TOSHIBA UNVEILS SATELLITE T115 NOTEBOOK

Toshiba has unveiled a new notebook in the Satellite line � the T115. The Satellite T115 is equipped with an 11.6 inch widescreen display. It is available in Nova Red and Nova Black. Toshiba Satellite T115 specifications:Display: 11.6-inch diagonal widescreen HD TruBrite LED Backlit displayOperating system: Windows 7 Home Premium operating systemProcessor: Intel Pentium processor SU4100 or Intel

INTEL'S PINEVIEW PROCESSORS TO BE RELEASED IN Q4 OF 2009

Intel�s next-generation Atom processors, dubbed Pineview, will be released in the last quarter of this year. Netbooks running on these processors are expected to hit the stores during Q1 2010. The Pineview processors are based on the Pine Trail two-chip platform. These processors have a CPU, GPU and memory controller on the same chip. They are also integrated with Intel�s Tiger Pint I/O. Moving

HP PAVILION DV8 TO FEATURE A CORE -i7 PROCESSOR

HP is the latest to join the Core i7 party. The PC maker has announced that its new Pavilion dv8 will run on the Core i7 � 720QM 1.6GHz processor. The Pavilion dv8 is a multimedia notebook with some cool features. It has a large 18.4 inch display equipped with a full HD 1920x1080 resolution. For handling graphics there is a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT230 discrete GPU. Up to 8GB of RAM can be installed

DELL LAUNCHES ITS LATITUDE Z600 THIN AND LIGHT LAPTOP

Dell has finally unveiled its much anticipated 16-inch Latitude Z600 laptop. The ultrathin device is claimed to be the world�s thinnest and lightest laptop with wireless charging capabilities. The Dell Latitude Z600 is aimed at businesses. It comes pre-loaded with Windows Vista SP1. In looks and build quality the Latitude Z600 is comparable to Apple�s business notebooks, particularly the MacBook

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TOSHIBA UNVEILS ITS SATELLITE T135 NOTEBOOK

Toshiba has unveiled a new ultrathin laptop � The Satellite T135. It is equipped with a 13.3 inch HD TruBrite LED backlit display. The notebook runs on the Windows 7 Operating system and can be configured with either an Intel Pentium SU4100 processor or an Intel Pentium SU2700 processor. Up to 8GB of RAM can be installed. The standard storage option is a 250GB hard disk drive (upgradable to 500GB

ASUS UNVEILES EEE TOP ET2002T AND ET2203T NETTOPS

Asus plans to roll out two nettops for the UK market. Dubbed Eee Top ET2002T and ET2203T, the devices are expected to hit the UK market by the end of October. They will come pre-installed with Windows 7.The ET2002T is powered by an Intel Atom dual-core 330 1.60GHz processor with Nvidia�s Ion platform. It is equipped with a 20-inch touchscreen display. Up to 4GB of RAM can be installed. The

MOBINNOVA'S 8.9 INCH ELAN SMARTBOOK

Mobinnova�s 8.9 inch elan smartbook will be retailed for $299. The device was launched at Computex. A very attractive feature of this smartbook is that it is based on Nvidia�s Tegra platform which makes it capable of playing HD video. The machine weighs just 836g and measures 20.5 mm in thickness. The company claims that it will offer 5-10 hours of 720p HD video playback. The elan smartbook is

AMAZEPC UNVEILS ITS CYBERBOOK N10 NETBOOK

The Italian manufacturer AmazePC has made its foray into the ever expanding netbook market with its CyberBook N10. The best thing about this 10-inch device is indeed its affordable price point. The CyberBook N10 is essentially a Do It Yourself netbook much like the OCZ Neutrino. It does come with some base specifications, but you are free to decide how much memory or storage you want to install.

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DELL'S INSPIRON 11Z NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK

Dell�s 11.6 inch Inspiron 11z is now available in the UK. It is available in a number of configurations. The base configuration which starts at �349 includes a single-core Ultra Low Voltage 1.3GHZ Celeron 743 processor with 2GB of RAM. It runs on the Windows Vista Home Basic. The storage capacity is 160GB HDD.Buyers who seek better performance can opt for a dual-core 1.3GHz ULV SU4100 processor

MOTOROLA HT820 BLUETOOTH STEREO HEADSET

The Motorola HT820 Bluetooth Stereo Headset promises to free you from a tangled wired workplace. It lets you do everything wirelessly � almost everything.The HT820 Bluetooth headset has very ordinary looks, but some great features. The device has no wires coming out of it. The drivers have the big Motorola M emblazoned on them. The multi-media controls sit on top of either driver. The ear pieces

BLOCKBUSTER STORES IN THE US TO SELL ARCHOS 10 NETBOOKS

You can now buy Archos 10 netbooks from one of the select 1000 Blockbuster stores. The retail chain has entered into a partnership with Archos for selling notebooks through its stores. Blockbuster is a store you visit for buying or renting a movie, but ironically the netbook they are selling doesn�t have a built-in optical drive.So what is the business sense behind this move? Well, Archos

ASUS TO RELEASE MOTHERBOARDS SUPPORTING USB 3.0

Asus will be the first company to give USB 3.0 support with its P6X58 motherboard. Motherboards supporting USB 3.0 are expected to become available by the end of 2009.The new P6X58 motherboards will use 2 USB 3.0 super speed ports. They will also offer support for Intel�s Core i7 processors, six DDR3 slots, 3 PCI ExpressCard slots, and new SATA 3.0 ports which supports 6GB/sec transfer rate. The

Toshiba Satellite P505D-S8930

Instead of just a flat solid color, Toshiba used its Fusion Finish on the P505D with its sonic pattern in black onyx. It's a light pinstripe pattern on a glossy black background on the lid, with palm rests, and speaker surround above the keyboard. The speakers sound great by the way, far above the laptop's budget price tag. The keyboard is large and comfortable with a full number pad on the right end. The keys are flat like a chiclet style keyboard, but they float above the tray so you'll have to watch your cookie crumbs.

They're also somewhat slick, making it slightly unpleasant to type on. Due to the glossy nature of everything, the laptop collects a lot of fingerprints. Overall, Toshiba Satellite P505D is a nice looking package and is certainly what a majority of its cost went to. To the right of the keyboard is a set of backlit touch sensitive media controls, the power button, and an Eco mode key. This mode significantly cuts back on power usage by cutting back on display brightness and other nonessential features.

It also shows a line graph to prove the power savings. The 18.4 inch wide screen LCD display offers a 1.680x945 native resolution, which is not standard for a screen this size. In fact, we've never tested a system with this size screen carrying such a low resolution. More standard for this size are resolutions of 1.920x1.080 or 1.900x1.200. Despite the lower resolution, the screen is good for just about anything you'll do on it, with decent color performance, brightness, and dynamic range. If those are two things you're interested in, you'll want to search out a P500 series laptop that actually has them.

Features

• Toshiba Satellite P505D-S8930 : Average for category (desktop replacement)
• Video VGA : VGA and HDMI or DisplayPort
• Audio Stereo : speakers, headphone/microphone jacks Stereo speakers with subwoofer, headphone and microphone jacks
• Data : 3 USB 2.0, mini-FireWire, eSATA/USB, multi-format card reader 4 USB 2.0, SD card reader
• Expansion : ExpressCard 54
• Networking : Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, modem Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
• Optical drive : DVD burner
  

Ports for the most part are what we expect to find on a system in this price range. Only the eSATA/USB 2.0 combo port is an anomaly, but it's a good one and has Toshiba's sleep and charge feature for charging devices even when the computer's sleeping. Also, though there are spots for HDMI and DisplayPort connections on the left side, they have been plugged up.

If those are two things you're interested in, you'll want to check out another version of the P500 series that actually has them. Toshiba Satellite P505D-S8930 is a retail only fixed configuration, so what you get is what you get. However, the memory and hard drive compartments are easily accessed through the bottom of the case. This model comes with 4GB of memory, but can be expanded to 8GB total.

Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955

Last year's Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, which cost $675 and was housed in a nearly identical case, came with a 200GB hard drive, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 1.86GHz Pentium Dual-Core T2390. Therein lies the difference : this year's L305 has a 160GB hard drive, only 2GB of RAM, and an inferior Celeron 900 processor for nearly half the cost. In essence, it has the guts of a Netbook in a 15.4 inch laptop's body (the earliest Netbooks actually used Celeron chips, before Intel release the Atom processor).

While this laptop is fine for basic e-mail, media viewing, music playing, and other simple tasks, we wouldn't recommend it for any sort of multitasking or serious mission critical computing. It's already more than a bit of a dinosaur in 2009, and it won't get any less outdated, making it a questionable investment on the other hand, Windows 7 should run fine on it (although most new Vista Basic systems are ineligible for a free upgrade), and this could be the sort of bargain a low expectations consumer is looking for.

Features

• Price as reviewed / Starting price : $349
• Processor : 2.2GHz Intel Celeron 900
• Memory : 2GB, DDR2 800MHz
• Hard drive : 160GB 5,400rpm
• Chipset : Mobile Intel GM45
• Graphics : Intel GMA 4500MHD
• Operating System : Windows Vista Home Basic SP1
• Dimensions (WD) : 14.3x10.6 inches
• Height : 1.5 inches
• Screen size (diagonal): 15.4 inches
• System weight / Weight with AC adapter : 5.92 / 6.78 pounds
• Category : Mainstream
  

The next question you may have is : "Why wouldn't I just buy a Netbook?" To that, we say: it depends on whether a larger screen and keyboard matter to you. Netbooks are considerably more portable, and an Atom processor doesn't make much of a computing difference compared with the Celeron 900 in Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955. However, many budget Netbooks have compromised keyboard sizes, and screens that might be too limiting for power users. Also, the L305-S5955 runs Vista as opposed to Windows XP. Take that as you will. We also find there's a sizable psychological factor : small Netbooks come with one set of expectations attached, while users expect larger laptops no matter how low powered or inexpensive to behave more or less like standard mainstream systems.

Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955 will never be confused for a Netbook from the outside, however. At 1.5 inches thick, it's one of the beefier nongaming laptops on the market. The muted blue gray exterior is prone to fingerprint smears, but the plastic feeling lid is solid. There's a full size keyboard with tapered keys, and six physical media control buttons that aren't backlit. Volume control, like with the similar Toshiba L505D-S5965, is operated via a wheel at the front of the laptop, under the touch pad.

TOSHIBA P505 MULTIMEDIA NOTEBOOK REVIEW

The Toshiba Satellite P505 is a powerful multimedia notebook equipped with ATI Radeon HD 4650 discrete GPU and a gigantic 18.4" display. It offers dual drives for optimal performance and storage.Toshiba Satellite P505-S8950 Specifications:Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1)Display: 18.4 inch 1680 x 945 HD+ TruBrite Display (Glossy)Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 with 1GB

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ASUS UL30 REVIEW

The Asus UL30 is a thin and light 13.3 inch notebook powered by Intel�s Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage processor. One of the great features of this notebook is its battery life. The UL30 comes with a brushed aluminum lid. It is sturdy with good build quality. ASUS UL30A-A1 Specifications:Specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz, 3MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)Operating system: Microsoft Windows

ASUS INTRODUCES CORE i7 POWERED G60J AND M60J NOTEBOOKS

Asus has officially announced two notebooks � the M60J and the G60J - powered by Intel�s Core i7 processor. The G60J is powered by a quad-core mobile processor with 4GB of DDR RAM and Nvidia�s GeForce GTX 260M GPU. Other features include 1GB of VRAM, a pair of 500GB 7200rpm hard drives, Blu-ray combo drive and Altec Lansing speakers. The notebook is available in two display sizes � 16 inch HD

SAGER UNVEILS 15-INCH GAMING NOTEBOOK

Sager has unveiled its 15-inch gaming notebook which could be a direct competitor to the Alienware M15x. The NP8690 is equipped with a mobile Intel Core i7 processor and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M graphics card. Its specifications are as follows:Processor: Intel Core i7 (1.6 - 2.0GHz)Display: 15.6 inch W/LED backlit display with 1600x900 or 1920x1080 pixelsGraphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M w/ 1GB

INTEL DEBUTS ITS CORE i7 PROCESSORS

Intel unveiled 3 of its Core i7 processors at the Intel Development Forum. The new chips are based on the recent Nehalem architecture. They are designed for use in laptops. The three quad-core 45nm chips are the Core i7-720QM, the Core i7-820QM and the Intel Core i7 Extreme i7-920XM. While the 720QM has a clock speed of 1.6GHz with 6MB of cache, the 820QM clocks in at 1.73GHz and 8MB cache. The

TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES ITS QOSMIS X500 GAMING NOTEBOOK

Toshiba has announced its Qosmis X500 gaming notebook. It is powered by an Intel Core i7 processor. The Qosmis X500 has a large 18.4 inch full HD 1920x1080 TruBright display. The Core i7 2.80GHz Quad core processor is fast enough to deliver a stellar performance. It can play any game and decode HD media with minimal efforts. The graphics option is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 250MNV discrete GPU with 1GB

DELL ANNOUNCES CORE i7 PROCESSORS

Dell is one of the first notebook makers to announce products running on the Intel Core i7 quad core processors. Dell�s flagship device using this processor will be the Alienware M15x gaming laptop. Dell will also update its three other models � Studio 15, Studio 17 and Studio XPS 16 � with the Core i7. Besides the change in the processor, the new Studio notebooks will also have better

DELL MINI 10V NETBOOK GETS UBUNTU MOBLIN REMIX

The Dell Mini 10v netbook is now available with the Ubuntu Moblin Remix Linux distribution. This edition runs on the Moblin Netbook Remix operating system. The netbook comes with the usual customization options. It is currently available for sale on Dell.com, but Dell isn�t quite aiming at the consumers yet. Actually this is a �developer� edition. The Mini 10v Ubuntu Moblin version brings

WINX DVD RIPPER PLATINUM FREE FOR A LIMITED PERIOD

In a bid to make netbooks thinner and cheaper manufacturers are increasingly removing the optical drive. Not having an optical drive on your PC means that you can�t watch DVD movies on it. A number of software tools are, nevertheless, available for ripping your DVDs onto the hard drive. The WinX DVD Ripper Platinum from Digiarty is one among them. It normally sells for $24.95, but is now

DELL UPDATES ITS STUDIO 17 NOTEBOOK

Dell has updated its Studio 17 with the Core i7 processor. This version starts at $1,099. The new Studio 17 has a JBL-branded 2.1 audio solution with SRS Premium Sound. It will have two 1.5 watt speakers in the palmrest and a 6-watt subwoofer in the base. The 17.3 inch HD display comes with 16:9 aspect ratio. The new Studio 17 supports dual hard drives. It is also the first among Studio notebooks

INTEL SHOWS OFF LARRABEE GRAPHICS CARD FOR THE FIRST TIME

Intel has unveiled its Larrabee graphics chip. This is Intel�s first discrete graphics card in several years. It is built to compete with Nvidia and ATI GPUs. Larrabee is expected to become commercially available sometime next year. Initially it will be aimed at the gaming market. The chip was demonstrated on stage during Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The demonstration involved running

Kingston Data Traveler 300: the super pendrive

The firm Kingston was determined to put teeth longer addicted to the gadget s and, incidentally, to revolutionize the portable memory market. In the middle of last June submitted its USB DataTraveler 200, a plantation of 128 gigabytes of capacity, although its price is around 450 euros, stupor was flashing more than a geek. Because, in essence, is to be carried in a pocket the same information that we could introduce in about 27 typical single layer DVD. The device measures just over 70 mm long, but stores up to 256GB, enough to make a photo album of 51,000 high-resolution images, and has a data transfer rate of 20MB / s in reading and 10 MB / s in writing.

Developers praise its virtues as a unit of memory for additional users netbooks and underline their five-year warranty and the ability to safeguard data by Password Traveler software, which allows protection of documents in a private area. That yes, the price slightly more than 650 euros.

New robot vacuum cleaners

The company iRobot, founded by a team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today unveiled a new range of its Roomba autonomous machines, whose mission is, in essence, get rid of the tedious chore of vacuuming the house. With the push of a button starts the AWARE system, which explores the layout of the room to be cleaned. It is also able to sneak under some furniture and uses a series of circular brushes that move in opposite directions to remove dust and dirt.

The robot-vacuum cleaner is completely safe for children and pets, and disconnects automatically as soon as it rises from the ground. Alone also avoids any obstacles such as walls, furniture or containers. On the other hand, incorporates a mechanism to prevent it catching on the carpet and stops and changes direction when faced with stairs.

Roomba developers say that more than 3 million households already have some version of this plantation, which is around 350 euros, which makes this domestic robot in the best-selling history among his class.

3D TV arrives

The giant Japanese consumer electronics Sony announced yesterday at the Berlin IFA show its intention to introduce a compatible Bravia LCD TV with 3D in 2010. Movies, music and games will be the first to arrive at this new home entertainment experience.

The new device will incorporate systems like Sequential Frame Display and Active-Shutter Glass, a 3D display method where the TV generates alternative versions of the image to the left and right eyes and simple glasses synchronized with the screen image. In addition, Sony's technology enables the playback of high quality 3D images of Full High Definition 1920x1080 pixels per eye.

As if this were not enough, the multinational intends to update its Vaio personal computers, the PlayStation 3 game consoles and video players for Blu-ray compatible with this technology.

A solar power station in space

By 2030, Japan planned to tieve geostationary orbit (36,000 km above the Earth) a plant equipped with lots of photovoltaic panels that convert solar energy into electricity, with an annual capacity of 5 to 10 times higher than the panels used on land. This energy is transformed in turn into energy flows or microwave beams transmitted to Earth, where they would be captured by a giant satellite dish that would convert into electricity.

"As sunlight is a form of clean and inexhaustible energy, we believe this system can help solve the problems of insufficient energy and global warming due to greenhouse gases," write the researchers. The project development is provided by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and the Research Institute of Space Device uninhabited, which brings together 17 companies, including electronics groups Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, Fujitsu and Sharp.

Camouflage for your laptop

The design studio Catalan Mitemite want to pay tribute to all those things, but not really used for anything, accumulated at home because "we welcome the day. Among the products of this factory of ideas is, for example, a tablecloth with a curious tack-toe game that lets liven incorporated food or who played the dishes.

One of their most striking is the security sleeve for notebooks, which wraps up the regular-known covers. The idea is that potential burglars confuse the computer with a journal. There are several designs of these quirky bags, including international versions of headers, yes, something different.

Radio 2.0.

Under the slogan "Radio for the Facebook generation," this device with full-color touch screen allows you to tune in digital radio but also access Twitter, Facebook, Picassa photo service, the weather channel and news channels from your table at night or sitting on the edge of the pool. And working with widgets, once acquired can be extended by various Web 2.0 services. Its price will be around 280 euros.

The evolution of the yo-yo

Delta is an innovation of the company and Active People that combines the advantages of classic yo-yo and spinning top, allowing movements, spins and throws very original. Due to its unique shape and well balanced weight can be thrown like a yoyo, vertically or horizontally like a top. This dual possibility opens up new challenges players to make more creative figures such as elevator, swing around the world

VILIV RELEASES ITS NETBOOK - S10 BLADE

Korean manufacturer Viliv known for its MIDs has built a netbook. It was shown off at the Intel Developer Forum. Dubbed S10 Blade, the device is convertible 10-inch touchscreen netbook. It is expected to provide up to 10 hours of battery life and will run on the Windows 7 operating system.The resistive touchscreen doesn�t support multi-touch. It has a resolution of 1366x768 pixels. The S10 will

TEGRA POWERED SMARTBOOKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT

Smartbooks powered by Nvidia�s Tegra platform are currently being built. These devices are expected to run on Google�s upcoming Chrome operating system. The Tegra platform is different from the ION platform. While the ION platform pairs an Intel Atom processor with Nvidia 9400M GPU, the Tegra platform pairs an ARM-based processor with Nvidia GeForce GPU. The advantages of using the Tegra platform

ALIENWARE RELEASES M15X GAMING LAPTOP

Alienware has introduced its M15x 15-inch gaming laptop. The company claims that it is the fastest 15-inch gaming machine out there. The M15x is powered by an Intel Core i7 processor with GTX 260M GPU. It supports up to 8GB of RAM. SpecificationsThe Alienware m15x comes with the following specifications:Processor: Up to Intel Core i7 920XM (2.0GHz, 8MB cache)Display: 15.6-inch LED display with a

Samsung Jet Review

 The Samsung Jet has been launched with the byword "Impatience is a Virtue" and according to Samsung it is "the must-have artefact for those who alive fast paced lives and appetite to backpack added of aggregate into their day."

Yes, the Jet is fast, with a able 800 MHz processor (theoretically alike faster than the processor acclimated in the iPhone 3G S), a acknowledging touchscreen user interface and fast web browsing with HSDPA. But for us, the absolute account is the price. Alike admitting it's abandoned accessible on Vodafone initially, you can boutique for the Jet for aloof �20 per ages on contract, which seems like a arrangement to us.

The Jet looks appealing abundant like all added touchscreen phones, with some nice account on the three buttons beneath the awning to set it afar from the accepted herd. Afar from that, it's about identical to phones like the Tocco Lite - actually impressive, aback you accede how abundant hi-tech diabolism is arranged into this slimline device. So, not abandoned is this a fast device, but it's additionally glassy and automated too, and will calmly fit into a shirt or jeans pocket. The TouchWiz 2.0 user interface is tried-and-tested technology and shouldn't account any problems for best users. And it is absolute fast and acknowledging too.

We've got to be afflicted by the AMOLED affectation on this device. It's slobberingly gorgeous. AMOLED is bright, with aerial contrast, so you can see it outdoors abundant easier, and the resolution on the Jet is an absurd 800 x 480 pixels, which makes it the best awning we've anytime apparent on any Samsung phone. In actuality it beats best high-end smartphones, yet costs bisected as much! At 3.1 inches, it's ample and this makes a absolute aberration for any touchscreen user interface. This affectation is so good, it's account affairs the buzz for this affection alone!

So, in agreement of usability, we'd accord the Jet a 10 out of 10. But let's attending at the appearance now. For a mid-range phone, the featureset allegation bulk about 9 out of 10. The camera has 5 megapixels, with autofocus, smile detection, agenda zoom and a bifold LED flash. It's not activity to be shortlisted for the best camera buzz ever, but it still beats best of the others in its class. The Jet can almanac video too, and can comedy aback videos in aerial resolution in DivX & Xvid formats afterwards conversion. A additional camera enables video calling over a 3G network. Musically, the Jet delivers, with a music amateur able of arena best accepted music formats. With DNSe and a 3.5mm audio jack, this ticks our boxes. There's additionally an FM radio with RDS, so you can see what base you're alert to, and alike the name of the artists and song playing.

One of the added able credibility of the Jet is the whopping 2GB of anamnesis congenital into the phone. This will apparently be abundant for best users, with the accommodation to abundance about 1,000 music tracks, but can be broadcast to 16GB with the accession of a microSD card.

Although it's not a smartphone, the Jet does accept multi-tasking support, and the TouchWiz interface includes online widgets that can bear applications like Facebook, acclimate reports, etc. So unless you're a beatnik who brand to download and customise, you'll acquisition the Jet answers best of your needs. And if you're one of Samsung's ambition users alive a fast-paced life, you apparently don't accept time for the downloading and installing actuality anyway. If you do allegation to download, you'll acquisition the 3G HSDPA and WiFi admission to be nice and fast, whether you're watching YouTube videos or aloof surfing the web. The web browser is accomplished too. Acknowledgment to the huge awning and the one-finger zoom feature, examination abounding web pages is easy. The web browser is absolute able-bodied featured, with abutment for Beam and alike multi-window support. It's not actually a laptop, but it's actually a acceptable adaptable web experience.

As able-bodied as WiFi support, the Jet has Bluetooth and USB, naturally. The 3.5mm audio jack is absolute acceptable too, enabling the use of accepted headphones, or the achievability to affix to an alien apostle arrangement or a car stereo. A GPS receiver is included too, but no Google Maps.

So, the Samsung Jet: it's a aces phone, with some actually aberrant features. Aloof bethink that it's not a smartphone, so don't analyze it with the iPhone, or phones like the Samsung i8910 HD (which both bulk alert added than alert as abundant as the Jet!) Really, this is a aces buzz for addition absent added than the Tocco Lite, but not accommodating to angle out �40 a ages for a top-of-the-range smartphone. We assumption that ticks a lot of people's boxes.

Features of the Samsung Jet include:

• 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, 4x digital zoom and dual LED flash
• Video recording plus DivX, Xvid playback
• Second video camera for video calling
• Display: AMOLED, 16 million colours, 800 x 480 pixels (3.1 inches)
• Music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WMV formats)
• FM radio with RDS
• 64-voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email with Microsoft� Exchange ActiveSync� support and document viewer
• A-GPS
• Integrated handsfree speakerphone
• Personal organiser functions
• Memory: 2GB plus MicroSD memory card slot (expandable to 16GB)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB, 3.5mm audio jack, TV-Out
• Internet: Full web browser with Adobe Flash support, WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE, 3G HSDPA
• Quadband GSM plus 3G (UMTS)
• Size: 109 x 54 x 12 mm
• Weight: 110g
• Talktime: 180 minutes
• Battery standby: 250 hours

Samsung Omnia Review

Wow! While Apple accept been hyping their iPhone 3G for the best allotment of a year, the Samsung Omnia has appear from nowhere, and is the buzz that the iPhone should accept been. Whereas the iPhone misses out on all kinds of capital features, the Omnia does about aggregate that you could appetite from a phone, and does it actual well.

The Omnia looks super-cool too. The glassy platinum accomplishment and the abbreviate anatomy accord the buzz wow! factor, alike afore you alpha application it.

Samsung accept been churning out touchscreen phones back the alpha of 2008. First the Armani, again the Nerva, again the Tocco, anniversary time adorning the architecture and accepting afterpiece to the absolute phone. Now the Omnia looks like it could be "the one". Samsung's touchscreen user interface has bigger a little with anniversary release, although we criticised the Tocco for accepting a abate screen. There is no botheration with the Omnia however, which has a massive WQVGA 3.2 inch awning - that's alike bigger than the LG Viewty and alone hardly abate than the iPhone 3G. The TouchWiz user interface is an accomplished accomplishing of a touchscreen phone. TouchWiz uses a array of automatic blow controls, e.g. tap, sweep, annoyance and bead operations as able-bodied as an on-screen qwerty keyboard. The awning uses concrete acknowledgment to advice you feel your way about the airheaded and controls, and alike determined texters should be blessed with the result. The iPhone may accept paved the way in touchscreen UI design, but Samsung accept followed actual well.

The Omnia is a smartphone active Windows Adaptable 6.1. This has a cardinal of advantages. Firstly, the user interface will be accustomed to PC users, alike including a adaptable adaptation of Internet Explorer for web browsing. Secondly, the arrangement enables acceptable admission to Office abstracts such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word (for alteration as able-bodied as viewing). Thirdly, you can download third-party applications and install them on your phone. The buzz comes pre-installed with actual absolute claimed organiser functions. The touchscreen user interface can sometimes be a little apathetic and added complicated to use than accepted phones, but we've got to say aloof how afflicted we are by its robustness. Most acute phones blast and benumb regularly, but not the Omnia.

Let's booty a attending at the multimedia capabilities of the buzz now. Summarising in three words: it does everything! Really! Let's accede the spec: A 5 megapixel camera with face-detection autofocus, smile apprehension (takes a attempt back anybody is smiling), auto-panorama, LED beam and agenda zoom. It may not accept the optical zoom of the Samsung G800, the eyes of the Nokia N95, or the xenon beam of the Sony Ericsson K800i, but we would bulk it in the top 10 of accepted camera phones. In any case, it walks all over the aged camera in the iPhone 3G. The camera can be acclimated as a business agenda clairvoyant too. It additionally has an accomplished video camera (with angel stabilisation), and the video playback adequacy includes Divx support. Of advance it's a 3G buzz with video calling too. The music amateur is actual acceptable and supports about all formats, and an FM radio is included too. Web browsing is additionally an agreeable acquaintance on the Omnia, with fast HSDPA downloads, the ample touchscreen, and avant-garde Opera browser all alive calm to accommodate a acceptable experience. The Omnia additionally comes with GPS aeronautics congenital in.

One of the outstanding appearance of the Omnia is the actually huge anamnesis that it supports. Available in a best of 8 or 16 Gbytes, it additionally has a microSD anamnesis agenda slot, enabling an added 8 Gbytes to be added. This agency that you can abundance a huge bulk of music or video (around 8,000 songs or 23 DVD-quality films) and you can alike abundance up to 120 Mbytes account of argument or MMS messages.

The array activity is actual acceptable too, which is absolutely a abruptness for a touchscreen buzz with so abundant functionality. We agnosticism Samsung's official abstracts of 450 hours standby however.

Connectivity is unbeatable, with a best of Bluetooth, USB and Wi-Fi.

Really, the Omnia is an amazing phone, and it's no abruptness that it's confused appropriate to the top of the best agent archive at launch. Touchscreen phones are the hottest artefact in 2008, and the Omnia is arguably the best so far. If you absurd the fresh iPhone or the LG Viewty, you should absolutely be attractive at the Omnia instead. The alone affair is the Windows Adaptable operating system, which is actual powerful, but makes the airheaded on the Omnia added circuitous than a accepted phone. But alike so, this is absolutely a 5 brilliant phone!!!

Features of the Samsung Omnia include:

• 5 megapixel camera with face detection autofocus, smile detector, auto-panorama, 4x digital zoom and power LED flash
• Video recorder & 3G video calling
• Display: TFT, WQVGA, 240 x 400 pixels, (3.2 inches), 65,000 colours
• GPS navigation with geo-tagging
• Music Player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA formats) plus FM radio RDS
• Music Recognition (Shazam)
• 40-voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Voice memo recorder
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email
• Document viewer
• Java games
• Memory: 8 Gbytes or 16 Gbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 8 Gbytes)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, WI-Fi
• Internet: WAP 2.0, Internet Explorer / Opera web browsers, GPRS, EDGE, 3G (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps)
• Quadband (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3G (UMTS 2.1GHz)
• Offline mode
• Size: 112 x 57 x 12.5 mm
• Weight: 125g
• Talktime: up to 10 hours (2.5G) up to 6.5 hours (3G)
• Battery standby: up to 430 hours (2.5G) up to 450 hours (3G) 

Samsung i8910 HD Review

Fwooar! The Samsung i8910HD (originally accepted as the Omnia HD) is one heck of a adult phone. It's the aboriginal adaptable to affection a high-definition camcorder (hence it's name) and it has the world's added acceptable OLED affectation - 3.7 inches across. It's a Symbian smartphone with an 8 megapixel camera, touchscreen UI, WiFi and A-GPS. Is there annihilation this barbarian cannot do?

If you are attractive for the highest-spec, best able buzz in existence, you've apparently arise to the appropriate place. The guys at Samsung acquire wowed anybody with an absorbing bound avant-garde in technology. This buzz has the added acceptable and best of everything. And it actually is big. It's not fair to alarm it a brick, as it's rather abbreviate - aloof 12.9mm - but it's about the aforementioned admeasurement and weight as the iPhone 3G. But as millions of iPhone owners acquire proved, that's not a problem, and in actuality the i8910 HD is narrower than the iPhone and appropriately fits in the approach rather better. The phone's avant-garde face is abounding with the astronomic screen, additional three accepted buttons beneath (call, end and home.) The awning actually is a beauty. OLED is a fresh technology that offers greater colour analogue and added accuracy than a accepted TFT screen. This makes a absolute aberration back appliance the buzz outdoors, abnormally back the user interface is touchscreen-driven. The awning on the i8910 HD is the added acceptable OLED awning anytime to arise on a adaptable and has a actual aerial resolution too (640 x 360 pixels, 3.7 inches diagonal.) It's a attractive awning and makes a absolute aberration back watching videos or appliance the onscreen menus. But Samsung acquire played safe by appliance a approved and activated user interface - the TouchWiz UI will be accustomed to users of antecedent Samsung phones such as the Omnia. TouchWiz uses automatic blow controls, e.g. tap, sweep, annoyance and bead operations as able-bodied as an on-screen qwerty keyboard with concrete feedback. The feel of the buzz in the duke is one of quality, acknowledgment to the use of metal, bright atramentous artificial and accustomed glass.

The best of Symbian S60 5.0 operating arrangement makes the i8910 HD added of a boilerplate artefact than the Samsung Omnia, which uses Windows Mobile. Personally we adopt the ability and robustness of the most recent absolution of Windows Mobile, but Symbian is a added accustomed operating arrangement to many. In any case, the TouchWiz UI is the capital interface that users acquire to accord with, and the operating arrangement is to some admeasurement hidden from day to day use.

It's adamantine to apperceive what to allocution about abutting - there are so abounding aliment to describe. Let's allocution about the camera, as it's the video recording that gives the HD its name. For still photography the i8910 HD uses an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, 4x agenda zoom and LED flash. The camera is able with avant-garde functions such as face detection, smile shot, blink attempt and panorama shot. These advice to abutting the gap amid camera phones and committed digicams - in functionality at least. In agreement of angel quality, the camera can't exhausted a committed camera, but it can bout the kinds of agenda cameras that were on auction aloof a brace of years ago. The point is that the camera is acceptable abundant to booty print-quality still photos beneath a ambit of lighting conditions, so you can await on it on occasions back your "proper" camera has been larboard at home. The alone complaint that we acquire is that the beam is LED-based, rather than the xenon beam begin on aloof a scattering of camera phones, such as the Sony Ericsson C905. The video camera is a worldbeater, in agreement of resolution. It can almanac in HD format, which agency 1280 x 720 pixels (0.9 megapixels.) At this resolution, the anatomy amount drops to 24 frames per second, so you ability actually adopt to shoot in a lower resolution and use a college anatomy rate. Bear in apperception that if you almanac in HD, the resolution of the video will actually beat the awning resolution! Still, the adequacy is there if you appetite it. It is possible, if you are technically minded, to appearance your HD videos on a HD TV. There's no HDMI cable socket, but you can use the WiFi affiliation to accelerate video anon to a DLNA-compatible TV or PS3/XBOX 360. We can't brainstorm abounding bodies accepting the abstruse ability and the all-important accessories to cull this off though. A added acceptable advantage is to upload your videos to Facebook or YouTube.

Musically, the i8910 HD offers aerial affection audio via its accompanying speakers, which are loud! The speakers are placed at the top and basal of the phone, which seems aberrant until you realise that they are alluringly placed for use back watching video in mural mode! We're additionally captivated to see the attendance of a 3.5mm audio jack, which enables you to bung in any headphones with a accepted connection.

Web browsing on the i8910 is an accomplished experience. The huge touchscreen in aggregate with fast abstracts downloads appliance HSDPA or WiFi is aloof what is bare for a acceptable adaptable internet experience. The Symbian S60 web browser is optimised for this affectionate of environment, and is an accomplished browser.

The buzz is actual abundantly able with memory, which is aloof as able-bodied because the ability of the device. It's accessible with either 8GB or 16GB of beam memory, with a microSD agenda aperture that will acquire cards up to a massive 32GB, giving a abeyant best anamnesis of 48GB! There's additionally affluence of centralized RAM accessible to the operating arrangement for arena videos, etc. The accessory additionally uses a fresh blazon of superfast chipset, and these two factors beggarly that the buzz is fast to react, alike back active applications actually intensively. Nevertheless, a astute user will bethink to shut bottomward apps that are not needed, in adjustment to abstain the assured Symbian arrangement crashes.

The i8910 HD additionally comes with a congenital GPS receiver, which can be acclimated for geo-tagging of photos and for mapping. Back acclimated with the map application, the accessory additionally displays a agenda compass.

The buzz comes with a cardinal of preloaded touch-driven amateur that use the congenital motion sensor to acceptable effect. The affection of the cartoon is actually exceptional, and closing in on animate quality. The motion sensor is additionally acclimated to automatically cast the awning amid account and mural modes back you circle the phone. It's account additionally advertence the ablaze sensor that automatically dims the awning to save power, and the adjacency sensor that prevents your face accidentally abrasion the touchscreen back authoritative a call.

One final innovation: the guys at Samsung acutely anticipation the buzz was rather under-specified, as they additionally absitively to add in abutment for the fresh HSUPA technology. HSUPA is a about of HSDPA and enables fast uploads - 10 or added times faster than 3G - in accession to fast downloads. The U stands for uplink; the D stands for downlink. Simple!

The array activity of this buzz is quoted as a absurdly aerial 600 hours on standby. Whilst the 1500mAH array is actually a able one, no accustomed user is activity to get annihilation like 600 hours use out of one charge. The ability of this accessory agency that circadian charging will be in adjustment for abounding users.

To conclude, the Samsung i8910 HD is a actually absorbing device. Although its the HD video recording that gives the buzz its name, the buzz has so abounding added absorbing capabilities that it's actually not a one-trick wonder. For us, it's the actuality that it excels in all areas that makes it an actually outstanding device. If you attention yourself as a ability user, you should actually acquire the i8910 at the top of your arcade account this year.

Features of the Samsung i8910 HD include:

• 8 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, autofocus and power LED flash
• HD video camera with power LED video light, DivX playback
• 3G video calling with secondary VGA camera
• Display: AMOLED, 16 million colours, 640 x 360 pixels (3.7 inches)
• MP3 player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats), stereo speakers & DNSe 2.0
• Stereo FM radio RDS
• MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone
• GPS satellite navigation
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4), instant messaging
• Document viewer
• Java games (Java MIDP 2.0)
• Personal organiser functions
• Offline mode
• Memory: 8/16 Gbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 32 GB)
• Internet: HTML web browser, WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 12, EDGE, 3G HSDPA (7.2 Mbps), HSUPA (5.76 Mbps)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, 3.5mm audio jack
• Quadband GSM plus triband 3G HSDPA/HSUPA
• Size: 123 x 58 x 12.9 mm
• Weight: 144g
• Talktime: up to 13.5 hours
• Battery standby: 600 hours

Samsung i8510 Review

Samsung are absolutely venturing into fresh area in 2008 with the i8510 (also accepted as the Samsung Innov8.) Not alone is this Europe's aboriginal 8 megapixel camera phone, but it marks a change for Samsung, with the absolution of their aboriginal boilerplate Symbian smartphone.

Let's allocution about the camera first. At 8 megapixels, it pushes actually above the 5 megapixel resolution of its abutting competitors. But megapixels aren't aggregate aback it comes to agenda cameras. Fortunately, Samsung are one of the world's leaders in agenda cameras and they apperceive what they're accomplishing here. The i8510 moves camera phones afterpiece to the affectionate of user interface that committed camera have. A committed button activates the camera, aperture the lens cover, and toggles amid camera, video and the gallery. There are affluence of settings for avant-garde users to comedy with, such as panorama, smile-detection autofocus and blink detection. The basics accommodate a 9x agenda zoom (no optical zoom acutely - see the Samsung G800 for that) and a bifold ability LED flash. This beam is acceptable abundant at abutting range, but cannot bout the accuracy of the xenon beam acclimated in the Sony Ericsson K850i (although the K850i comes with a host of problems as discussed in our K850i review!) It's arguable which camera buzz is absolutely the best, but the i8510 charge absolutely rank in the top 5 currently. The video camera is additionally noteworthy, as it annal in aerial resolution and at up to 120 frames per second, which agency that you can comedy aback in apathetic motion if you like.

The added best absorbing affair about the i8510 is the actuality that it runs Symbian 9.3 with the Nokia Series 60 user interface. This makes the phone's UI appreciably agnate to the Nokia N95 (although the i8510 runs the best recent adaptation 3.2 instead of the buggy 3.1 adaptation acclimated by the N95.) Samsung accept tweaked some options of course, but this is about a buzz that any Nokia Nseries user could aces up and use after a additional thought. It looks like N95 users will accept a absolute best aback they appear to advancement - should they accept the Nokia N96 or the Samsung i8510?

It isn't alone the UI that looks actual abundant like that of the Nokia N95. The accomplished buzz does! It's a beefy accelerate buzz that weighs alike added than the N95, but is several millimetres thinner. It'll be too abundant for some, but if you like solid phones, we anticipate you'll like the feel of the i8510. The accelerate is bland and the keypad feels acceptable too, although the touch-sensitive aeronautics key is apprenticed to abrade some users (although its acuteness is adjustable.) One of the allowances of a ample buzz is that it can fit a ample LCD display, and Samsung accept absolutely fabricated the best of the accessible amplitude with a high-resolution QVGA affectation barometer 2.8 inches across, and announcement 16 actor colours. Once again, it matches the capabilities of the N95.

The Samsung holds its own aback it comes to music playback too. Its music amateur handles all accepted formats (MP3, AAC, WMA) and includes OMA agenda rights administration 2.0. Able with an FM radio RDS and 3D beleaguer complete DNSe 2.0 technology - Samsung's proprietary agenda accustomed complete agent technology acclimated in its MP3 players - the music capabilities alive up to our expectations for a high-end phone. The media amateur supports DivX playback too, which is aloof as able-bodied back the huge 8GB of congenital anamnesis is abundant to abundance several abounding breadth movies! Alternatively it will authority 2,000 songs in MP3 architecture (more if compressed.) If that's not enough, you can add a 16 GB microSD anamnesis agenda to aggrandize the absolute anamnesis to 24 GB - abundant for 6,000 songs! The i8510 additionally has a accepted 3.5mm headphone jack, so you can bung in your own high-quality headphones.

Like the N95, the i8510 appearance A-GPS accessory navigation, with mappingcomputer application from Route 66. You can additionally download freecomputer application such as Google Maps. The GPS supports geo-tagging of photos.

The i8510 is a acceptable belvedere for accessing the web. It's able with a HTML browser and uses able zoom and switching amid mural and account modes to affectation web pages optimally. The touch-sensitive annal pad works actual able-bodied aback browsing the web. With HSDPA enabling download speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps, you can admission web pages rapidly, and download music and video anon to your mobile. In accession to web access, the buzz is able to affix via USB 2.0 or wirelessly via Bluetooth and WiFi. You can use the TV-Out affiliation to appearance photos and video anon on your TV. It's additionally accessible to beck agreeable wirelessly to a accordant PC or laptop application WiFi.

The i8510 additionally has a 3D cartoon accelerator agenda authoritative it into a mini-Xbox! We haven't played the games, but there are two chargeless anchored amateur - FIFA'08 and Asphalt. You'll acquisition added Symbian applications pre-installed, or accessible for download.

Battery activity is not brilliant. Although the buzz is able with a abundant assignment array (the phone's admeasurement and weight are there for a reason!), with so abounding accessories to comedy with, you may acquisition you charge to recharge every day if you're a abundant user.

The i8510 is acutely advised to go arch to arch with the Nokia N95 8GB and the Nokia N96. Does it accomplish the grade? We anticipate so! Apart from its weight and the affair of the touch-sensitive aeronautics key, the Samsung i8510 matches or beats the N95 8GB. The Samsung has a added good camera and a added good video camera. Does it exhausted the N96? Well, the N96 has added memory, but the i8510 has a added good camera. W'd accept the Samsung, but the N96 comes very, actual close! But be acquainted - all three of these phones use the Symbian operating system, and all three ache from archetypal Symbian problems - apathetic UI, accidental freezing, shutting bottomward andcomputer application glitches.

Features of the Samsung i8510 include:

• 8 megapixel camera phone with 9x digital zoom, autofocus and dual LED flash
• Video camera with built-in video editing, DivX playback
• 3G video calling
• Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.8 inches)
• MP3 player (MP3, MIDI, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV formats), OMA DRM 2.0
• Stereo FM radio RDS
• 3D Surround Sound System
• MP3 ringtones / 40-voice polyphonic ringtones
• Speakerphone
• GPS satellite navigation
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4)
• Document viewer
• Java games (Java MIDP 2.0)
• Personal organiser functions
• Offline mode
• Memory: 8 Gbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 16 GB)
• Internet: HTML web browser, WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE, 3G HSDPA (3.6 Mbps)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, TV-Out
• Quadband GSM plus dual band 3G HSDPA
• Size: 107 x 54 x 17 mm
• Weight: 136g
• Talktime: 5 hours (3G) - 8.5 hours (2G)
• Battery standby: 310 (3G) - 330 hours (2G)

Samsung G600 Review

The Samsung G600 offers the ability of a 5 megapixel camera in Samsung's now-classic slimline slider format. Although it's two years old, the G600 has an amazing blueprint and a admirable architecture to match. Samsung don't consistently accomplish absolute phones - the E900 and U600 affronted some users with their touch-sensitive buttons - but the G600 gets aggregate aloof appropriate and is a absolute classic. Whilst it lacks the wow agency of newer phones, it's aloof a fantastically acceptable buzz to use with annihilation to backbite from the experience.

At Adaptable Phones UK, we like to alpha reviewing phones with a attending at the outside. Samsung's slider architecture has been about for about 5 years now, and is approved and tested. The G600 opens and closes with an accessible sliding action, and has a bland cottony accomplishment that's bright but not a fingerprint allurement like some. The G600 is not an ultra-slim buzz like the U600, but at 15mm it's absolutely not a fatty. It's a acceptable applied size, and at 48mm advanced it's a brace of millimetres narrower than some of the ultra-slims, which doesn't complete like much, but makes the buzz easier to hold. The keypad is acknowledging back apprenticed and there are no touch-sensitive keys. The awning is ample at 2.2 inches diagonally, and with 16 actor colours and 240 x 320 pixels is Samsung's best awning ever. The camera is able-bodied adequate abaft the slide: to use it you accessible the accelerate to acknowledge the lens and flash. Frankly it's adamantine to see how the concrete architecture could accept been improved. 5 stars so far.

The G600's camera is a 5 megapixel barbarian with autofocus, LED beam and 4x agenda zoom. The G600 is still an absorbing camera buzz and one of the best in the account category. The G600 appearance two advantageous camera modes - panorama approach lets you booty pictures of advanced angle such as landscapes, and macro approach lets you booty close-up shots. There's a congenital account editor, and absolute press to a Pictbridge-compatible printer is supported. High affection video recording at 640 x 480 pixels is additionally available.

After a camera, the abutting best important apparatus in a adaptable is a music player, and the G600 doesn't disappoint. Every above architecture is accurate (MP3, AAC, AAC+, 3-AAC+ and WMA). There's abutment for wireless Bluetooth stereo headsets - in actuality there's abutment for bifold headsets, which agency that a acquaintance can accept to your music at the aforementioned time if you wish. The G600 has a music amateur interface with a committed music library. You can actualize playlists and organise your music by artist, anthology or genre. It's as accessible to use as an iPod. An FM radio is additionally congenital in. Anamnesis isn't a big botheration either as the G600 has congenital user anamnesis of 40 Mbytes additional a 1 Gbyte anamnesis agenda supplied in the sales package. OK, this isn't a lot but it's abundant to abundance a few hundred songs.

There are affluence of added appearance - highlights accommodate a certificate viewer, offline mode, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, and quadband. Array activity seems to be absolutely acceptable - you should get a few days' usage, depending on how abundant you use the multimedia appearance and the Bluetooth.

Can we acquisition accountability with the G600? Nope! Do we adulation it to bits? You bet! The G600 was a actual able adversary for Buzz of the Year 2007 and is still one of Samsung's best-sellers in 2009!

We've been afraid how abounding of our user reviews accept criticised the G600. The capital complaint seems to be the camera. We can alone accept that bodies are application the amiss camera settings (make abiding that you set the camera resolution to maximum). The G600 may not be able to bout the account affection of the best, but it's still a abuse acceptable camera phonefor its price!

One or two bodies accept complained about the G600 freezing or acid out back sliding the buzz accessible or closed. Jay from the UK offers this advice: the array on these phones is a little apart and so break acquaintance with abrupt movement off buzz e.g sliding it up or bottomward or agreement it on a adamantine (or bendable surface) too firmly. SIMPLY abode a bit of adhesive band about the arced end of the array at the adverse ancillary of the gold contacts which will advance the array afterpiece to the contacts on the phone. Botheration solved, it works accomplished tho ability charge two pieces. achievement this helps.. adulation the g600 afresh now!! Thanks Jay! - Editor.

Features of the Samsung G600 include:

• 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and 4x digital zoom
• Video camera (640 x 480 pixels)
• Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.2 inches)
• MP3 player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, 3-AAC+, WMA formats)
• FM radio
• MP3 ringtones / 64-voice polyphonic ringtones
• Voice memo recorder
• Speakerphone
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4)
• Document viewer
• Java games
• Personal organiser functions
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, TV-Out
• Memory: 40 Mbytes + 1 Gbyte microSD card
• Offline mode
• WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE
• NetFront web browser with Google search bar
• Quadband (GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• Size: 102 x 48 x 15 mm
• Weight: 105g
• Talktime: 3.5 hours
• Battery standby: 300 hours

Samsung E250 Review

The E250 is Samsung's aboriginal accelerate buzz in the entry-level market, and it's an absorbing one. This is a buzz that retails for beneath than �50 on Pay as you Go, but it shares the air-conditioned looks and architecture of Samsung's top-end accelerate phones that are currently all the rage. It's a actual compact, slimline and failing phone, belief aloof 81g. The keypad and accelerate are actual agnate to the top-of-the-range Samsung D900, and are a accurate architecture - actual accessible to use. When closed, the aeronautics keys accredit you to admission best of the phone's functions and you aloof accelerate the buzz accessible to accomplish a alarm or accelerate a text.

For an entry-level buzz it's actual able-bodied defined too. The VGA camera (0.3 megapixels) and video recorder are adequately basic, but the buzz is additionally able with a acceptable affection MP3 amateur and FM radio too. In this amount range, alone the Sony Ericsson W200i can action the same. The MP3 amateur can additionally handle AAC and AAC+ formats too. You can additionally set MP3 advance as your ringtone. The congenital anamnesis of 13 Mbytes is abundant to abundance 3 or 4 songs only, but you can aggrandize the anamnesis with a MicroSD anamnesis agenda if you appetite to accomplish added use of the music player.

Other accessible appearance accommodate a congenital speakerphone and a articulation announcement recorder. All kinds of messaging are supported, including MMS (multimedia messaging) and email. You can download Java amateur as able-bodied as the anchored amateur that appear pre-installed. A abounding ambit of claimed organiser functions are included. Flight approach lets you accept to music, comedy games, etc whilst the arrangement affiliation is switched off.

Connectivity is outstanding, with abutment for both Bluetooth and USB. The Bluetooth affiliation lets you barter amateur and ringtones wirelessly with added accordant phones, and can additionally be acclimated to affix to a stereo Bluetooth headset. The USB affiliation is best advantageous for appointment music, pictures and videos to and from a computer. A fast internet affiliation is accessible too, via GPRS and EDGE.

All things considered, this is an acutely acceptable amount phone. It offers the allowances of a music amateur and FM radio with a anamnesis card, additional aggregate you'd apprehend from an entry-level phone, and in a air-conditioned accelerate design. Battery activity is the one breadth that could be better. At the time of autograph (June 2007) this is our favourite buzz in the sub-�50 market.

Features of the Samsung E250 include:

• Digital camera (0.3 megabytes) with 4x digital zoom
• Video camera
• Display: TFT LCD, 65,536 colours, 128 x 160 pixels
• Music Player (MP3, ACC, ACC+ formats)
• FM radio
• 64-voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Voice memo recorder
• Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4)
• Java games
• Caller ID (Text, Photo, Video)
• Personal organiser functions
• Memory: 13 Mbytes plus MicroSD memory card slot
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 1.1
• WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE
• Flight mode
• Tri Band (900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Size: 96 x 50 x 14 mm
• Weight: 81g
• Talktime: 5 hours
• Battery standby: 250 hours

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Nokia 8800 Arte Review

The Nokia 8800 Arte is Nokia's most recent in its exceptional ambit of phones. Following on from the 8800, 8800 Sirocco and 8600 Luna, it seems that the business guys at Nokia acquainted that �400 - �500 for a buzz was no way about enough, so they accept priced the 8800 Arte at abutting to bifold that. This is blame prices appear Vertu levels (Nokia's ultra-exclusive brand), so the affairs are you won't see abounding of these phones on the street.

The accepted 8800 Arte comes in a atramentous metal and bottle finish, but there's additionally a Sapphire Arte version. The Sapphire Arte looks like bling gone abominably wrong. It's a affectionate of carrion colour with a absolute covering accomplishment and incorporates a absolute jewel into the aeronautics key. Gentle reader, we couldn't accompany ourselves to accommodate a photo of this abominable conception on our website, so you'll accept to use your imagination.

The 8800 Arte is all about exceptional abstracts and attenuate architecture details, abnormally in the way that the buzz responds. For instance, if you tap the phone, the time appears on the display. If you appetite to blackout a ring, you aloof about-face the buzz face down. The Arte appearance "living wallpaper" - wallpaper that changes depending on the time of day and the accompaniment of the phone, e.g. array allegation level, etc. As with the added exceptional ambit phones, the Arte comes with absolute graphics, capacity and ringtones. One of the problems with bright atramentous phones is that they act as fingerprint magnets, but Nokia accept alien a appropriate anti-fingerprint blanket for the Arte, which helps to accumulate the buzz attractive at its best.

Feature-wise its a 3G adaptable with a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus (no flash), a aerial affection affectation and a music player. Unlike the 8600 and Sirocco there isn't a radio - Nokia's bazaar analysis apparently appear that a radio wasn't a big accord for the ambition market. There's no anamnesis card, but it comes with 1 Gbyte of congenital memory, which will apparently be abundant for the affectionate of user Nokia has in mind. In added words it does abundant but isn't all-singing and all-dancing.

It's absolutely a abundant buzz at 150g, due mainly to the use of metal, and its abbreviate but not ultra-slim. It's narrower than Samsung's accelerate phones, authoritative it nice and accessible to hold. The alone affair that could be bigger physically is the rather baby keypad.

You get a lot of account in the sales amalgamation (although back you bethink the price, you can hardly call this as "generous"), including a board stand, a linen-lined accessory and a Bluetooth headset.

How to amount such a phone? We accept to accede who the Arte is aimed at. Obviously addition with affluence of disposable assets who is attractive for architecture and exclusivity advanced of tech gadgets. Addition absent to actualize an consequence and accommodating to cede some amount of usability. For this person, the Arte is the absolute phone, but there won't be abounding such bodies around. That's the point really. The 8800 Arte has now been abutting by the alike added absolute Carbon Arte.

Features of the Nokia 8800 Arte include:

• 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
• Video camera
• Display: 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels
• Music player
• Polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email
• Java games
• WAP, GPRS, EDGE, 3G
• Web browser
• Memory: 1 Gbyte
• Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB
• Triband
• Size: 109 x 46 x 15 mm
• Weight: 150g
• Talktime: 3 hours
• Battery standby: 300 hours

Nokia 6700 Classic Review

The Nokia 6700 Archetypal is the 5 megapixel backup for the Nokia 6500 Classic, and it's absolutely an improvement! Almost the aforementioned admeasurement as the 6500 Classic, but hardly thicker and absolutely a lot heavier, the 6700 feels like its been hewn from solid steel! There are few handsets that accept such a affection feel as this one. It's a acceptable classic-style mobile, but it doesn't attending or feel like the animal duckling, alike back placed abutting to the most recent bearing of touchscreen beauties. Nokia are at their actual best with this archetypal appearance of handset, and they've pulled out all the stops for this one.

The keypad is flat, but actual accessible to use, with no mis-keyed digits. You'll be able to argument bound and calmly with Nokia's tried-and-tested T9 predictive argument and accessible menus. The aeronautics button is additionally a joy to use. The affectation is the aforementioned as the one on the 6500 Archetypal - 16 actor colors and 240 x 320 pixels, but with the admeasurement added to 2.2 inches.

The camera has been actively upgraded to 5 megapixels, with autofocus and an LED flash, authoritative this aloft boilerplate for its class. The video camera is a appropriate one too, able to almanac at up to VGA resolution. You can additionally accomplish video calls with a accessory video camera.

The buzz has an MP3 amateur that can handle a bound cardinal of formats, including AAC and MP3. There's additionally an FM radio with RDS, so you can see what base you're alert to. Acutely there is no 3.5mm audio jack on the 6700, but you can use the Nokia stereo headphones supplied, or an alternative Bluetooth stereo headset. The buzz can additionally comedy MP3 ringtones and video ringtones, as able-bodied as 64-voice polyphonic.

A benefit affection that not abounding phones in this amount ambit currently accept is assisted GPS. We should additionally agenda that the 6700 is one of the aboriginal phones to affection HSPA (a faster affectionate of HSDPA) giving super-fast download speeds of up to 10Mbps and uploads of 2Mbps. This is conceivably an over-specification for this affectionate of phone, which doesn't above on internet functionality, but we're not activity to complain.

The buzz is able-bodied able with memory: 170 MB of congenital memory, which is abundant for about 40 MP3 tracks, and a microSD agenda aperture which supports cards up to 8GB. A 1GB agenda is supplied in the sales amalgamation and this is abundant for about 250 MP3 tracks.

Now, the 6500 Archetypal was bedeviled with problems, including poor array life, a poor keypad and buggy software. The keypad botheration has been added than abundantly anchored in the 6700. Array activity has additionally been bigger by replacing the old 830 mAh array with a added able 960 mAh one, accretion the quoted standby time by about 50%. But we're anxious that some of thecomputer application problems may still be lurking. Certainly some of our users accept appear a array of firmware errors, including freezing, switching off and worse. Also, although the metal case feels actual solid, there accept been letters of screens cracking, and we accept witnessed this ourselves, so if you shop for this buzz do booty affliction of it - it's not as able-bodied as you ability think.

Tthe 6700 Archetypal is the change of both the Nokia 6300 and the 6500 Classic. It's a acceptable easy-to-use phone, but acutely it's not a absolute phone.

Features of the Nokia 6700 Classic include:

• 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
• Video camera (640 x 480 pixel resolution, 15 frames per second, MPEG4, 3GP formats, 4x digital zoom)
• Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.2 inches) with ambient light sensor
• Music player (AAC and MP3 formats)
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Ringtones: AAC and MP3 & Video ringtones / 64-voice polyphonic (MIDI) ringtones
• Voice recorder
• Voice controls
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email with attachments (POP3, IMAP4 & SMTP protocols), Nokia Xpress audio messaging
• Integrated A-GPS
• Java games
• Themes: wallpapers, sounds, screensavers, and backgrounds
• Calendar, To-do list, Notes, Alarm clock, Stopwatch, Countdown timer, Calculator
• Nokia web browser, Opera mini web browser
• Memory: 170 MB plus microSD card slot (up to 8GB)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1, micro USB 2.0
• WAP 2.0, GPRS, EPGRS, 3G HSPA (max download 10Mbps; upload 2Mbps)
• Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) plus triple band 3G HSPA
• Size: 110 x 45 x 11 mm
• Weight: 117g
• Talktime: 4 - 8 hours
• Battery standby: 300 hours

Nokia 6600i Slide Review

The Nokia 6600i Accelerate is an upgraded adaptation of the 6600 Slide. It's actual agnate in shape, admeasurement and design, except that the plasticky case of the 6600 has been chucked in the bin and in its abode is a actual acute brushed brownish finish, accessible in argent or black. Everything about the 6600i Accelerate is sleek. Nokia acquire alike gone as far as removing the aggregate keys from the ancillary of the phone, which we're not assertive is a abundant idea. But that aside, the 6600i Accelerate is absolutely a bunched yet solid-feeling buzz that looks acceptable and feels good. The keypad is absolutely common and makes texting a breeze.

The appearance of the 6600i are about identical to those of the 6600 Slide. The capital difference, afar from the metal finish, is that the camera has been upgraded from 3.2 megapixels to 5 megapixels. With autofocus and a bifold LED flash, it produces actual acceptable after-effects - commensurable with the best in this amount range. It can additionally almanac video in VGA resolution, and can accomplish video calls. The awning is the aforementioned admirable OLED affectation with 16 actor colours and aerial resolution - a superb screen, with acceptable achievement alike in sunlight.

The media amateur is actual acceptable too, with abutment for all the capital book formats, additional an FM radio. The congenital anamnesis is the aforementioned as the 6600 Accelerate - aloof 20 MB - but a 1GB anamnesis agenda is included in the sales package, and in actuality the 6600i Accelerate will acquire microSD anamnesis cards appropriate up to a huge 16 GB.

Other appearance are the aforementioned as in the 6600 Accelerate - apprehend our 6600 Accelerate analysis for added advice - and accommodate 3G, Opera Mini browser, Nokia Maps (no GPS though), email support, and tap abutment (tap the buzz to blackout the arena or adios a call, or to blackout the alarm.)

The 6600i Accelerate is a audible advance compared with the afflicted 6600 Slide, but it isn't the absolute phone. To be honest, the bigger camera is a accessory enhancement. The metal accomplishment makes the buzz attending and feel abundant added of a affection artefact than the antecedent Nokia, but central we feel that the problems of freezing and acid off in the average of calls are acceptable still to be present. The array is banausic too, and doesn't accommodate actual continued amid charges, alike admitting Nokia are claiming bigger standby times for the 6600i Slide. It's adamantine to apperceive what to acclaim as an alternative, as we haven't been afflicted by any of Nokia's mid-range phones in contempo times - abnormally the sliders. You could try the 6700 Classic or the 6303 Classic if you don't apperception giving up the accelerate design. Or you could be adventurous and try article absolutely altered like the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic!

Features of the Nokia 6600i Slide include:

• 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, double LED flash and 8x digital zoom
• Video camera (VGA, 15 fps / QCIF, 30 fps) with 8x digital zoom
• 3G video calling (QCIF resolution, 15 fps)
• Display: 16.7 million colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.2 inches)
• Music player (MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, and WMA formats)
• FM radio with Visual Radio (get info about music played)
• 64-voice polyphonic ringtones / Video, MP3, eAAC+ and AAC ringtones
• Voice commands and recording
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (with support for attachments), instant messaging, audio messaging
• Themes with wallpapers and screensavers
• Java 2.0 games & applications
• Nokia Maps
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, micro USB 2.0
• Memory: 20 Mbytes plus 1GB microSD memory card (expandable to 16 GB)
• Internet: WAP 2.0, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, xHTML web browser (Opera Mini browser), Macromedia Flash Lite 3.0
• Flight mode
• Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) plus dual band 3G (WCDMA 850/2100)
• Size: 93 x 45 x 14 mm
• Weight: 110g
• Talktime: 3 hours (3G) - 4 hours (2G)
• Battery standby: 300 hours