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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.

HTC, the company who gave us the Nexus One, which Google termed the Superphone, are rumoured to be working on another new super phone, this time called the HTC Supersonic. And like the Nexus One and HTC HD2 before it, this one looks like it’s going to be yet another killer.

I say that, because it seems to combine all of the best bits of both phones, and then add a few more into the mix. Like what, you may ask? How about 4G.

Mmmm, tasty! Read on for more details after the jump.

Why should you care about an HTC HD2 review? HTC’s new huge smartphone is based on Windows Mobile, and with the mobile world seemingly full of Android phones, iPhones and Palms, doesn’t that make it already out of date?

The short answer is no: Windows Mobile is certainly out of date, but nothing on the HTC HD2 looks even remotely like Windows Mobile! HTC have created their own sleek user interface and refined it for the HD2, and then given it the horsepower via the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU to turbocharge its responsiveness.

The result is the best Windows Mobile phone ever made, and one that should certainly be on your shopping list if you’re looking for a cutting edge smartphone with some serious power.

Palm have announced two new devices at CES 2010 – the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus.

The Pre Plus comes with 16GB of RAM, Adobe Flash (and “real Flash – the first time real Flash has been available on a mobile device”, apparently), WiFi, and a new app called the Palm Mobile Hotspot.

This is a cracking new app that not only allows tethering (i.e. turns your mobile into a modem so you can use the 3G network with your laptop), it supports up to 5 simultaneous connections.

The Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus release date is set for January 25th 2010.

More details after the jump

Lenovo have been showing off the Lenovo Lephone at CES 2010. The Lephone is a brand new Android handset that has a new user interface designed by the company. When I first heard about the Lephone yesterday, I didn’t pay it much attention. Lenovo aren’t exactly known for developing cutting edge smartphones, so I thought it would be just another run of the mill Android phone.

Boy was I wrong?! As the video shows, the Lephone is leagues ahead of “standard” Android phones, and its new user interface looks at least as good as the Nexus One’s.

The list of phones vying for the “world’s best smartphone” title just grew by one!

More details and video of the Lenovo Lephone after the jump.

Just in case you haven’t had enough yet, here are the official Nexus One Videos, plus the official YouTube channel.

It’s not often that I get excited by new mobile phones – well, it is, as I’m a big fan of them in general! But I mean super-excited – like I’ve just seen the start of something new, something really big.

With the Nexus One, I’ve got that sense of excitement. It’s not quite as amazing as the iPhon, which really was the most disruptive mobile technology of the last decade. But as a harbinger of what this new decade will be all about, the Nexus One is pointing the way more clearly than any other phone on the market.

The perfect marriage of Web and mobile combined with a truly open philosophy. Not a bad way to start the new decade!

Check out the videos after the jump, or have a look at the official Nexus One YouTube channel.

So Google have finally revealed the Nexus One in all its glory. They billed it as a superphone, which is really stirring the hype pot. Question is, is it worthy of the title?

With the Motorola Droid already on sale, and a plethora of other superb phones on the market (not the least of which is the iPhone 3G S, of course), is the NexusOne really any better?

Well, it’s early days, but it genuinely seems like the Nexus One could be worth of the hype. Find out why after the jump…

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!

Sony Ericsson have announced the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 smartphone, and it looks stunning! The X10 features a number of first: it’s Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone, and it’s Android’s first phone with a high-end feature-set!

The combination is simply stunning. In one phone, you get

• an 8 megapixel camera, aGPS, WiFi, HSDPA, 1GHz processor and stunning 4″ touchscreen display
• Android 1.6 smartphone operating system, complete with Google Search, Maps, browser, YouTube and access ot the Google the Android Market
• a stunning new user interface developed by Sony Ericsson that shows what interfaces will be like in the new decade.

And that’s just scratching the surface! Read on for our extended Xperia X10 preview, and more glorious pics and videos!

LG have released the LG Pop GD510, a touchscreen smartphone that’s been on something of a diet. Following on from the success of the LG Cookie, itself a lightweight touchscreen phone that’s super-cheap but does just enough of what it needs to (and which has sold an incredible 7 million units), the LG Pop GD510 avoids the feature bloat of most other touchscreen smartphones, and focuses solely on the features customers need.

What features are they? Read on after the jump to find out.