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The Sony Ericsson Vivaz has been one of the highlights of the year – and its only February! The Vivaz is a fantastic new 8.1 megapixel camera phone that can shoot superb video in HD, and comes with a tonne of features not found on other camera phones that ensures the pictures you take are as good as they would be from a dedicated digital camera.

The Vivaz is one of the most eagerly awaited phones of 2010 – but you can ensure you’re the first to get your hands on it by preordering it with Vodafone.

Check out Vodafone’s tasty online-only deal after the jump.

Well, who’d have thought – Sony Ericsson have stolen the limelight (so far at least!) at MWC 2010. First the Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro, and now this – the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro.

We’ve already seen the Vivaz as it was announced a few weeks ago. The Vivaz is a superb Symbian-based touhcscreen phone with stunning mutlimedia features.

What the Vivaz Pro brings to the table is the addition of a physical QWERT Y keyboard. Think of it, then, as the final nail in the coffin for the much-maligned Nokia N97. In every respect the Vivaz is a better phone, and now with a better physical QWERTY keyboard, there’s no reason whatsoever to buy Nokia’s offering.

But back to the Vivaz Pro – is it any good?

Sony Ericsson have semi-officially announced the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, their latest high-end feature-phone. The Vivaz follows on from the Satio in focusing firmly on features, rather than the all-singing smartphone abilities of the latest superphones released by HTC and others.

And just like the Satio, the Vivaz offers some truly stunning features. Sony Ericsson haven’t been half-hearted with their new baby – they’ve given it everything they’ve got!

Check out the features, plus a video of the Vivaz, after the jump.

Looking for a good camera phone for Christmas? It’s a nightmare isn’t it! There are hundreds of them, all with different features and very different photo taking abilities.

Imagine if you could cut through all the hype, all the marketing spin and the needless features. How much easier would your life be if you knew at a glance the six essential features a camera phone needs to take great quality pictures?

Luckily, I’m listening! I’ve put together a buyers guide that does all of that for you, taking the hassle out of choosing camera phones, and showing you exactly what you need to get the perfect camera phone for you or your family this Christmas.

Read our “How to find the best camera phone” guide now, and take the stress out of Christmas!

The LG BL40 Chocolate phone in this review could one day save your life (assuming being bored to death can genuinely happen!)

Remember the last time you were in a hotel room with absolutely nothing to do? Crap TV in a foreign language, or films so expensive they cost more than the price of the room. Or what about the time you were on a train that slowed to a crawl…for seemingly hours on end?

We’ve all been in situations where we’ve cried out for something interesting to do.

Sometimes you need something to keep you entertained – a comedy, a film, even all 24 episodes of 24, anything to ease your stressed out, overloaded, or just plain bored brain!

LG must have thought that too, as they’ve just released the LG BL40 Cinematic phone – and blimey does it blow away the boredom blues!

LG have announced a brand new top-end LG Chocolate phone that can only be described as king size! The LG BL40 Chocolate features a whopping 4.0″ screen with a huge 800 x 345 resolution.

All that screen real estate means you can feature a lot – and I mean a lot! – of icons on the homescreen, which LG have gleefully done.

Question is, though – is it too big? Read on to find out…

The new Sony Ericsson Aino that was announced recently really can lay claim to being called a true multimedia computer (to use Nokia’s hackneyed term).

The Aino is designed from the outset around multimedia, and can seamlessly connect to your PC or your PS3 and stream content from either device anywhere in the world.

Actually, this is worth repeating. You can stream your music, videos, even live TV (with the ability to pause, rewind and record, just like Sky+), anywhere in the world straight to your Aino over an Internet connection.

Effectively, the Aino is a tiny SlingPlayer in a phone – but one which also comes with an 8 megapixel camera, MP3 player, GPS and pretty much everything else you’d expect from a top end mobile phone.

In other words, it’s one seriously cool phone!

Read the full Sony Ericsson Aino review after the jump.

SlashGear have a got themselves a nice hands-on video review of the forthcoming Nokia N86. The N86 is Nokia’s new 8 megapixel camera phone that they’ll be releasing in the next few months. Its specs are pretty sweet, as you’d expect from a Nokia N-Series. As well as the 8 megapixels, the N86 also comes with dual flash, wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens, aGPS, 2.6″ OLED screen and HSDPA.

Video after the jump.

Nokia was heavily rumoured to be announcing the 8 megapixel Nokia N86 at MWC 2009. However, in what can only be described as a PR car-crash, they didn’t; instead, they banged on about two comptent but boring messaging phones (the E75 and E55) and two even more boring mid-range phones (the 6710 and 6720).

And that was it – while Samsung was showing off its 8 megapixel Omnia HD that can shoot at 720p HD; while LG was flashing its 8 megapixel Arena, with 120 frames per second video recording and superb new 3D user interface; and while Sony Ericsson were showing off their new 12 megapixel camera phone, Nokia simply left them all to it and watched as the world’s attention went elsewhere.

Seems somebody forgot to tell the assembled marketeers at MWC 2009 about the Nokia N86, a new 8 megapixel camera phone from Nokia that the company itself accidentally leaked via a Carl Zeiss press pack! It gbest worse though…

LG have announced the LG Arena KM900 at MWC 2009 this morning. The LG Arena is a smart looking touchscreen phone from LG with a great feature-set and what promises to be an intuitive and innovative user interface.

It was the interface that intrigued me the most when newws of the LG Arena first broke last week. The feature-set is as you’d expect from LG – excellent – with a 5 megapixel camera, 3″ touchscreen, Wi-Fi, aGPS, 120 frames-per-second video recording, 40GB of storage, MP3 player, Dolby stereo, DivX playback and FM radio and transmitter being just some of the highlights.

But features don’t tell the whole story – it’s the user interface that makes or breaks a phone these days, and the LG Arena looks like it might have it spot on.

More details after the jump.