LG Shine

Like the Chocolate, the LG Shine is a slide-design phone, and is very much intended as a fashion statement. Whereas the Chocolate was dark and mysterious, with its hidden touch sensitive keypad, the Shine positively sparkles with light and has a more conventional keypad.

The reason for the name "Shine", is that the phone is highly reflective, having a shiny stainless steel body and a large LCD display that turns into a mirror when not in use. It's definitely a cool-looking phone and one that will attract attention.
The device itself feels sufficiently weighty for such a small phone - with its brushed stainless steel covering, it's little wonder. This helps to make it feel suitably expensive, but considering the small size and minimal thickness it's still a lightweight.The steel covering means it's strong, too - no chance of breaking this phone in two. The construction is perfect and the slide action is well weighted, revealing a gorgeous laser-etched keypad that lights up in blue.

The front mirrored fascia is finished in tough plastic rather than metal (transparent metal is difficult to come by), and despite the delicate appearance of the front screen it's proven rather scratch resistant.The good looks of the handset don't stop at the exterior - the interface is particularly easy to use as well. Navigation is via the nifty scroll bar on the front of the phone, making navigation of the menus relatively easy. It can be a little imprecise at times - sometimes pressing down on the scroll bar to select something can result in moving the cursor to something else - but apart from this it's intuitive and nice to use.

LG has also added a good scroll wheel to the device on the main body, just under the screen. This becomes your main navigational tool, and is an excellent way of finding what you want on the device. It makes a big difference to have this when, say, searching through your contact list.
Other buttons lie along the right-hand side of the phone, where there is a noticeable lack of a ‘cancel-and-exit’ button which came in handy with the LG Chocolate. Now they’ve decided to hide it away on a slide-down keypad, which can be a little fustrating. Nevertheless, the camera and MP3 player now have their separate buttons on the side, which makes it much easier to quickly take a snap.

The LG Shine is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and picture quality generally is decent. There is a lot of graining as expected but at 1600×1200 it will suffice for taking recognisable pictures. The light for the LG Shine it seems has to be activated manually via the menu causing it to stay on constantly and there is no option to have it flash when taking a picture.

In all the LG Shine does many things superbly and gives off the right impression. With a few operating system tweaks, some better themes and better software it could be a serious killer mobile. Instead it ranks highly and would be a mobile to look out for if you are in the market for a simple and elegant mobile.

Samsung SGH-T809

Samsung released its new T809 model. Straying from the typical flip phone shell, the T809 is packaged in a sleek slider design.

Creating a striking first impression, the T809 features a large full-color screen, resembling the look and feel of high-end plasma televisions. Slim enough to fit into consumers' pockets, the T809 offers an integrated 1.3-megapixel camera, MP3 player with external stereo speakers, and Bluetooth wireless technology to ensure it doesn't stay hidden for long.

Being that ultra-thin phones are best sellers these days, it's no surprise that the sleek T809 measures under 0.6-inches thin. Built of plastic, rather than metal-alloy as the RAZR and A900, the T809 is a lightweight at just over 3.0 ounces, but lacks the rigidity and sturdy feel the former devices had.

Being wider than other phones, the majority of the front panel prominently displays a large state-of-the-art 262K-color screen. Above, users can capture odd angled photos and video clips with the versatile 1.3-megapixel camera lens. Below, a 5-way navigational keypad is surrounded by Dial, Exit, Cancel, and Left and Right Keys. External speakers on the bottom corners provide an open-air listening experience for music and sounds.On the left side, Volume Keys adjust earpiece and tone levels during calls and standby, while a Headset Jack allows listeners to enjoy music privately. The right edge contains a TransFlash memory card slot for additional space useful for storing MP3 files and photos.

Slid open, the numeric keypad is revealed offering comfortable and convenient menu navigation and text messaging through T9 predictive text.Out of the box, the Samsung SGH-T809 comes with a Standard 800 mAh Li-Ion Battery, Travel Charger, Stereo Handsfree Headset, USB Data Cable, 32 MB TransFlash Card, PC Studio CD, and User Manual.

Sony Ericsson W910 Walkman Phone-Shake it Baby

Sony Ericsson's new W910 is the company's new high-end Walkman feature phone. This attractive little 86g (3oz) slider has a 2.4", 262k color QVGA display and works with Sony Ericsson's new Media Manager application, which replaces the older Disc2Phone application used by earlier devices. The most interesting aspect of its music capabilities is perhaps the new shake control that lets users access the next or previous track with a quick flick of the wrist, so to speak. The playlist can even be shuffled with a back and forth shaking motion, which seems quite appropriate.

The Media Manager PC software that is included with the W910 is notable for a number of upgraded features, but none of them are more interesting than the new SenseMe system. SenseMe attempts to encode mood data into music tracks as they are ripped from CDs. This lets the W910 user create playlists based on tempo or music style, which should impress runners and commuters alike. The W910 stores its music files on a Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory card, and a 1GB card ships with the phone.

The W910 supports GSM/EDGE networks on all four major network bands and includes support for the 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA band used in Europe and some other parts of the world. A variant for the Chinese market called the W908c will lack the UMTS/HSDPA support of the European version. The W910 will be available in red or black in Q4 of this year.

Features & Specifications –
• HSDPA / GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (Network)
• 2.4 Inch TFT Display 256K colors/240 x 320 pixels
• Composer & Download Customization (Ringtones)
• MP3, AAC & 72 Channels Polyphonic (Ringtones)
• Vibration
• GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• USB v2.0
• EDGE & 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps (W910i only)
• 40 MB internal memory plus Memory Stick Micro (M2)
• WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML(NetFront) & RSS reader
• 2 MP Camera - 1600×1200 pixels video(QVGA@15fps)
• Secondary video call camera
• MMS, SMS, Email & Instant Messaging
• Walkman 3.0 player
• Java MIDP 2.0
• Built-in hands free, Organizer, T9, Picture editor, Image viewer & Voice memo

MOTO MING- mix work with play

A supremely smart, stylish and compact Linux-based device, MOTOMING is designed to help keep work, personal and entertainment worlds balanced and looking good. With the MOTOMING's large transparent window and rich functions you will be able to see beyond the surface of the life around you, adding significance and taste to everyday communications. - Motorola

The transparent flip cover is very striking. Click the volume down key and the display lights up with all your current pertinent information. It is really a nice touch. The buttons all have a very positive feel to them. They don't rattle or squeak and are quickly recognizable by feel. The flip feels solid... and when talking on the phone it feels secure. And I really, really, really like touch screens. Have I mentioned that I like touchs creens? This on is very responsive... I could quickly dial numbers without error, although the virtual keyboard's density required use of the stylus, which I didn't mind. I got used to it. I found the voice quality to be excellent especially relative to their current offerings.

There are quite a few cool seeming apps included on the device.... like a business card reader that is supposed to use the camera to take a picture then use recognition software to capture the details into text and save it to your contacts. Trouble is that after repeated attempts to make it work I gave up. Then there's the photo editing app... which sounds cool except all you can basically do is draw random squiggles over a picture you've just taken which isn't very useful. Maybe if you wanted to write a goofy note over your dorky friend's picture and send it to all of the rest of your friends, okay... but otherwise this isn't replacing Photoshop anytime soon. And all the usual "smartphone" features are there... calendar, audio player, camera, email, but nothing earth-shattering or innovative.

The interface, although greatly improved over current Motorola offerings, is still lagging behind the industry. I found there to be too few settings and options (like control for what is displayed on the main screen with the flip cover closed) or at least so buried that they are practically unusable. Email, web and general connectivity was quite slow... surprising given how responsive the rest of the device felt. And I was bummed to wake up one morning and the stylus tip had sheared off. Good thing they included a second on in the box.

This is a solid phone with a solid interface. It still has all the quirks of a Motorola product but they are less noticeable than previous offerings.

Apple iPhone- The iPod Mobile

iPhone combines three amazing products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
This mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.
It can also be used widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
iPhone’s full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.

Technical Specifications
Screen size : 3.5 inches
Screen resolution : 320 by 480 pixels (160 ppi)
Input method: Multi-touch
Operating system: OS X
Storage : 4GB or 8GB
GSM :Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Wireless data: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) / EDGE / Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Camera: 2.0 megapixels

Battery:
Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing
Up to 16 hours Audio playback

Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight: 4.8 ounces / 135 grams

BlackBerry 8800-The Computer in your Hands!!!!!

The newest addition to the world of BlackBerry, Cingular brings us the BlackBerry 8800. You will have a phone, a palm, and virtually a whole computer at your fingertips with the new BlackBerry 8800. Like many BlackBerry phones before it, this cell phone will help you stay organized and informed but will also give you some new incredible features that make it one of the most advanced phones on the market.

The BlackBerry 8800 is ultra thin and stylish with a full QWERTY keyboard. New to the BlackBerry is a built-in Global Positioning System with BlackBerry Maps so you will never get lost when you're on the go for business or meeting friends at a new restaurant. Another awesome new feature that makes the BlackBerry 8800 a must have is the easy-to-use trackball navigation for finding all the information you need in a smooth, quick fashion. You'll also be able to navigate through your organizer, web browser, email, and instant messaging quickly and easily.

It has all of the features you need in a phone including speakerphone and text messaging but you will also get Bluetooth capability, voice activated dialing and one button Push to Talk. And you'll never miss anything when you're away because all your work and personal email can be pushed directly to your BlackBerry. For some extra added bonuses your BlackBerry 8800 supports expandable MicroSD memory, allows you to get some incredible ring tones, and you can enjoy music, video, and photos on its multi-media player.

The 8800 includes a 1400mAhr Lithium-Ion battery and it provides up to 528 hours of standby time and five hours of talk time. With medium usage, we managed to squeeze about three days out of the 8800, which is a fairly good result. The 8800 is charged via a standard mini-USB cable, or the included AC adapter.

Sony Ericsson W200i- The THUMP is here

The W200i is a candy bar form factor mobile phone that measures in at 101mm by 44mm by 18mm with a carrying weight of 85 grams. The W200i is available in two colour schemes -Sony Ericsson amusingly calls them "Rhythm Black" and "Pulse White".
From the exterior, the phone looks good with average build quality. It has a Walkman button on the top left hand corner for playing music, like any other phone in the Walkman series. Below this is the slot for memory card, a 128 MB card is shipped along with the phone and those who need more memory, there is provision to accommodate cards upto 1 GB.
The screen has a resolution of 128×160 pixels and supports 65k colors, which is lesser than the other Walkman models. The keypad is good and offers good back light in the dark. One disappointing thing in this model is the Joystick, which is little bit on the harder side.

The phone has an in-build camera, with resolution 640×480 pixels and 4x zoom feature (VGA cam), plus an ability to record small video clips (in 3gp with a resolution of up to 176×144 pixels). The camera is just average considering the fact that other Walkman series have 2MP cams. The quality is also average.

It also has an in-build media player similar to the ones available in other Walkman series. It also has a radio. Now coming to connectivity, the one major disappointment is that there is no IR and Bluetooth available in this model. This is really surprising for the fact that many of the users now prefers to use bluetooth headsets. This is most crucial let down for this model.

Th mobile has a decent battery life. Sony Ericsson rates the W200i as being capable of up to 360 hours standby and seven hours talk time.

Sony Ericsson W900 Walkman Phone

The Sony Ericsson W900 is a digital music player, mobile phone and advanced imaging device. W900 is based around tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz connectivity and WCDMA 2100 MHz for 3G, the W900 is equipped with a 2.2-inch colour display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 262K colour depth.Sony W900 sports 470MB of user onboard memory, which can be increased to 2GB by adding a Memory Stick PRO Duo card.

Like the other Walkman phones, the W900 has an optimized interface for music playback for which the handset supports a number of formats including MP3, AAC, AAC+, MIDI, WAV and XMF. USB 2.0 allows for rapid transfer of music and other data to and from the handset, which is also comes with Bluetooth, Infrared and a stereo FM radio. W900 comes along with Sony Ericsson’s Stereo Portable Handsfree HPM-80 with remote control.
W900 has a 2 Megapixel auto focus enabled camera, which comes with an LED flash and is operated with both hands in a horizontal position for better stability. The camera also shoots video at up to 30fps, double the speed of most conventional imaging phones and the playback quality threshold for television.

As an entertainment device the W900 exploits the UMTS-delivered capabilities to the full, delivering fast and smooth download and browsing of video, games, sound and graphics.It also has Apple QuickTime Player,Macromedia Flash Lite and Adobe PC program.

The Sony Ericsson W900 UMTS Walkman phone Features & Specifications:

Imaging and messaging:
- 2.0 MegaPixel camera with Autofocus
- Digital Still Camera user interface
- 8 x digital zoom
- LED photo light
- 2.2″ 262K color display
- Push e-mail

Entertainment:
- Video Call
- Walkman player (MP3/AAC/AAC+)
- Stereo Portable Handsfree with remote control (3.5mm jack)
- VideoDJ, PhotoDJ, MusicDJ
- Disc2Phone PC Software
- Horizontal full screen games
- FM Radio

Connectivity:
- BluetoothTM and Infrared
- USB cable in the box
- USB mass storage
- Memory Stick PRO Duo slot

HP SW6965

So you wanna look busy and important - then you should definitely carry the HP SW6965. The world will think you are too cool when you send emails through this phone or just plain fiddle with the stylus. It can read your email attachments, it has a megapixel camera, it looks and feels bulky. But it does the job.Its very tough to get a hang of. Infact, it's definitely not a "open box-insert SIM-start using" type of cellphone. You have to connect it to your PC and connectivity can be a bit diffcult if you're a novice. Also very difficult to get it in your jeans pocket.

N95- The Thing in your Pocket

It's the Swiss Army Knife of mobile phones: a compact handset that does everything. Music, video, mobile and wireless broadand, photography, satnav, email, blogging, office work, web surfing, messaging - heck, it'll even help you talk to people over long distances.
Nokia's N95 isn't much wider or taller than most compact phones, but its thickness makes it slightly hefty. Measuring 99 by 53 by 21 mm when closed, pocketing the N95 in tight jeans creates a slight lump -- about as much as a compact camera.

The N95 is the first device we've seen with a two-way slider design: slide it up to access the keypad, or down to get to the dedicated multimedia controls (FF, play/pause, stop and RW keys), which also puts the 2.5-inch screen into landscape mode.

The phone's frontage is dominated by a glorious 2.6in, 240 x 320, 16m-colour screen, big enough for web browsing to work and with a sufficient colour depth to bring photos and movies to life.

The N95 is a 3G phone, so above the screen sits the customary videocall camera. Alongside that is a light sensor and the earpiece. Below the screen is a typical slider-phone control cluster: five-way navigation key surrounded by not one but two Menu keys, soft-menu buttons, call make and break buttons.
The sides are home to the two stereo speakers, camera controls, volume rocker switch, MicroSD slot - under, for once, a cover that's easy to open - infrared port and AV output. On the back is the auto focus camera and Carl Zeiss lens under a manually opened cover.
The biggest disappointment of the N95 is its battery. The battery life ispretty low and will remain for only about a day or so. So time to time recharges are necessary.

Features

• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
• Bulit-in GPS mapping
• DVD-like quality footage
• View emails with attachment
• Volume: 90 cc
• Weight: 120 g
• Length: 99 mm
• Width: 53 mm
• Thickness (max): 21 mm
• Up to 16 mil colors, Large 2.6" Active TFT QVGA 240 x 320 pixels display with ambient light detector
• supports GPRS,EDGE and all other connectivities
  
• USB 2.0 via Mini USB interface
• Nokia Battery BL-5F

Nokia 6300- The Slim Beautiful

The Nokia 6300 is the latest mobile phone from Nokia that combines a sleek design with functionality.
This mobile has a classic design with a beautiful stainless steel finish. Slim, elegant, easy to use and with a good quality 2 megapixel camera, a built-in MP3 player, memory expandable to 2 Gbytes, and wireless Bluetooth connectivity.Nokia's slogan for the 6300 is "Simply beautiful - beautifully simple." The beauty comes from the sleek, classic design with stainless-steel surfaces, and the simplicity reflects the fact that this is an all-round kind of phone: not a smartphone, not 3G, but including all of the functionality that most people want. This mobile bring out Nokia at its best.
The size is perfect.it's very slim (just 11.7mm) and not too wide, and the weight is enough to make it feel solid and substantial, but not so much that it feels heavy. The keypad is a decent size and is easy to use. The display is exceptional: a high resolution 240 x 320 pixel display with an amazing 16 million colours. On the outside the 6300 ticks all the right boxes.
The camera is 2 megapixels with an 8x digital zoom and with a video recording function. Enough for casual photography.There's a music player and an FM radio.Memory for storing music is limited but can be expanded using a memory card and can give as much memory as an ipod.Both Bluetooth and USB connectivity are supported, and the phone has GPRS and EDGE for fast data downloads. Battery life is excellent.

Features

• 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
• Video camera (176 x 144 pixels)
• Display: TFT, 16.7 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2 inches)
• Music player (MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, H.263, H.264 formats)
• FM stereo radio with Visual Radio
• Integrated loudspeaker
• MP3 ringtones, 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, video ringtones
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email, Instant messaging, Nokia Xpress audio messaging
• Memory: 7.8 Mbytes plus microSD card slot (expandable up to 2 Gbytes)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB
• supports WAP, GPRS, EDGE
  
• Size: 106 x 43 x 12 mm
• Weight: 91g
• Battery standby: up to 14.5 days (350 hours)

The good : Slim design; sharp color screen; easy-to-use keypad; slick-looking user interface that keeps it simple.

The bad: No auto-focus or flash on the camera; lack of 3G connectivity.

The bottom line: While this isn't the most advanced handset out there, it has a strong casing, a decent all-round feature set and an elegant, straightforward design. This is Nokia at its best.