HTC Smart Mobile Phone
May 6, 2010
In a world where smartphones heaving with features are most sought after, HTC has carved a market for itself through the HTC Smart. This mobile phone is smart in more ways than one – it’s a heart-warming balance of adequate features, effective functionality and affordability, a combination of which could take it even higher than it presently is. The phone is targeted at youngsters, so it’s obviously loaded with a lot of fun features. One of our favourites is the HTC Sense platform. One of the coolest things about this UI is the ‘Scenes’ functionality.
Put in simple terms, its a set of different home screen layouts that you can customize to suit your mood for the day. For example, the screen for your busy days will have icons for internet access, email and calender and the screen for your days of relaxation will give you one-touch access to music, photos and more. Well, the themes functionality is so much fun, you can play with it for hours on end – we did!
The HTC Smart lets you configure your contacts the way you like – it’s not all that a unique feature, though, we get to see it in every block of wood labeled ’smartphone’. But again, it’s fun to arrange your favourite contacts in a grid. The Smart’s form factor has ‘HTC’ written all over it – the curved edges and the black slabby design has been endured previously. But Smart is pretty small, with a rather modest 2.8” touch-sensitive display. There are short-cut keys for call, terminate options, an obvious ‘back’ button that also doubles as a menu key and a tiny funnily placed button that brings up the on-screen menus.
This SMARTphone does not muck about. It’s straight, it’s simple. It has a basic 3MP camera with flash at the back and runs on a 300 MHz processor. Internal memory sported is a meager 256 MB, but there’s a microSD card slot, though. It ships with a multimedia player that can handle .aac, .amr, .qcp, .mid, .m4a, .mp3, .wma and .wav formats along with a 3.5 mm stereo audio jack.
Messaging is another function that’s quite comfortable, all thanks to the on-screen keyboard. Connectivity is taken care of by Bluetooth 2.0 and the device is equipped with an average 1100 mAh battery. At almost £180, the HTC Smart is definitely smarter than it’s more expensive counterparts.
LG GT540 Android Mobile Phone
February 11, 2010
LG has moved on to its second android mobile phone-GT540. Leaked out in November 2009, LG GT540 did not create any big bangs in the mobile phone arena. It showed its face at CES 2010 last month, and the first look of this new mobile phone, gave us a feel that LG has worked well on its appearance, with slight curves on the top and bottom. The glossy look and the availability of handset in white, pink, grey and black colours, hint that the market of this mobile phone is solely youth.
Scheduled to be released in Q1 2010, LG GT540 Android Mobile Phone is designed to work on quad-band GSM networks and is capable for global roaming. It supports EDGE and GPRS for data services, and has a 3G capability too. It appears that this GSM mobile phone runs on Android 2.0 platform. Similar to LG GW620, this android mobile phone features a 3 inches touch-screen display of resolution 320 X 480 pixels.
There is a 3 mega pixels camera integrated into LG GT540 3G Mobile Phone. It is said to feature an auto focus and a face detection technology. Let us wait till its release to know more about its performance. A major selling point of this GSM mobile phone seems to be its social networking aspect. With SNS manager, GT540 extends support for Facebook, Twitter and Bebo.
The media player of LG GT540 GSM Mobile Phone is capable to play back MPEG4, DivX, WMV and MP3 files. You can enjoy your favourite radio stations as well. The amount of on-board memory is not known. However, you can expand its internal memory up to 32GB using a microSD memory card. The usual USB, bluetooth and HTML connectivities will be available in this mobile handset. There is no hint on the presence of Wi-Fi and GPS.
There is nothing much to talk on LG GT540’s specifications further, but its design seems to be interesting. Stay tuned for its release, which is said to be in April 2010.
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.
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