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.

BlackBerry Storm 9500

Welcome to the new kind of BlackBerry - The first touchscreen device from RIM is this Storm 9500 which has most of the features of the earlier variants of BlackBerrys along with a brand new display.

The touch sensitive display is the most arguable feature of this beast and certainly RIM has done an excellent job by coming up with such a wonderful touch screen. The operating mechanism on the touch screen is of two folds. First, select the option you want to execute by selecting it on the touch screen. This highlights the feature. Then you have to "click" on it to execute. This makes the BlackBerry Storm 9500's touchscreen very user friendly as compared to a traditional touch screens. The 3.25-inch screen itself is bright, colorful and high-resolution (480 x 360). Video playback is sharp and smooth, and the extra pixels on the large screen means eye fatigue won't be much of an issue. The lack of a QWERTY keyboard should not be an issue as the touchscreen hosts a keyboard while typing in a landscape mode. The Storm automatically switches between modes when rotated, so if you suddenly find that you need to do some more intensive typing than the SureType arrangement allows then it's a hassle-free transition.

Although the Storm is similar to the user interface of the earlier version of BlackBerry -"Bold", it supports features of touchscreen similar to iPhone like taps, slides and multi-touch which makes it more usable. The Storm 9500 also has a built-in GPS receiver and a navigation function. It comes with a 3.2 MegaPixel camera having autofocus and flash for high resolution pictures.

The Storm 9500 supports both business usage and normal consumer usage as it contains push email, document editors, and also media player for music which makes it a complete smartphone. The sad part is that this 3G device DOES NOT support WiFi.

It's quite a hefty device at 155 grams and 113 x 62 x 14mm in size. The large 1400 mAh battery can give up to 5.5 hours talktime and 15 day standby time on 3G, which is impressive. The overall design is smart but unexciting, with just four physical keys on the front underneath the large screen. Internal Memory is 1GB, expandable by up to 16GB using microSD cards.

On a whole, this phone has lot of cool features but on the other hand lacks WiFi which is a big blow. Again, this phone could be very useful for a corporate user as the keyboard and the screen are flawless also adding up a cool camera and good music player.

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.