An addition to the E-series of Nokia which includes E50, E70 and E90 is the E51. The Nokia E51 is a Symbian OS smartphone and has been dubbed as the direct replacement of the E50. Nokia E51 has also been categorized among candy-bar phone types which have been consistently praised for their great designs.
The Nokia E51 has a dimension of 114.8 x 6 x 12 millimeters and is available in black, silver or bronze and is made of durable stainless steel. The slim smartphone’s design is a reserved and simplistic one, reminiscent of the earlier Nokia models, but it remains compact and very comfortable to the pocket. It weighs 100 grams and features a 2-inch TFT display with 16M colors at a 240 x 320 pixel resolution. The LCD also offers an ambient light sensor and LED light indicator which is useful for detecting missed calls and unread messages and e-mails.
Below the screen are shortcut keys and a keypad that is comfortable use. It also includes a Home key that will bring back the user to a standby screen. Buttons on the side are rubberized: volume, power and record. The 2.0 Megapixel camera and speakers are located on the backside.
Nokia E51 has a number of important features on its keypads. Among these is the one-touch dedicated buttons for e-mail, contacts and calendar application and they are also customizable. Activating the E51′s connectivity options is a breeze, by pressing the * button to launch Bluetooth and 0 for the Web Browser. Dedicated keys are also available for muting calls that can be used during a conference call.
Going back to connectivity, E51 supports dualband 3G/HSDPA on 850/2100MHz frequencies, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth stereo, infrared, 2.5mm audio jack, and mini-USB port. It’s also a good news that the mini-USB port and the charging port are separated unlike the other slim Nokia phones wherein these ports were unified into one. The memory is also expandable up to 4GB with a microSD card. The E51 has the following preinstalled applications: Active Notes, In-device Search, Team Suite and Quickoffice, although the version of the Quickoffice can only view documents. Users can download Windows Live services such as Live Messenger, Gizmo for VoIP calls and Yahoo! Go.
The 2-megapixel camera, which may not be at par when matched with normal cameras, is still sufficient for simple snapshots. Other multimedia features in Nokia E51 include Visual Radio, a music player that can play MP3, AAC and other music formats, FM radio, video streaming and playback in H.264 (MPEG-4), 3gpp and Real codecs.
There are two 6500 handsets that were launched by Nokia. One is the 6500 classic and the other is the 6500 slide. The 6500 Classic is the direct successor of the Nokia 6300, embodying the super-slim mobile phones in the tradition of Motorola RAZR V3. While some users have criticized Nokia 6500 Classic for paying more attention on the design, it showed that the focus has paid off as it became the slimmest Nokia phone at 9.5 mm thin.
This sleek and sophisticated-looking phone has a 320 x 240 pixel LCD display in a dimension of 109.8 x 45 x 9.5 mm and weighs 94 grams in black and bronze aluminum casing. It also features an average-sized alphanumeric keypad with buttons separated with strip of silver bars. These buttons are easy to press even in the dark especially that it is well-lit in white, contrasting the dark color scheme of the handset. Only one port is developed for the micro-USB socket and headset. This unifying move may have been an advantage for the aesthetics but it sacrificed the possibility of multi-tasking. On the back side of the camera are the 2.0 Mega-pixel camera, LED flash light and speakers. Nokia 6500 classic’s 2.0 Mega-pixel camera may not fair accordingly with other camera phones.
Image quality is poor, although the LED light can provide improvements when used in dark environment. One of the achievements of 6500 is the inclusion of the 3G, although it still lacks video call support. This quadband smartphone supports the following network types: GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900. Aside from the 3G, it also offers GPRS, Java, Bluetooth, A2DP and USB connectivity options.
Multimedia capabilities of Nokia 6500 Classic include a media player that support AAC, eAAC+ and MP3 formats and some videos, although there are no FM tuners. The media player can sort tracks by play lists according to artists, albums, genres and has the following playback options: shuffling, repeating, stereo widening and equalizer customizing. Games in 6500 Classic are Golf Tour, Rally 3D, Snake III and Sudoku. A user who will buy this unit must expect the following in the package: stereo headset, charger, battery, micro-USB connectivity cable, user guide, contemporary leaflet and CD-ROM.
While a number of users might get disappointed with the limitations of Nokia 6500 classic, some will still fall in love with such a beautiful gadget. The elegant design can easily slide over its shortcomings.
The deluge of mobile phones from has appeared to be unstoppable. Mobile users might have gone to thinking: among the units that are being released by Nokia every year, which are the most recommended? Which unit stands out among the rest? Judging underneath the school of design, Nokia 6300 definitely stands out.
Mobile enthusiasts would agree that Nokia 6300 is one among the most tactile phones that they have ever used, amidst Nokia’s release of its batch of high-end handsets. Cased in an expensive black glossy plastic and stainless steel covers, 6300 has a dimension of 4.2 x 1.7 x 0.5 inches and weight of 3.2 ounces. The screen displays up to 16 million colors at a 320 x 240 pixel resolution (QVGA), bright and good for viewing texts, photos and videos.
One of 6300′s greatest ergonomic assets is the large keypads, making it very easy to use. The bottom of the unit is where the charging port is located, as well as the 2.5 mm headset jack and mini-USB port, used for connecting the phone to the PC. Whenever the phone receives a new message, the blue LED in the sides will also light.
There’s nothing really new with Nokia 6300 on the features section, although cramping all the necessary functions in a more compact and aesthetically-promising gadget is a surprise in itself, aside from the fact that it’s very simple to use and easy to understand. Uses can view the menu either as icons, tabs or list and choose the applications they need to operate. Among 6300′s multimedia offerings are the 2.0 Mega-pixel camera, music player, video player, FM radio and voice recorder. The camera, which is located on the back side of the phone, can takes pictures and videos. Settings include timer and night mode, but there no built-in flash and auto focus.
Connectivity options with 6300 include Bluetooth and GPRS/EDGE. The GPRS/EDGE works well with the pre-installed Opera Web Browser. There is also a Bluetooth presenter for controlling PowerPoint presentations and sensor application for sharing pictures and information using Bluetooth. Java applications can be installed in 6300 using the Nokia PC Suite.
The 6300′s media player supports the following formats:MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, H.263 and H.264. a 2GB microSD card can be installed for saving music and video files. An FM radio is also available. It also includes an email client that supports Gmail and Yahoo mail services. Other features include voice recorder, alarm clock, calendar, to-do list, notes, calculator, countdown timer, stopwatch and Java games. Phone critics definitely gave Nokia 6300 a deserving passing score in the ergonomics area, however it has a number of downplays, including the low-resolution camera, slow GPRS and lack of 3G.
Music lovers, photography savants and cellular phone enthusiasts, unite! Motorola’s offering, the ROKR E8, has ultimately merged the power of phone, camera and music player all in one package and no single feature has compromised for the benefit of the other. ROKR E8 has seen the fad coming, incorporating 2GB of internal memory plus a 4GB card support for everyone’s multimedia needs. Cherish such big space and put as much photos and music as you want, and bring them all together, anywhere!
Released in April 2008, the ROKR E8 has a dimension of 115 x 53 x 10.6 mm and has a weight of 100 grams. Its large 2 inch (320 x 240 pixels) QVGA 262k color TFT display has 256K colors and incorporates a navigation scroll wheel (also known as the “Omega Wheel”) that allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library via the slide of a thumb and a touch-sensitive keypad. The big thing with the keypad is that is the most innovative feature in the package, with its controls changing in every mode. In the phone mode, the digits would remain as a number, in camera mode, it would change to zoom in and zoom out and in music, it will become play/pause, shuffle and repeat.
Ring tones come in polyphonic, MP3 or AAC formats and the phones, includes a 3.5 mm headset jack for those who feels more convenience in using a headset in accepting calls. Going back to its memory, it can allot call records to 50 dialed, 50 received and 50 missed calls.
ROKR E8 is Bluetooth-enabled and supports A2DP, HSP, HFP, FTP, DUN, OPP and other profiles. It can be synched in a PC and is armed with a version 2.0 USB. Messaging with ROKR E8 can be done via MMS, 2-way text messaging and E-mail, with PoP3, IMAP 4 and SMTP protocols support. It also includes an iTAP-technology predictive text entry feature. You can connect to the Internet via WAP. It lacks Infrared and 3G features.
Among its stunning feature is the 2.0 mega pixel camera which can accommodate pictures with 1500 x 1200 pixel-dimensions as well as video. The maximum video length is dependent on the remaining memory. Also, add up the 8x zoom, multi-shot, and video capture and playback features. The music feature, on the other hand, includes stereo FM radio with 30 presets and music player that supports any of the following formats: AAC, AAC+, MP3, WAV, WMA and Real Audio. Airplane mode is also added to play uninterrupted music in the air, even with the lack of a SIM card. Another outstanding feature is the presence of the talk feature that offers a voice readout of text messages while dialing number or when receiving a call.
One of the biggest criticisms of the ROKR E8 is its supposed more focus on the music feature than on the phone features, nevertheless the phone deserves an applause for jumping into a different terrain still considered as one of the best emerging phones to watch for.
The reinvented sliding design that Motorola RIZR Z8 possesses is what it boasts for. This smart phone model, pronounced as “riser,” also goes by the much simpler name, MOTO Z8, has its sliding design feature a combination of aesthetic and great function, allowing the phone to curve on itself to conform to the user’s face when he/she talks on it. Definitely, the availability of the clamshell design of previous RAZR models are always in the run for comparison, but MOTO Z8 deservingly rise itself as a hipper, more stylish way to communicate. Before RIZR Z10 was released, Z9 has been Motorola’s flagship phone.
Owning a dimension of 109 x 50 x 15 mm and weighing 112 grams, the MOTO Z8 boasts its 2.2 inch, TFT-type 16 million-color QVGA display (240 x 320 pixels). It also includes a 2.0 mega-pixel camera, screensavers and wallpapers, although users can also download new ones. Just like other smart phones, it also features ring tones, both polyphonic and mp3 formats. It also includes a card slot for microSD although it already has a 77MB internal memory. Its battery life is impressive as well, with five hours (talk time) and 380 hours (standby time).
Its phonebook is practically unlimited, as well as its call records, so storing your friends’ contacts, definitely if you have lots of them, will never be an issue anymore.
And just like other recent phones, it features photo caller ID, ringer ID, ringer profiles and voice dialing. Other add-on features are alarm, calculator, calendar, to-do-list and voice recorder.Messaging capabilities of MOTO Z8 includes SMS (text messaging) MMS, and E-mail clients, as well as the predictive text entry feature and text messaging template. It also features 3.6Mbps HSDPA providing mobile broadband and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, AVRCP, DUN, HFP and SPP, and fax capability. The phone’s software is being run by the Symbian UIQ operating system and can be connected to the Internet via the WAP 2.0 web browser. As it was designed in the newest 3G GSM network, MOTO Z8 is very much commendable in all types of data and voice transmission.
As like other seemingly perfect phones, the MOTO Z8 wouldn’t pass the perfect remark. One of the greatest issues the it is facing is the lack of protective casing that shall cover the display of the buttons, making it prone to scratches that may damage the phone. The other big problem lies on its choice of backend operating system. Although the Symbian could be a promising choice, a question in stability has always been brought up and it could affect the speed and usability of the phone. Nonetheless, the MOTO Z8 is a beautiful catch, especially if you are looking for a phone that you think will give you the edge in the world of fashion and convenient living in the now-growing sophisticated communication world.
The ever-growing and evolving mobile technology has been trying to surpass every mobile unit out in the market and offer something new, with the goal of advancing each new product release an innovative functionality and slowly stuffing out all the features of the bulky personal computer into one small mobile phone. With this emerge the popularity of such mobile havens like the Blackberry which gave rise to the popularity of pocket e-mail. Recently, Motorola has introduced what others have been declaring as Blackberry’s competitor, the Motorola Q9h. Just like other Motorola phones, the Q9h is well-known for its style and design, sporting a slick slim look. It was formerly known as Q Q9, a 3G HSDPA GSM phone but with a few change and improvement in specifications, it was then renamed into what it is more popular name.
With dimensions 4.64″ x 2.63 x 0.46 inches, Q9h is slightly slimmer than the Black Berry, but is heavier at 134 grams. Equipped with a spacious QWERTY keyboard, the Q9h is one great text messaging device. The keyboard of the Q9h has been hailed as one of the market’s best as typing has been a very convenient task to do with it. It can send text messages and MMS as well, and it also includes the predictive text entry feature. Its lithium ion battery is impressive for standing the test of time at 480 hours or 20 days (standby time) and 6.5 hours (talk time).
This slim Windows Mobile smart phone is very distinguishable with its landscape-oriented display, the larger width making it a more convenient tool for texting and Internet browsing. The colored LCD display has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and has 65, 536 colors. Q9h’s 2.0 mega pixel camera features fixed focusing and an LED flash. You can also capture video clips at a resolution of QVGA (320×240 pixels. The phone also includes a music player that supports MP3, AAC, WMA and MPEG4 and video streaming as well. It also includes GPS navigation. And just like other smart phones, the Q9h also offers the following tools: alarm, calculator, calendar, To-Do list and voice recorder.
Q9h is a quad-band GSM that makes it work in networks on any continent. It 3G support on the other hand is limited depending on the version. It’s just a shame that Q9h doesn’t have WiFi or wireless LAN. The phone has Bluetooth and can support HFP, A2DP, AVRC and other list of profiles. It can also play Java applications. One can visit the Internet via Opera 8.6 web browser. And unlike other Windows Mobile 6 phones, Q9h is equipped with “Documents To Go” applications instead of the Microsoft Mobile Office applications which is used to open Word, Excel and PowerPoint files although they are not that good as compared with the Mobile Office.
As long as performance is at stake, the Q9h can be a commendable one, both as a computer and phone although it has been flunked by other users for the lack of WiFi. The only sure thing is that, Q9h is the phone that emerged as a rival for the BlackBerry phones.
If you are looking for a mobile phone that offers the most commendable of features while in itself an impressive aesthetic work, then Motorola A1200 or most popular on its other name, is the most recommended product for an important wrap of fashion and function. This smarphone of stunning beauty is the fourth generation of Motorola’s Linux devices. It is armed with Bluetooth, a document viewer, FM radio, music player, and a business card reader.
Love at first sight would always bring a prospective buyer to the Motorola Ming. Boasting a sophisticated clamshell design in colors blue, red or black, it has a dimension is 95.7 x 51.7 x 21.5 mm and weighs 122 grams. Ming’s screen is unusually and interestingly located at the bottom of the flip-top. The top portion is made of plastic to serve as the touch screen’s
protection from dust and scratches. Touch screen haters need not attempt to buy this product because there are no keypads in this unit, with all your inputs totally dependent to the touch screen, a TFT Color type of display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 262,144 18-bit colors. It is also equipped with handwriting and speech recognition, both in English and in Chinese. There are three vestigial buttons in the phone’s front part. And despite the relatively smaller dimensions of its touch screen, it is easy to work with.
Battery life is impressive at 7.4 hours talk time and 7.1 days standby time. It has a card slot for a micro SD card that can store up to 2 GB size of files. It has 8 MB built-in user memory and 3.5 MB phonebook memory and has an Intel XScale 312MHz processor. Ming has a built-in mini-USB connector as well as Bluetooth connection which support a variety of profiles: HSP, HFP, AVRC, OPP and a lot more.
Messaging with Ming can be done via Email, MMS and SMS, while one can choose to make or accept voice calls via the speaker phone or a headset jack. Additional features include FM radio, Real One Player that supports MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC+ and AMR music formats and video files, a 2.0 megapixel camera, and a video capture with a maximum length of two hours. The camera produces a decent photo quality with noticeable flaws especially in the oranges and reds which usually appear very unnatural.
It also includes a talking dictionary and one game, Extreme Air Snowboarding, although you are free to download more games and applications in your convenience, Despite the beauty Ming possesses, a lot of enthusiasts have been disappointed with the absence of 3G and Wi-Fi, and the low internal memory.
Introducing the LG Voyager in the market proved that the best features can be merged into a single unit. Also known as the LG Voyager VX10000, this smartphone even offers additional multimedia features such as mobile TV and a huge touch screen, earning its prestige being LG’s rival to the iPhone. While the two units’ features are almost in comparison, the Voyager even fared higher with its inclusion of 3G, MMS, stereo Bluetooth and GPS, which the iPhone lack.
Just like the iPhone, the LG Voyager threw away the keypad and incorporated a touch screen. The phone that measures 4.64 x 2.12 x 0.71 inches and weighs 4.69 ounces is bulky and may feel a little bit uncomfortable if kept in the pants’ pocket. Nevertheless, the Voyager will always be lined up among the league of most stylish smartphones.
LG Voyager’s touch screen measures 2.81 inches, supporting 262K colors at a resolution of 400 x 240 pixels. The screen can display sharp texts and vibrant and colorful graphics and animations.
It shows the date, time, and signal strength and battery life in standby mode. It works as a viewfinder in camera mode. The touch screen is easy to use and can access the phone’s different features. Voyager’s screen can be manipulated by tapping or by holding the finger to the screen and moving it around, reminiscent to dragging a mouse in a computer. This action is good for scrolling long articles and web pages. However, the touch screen doesn’t support handwriting recognition, and typing be done with the internal full QWERTY keyboard
Clear key and Talk key are the only navigation controls in front of the Voyager. The left spine of the phone includes the volume rocker, camera shutter and display lock. The right spine includes the microSD card and headset jack. The bottom of the phone includes the charger port and antenna, while the back side is where the camera lens is located. On the other hand, the internal part of the Voyager brings users to an impressive array of mobile aesthetics. It showcases a big screen, sharing the same size of the external screen, between speakers. The screen, however, does not offer touch screen features.
There is also a truckload of features in the Voyager. Phone features include a 1,000-contact phone book, vibrate mode, SMS and MMS, a calendar, an alarm clock, a world clock, a stopwatch, a notepad, a tip calculator, and a voice memo recorder.
Connectivity features include USB mass storage, instant messaging, integrated 3G, Bluetooth 1.2 for headsets, dial-up networking, file transfer, object push, and A2DP stereo sound. The only disappointment of the Voyager is that it lacks Wi-Fi. The 2.0 megapixel camera may appear to be a disappointment for camera phone aficionados, but it remains commendable to some and may appear to be a very minor misdemeanor.
The inclusion of 3G makes another feature of the Voyager at its best: the music player and the Mobile TV. The Mobile TV brings users to a wide variety of channels including CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV, NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go, and Nickelodeon. However, users are required to pay a monthly fee to acquire such services.
Voyager offers 180MB of internal memory, quite big as compared to other smartphones, although it’s always advisable for users to expand their memory up to 8GB with the microSD card.
Users who are thinking that the LG Voyager is the “it” thing in the line of LG phones should consider checking out LG enV2. Referred as the true successor to the LG enV franchise, the enV2 is almost identical with the enV as far as features are concerned, but it has been praised for sporting a sleeker and slimmer design. While others have found the LG Voyager as a good unit on its own, some would prefer to check the enV2 first.
The enV2 is a candy bar headset sporting a dimension of 4 x 2.13 x 0.65 inches and weight of 4.23 ounces, 40 percent thinner and 30 percent lighter than its enV predecessor. The phone can be stored in the pocket of the pants comfortably, and can be gripped easily. The comfort is attributed to the soft touch surface on the phone’s back and its flat front surface. It also boasts a chic design, with a keypad configuration that makes enV2 look like a calculator.
The problem with the miniaturization of the enV2 is that the screen is compromised, measuring 1.45 inches only with a resolution of 164 x 64 inches, although it runs in 262,000 colors.
This sacrifice gave room to a roomy keypad, which sounds to be an acceptable excuse. The display allows viewing of date, time, battery life, signal strength and photo caller ID. It also acts as a camera viewfinder. Below the screen is the keypad, with keys divided by curved delineations.
Env2′s navigation array is composed of a Clear Key, music player key, an up and down navigation toggle, the middle OK key, and the Send and End/Power keys. A dedicated camera key and volume rocker are located on the left spine and a microSD card slot and headset jack on the right side. The 2-Megapixel camera is located on the backside. The phone can also be flipped open up to 180 degrees to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard plus an internal display which measures 2.4 inches diagonally, and a The QVGA display supports 262,000 colors and resolution of 320×240 pixels.
As mentioned earlier, the enV2 shows to be an aesthetic upgrade, but not on the features side as it only mimicked what’s available with the enV. Basic features include a 1,000-entry phone book, vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, voice commands and dialing, a speakerphone, instant messaging, a calendar, an alarm clock, a world clock, a notepad, a tip calculator, and a voice-memo recorder.
Connectivity options with the the enV2 include e-mail support, web browser, USB and a text-to-speech feature, access to Web e-mail like Yahoo and Gmail, text-to-speech feature and a line of Bluetooth profiles (hands-free, dial-up networking, A2DP or stereo, phone-book access, basic printing, basic imaging, file transfer and a lot more).
Multimedia capabilities of enV2 includes the EV-DO support that gives full access to Verizon’s range of 3G services like V Cast Video and V Cast Music. It includes a music player that support MP3, WMA and AAC files.
Call this the touch screen gadget of the masses as this is probably the cheapest of its kind in the market to date. Sporting a fancy interface, the LG Cookie KP500 promises more than well, fanciness, but a phone that meets into any lifestyle’s needs and caprices
In the design arena, the LG marks a high-five. It has a understated but smart-looking slim, matte black casing with a large touchscreen and 3-megapixel camera on the back. The non-glass touchscreen is a little disappointment though as it stepped out of the norm but the resistive technology, which requires its users to apply more pressure in every press, is more responsive yet little slower for testing and dialing.
Comparison with the iPhone 3G should stop at this point, especially with design, as the LG Cookie sports three mechanical buttons underneath the screen compared to the iPhone’s one. These buttons are comprised of a send key, an end-call key and an application shortcut key. It also includes a stylus tucked inside the bottom right panel, best for touch-haters. This provides more accurate drawing and hand-writing recognition.
On the top-right side is where the microSD slot resides, that’s if you need extra memory, which might surely require you for your music needs. Being the cheap iPhone counterpart, groundbreaking features do not storm the LG Cookie. There’s no 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS, so much for your connectivity bulk. However this doesn’t mean that LG Cookie is a heap of metallic trash.
Going back to the interface, it offers an easy-to-use homescreen with widgets that includes a calendar, a clock, different shortcuts to your pictures and music player. You can even move them widgets according to the most used one. The finger-friendly icons menu is similar to Viewty or Renoir’s, but just like them scrolling is a little painful and annoying. Texting and dialing numbers via the QWERTY keypad layout is the best way to input messages, aside from the handwriting recognition, which is a little frustrating at first usages.
The 3-megapixel camera produces commendable still shots and videos for MMS and social networking, but the absence of LED photo light and flash makes this thing very limited. The misdemeanors of the camera must be separated from the photo viewer, which in the contrary, a favorable feature. Skim through your photos effortlessly with a flick of a finger and feel free to add minor edits, texts and funny effects.
Of course, you can make phone calls with this one. But if you want to transform this into a mini netshop, then you have to think twice because the Web browser is a disappointing thing. Imagine being depressed during the WAP days. I know you don’t want to be chased by nightmares. Overall, this phone remains a good choice for people who demand aesthetics more than the actual performance. Well, this isn’t as expensive as the iPhone, but its form factor will surely turn casual users’ heads.
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