HTC Touch Viva

HTC Touch Viva is the next version of the traditional HTC Touch with upgraded software and additional RAM. Looks Slightly improved than its predecessor but no big deal. Again this smartphone device is a non-3G GSM handset with WiFi enabled.

The screen on the HTC Touch Viva is a 2.8 inch, 240 x 320 pixel touch-sensitive panel. On the back is the same old 2 megapixel camera. The Touch Viva supports Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and microSD expandable memory. Internal memory is increased to 128MB (up from 64MB in the traditional HTC Touch), and the operating system is new Windows Mobile 6.1 with HTC's enhanced TouchFLO interface running on top.

The HTC Touch Viva runs on a 210 MHz TI OMAP 820 processor, the same as the original Touch. This isn't particularly fast, but enough.
HTC Viva comes with a 1100 mAh battery can now give this phone up to 8 hours talktime and 11 days standby time. This definately is a significant improvement over the original Touch. The Touch Viva comes at 105 x 49 x 16mm dimensions, but slightly lighter at 110 grams.
This phone should be launched pretty soon and the costing should be around the same as that of the traditional Touch.

On a whole, this phone is a upgraded version of the traditional Touch but lacks 3G. You can go for the HTC Touch 3G if you are so interested in 3G. Otherwise phone is cool and compact.

HP iPAQ Data Messenger

The second phone that the HP is coming up in next couple of months is the all new HP iPAQ Data Messenger which is a touchscreen device that takes all of the features of the Voice Messenger and then adds a larger display and a QWERTY keyboard. This is for all those who dont like the traditional QWERTY keyboard (BlackBerry style).
Still featuring high-speed 3.5G downloads and uploads, GPS, WiFi and a 3.1 megapixel camera, this iPAQ model comes with a large 2.8" 320 x 240 pixel touchscreen display, plus a pretty conventional looking slide-out keyboard. The display is a 320 x 240 pixel panel, which is not really up to the mark as expected but is kind of good. The iPAQ Data Messenger's tri-band HSDPA and HSUPA data support impress as of its twin brother, the HP iPAQ Voice messenger. The Data Messenger is definately bigger and heavier than the Voice Messenger at 160 grams in weight and 114 x 57 x 17mm in size, but for a touchscreen device like this it's pretty reasonable.
The expected price for this sim-free phone is around 500Euros and should be available in a month.
On a whole, a very well crafted smartphone which is worth taking a look at.

Nokia 7100 SuperNova

The recently announced Nokia 7100 Supernova is a low-end to mid-end slider phone from nokia which may not compete with the recent high end like Nokia 5130 music Xpress or the Nokia 7610 Supernova but comes with a very low price of 75 euros approx.

This phone comes with a GSM triband support. It features TFT 262k colors scrren with a 240x320 pixel dsplay, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Opera Mini browser, Flash Lite 2.1.1, MicroSD card slot and 1.3 MP camera. This phone also includes Ovi email services for creating personal email accounts on your phone and image sharing facilities. Despite its low price tag, it is fully feature packed.

It isn't really a great looking phone. Previous "Supernova" handsets have been very stylish, but the 7100 simply doesn't compare with the attractive predecessors like Nokia 7610 Supernova. At 104 grams, it is quite heavy and the stand by time is 360 hours with a maximum talktime of just 3.5 hours.. which is pretty short.

On a whole, this average looking phone carries a lot of features at a relatively low cost which will possibly attract the middle class consumers.

Sagem/Porsche P9522

Remember Fly Hummer GT?? It seems like more and more car manufacturers are launching their own mobile devices. The newest device in this trend is the Sagem/Porsche P9522 candybar phone, and, as its name says it, it is made by Sagem in collaboration with Porsche. Surely this is going to be a stunning return to the mobile arena by Sagem.

The Sagem P9522 is of a candy-bar design constructed in an aluminium chassis, and sports a 5 megapixel camera, 2.8 inch display, WiFi, fingerprint reader, GPS and a microSD expansion slot. The Sagem 9522 is a touchscreen device with a reinforced mineral glass. The fingerprint reader can be termed one of the unique features that very few phones in the current market hold.

Though Sagem has failed to add 3G features to this masterpiece and lacks latest technology, this phone can be termed as a stylishly designed cool device people will love to own.

Nokia 8800 - carbon Arte

Complete Stainless Steel body with an OLED screen which stands this phone out of the normal crowd. Carrying a huge price tag, this phone is surely a piece of art.

The latest edition of the Nokia 8800 series, the carbon Arte as the name suggests looks a total carbon beauty. The latest addition to this masterpiecs is an upgraded memory with 4GB internal and even the body is made of carbon fibre (Remember F1 Cars??) and titanium which makes it lighter as compared to the earlier version.

This 3G phone from Nokia comes with a 3 MegaPixel camera (with autofocus) and 2" 16M color OLED display with QVGA resolution. If you are thinking that the big money that you are going to spend is only on this beauty then hold on, this is not all: The sales package includes a matching Bluetooth headset and desk stand plus a "story booklet" to tell you about the Carbon Arte's design story. Unlike some other "premium" phones, the Carbon Arte is actually quite useful as a communication device. Custom ringtones and themes that change throughout the day complement the design of the 8800 Carbon Arte to make the whole experience very impressive. One nice touch is that the Carbon Arte comes with a special coating to help reduce fingerprints and smudges.

The biggest flaw in this beauty is its awful price tag of 1600USD which is twice as much of other much advanced phones in the current market. Well, if you admire beauty and want to stand out of the crowd even by shelling out some extra dollars then this is the phone for you!!

LG KS500

The all new LG KS500 is one of those handsets from LG that may not impress you with its first looks but certainly has a bundle of features that will surely gonna be attractive to an end user. This cool looking slider comes with a 3 MegaPixel camera, a QVGA display, GPS reciever, multimedia player and certainly an attractive price tag.

It's a bit of an oddity in our opinion, as the KS500 is very similar in specification to the existing KT520 slider, which also has HSDPA and a slighly better camera. This new device from LG is NOT a smartphone. The LG KS500 is the first handset by the South Korean company to feature an optical touchpad. It helps navigation through the menus or the web browser.
The LG KS500 is a tri-band GSM phone which offers dual-band UMTS/HSDPA support. Measuring 102.8 x 49.2 x 14.9 mm doesn't really make it the most compact chap on the block, but still it's nothing too big.

We are not sure about the exact price tag yet, but this one is definately gonna be a low cost competitor in the market.

LG Prada II

The first LG Prada or the LG KE850 which was just considered as a fashion phone itself sold over a million units. Imagine what this phone could have done if it was rich in features. That is all about the all new LG PRADA II or the LG KF 900. Although the LG Prada II which looks similar to the original LG Prada, its much more sophisticated with rich enhanced features.

The bissgest difference that this successor of the LG PRADA has is its side slide QWERTY keyboard which is gonna be quite useful as compared to the older version and its definately going to compete against the smartphone giants such as HTC and blackberry.

The LG KF900 also adds a 5 megapixel camera with a Schneider-Kreuznach lens. Other features include 3G compatibility with video calling, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, full HTML browser and WiFi.

The display is still a 240 x 400 pixel touch-sensitive panel, and the LG KF900 can play back a variety of media types including MP3, WMA, AAC, MPEG4, H.263 and H.264 files. Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900). WCDMA 900/2100, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA connectivity
When we look at the features overall, here is what it looks like:

3″ WQVGA 400×240 px TFT touchscreen
5 megapixel camera
front camera for video calls
Wi-Fi b/g connectivity
USB 2.0, Bluetooth
Full HTML browsing
FM-Radio
TV-out
microSDHC memory card slot (up to 8GB)
slide-out QWERTY keyboard

With competition more intense than ever in the smartphone market, LG PRADA is going to be one of the tough competitors. But can this phone get the edge over others? Well, for that we have to just wait and see....

HTC Touch HD

Arguably ne of the best smartphones in the market today, the HTC Touch HD comes with an impressive 480x800 pixel screen, a 5 MegaPixel camera, HSDPA and WiFi support, inbuilt GPS and most importantly its a windows mobile.

As the name itself suggests, the best part about the HTC Touch HD as you might think is its display. An impressive and a state of art 3.8 inch WVGA touchscreen which is certainly the best in the smartphone business today. Undoubtedly it can be picked on top of any smart phone's display, even the iPhone 3G is not a match.

The Touch HD features GPS support, so it can be used with Google Maps or another application. This is a quad-band GSM handset with EDGE and GPRS data, plus support for UMTS 900 / 2100 and HSDPA, giving a maximum download speed of up to 7.2 Mbps. The Touch HD can also support HSUPA giving a maximum upload speed of 2 Mbps. It also has 802.11b and g WiFi connectivity.

The standard Windows Mobile 6.1 interface has been enhanced with HTC's excellent TouchFLO 3D add-on. Perhaps this isn't as impressive as the iPhone, but it certainly makes the Windows Mobile experience much more enjoyable.
The standard multimedia support is enhanced by an FM radio and standard 3.5mm audio socket. The HTC Touch HD can play back various AAC, AMR, MP3 and Windows Media formats, plus widescreen video.

The HTC Touch HD has a processor which is a fairly standard Qualcomm MSM7201a running at 528 MHz, but there's a useful 288MB of RAM too which should help with applications. There's also 512MB of Flash memory which can be expanded using microSD or SDHC cards. The large 1350 mAh battery can power the Touch HD for up to 6.5 hours on 3G with a maximum of 18 days standby time, oddly enough the battery life on GSM is just 5 hours talktime and 16 days standby. The whole package measures 115 x 63 x 12mm and weighs 146 grams.

There's no doubt that the HTC Touch HD is a hugely impressive device but lacks a QWERTY keyboard which would have made a difference. For windows mobile users who love multimedia, the HTC Touch HD is the perfect thing to go for.

Samsung GT-i7110

The Samsung GT-i7110 is the latest entry into the Samsung aromory of smartphones which is expected to be released very soon into the market.
The not so impressive looks of the phone doesn't really give a glimpse of how powerful and technically impressive this phone is. The phone carries a 5 MegaPixel camera with auto focus and LED flash in the back. The display of this phone is an advanced 2.6 inch Active Matrix Organic LED which is bound to give a bright and sharp images. Again this phone is a dual band UMTS 900/2100 device with quadband GSM. Also contains HSDPA data support and WiFi. Loaded with in-built radio, this phone supports bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0 as well. This phone also contains a GPS reciever.

The Samsung GT-i7110 as any Samsung mobile carries a good camera which will generate quality pictures and also can capture some cool videos. The Camera has autofocus and also face detection features which makes it a tough competition for any camera phone.

The bad part is that this cool smartphone runs on the Symbian OS which most of the Nokia phones run on. The navigation pad can be used as a mouse, and the i7110 has an accelerometer which should mean that it changes screen orientations automatically.

The GPS functionality of this Samsung phone comes with a driving map and a pedestrian map of major European cities. Another clever feature is that the satellite navigation function also uses the FM transmitter, so you can listed to spoken directions on your car's loudspeakers.

Samsung GT-i7110 comes with a large 1200 mAh cell that can power this phone for up to 6 hours talktime on 3G and 11 hours on GSM, with a standby time of around 17 or 18 days.

Undoubtedly this new baby from Samsung is a bundle of features but not sure if it can sustain the growing competition and technology.

Samsung GT - C6620 Preview

Samsung is entering the smartphone market on a vert aggressive note and this phone is an example for that. The all new Samsung GT-C6620 is a Windows 6.1 enabled smartphone which has the HSDPA support for accessing/transferring data at hgh speeds. The normal features like bluetooth, MP3 player, micro SD card exits in this phone along with a QWERTY keyboard. The camera that this phone carries is a 2.0 MP camera with not so good resolutions. ALso the display is not really cool as it is a standard QVGA display.

The Samsung GT-C6620 is styled like a typical BlackBerry but weighs only 109 grams and measures 113 x 63 x 12mm. The expected maximum talktime is 7 hours and up to 12 days standby time for GSM usage.

This phone is not a high end one. If you are a blackberry fan, you are gonna like it as it comes in cool colors and also much cheper than the similar Blackberrys.

The Samsung GT-C6620 is expected to hit the European markets soon.