
Its five megapixel digital camera captures both still as well as moving video recordings with exact preciseness and colours.

Its rechargeable battery, when fully charged provides a talk time of almost four hours or three hours of WCDMA talk time. It one of the best features is that almost twenty hours of music can be enjoyed from a fully charged battery.
The in-built music player can be enjoyed anywhere by the user. Although a basic entertainment feature, yet technologically it can support all possible playback formats.

The Nokia 6260 Slide can easily be looked forward to as an attractive, stylish 3G phone possessing all the useful features a today’s handset should hold to make life of its users easier and off course faster!!!

Phone Hardware

1. Samsung has clearly taken the pole position in the phone-camera category. In a short span of months, Samsung has pushed out her second 8 megapixals (MP) camera – Samsung M8800 PIXON after i8510 INNOV8. Clearly, no other phones except LG perhaps can come close to Samsung in this area. PIXON is the slimmest phone with a 8 megapixals resolution, a record previously held by LG RENOIR KC910 (a successor to LG KC990 VIEWTY). 

2. PIXON is a 3.2 inch touchscreen phone but it’s not the first touchscreen phone launched by Samsung. However unlike OMNIA, M8800 PIXON is not a windows mobile phone. It is also not using Symbian OS which is the OS for INNOV8. Instead, it uses Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz interface (I’ll touch more about the phone OS and applications in the later section)

3. Let’s talk about the camera feature first since this is the key USP for PIXON. The new PIXON is equipped with the core functions that you will find on any Samsung’s low end point and shoot range camera. PIXON’s camera features include auto-focus, 16x digital zoom (which, to me, is pretty useless if you want a high quality shoot. Optical zoom will be much more important), fast-shutter and face detection. And of course, being a phone, it provides the geo-tagging function and easy uploading via the mobile internet. 

4. It’s natural that that we compare PIXON to LG RENOIR since both have 8MP camera. While I have not tested LG RENOIR, I learnt from third party sources that RENOIR uses Schneider-Kreuznach lens and Xenon flash. PIXON on the other hand uses plastic lens and dual LED flash. In addition, RENOIR has active autofocus whereas PIXON uses passive autofocus. But the report also commented that camera speed-wise, PIXON has an edge over RENOIR and PIXON has a more friendly user-interface. (http://technorati.com/posts/OpbBYGK7SrgKE3pAz_SSxWJrJcNHyvOX4y9G993i3j0%3D). 

5. Putting aside the camera feature, I tend to compare this to Nokia XpressMusic 5800 as well. Both are very lightweight (PIXON 121g and Nokia 109g). Both have long battery life with Nokia winning by a slight margin (Samsung has talktime of upto 3 hours and 40 minutes and standby of 290 hours; Nokia has talktime of up to 4 hours and standby of upto 300hours). However, unlike Nokia, Samsung has only 256k colors. Nokia 5800 by contrast, supports 16m colors. 

6. Some other similar features are the accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and full virtual Qwerty keyboard and built-in GPS. PIXON uses Google Maps whereas Nokia has its own Nokia MAPS (which requires a subscription). However, Google maps is free and to me Google maps serves my purpose as I don’t need a turn by turn voice navigation.

7. Samsung PIXON also uses a resistive screen and as mentioned in my earlier post on Nokia XpressMusic 5800, I am not very used to the “touch” on resistive screen. It requires you to exert pressure on the screen to scroll down. It requires more deliberate efforts to scroll than the multi-touch capacitive screen on iPhone. 

8. PIXON uses proprietary headset jack. But all is not lost. You are able to connect a 3.5mm normal earphone to the connector provided by Samsung. The only thing is you can’t afford to lose this connector. In addition, the phone also has the ability to do TV out. You have to purchase the accessories separately. 

9. PIXON has an internal storage of 200M (much larger than Nokia 5800’s) and similar to most phones today it has an expandable memory slot using microSD card.  

10. In terms of its speakers’ quality, Samsung included its own SRS (surround sound system). By comparison, I feel that Nokia 5800 is a cut above Samsung when I play the same song using the speakers. The music player also boosts some presets (in total 8 of them). However, unlike Nokia’s XpressMusic, you can’t change the presets to customise your own. (More about this in the later section)

11. While PIXON has a 3.2 inch screen, its browser is not friendly. You can’t open several tabs at one go. And because it has resistive screen, it is not using to navigate with fingers as you need to press against the screen as you move around on a web page. But what I like about the phone is that you can zoom in and out by using the volume up/down button or to use the virtual buttons on the screen. Both are easy to control. I don’t’ encourage you to buy the phone if you intend to browse a lot. Besides the less-friendly browser and browsing capability, PIXON does NOT support WiFi. WiFi is important for me because I tend to put my phone on WiFi when I’m at home or in the office so that I don’t have to pay for cellular data charges. PIXON is not the right phone for web-browsing. iPhone or G1 are clearly far better choices. 

12. Last but not least, PIXON has several physical buttons to provide one-click access. It has 3 buttons at the bottom of the screen. The left and right buttons are self-explanatory (making and ending calls / power switch). The middle button is NOT a home or menu button. Rather it is a “Back” button. I had thought it would be easier to have a Menu button but Samsung has designed the Menu button as a virtual button (read on to find out). On one side of the phones are the camera button and the volume buttons (which can act as zoom in/out and and scroll up /down depending on the application that you are running). On the other side of the phone are the hold button and a menu button that provides a virtual menu for quick access to “call”, “music player”, “messages”, “browser”, “main menu” and back. 

Phone OS and Applications

1. As mentioned earlier, the phone uses TouchWiz OS. It has several widgets on the home screen that you can pull out from the side of the screen to the main screen. Some neat widgets include Google Search, Weather Channel, Favourite Contacts, Photo Album, Music Player and others that are already pre-installed on the phone and many more that can be downloaded from Samsung FunClub website. 

2. Pixon’s organizer application comes with some handy tools such as Calendar, Memo, Task, World Clock, Calculator and Converter. 

3. For the music player, the interface is very friendly and easy to use. You can set any piece as voice or video call ringtone or caller ringtone. You have the option to decide whether to allow background music playing. It has an additional feature similar to the Shazam. PIXON has this application called the “Music Recognition”. It will try to identify the song that you are playing. I have not tried out too many songs (in fact, only a few), hence it’s not fair for me to comment on the accuracy. So far it recognizes most of the songs I bought from iTunes. Between the two phones, I’ll recommend Nokia XpressMusic 5800 over Samsung PIXON for music not just because Nokia 5800 has better music player features and speakers but also because Nokia is targeting squarely at the iTunes market with the music store via its Come with Music service.

4. Nowadays most phones have both music and video players. Given the 3.2 inch screen size, it’s comfortable to play a video or movie on it. What’s neat about the video player is that you can choose to upload to web or to send via email/MMS or Bluetooth (same for music) and even add tags to it (only for videos). You can view the video in either portrait or landscape mode. 

5. In addition, PIXON has this Video Editor application that allows you to insert one video track and two audio tracks. You can choose 176×144 or 320×240 for the resolution settings. You can choose from 5 different effects (Emboss, Black&White, Sepia, Solarise, Sharpen) to apply on the video. Interesting tool for you to make your own little impromptu video.   

6. Just to also mention that the phone has a voice recorder application but it can only record up to a maximum of 60 minutes. I thought if Samsung really wanted this to be a “fun phone” for photo-taking and video editing, it should perhaps include some effects to make some tweaks to the voice. What you can do for video editing is only to trim the length.

7. Don’t bang on this phone too much for games. PIXON has some pre-installed games (mostly for trial only). It doesn’t have the depth and breadth of an iPhone appstore.   

9. The phone can be used easily for mass storage. It has a Documents Viewer application that allows you to open Microsoft Office (only 2003 and not 2007) documents. This is a pleasant surprise to me. I have tested it out on a few powerpoint files (since I tend to deal a lot with powerpoint files). You can view in portrait or landscape mode. And more surprisingly it has a Search Function. This means I can go to certain particular slide easily if I can remember the keywords in that slide. The viewer has a zoom function too.  

10. Okay, I just want to say that this phone is not cut out to support heavy duty email. Of course, PIXON is never provided for that. It can support POP3 or IMAP. I have tried setting up using IMAP. I realised that it seems slow in processing my emails. There is also a limit on the size of the file that you can download. Only up to 5Mb. Most powerpoint file that I receive tends to be bigger than 5Mb. So this is practically of no use to me. If you just want simple text reading, this phone serves the purpose. If you read my earlier post on Nokia 5800, I mentioned that Nokia 5800 supports Mail For Exchange which allows synchronisation of Inbox, Calendar and Tasks. For PIXON, only basic email function is supported. 

11. What I find strange is that Samsung includes ShoZu for MobileBlog (which also allows you to upload your photo to ShoZu). I thought it would be more useful to include a Flickr or Facebook application since this is primary a camera phone. But then again, Samsung may want to encourage people to do micro-blogging and hence ShoZu application will fit the bill. 

12. PIXON has a Photo Album application that uses its built-in accelerometer sensor. Not only does it auto-rotate the screen when you change the orientation of the phone, it also allows you to advance back and forth easily by tilting the phone. Cool way to view hundreds of photos quickly. 

13. There is another neat thing I like about this phone. At times, we may send a sms to the wrong party. This phone has this “precautionary” feature built in by requiring you to click the “Done” virtual button so that you can preview your entire message again before sending out. In addition, when you type your message, the textbox is enlarged so that you can view your draft message easily. You can choose to use the normal phone keypad or handwritten (using the stylus) mode or the virtual Qwerty keyboard.  However, I somehow feel that it is a little slower than most phones in sending out the messages. Not sure if it’s because it has the dialog box that shows “Sending” and hence the perception that it’s taking a bit longer. 

14. Lastly, I just want to say that this phone supports RSS. This means you can import your favourite feeds into the phone easily. That’s something I must have for all phones. Feeds are my daily needs. 

So in summary, I would say that if you are looking for a phone that can double up as a proper camera and have decent music and video players. This is the phone to go for. It has long battery life. This is important for taking photos and playing videos. Plus with the light weight, I really won’t mind carrying one more gadget with me.  

One of the biggest mobile manufacturer, Samsung, has come up with various handsets. The Samsung F700 features unrivaled design and brings a superior range of multimedia experience to consumers. The Ultra Smart is a part of Samsung’s Ultra portfolio, which boasts of a full touch screen as well as a QWERTY key pad. This reflects the recent trend in telecommunications industry of touch screen. Volume, play lists, brightness of screens as well as other menu controls can be accessed utilizing the touch screen.

As speed is becoming crucial for data communications, Samsung has included the latest trends to the Ultra Smart F700. It reflects the latest speed of 7.2 Mbps under the High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network. A full HTML browser along with the QWERTY key pad enables easy access to the Internet for e-mail and data services. Once the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA network is completely deployed, the Samsung F700 users can download an MP3 song (about 4MB each) in 4.4 seconds. Business and creative professionals are able to view content on a stunning 2.78″ color display. The device features unbeatable entertainment with a top-of-the-line 5 mega-pixel camera with auto focus and Bluetooth. With 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, it is easy to watch videos, listen to songs, share high-quality photos, or catch up on email on the move.

At the same time Samsung is also boasting about its “G800” model, which offers a 5-megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom. It also features panorama shots, multi shots and macro shots. The features also include 2.4-inch QVGA LCD, a little less wider as compared to the F700 wide display. With 256K colors, 240 x 320 pixels, the Samsung G800 promise more clarity than its own F700. There is a new viewfinder interface Graphical User Interface (GUI), which is claimed to be intuitive and simple to use. This is uniquely found in this model of Samsung. It also comes with an On Screen Display (OSD) that shows various camera indicators in a horizontal preview mode. This feature allows you to view 3D effectively. Also it has 160MB internal memory with microSD, GPRS, 3G, Bluetooth, and USB; not to forget the FM radio helping you in staying tuned. When it comes to music it has an edge over the F700 as it supports MP3/AAC/AAC+/e-AAC+/WMA playback files.

Samsung’s G800 will satisfy the needs in the camera category with a true digital camera-like design and functionality. This will enable users to capture and share the precious moments of their daily lives through the enhanced camera functions in a fast 3G network. It also allows you to do video editing, so that one can cut and paste their favorite videos at ease.

Today, mobile TV has become a reality and is moving towards mass market. In order for Samsung G800 to reach its full potential, cost-effective means of increasing capacity and introducing innovative new services are necessary. The handset combines the services of a mobile phone with television content and represents a logical step both for consumers and operators and content providers. In this way it is ready to become Samsung’s all-round multimedia player.

Well, all these features are just the beginning of an era of information technology; still we got to go a long way with more efficient and effective features in the pipeline.

The Nokia-E51-Silver also offers integration with a wide range of business e-mail solutions, including Nokia Intellisync Wireless E-mail and Mail for Exchange to communicate with Microsoft Exchange Server. A dedicated e-mail key on the front cover, indicator light for new e-mail and a preview window to the latest e-mail on the home screen aims to improve the simplicity of e-mail management.

Sporting Wi-Fi connectivity, the E51 connects to increasingly popular Wi-Fi hotspots, and a free VoIP application enables users to make and receive less expensive calls from their mobile phone. In addition, the E51 supports Quad-band GSM/EDGE and 3.6 Mbps HSDPA networks. The Nokia E51 Silver also provides a FM radio, music and multimedia players, 2-megapixel camera and a Nokia browser serving as the gateway to a variety of Internet services.

One of the most crucial business features is the email, contacts, calendar and the home screen, which are present in this phone. Also there are additional features such as WiFi connectivity, HSDPA support, quad-band GSM, one-touch keys, an integrated FM radio, audio and video players, and a 2 megapixel camera all crammed into a candy bar handset that measures a modest 12mm thin.

The slim and elegant Nokia E51 Silver adds greater simplicity, faster access and tighter integration to key applications, while maintaining the smartphone capabilities and stylish design that customers have come to expect in a Nokia Eseries device. Nokia E51 Silver is packed with features to help take the hassle out of business and personal communication. It comes with a thin film transistor screen which is known as a 2 inches TFT screen which can display up to 16M colours. The screen is a good size & allows the user to view colourful wallpapers, photos, video recordings, messages & games on their screen. Please Purchase online http://www.phoneandbeyond.com

The Samsung G800 mobile phone is not only the highest spec camera mobile phone, but it is also a style enhancer and real scene stealer. The sleek design and the name of Samsung are a deadly combination. The slider beats its rivals hands down and although it may not be the slimmest phone in the gizmo market, it is definitely more enhanced and compact than its contenders. The Samsung G 800 mobile phone does very well size-wise for a two-handed camera. Once you flip the phone over, the rear is a real digital camera! It is complete with a sliding lens cover.

The main reason behind the waves that the Samsung G800 is making as a compact device is that the in-built optical zoom, which is aided by the specially designed inner zoom. This feature does not allow the lens to extend beyond the sleek body of the Samsung G800. The G800 has camera Graphical User Interface that functions like a digital camera on the phone. The On Screen Display or OSD displays the various indicators for the camera in the horizontal preview mode. The G800 has a large 2.4 inch LCD display. This feature enables the user to view the images clearly. The special built-in picture editor and the direct printing option culminate in the high quality pictures developed by the Samsung G800 mobile phone. The video recording possible and the built-in video editor has created an exclusive market niche for this rather special mobile device and anyone in the market for a new phone, simply has to consider it.

LG KT 610 is enabled with 2G Network of GSM 900/1800/1900 and 3G Network of HSDPA 2100 for best operational network and navigational functionality. This black colored handset is the owner’s pride indeed. This handset is enabled with elongated QWERTY keyboard for a broader and easier operational field. Big features come loaded in big mobile handset, that’s what LG conveys from its handset designing. Its size is 108.9×53.9×17.2mm in dimensions and is 125.5g by weight.

The phone’s functions are screened at enormous 2.4” screen which gives absolute class preview of all the functions progressing in the handset. It’s difficult to locate any of its weaknesses as the handset is equipped with anything and everything that the latest technology provides its customer with.

Tune your ringtone through downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones. The handset is loaded with internal 64MB memory space that can be enhanced up to 8 GB also. Phonebook is as large as the handset. It is practically unlimited entry phonebook which also provides maximum 30 days detailed call data to enable user track the call record on per month basis.

Primary camera is 2MP in 1600×1200pixels along with video facility. LG KT610 is also loaded with secondary camera with VGA video call camera facility also. LGs black beauty can send messages in any form say SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, and Instant Messaging through its WAP 2.0/x HTML Browser network. One thing which is not present in this handset is FM Radio.

LG KP610 takes voice command as well for dialing facility. Word Excel, Power Point, PDF files are already loaded to make the phone functional as mini PC and work even while relaxing. Photo or Video editor helps in designing your own video and decorate your favorite photos according to your liking. Battery in this handset is of Li-Po 960mAH providing lots of talk time and stand time as well. Great featured mobiles handset LG KP610 is available at themobilestore at great discounts.

This trend has now been bucked, by the launch of the D880 DuoS from Samsung, which has been designed for the European market and is also the first Dual-SIM phone to be released by a major manufacturer.

As Samsung’s main expertise, when it comes to phone-design, is clearly in the slider format, they obviously felt that there was no need to rock the boat here. From a reasonable distance (and possibly even close-up) the D880 DuoS resembles an older Samsung slider such as the D500 or D600 and considering that the thickness is 18.9mm it feels very similar too. The only real giveaway is the DuoS logo emblazoned above the screen.

The control-set doesn’t really warrant much attention except to say you have a standard Samsung design with a confirm key in the centre, two soft keys and a 4-way D-pad all situated around the usual 2 call buttons.

The main attraction of the DuoS is obviously the Dual-SIM feature. Unlike traditional Dual-SIM solutions, which only ran one SIM at a time, in the DuoS both SIM’s are active whilst in standby mode, meaning you can receive calls or messages from either SIM at any point without having to switch off and restart the handset. As long as it works as well in practice as is it does in theory, the DuoS is sure to appeal to business users & travellers looking for this kind of flexibility.

Even with the advancement of the Dual-SIM capabilities, the rest of the features packed into the D880 make for compelling reading. In the package you get a 3.15MP camera which rather impressively has both autofocus and flash, ensuring that images will be on a par with the majority of medium-quality camera modules of a similar spec.

As well as this, you get Bluetooth 2.0, a micro SD slot and USB 2.0 compatibility. Couple these with the decent camera and you end up with a handset that is of a similar spec to Samsung’s award-winning D900 (aside from the Dual-SIM capability and slight ‘tubbyness’.)

Though it won’t win any awards for innovative design or looks, the D880 DuoS is sure to be an excellent choice for many when you consider that it’s the first handset by a major manufacturer capable of using 2 SIM cards at the same time. This feature alone will ensure that it wins plenty of admirers and if all goes well it could open the way to an all new sub-sector of the mobile phone market.

The Samsung D880 DuoS is coming soon on SIM FREE. There are no plans currently for release on any designated networks.

Samsung has collaborated with a Danish company to improve their sound quality called Bang & Olufsen and their first effort is Samsung F400. Its expected that this 3G smart phone will create some space for Samsung the market. The fans of Samsung mobiles are looking forward to the availability of this phone so that they can unfold the secrets in this phone.

The phone from its preview looks like a quality equipped phone and before this model too Samsung had other dual slider phone called Samsung i450. The new F400 has dual speaker system and the multimedia of the phone has been improved a lot to give gizmo freaks their share too. The Samsung F400 when slides down it shows the speaker system and when shoves upwards it reveals the keypad. The keypads of Samsung are always known for their dexterity and style. You will also like the keypad of Samung F400.

You have this triband phone working on GSM 900/1800/1900 networks and 3G HSDPA support for high speed web access, downloading and uploading. 2.2 TFT screen, phone book entries upto 1000, photo call, 24 MB internal memory, microSD card slot for memory extension, EDGE, GPRS, Bluetooth, USB, instant messaging, email, SMS, MMS, 3 MP camera with video shoot, media player to play files like MP3/AAC/eACC/WMA player and lot more.

Now let us a give a look at the features of LG KF700. KF700 is a touch screen phone and also has manual keyboard for navigation. The 3 inch TFT screen supports 240X480 pixels and 256K colours for quality images. The sleek phone has other appealing features in it. The common features like SMS, MMS, EMS and Email, phonebook with 1000 entries, polyphonic and MP3 ringtones make it equivalent to F400. But besides these you will discover a lot more in it. The 3G phone has a 3.15 megapixel camera with wonderful features like auto focus, flash, 120 frames per second video recording and others. The resolution of the camera is 2048 x 1536 pixels and there is a secondary VGA camera for video call.

Thus the choice is yours, you can choose Samsung F400 because of its user friendly and useful features.