The Nokia N95 is Nokia's flagship mobile phone (sorry - "multimedia computer"), and so you'd expect it to be laden with features. As this Nokia N95 review shows, though, the features that it does come with are staggering.
Full Sat-Nav abilities, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, DVD-quality video recording, great MP3 player, Wi-Fi and HSDPA for 10x faster downloads are just some of the headline features of this amazing phone.
What's more impressive though, is that these aren't just gimmicks: they actually work! For example, any-one can throw a GPS receiver into a mobile phone, but unless you've got the right software, it's no more use than a compass.
With the N95, Nokia have created a mobile phone that's actually better than many Sat-Nav devices currently on the market!
It's the same for all the other gadgets it manages to combine, too. Everything about the N95 is superb (except maybe battery life!), so it seems only right that it gets a proper super-review.
Read on for a full review of the Nokia N95, including sample photos and videos, plus a couple of video reviews so you can see it in action.
Posted on Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 7:22 pm by Mike Evans Filed under Nokia, Nokia N95
Posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 at 12:46 am by Mike Evans Filed under Motorola, Motorola Z8
This is the new Motorola Z8, the media monster that Motorola CEO Ed Zander mentioned last week during his keynote speech at Software 2007.
And for once, it seems that Motorola has delivered. Rather than simply taking their existing phones and "reinventing" them by basically painting them a different colour, Motorola have finally woken up and pimped the Z8 to extreme levels.
So extreme, in fact, it may actually compete with other manufacturers' handsets!
How extreme? Well how does mobile TV, HSDPA, 16 million colour screen and 4GB of on-board storage sound? And that's just for starters!
Here are a couple of video reviews of the new Sony Ericsson P1i smartphone. Annoyingly, the first review doesn't show much more than the P1's email features and its ability to download new applications, which the Sony Ericsson guy was clearly interested in, but which made me think "yeh great, easy to buy new stuff for it, but show us what it can actually do!"
Anyway, the innovative dual-key keyboard gets a good going over, and you can see how quick(ish!) the user interface is, so it's worth a watch.
You can see the second video of the Sony Ericsson P1i after the jump.
Posted on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 1:21 am by admin Filed under News
Here's an odd question - what do MobileMentalism and Motorola billionaire Carl Icahn have in common? Las Vegas! Yes, Carl Icahn currently owns 3 percent of Motorola, and is pushing for a seat on the board. He's also had big interests in Las Vegas, recently selling The Stratosphere hotel and casino (which also hosts the world's tallest rollercoaster).
And MobileMentalism? Well, there's no seat on the board at Motorola, but I've been known to write about the company, and I've now got a shiny new web site called GloriousLasVegas.com. Featuring news, reviews and tonnes of photos of this crazy place, the site features everything you want to know about holidaying on the strip. Which, should you ever go to CES or CTIA, is exactly what you need!
Posted on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 12:51 am by Mike Evans Filed under News
This must rank as the world's ugliest phone! Looking like a throwback to 1989 phone technology, the VIP 007 is possibly made by Jin'gang - I say possibly, I've tried to translate the page from which this comes, but Babelfish makes a complete hash of the translation!
What I can tell from the translation is that the phone comes with a 2 megapixel camera, USB port, a big ("invincible", according to Babelfish!) loud loudspeaker, and sells for $1,580 Hong Kong dollars.
For some bizarre reason, the phone is branded both inside and out with James Bond imagery, and is even called the 007 phone. Not exactly the type of phone you'd expect the World's coolest secret agent to carry around with him - it's not exactly discrete or cool - but maybe it comes with a hidden grenade launcher that Babelfish hasn't picked up on!
Anyway, enough of the specs and speculation - you're not going to buy this beast! Read on for more pics, and revel in what must be the ugliest phone on sale today!
Posted on Saturday, May 12th, 2007 at 12:39 am by Mike Evans Filed under Leaked Photos, Rumours
Nokia are working on the Nokia N81 (the phone in balck) and Nokia N82, two brand new N-Series phones that are typically high-specced. The Nokia N81 is a music phone with a slider form factor that should replace the Nokia N91, and will come with 8GB internal flash memory. The Nokia N82, meanwhile, will be an even more fully-loaded phone with Wi-Fi, HSDPA and GPS.
Well, that didn't take long! No sooner had Sony Ericsson announced its new S500i phone, than videos of it are already appearing. We already knew it looked great from the pictures, but seeing it in the video shows it also sports a cool-looking new user interface as well.
Sony Ericsson seem to be switching from super-tech phones to designer phones with great features. Although not as tech-heavy as Nokia or Samsung phones, the new Sony Ericsson phones are much better equipped than most designer phones, and should sell by the bucket-load.
Motorola Chief Executive Ed Zander has been speaking about the company's upcoming phones, one of which should be announced in full next Tuesday (15th May). Speaking at Software 2007, Zander calle the new phones a "Media Monster", as it will apparently be capable of showing full length movies at 30 frames per second.
That's not all, though. In a time of financial difficulty for the company, Zander laid out his plans for Motorola to regain profitability - designing super-cool tech-heavy phones. In particular, he want to instill a sense of urgency for innovation with its mobile phones. About time, too!
More details of what he has planned after the jump.
Sony Ericsson have announced the Sony Ericsson T650 phone. Despite coming with an MP3 player and a decent 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, the T650 doesn't sport either the Walkman or CyberShot brands, as most of the rest of its current phones do.
Instead, its name is derived from a phone of bygone days - the T610 from 2003, to be precise.
Sony Ericsson claims the new T650 "builds on the design heritage of the T610", which is odd, as the T610 was just an ugly old candybar design, whereas the new T650, despite also being a candybar, is actually quite attractive.
Comparing the features of the new T650 with those of the old T610, however, really makes you realise how far mobile phones have come in the four years between the two models.
Details and pictures of the Sony Ericsson T650 (and the T610) after the jump.
Sony Ericsson have announced the Sony Ericsson S500 slim slider phone.
The company has clearly been busy, announcing three new phones today, with the S500 being its latest designer phone (and a non-Walkman branded phone at that, which is actually quite a relief!).
The S500's main claim to fame is an innovative lighting theme.
The colour of both the phone's desktop and its external lights, change according to the time of day, the day of the week, or even with the seasons.
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