Posts filed under feature phone

The LG GD900 Crystal in this review is a curious phone as it comprises two touchscreens in one: the standard touchscreen you’d expect to find; and another one on the keypad.

But then the keypad is also curious: it’s completely clear. Crystal clear, in fact, hence the name!

Combine all this curiosity with LG’s great S-Class user interface and you have a superb touchscreen phone that’s choc full of novelty, and which really knows how to stand out from the crowd.

At least, that’s how it appears on the surface – is it actually any good though? Read our LG GD900 Crystal review to find out.

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.

The Samsung i8910 Omnia HD in this review is a superb combination of high-end feature phone and slick touchscreen smartphone. If you demand the very best features from your phone, but you don’t want to lose the ease of use of a touchscreen, the Omnia HD is quite possibly the only phone you need to consider.

At its heart, the Omnia HD is all about video – and high-def video at that. Capable of recording and playing HD video at 720p, the Omnia HD gives you the best quality video of any mobile phone on the market, and shows it off in superb style with a super-clear 16 million colour AMOLED screen.

That’s not the end of its talents, though – not by a long shot. With superb 8 megapixel camera, GPS and slick touchscreen interface, the Omnia HD is perfect if you can’t decide between a high-end feature phone or a touchscreen smartphone – the Omnia HD gives you both!

Read our full Samsung i8910 Omnia HD review to see just what this mighty phone can offer you.

I didn’t think I’d be writing a Nokia X6 review so soon after its announcement, but Nokia have obviously been working furiously to get their flagship music phone out in the shops in double quick time!

Is the Nokia X6 worth buying though? Is it a better music phone than other music phones on the market, and how good is it compared to other Nokia phones?

Read our full Nokia X6 review after the jump to find out!

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!

Before beginning this Sony Ericsson Satio review, we need to clear something up – Satio is pronounced Sah-tee-oh, apparently! Right, with that out the way, let’s have a look at what the Sony Ericsson Satio has to offer.

Imagine having the perfect mix of camera and phone, with a huge 12.1 megapixel camera capable of taking superb pictures, coupled with a touchscreen user interface and all the mobile connectivity and multimedia features you could ever wish for. That, in a nutshell, is the Sony Ericsson Satio.

When Sony Ericsson decide to create a flagship mobile phone, they don’t mess about – they create one that blows the competition out the water! The Satio might not be the first 12.1 megapixel camera phone on the market (the Samsung Pixon 12 takes that honour, at least in Europe and the US), but is the best – and by a long long way.

Read on after the jump for the complete Sony Ericsson Satio review.

Update: We’ve added a guide on how to choose the best camera phone, and picked our list of the best camera phones of 2009

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…

LG have officially announced the new LG Viewty Smart, a brand new upgrade to the 6+ million selling LG Viewty cameraphone. The LG Viewty Smart (or the LG-GC900 to give it its official, and even worse, name!) is LG’s top-end camera phone, and has been designed to take on the high end camera phones of the other mobile phone manufacturers.

To that end, LG have equipped the Viewty Smart with an 8 megapixel camera, the same 3D touchscreen UI as the LG Arena, and some seriously impressive specs.

Check out the details of the LG Viewty Smart after the jump.

Samsung have launched a revolutionary phone at MWC 2009 in the shape of the Samsung Omnia HD. As you can probably guess from the title, the OmniaHD is all about High Def – literally, 720p High Def video viewing. You might wonder whether you’d notice the difference on a screen so small, but apparently you can, helped in part by the fact that the screen’s quality is fantastic.

The screen itself is a 3.7″ monster, with AMOLED display technology, 16:9 ratio and a 360 x 640 pixel. It’s this that helps the OmniaHD produce such startlingly good pictures. Well, the screen and also the display chip inside it that can genuinely display HD video.

The OmniaHD will also record at 720p HD as well at 24 frames per second, making it the first mobile phone with HD video recording and playback in the world!

If only that were all, though, but no, Samsung decided to throw pretty much every feature known to man in the OmniaHD – check out the features list after the jump.

All the fuss this past few weeks has been about the T-Mobile G1 Android pone, which was announced yesterday, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only phone in town. For instance, you’ll be able to buy the Nokia N96 in the UK in just two weeks’ time.

The N96 is Nokia’s new flagship phone, and features an unbelievable range of features. You’d expect things such as HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS,MP3 player and video recording (I can’t believe I’m so blase about all these features now!), but the N96 adds a few new features just for good measure.

For example, it comes with mobile TV, supports Flash video so you can watch YouTube, has a 16 million colour 2.8″ screen, and comes with built-in video acceleration chips for better video viewing and recording (it’ll record at 30fps in DVD quality) and enhanced 3D gameplay via the N-Gage platform.

In short, it’s like the N95’s bigger brother, with everything more refined and working perfectly. Although not quite as revolutionary as the N95 was when it was launched, the N96 is still miles ahead of most other mobile phones on the market.

You can preorder the N96 from Phones4U today, or else go and visit them in two weeks’ time and take one home with you.