Garmin Nuvifone G60 Mobile Phone
February 4, 2010
Garmin is well-known as a market leader in the satellite navigation solutions, and let us see how far it succeeds in the mobile phone market, through this review of one of its latest addition, Garmin nuvifone G60 Mobile Phone. This is a quad-band GSM mobile phone, with EDGE, GPRS and UMTS/HSDPA support. Design-wise, it pronounces a GPS look. However, with a matt finish body of dimension 4.4 inches X 2.3 inches X 0.57 inches and a weight of 4.8 oz, this is an appropriately sized mobile phone.
The LCD display of Garmin Nuvifone G60 3G Mobile Phone measures 3.5 inches in size and has a resolution 272 X 480 pixels. It provides a vibrant and colourful view of images and videos, but there is no enough resistance to heavy sunlight. The display automatically changes to portrait and landscape mode when you just turn the phone to the respective angles. The icons on the touch screen display are pretty large and comfortable to click. You can navigate through the menu easily and fast. The phone book of Garmin nuvifone G60 can hold up to 5000 contacts, with their details including birthday, e-mail addresses, additional numbers and so on.
Garmin nuvifone G60 GPS Mobile Phone supports most of the messaging services except MMS, and there are both traditional as well as QWERTY keyboards available in it, to enter the texts. Besides, it can automatically set up the e-mail for you, as soon as you enter the address and password. Two drawbacks in its e-mail functions are the lack of options to send attachments and the inability to view the HTML display.
Coming to its most highlighted feature, the GPS, we must tell you that nuvifone G60 presents you with bright maps and routes, and quick routing and re-routing facilities. The directions are voice-prompted. No much difficulty is faced to understand its turn-by-turn directions, as they are loud and clear enough to make out. You can get the live updates on weather, gas prices etcetera, but need subscriptions. The points of interests and yellow pages are available in it, but they take time to load, while you search. Despite of the presence of 3G and Wi-Fi, the overall loading of web pages in this 3G mobile phone is found to be pretty slow.
Furthermore, Garmin nuvifone G60 mobile phone comes with a 3 mega pixels camera. The overall quality of the pictures taken with it cannot be claimed to be of high quality, but are printable. The lack of video capturing is a highly disappointing factor in this Garmin mobile phone. Similarly, there is no video play back as well. In terms of memory, Garmin nuvifone G60 has a 4GB on-board storage, but the available user memory is only 2GB. The maps loaded into it consumes the rest. But you have an option to expand its memory using a microSD memory card, up to a maximum of 16GB. The battery of this GPS mobile phone will lasts for 4 hours and 250 minutes, which is a medium performance.
Overall, Garmin nuvifone G60 Camera mobile phone balances with equal number of positives as well as negatives. Don’t know why Garmin left out certain important features such as video capture, video play back and camera settings to fine tune the pictures. May be it integrated too many features and failed to excel in one.
Palm Pre Plus Smartphone
January 16, 2010
Palm Pre was one of the hottest selling mobile phones of 2009. Many of the mobile phone enthusiasts reviewed it as a bold competitor for Apple iPhone. Now Palm is once again in the arena with Palm Pre’s modified edition, Palm Pre Plus. It was showcased at the latest CES 2010. This advanced version scores with double the memory of its original. Its numerous applications that run on Palm’s WebOS operating system can definitely offer the user with the simplest, yet functional performance.
Palm Pre Plus has not changed much from its predecessor in terms of design and it employs the same 3.1 inches multi-touch screen display of 320 X 480 pixels. It measures 59.5mm wide, 100.5mm high, 16.95mm thick and weighs around 138.5 grams. The slide-out touch QWERTY keyboard aids you to enter the texts easily. And of more interest, Palm Pre Plus is Touchstone charging compatible. The touchstone technology not only aids you to charge the mobile phone, but you can also watch videos or make hands-free calls, while docked on the touchstone. This requires a touchstone back cover and a charging dock (both are sold separately).
The focal point in Palm Pre Plus Touch Screen Mobile Phone is its operating system, Palm WebOS. Grouping multiple applications together at one place is the main asset of this operating system. It gathers contacts and calendar information from places such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and so on, and display them together. It synchronizes the contacts of the same person from various accounts. Besides, search, updates or notifications can be handled easily with this operating system.
Palm Pre Plus comes equipped with a 3 mega pixels camera with LED flash. The extended depth-of-field offered allows the user to capture pictures with good wide angle view. Moreover, geo-tagging is possible in it. This lets the user to mark the location of the still photograph, from where it has taken. Palm Pre Plus has a media player capable to play back files in MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, AMR, eAAC+ and QCELP formats. It can play back videos in MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 formats as well. The 3.5mm stereo headphone jack provides a crisp and clear audio quality. There is a built-in GPS in Palm Pre Plus to guide you to the destination.
Palm Pre Plus 3MP Camera Mobile Phone has a good user memory of 16GB available for storage. You can extend this further using a memory card. Regarding the connectivity, it supports Wi-Fi, bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB. The battery life of Palm Pre Plus stands for a talk-time of 5.5 hours or for a stand by time of 350 hours. Currently, Palm Pre Plus works on CDMA network and ready for its launch on January 25th on Verizon Wireless network. But for sure, it will head to UK soon.
Samsung SGH-F400 Mobile Phone
January 10, 2010
Samsung SGH F400 is for those who need to make ‘big bangs’ using mobile phones. We said ‘bangs’ because it is powered with the Bang and Olufsen amplifier, absolutely perfect for top quality sound. Smart bass, smart limiter, dual speakers, 3.5mm earphone, DNSe and music recognition, all contribute to a rich musical experience. No doubt! Samsung SGH F400 is a music phone. Besides to the music features, there are many more handsome attributes integrated into it.
With a dimension of 103.2mm X 48.6mm X 17.2mm, Samsung SGH F400 Music Phone is smart and cute in its looks. It is equipped with a 2.2 inches display of resolution 240 X 320 pixels. You can adjust the font size and background colour of the display, allowing you to personalize it as you wish. This mobile handset is a dual slider, and a slide to the bottom reveals you the speakers and the music menu gets activated. A slide to the top can show you the keypad.
Samsung SGH F400 Dual Slider Phone is a tri-band GSM phone, making it fully usable in Europe and Asia. For web connectivity, it employs WAP and HTML browser whereas there is bluetooth and USB for local transfer of files. This GSM phone has a 3 mega pixels camera with 3X digital zoom and auto focus. Some camera settings including shot modes and photo effects are provided to fine tune your capture. There is an LED flash to compensate low light. Besides, this Samsung mobile phone can capture videos at a resolution of 320 X 240 pixels, at a speed of 15 frames per second.
The phone book of Samsung SGH F400 Camera Mobile Phone can store up to a maximum of 1000 contacts in its 20MB internal user memory that could be expanded using a microSD memory card. This mobile phone supports text, multimedia and e-mail messaging service and the T9 prediction option enables you to input the texts faster. The features such as document viewer, offline mode, voice mail and voice memo enables you to make this cell phone usable for office purposes.
In addition to its superior music play back facility, there are more options such as FM Radio with RDS application and embedded Java games for entertainment. Furthermore, this Samsung mobile phone comes with excellent personal management system with wide choices including memo book, calculator, stop watch, alarm, clock, world time, calendar and so on. The battery too lasts long for maximum of up to 4.5 hours talk time and 600 hours stand by time.
LG Cookie KP501 Mobile Phone
January 1, 2010
Here is a mobile phone for tech-buffs. With motion sensor games, auto-rotating display to its media player, LG KP501 has everything special to offer you. Being similar to LG KP500 in many ways, it employs a 3 inches touch screen display that allows you to control all phone features through its wide touch screen. Other than its touch screen mode, you can use the stylus pen supplied with it for navigation through the mobile phone. This display is auto-rotating and you can get view both in landscape as well as portrait mode.
LG Cookie KP501 Touch Screen Mobile Phone employs a bar design and measures 106.5mm long, 55.4mm wide and 11.9mm thick. It weighs just 89 grams. Overall, the phone offers a comfortable hold and a seamless fit into the pocket. Its 3 inches display has a good resolution of 240 X 400 pixels. Regarding its messaging service, this cellular phone supports text, multimedia and e-mail messaging services. You can input the text using the T9 or the on-screen QWERTY keypad. For access to internet there is a WAP browser.
There are plenty of entertainment features integrated in LG Cookie KP501. It has a music player that plays back MP3 files that enables you to listen to your favourite tracks. With its FM radio, you can tune into your favourite stations. The next highlight is its motion sensor game that uses the built-in motion sensors to respond to your hand movements. Advanced sounds, movements and effects grant you a new entertainment experience. Finally, this LG Phone has a 3MP camera, by which you can capture videos as well as still images. This mobile handset is bluetooth enabled and hence, it is easy for you to transfer music or image files to and from the device.
There is no worry on the memory of this handset. LG Cookie KP501 3MP Camera Mobile Phone has 48MB internal memory, which could be expanded up to 8GB using a microSD memory card. There is an excellent personal information management system and call function as well, which allow you to manage your mundane things without any stress. Overall, LG Cookie KP501 is for those tech-buffs who looks for entertainment as well as practical features.
LG KF150 Slider Mobile Phone
December 31, 2009
LG has opened before us a new world of innovation. Their commitment to make our lives better with intelligent and state-of-art technology has granted us innumerable products including mobile phones, TVs, PC and many more. A new reflection of their technology is LG KF510 Mobile Phone. It is a fashion phone and is available in two colours-Stardust dark grey and Sunset red. This works on GSM networks and switches between the three bands automatically.
LG KF510 Fashion Phone has a 2.2 inches display of QVGA resolution, 240 X 320 pixels. The display supports 262K colours and it provides a brilliant view of images and videos. The display has a light sensor that adjusts the lighting according to the environment, granting a comfortable view to the user. There are touch sensitive controls below the display by which users can access the phone’s menu and features faster.
This LG mobile phone is equipped with an integrated 3MP camera with auto focus facility. This enables the user to capture still images or record videos with LG KF510. The flash attached with it can be used while taking shots in low light conditions. These taken files could be transferred via EDGE, bluetooth or USB. There is an integrated music player that plays back MP3 files in it for the users to listen to music. Users can even tune into their favourite station using its in-built FM Radio.
Furthermore, LG KF510 3MP Camera Mobile Phone has WAP browser for internet access. Regarding the messaging services, it supports text, multimedia and e-mail messaging services. Overall, this is an easy-to-use fashion phone with features to entertain users that comes with a budget friendly price tag. This slim and compact slider phone measures 104.5mm long, 49.5mm wide and 10.9mm thick. It weighs around 110grams.
