Latest Mobile Phone Review And Price

A 2-inch QVGA screen, backlit keys, a 1,000mAh battery good for 4.5 hours of yappin’, EDGE data, inbuilt GPS, 128MB of RAM, a microSD card slot, USB / Bluetooth and Symbian S60 running the show. Expectation of launching it in European markets is coming April month for €220 ($289), though worldwide availability remains a mystery.

The only reason why they have thrown the Nokia 5730 into their music-minded line-up is that Nokia are trying to sell the same phone and form-factor in to two different flavors so as to win as big a share as possible. In fact, it wouldn’t be a mistake to say that they are forging a new segment of side-sliders with thumbboards, instead of assessing every Nokia-branded phone of this kind separately. So, if they’ll manage to reach some good numbers in terms of aggregated sales – the whole segment will get a green light.

While the Nokia 5730 won’t face any sort of direct competition, this fact alone doesn’t guarantee it will be sell in droves. In fact, its predecessor, the Nokia 5320 didn’t have any rivals either, but it never became a particularly popular offering. On top of that, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be hard to compete with, given that they will be only 60 Euro away from each other price-wise.

Design, Size, Controls
The phone will be available in two standard XpressMusic colors – blue and red. As you have already noticed, we got our hands on its blue edition. The top edge is metallic and really resembles that of the Nokia N810. But don’t let it deceive you – the rest of the phone is made of plastic. Its glossy front fascia sports a bog-standard keypad that is quite a fingerprint-magnet among all other things.

Perched on the left is the volume rocker along with the dedicated camera key. Sitting on the bottom edge of the phone is the 3.5 mm audio jack, while the 3.2 MP camera lens (Carl Zeiss) and a LED flash are mounted on the back side of the phone.

Display
The phone ships with a 2-inch QVGA display (240×320 pixels, 31×42 mm). This screen offers 16 million colors, along with a juicy and vibrant picture that is readable in various environments. All in all, it’s a likable display that won’t give you any trouble whatsoever. It accommodates up to 8 text and 3 service lines all written in a convenient font. Just like you’d expect, you can alter the font size in certain menus (like Messaging, where amplified fonts do much better) and reach 14 text lines as a result.

Keypad
The 5730 XpressMusic sports a sizable navigation cluster with medium-sized, yet soft-to-press buttons. All in all, it is a breeze to work with. The keys here are lit in relatively dim white. Also, the navigation pad houses a touch-sensitive pad.

The bundled QWERTY keyboard is comfortable to use as well; the best thing about it is that you can type using both hands and your fingers won’t bump into each other, since it’s spacious enough even for people with big fingers.

The 5730 deals with microSD memory cards (hot-swappable), the phone comes packaged with a 8 Gb unit. There are no restrictions as far as memory card’s size is concerned – our handset easily identified a 32Gb card.

USB, Bluetooth
USB. You pick one of these 3 connection modes in the USB settings of the 5730 XpressMusic:

Data Transfer (Mass Storage USB) – memory cards is available, no drivers required, as your OS identifies the handset automatically.
PC Suite – used for device management via Nokia PC Suite, enables all features of the phone, data backup etc.
Image Print – no explanation required.
Data transfer speeds top out at around 1 Mb/s.

Bluetooth. The phone comes with Bluetooth v2.0, with support for EDR. The following profiles are supported:

A2DP
AVCRP
BIP-ImagePush
DUN-GW
FT-Server
HandsFree-AG (1.0)
Headset-AG
OBEX
OPP-Client
OPP-Server
SIM Access-Server
The top speed you can get with the 5730’s Bluetooth connection is around 100 Kb/s.

The Motorola Razr V3 cell phone is both very distinctive and also very attractive.
Combining its classy and stylish appearance with quadband GSM service, super-strength Bluetooth, color displays on both sides of the flip, long battery life, and a camera, it seems to have everything anyone would want..

Capabilities and Specifications:

The manual which comes with the phone is surprisingly silent about the phone’s technical specifications, and some of the other reviews on the Internet quote incorrect data. I’m basing my facts and figures on the material on Motorola’s own site, except where it too is wrong.

The V3 measures 3.5″ x 2.1″ x 0.55″ when folded closed and weighs 3.4 ounces. This makes it moderately - but not very - compact in terms of length and breadth; its most notable feature being how thin it is.

The phone came with four different manuals - a warranty brochure, a quick start guide, a service guide, and the main user manual. Interestingly the main user manual was very much shorter than the V600 manual - a mere 104 pages compared to 268 for the V600.

The V3 can accept a wide range of different types of downloadable ringtones, and has 24 voice polyphony to give great sound. It also has some pre-loaded games and more games can be downloaded to the phone, too, supporting the J2ME standard.

The Razr takes about the same 22 seconds to power on as does the V600. Unlike most phones, you don’t need to push and hold the power on button for a second or two to turn the phone on - the slightest tap will turn the phone on.

Its internal phone book can hold up to 1000 names and phone numbers, although the SIM is limited to ‘only’ 250 contacts on the SIM. Motorola’s phone book/contact manager is more clunky and less elegant than most other phone manufacturers - Motorola has tried to keep more compatibility with the very limited features that the SIM itself supports; this is helpful when copying numbers to or from the SIM, but not so helpful if you’re trying to set up a sophisticated contact management system with multiple phone numbers for each person in your phone book.

The Razr looks great. The shell is made from tough aircraft-grade aluminum, which is supposedly the reason for its 97g lightness. When closed, the phone is only 1.4 cm thick, which is really slim. At a height of 9.8 cm and a width of 5.3 cm wide, which doesn’t really come across as small, but nevertheless it fits fine into your jeans pocket. When you hold it in your hand, however, it doesn’t feel most compact. When open, the phone seems huge at a whopping 17 cm tall. It’s something you have to see to believe!

It may be aircraft-grade aluminum, but that didn’t prevent casual chipping as you can probably see from the pictures - look towards the bottom right corner and the lower left side of the phone…

The keypad is supposedly chemically etched and nickel plated. The keys are not cut buttons like most phones, but look like a feather touch key panel. But it only looks like that because the keys have to be pressed just like buttons when they are to be used. The keys are wide enough and placed at proportionate distances from each other. All the keys are perfectly usable and don’t require any nail-typing. This is one of the most comfortable keypads I’ve used. The backlight also looks fabulous at night.

Battery Life and Related Issues:

Reviews commonly seem to quote battery life of as much as 200 hours of standby time or three hours of talk time. Another source (Amazon) claims 6.67 hours of talk time or 250 hours of standby time. Motorola itself says Talk Time: Up to 200 to 430 minutes Standby Time: Up to 180 to 290 hours Standard Battery: 680 mAh Li-ion Motorola’s reference to a 680-mAh battery is rather surprising. Although I’d assumed that Motorola’s own website would be the best source of official data, the fact is I have never seen a 680 mAh battery. Out of perhaps 50 V3s that I’ve inspected, all have had a 710-mAh battery. Some other reviewers have even referred to a 750-mAh battery, but I’ve never seen one of those, either.

Limitations:

The phone is very attractive, and in some respects (eg quad-band and color) full featured. So what are the limitations that you might encounter and be frustrated by.

It has no removable memory card. It has just over 5MB of internal memory that is shared between the phone book, ring tunes, pictures and video clips, and downloaded files and programs. This can quickly fill to overflowing. In contrast, I have a removable 128MB memory card in my ‘old’ Nokia 3650 (released in mid 2003) so it never runs out of capacity.

A basic fixed focus low resolution camera - 0.3 Megapixels, inadequate these days when other cameras offer 1 MP and some offer 2MP.No video recording

A closed proprietary operating system (albeit with a Java overlay) that limits the range of third party applications that can be added to the phone.

Reasonably large in terms of length and breadth, although definitely very thin Basic and clutzy phone book/contact manager Proprietary iTap rather than industry standard T9 text entry meaning you have to learn a whole new interface for efficient text messaging

No IR port and data connectivity is usually sold as an extra rather than as an included feature No high speed data capability such as EDGE Can’t add an external antenna How best to buy a Motorola Razr V3

The W595 is a simple upgrade to some of Sony Ericsson’s other Walkman handsets. In fact you might say it’s the same as an earlier model the W890, only in a different form factor. The Specs are almost identical with a few minor distinctions. Take a look.

Design
Little of significance has changed since the W580 — the devices genuinely look like brothers from the same mothers. The camera has shifted positions, the USB socket has moved, and the overall enclosure has a slightly different shape. But if you’re looking for ground-breaking changes, keep walking, ‘cos there ain’t nothing to see here.

It’s still a decent design though, with a fine key layout. Speed texting is easier on some other handsets, but it’s nothing a week of practice won’t solve. Our biggest, most epic complaint is the lack of a 3.5mm headphone socket. You may remember this criticism from many, many other Walkman phone reviews.

We feel it almost wasn’t worth updating this phone unless you were going to add something as game-changing as a place to put headphones without a repugnant plastic adaptor. And reattaching the battery cover gave us several minutes of annoyance thanks to some tiny, easily breakable plastic positioning clips.

Features and Performance
Interface
There’s absolutely nothing new with the interface. It’s still quite vibrant, colorful and animated as any of the other SE handsets. So I can say, in compassion, it’s not slow but it’s not fast either. One of the biggest problems was, as I mentioned earlier, the very erratic light sensor. It seemed like all the ambient light surrounding our world was going a little nuts and hence caused the display to constantly become brighter and dimmer alternatively. Although the handset has an accelerometer, it’ll only function for web pages and the media menu. That means you’ll be constantly turning the handset one way or another for viewing.

Once again Sony has gone with their proprietary USB/Charging/handsfree port that will allow you to use the handset for one function at a time. It’s a good thing that the handset charges through USB in this case. There’s no dedicated camera key for the 3.2 megapixel camera, just a Walkman button for shake control. If you’re under the impression that the same key will activate the audio player you’d be wrong. I even held it for few seconds and it did nothing. A set of volume/zoom keys are located on the same side.

Performance
If you’ve used any Sony Ericssons over the last couple of years, you’ll have no problem working this one. It’s essentially the same phone in a new case. There are various menu themes, most of which are clear and easy to navigate.

We have no complaints over sound quality, but bear in mind the bundled sound-isolating earphones, while above average, are still pants compared to a decent pair costing as little as £40. The phone sounds much better than the earphones let it, so upgrading is advised.

Ups:
Good Battery Life
Camera is decent
Audio player is good
Entertaining games and apps

Downs:
Rear panel is extremely difficult to open
No hot swap for M2 card

Nokia CDMA 6275 comes with an integrated 2 MegaPixel camera and 21MB memory expandable up to 2GB. Features like Java applications, Browsing, Multiple connectivity options, Storage, Dedicated keys for camera, volume and voice command, call management, voice management, Power saving etc. makes work fun for you. 

 The Nokia 6275 is a sleek and utility based phone competitively priced. This CDMA phone fulfills almost all the functions of a good all-round performance based phone. The display screen combines 262,144 colors to give you high colour definition viewing. It also unites a 2 mega pixel camera with an integrated flash and 4x zoom which gives out good quality pictures.

The phone also features an inbuilt FM radio and a music player which allows you to hear your favourite songs on the go. The player supports MP3/eAAC+/AAC+/AAC music file formats. It has a huge 21 MB internal memory to store your contacts and other documents and it has a microSD memory slot option which can be expanded upto 2 GB for the storage of your documents and music files.

Its other features include voice recording and has dedicated buttons for camera, volume control and voice command (the volume control scroll is a little stiff). The battery of the phone is the only downside. The battery drains out rapidly and over the time will require daily recharge even if used sparingly. Overall the phone mingles utility and style and recommended as a good buy.  The radio reception is good and the sound quality is decent. The phone speaker sound is good for phone use but not too good for playing music etc. especially if you are looking for something like the Sony Ericsson Walkman series sound. It is a mono speaker, not stereo. Headset sound quality is decent. However, buying a Nokia HS-23 headset will result in significant sound quality improvement.

The phone comes with a 256 MB Micro SD card but one should get a 1 GB card to get decent storage space for songs, videos etc.Overall this is an excellent phone offering good value for money. It has a good design, sturdy feel and offers good features. In CDMA segment this has to be one of the best in the market at present. 

Nokia N79 has 2.4 inched display screen. The resolution of display screen is 320 x 240 (QVGA) with upto 116 million colours. Nokia N79 has 5 mega pixel camera that captures perfect photos. Nokia N79 is Full multimedia computer in your hands. It has already pre installed 3D games but you can install more games. You can connect Nokia N79 to your PC with Micro USB connector. It has GPS system so you can find your local points easily with Global Positioning System.

Display and 3D
* Size: 2.4”
* Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
* Up to 16 million colours with light sensor
* Active matrix technology

Software platform and user interface
* 60 3rd edition, Feature Pack 2
* Symbian OS version 9.3
* Active standby
* Voice commands
* FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)

Music and audio playback
* Nokia Nseries digital music player - Playlists - Equaliser - Selection by artist, album and genre - Album graphics display - Skins
* Music playback file formats: MP3, WMA9, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+
* Audio streaming
* UPnP music streaming
* Dedicated volume keys
* FM radio 87.5-108 MHz with RDS support
* FM transmitter 88.1 - 108 MHz

Gaming
* Included try and buy games, full licence for one of the list :
- Asphalt 3
- Hooked On: Creatures of the deep
- Worlds series of poker
- Block breaker deluxe
- Tetris
- Space impact
- System Rush
- Brain Challenge
- Mile High Pinball
- Snakes Subsonic
- Sims 2: Pets
- FIFA 08
- Midnight pool
- Reset generation
- Bounce

Recently Nokia announced their N79 Active edition and now they’ve announced another variant of the N79 called the Eco. The handset is available in Petrol Black and is sold without the charger to reduce space that will in turn reduce boxing material, create more space to ship more and so on and so forth.

As of now the N79 Eco is available on pre order from Nokia’s UK website for a price of Rs. 22, 868 (319 Pounds). Go Green!

The Nokia N800 is the company’s follow-up to the 770 Internet Tablet, somewhat of a pioneering device that brought web browsing away from the computer and into the lounge room, or indeed anywhere you can get a data connection. The Nokia N800 is not a phone, nor does it have PDA functionality, yet it is an interesting device

The Most beautiful well designed Internet Mobile from Nokia.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Mobile with High-resolution widescreen display with improved viewing angle is the right solution for your mobile internet and entertainment.
It has 65k colors 4.13” QVGA 800 x 480 pixels display. Internet Radio feature entertains you outside from your city.

Now listen to music more loudly with Nokia N800 Internet Tablet with high quality Stereo Speakers Feature.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has 128 MB built in memory. You can extend memory with mini sd memory card.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet supports 16 input languages. It looks great Mobile Phones.

On Screen Keyboard makes this mobile phone more luxury.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Key features
* Access the web on a portable internet tablet
o High-resolution widescreen display with improved viewing angle
o Opera 8
o Flash 7
* Internet communications
o Internet calling with integrated web camera
o Instant messaging
o Email client
o Full-screen finger keyboard
* Access to internet media at home and on-the-go
o High quality stereo speakers

User Interface
* Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release
* Display functions include zooming, full-screen, and panning functionality
* Ergnomic keys for internet usage
* Full screen finger keyboard

Internet
Imaging
* Opera 8 web browser with Flash Player (v9)
* Internet calling with e.g. Skype and Google Talk
* Instant Messaging with e.g. Skype and Google Talk
* RSS feed reader
* Internet Radio

Multimedia
* Image viewer
* Image Formats Support: BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WMV, SVG-tiny
* Integrated VGA webcamera
* Internet Radio
* Internet radio playlists: M3U, PLS
* Digital Music supported for the following media type: MP2/MP3/AAC/AMR/RA(RealAudio)/WAV/WMA
* Playback for the following video formats: 3GP, AVI, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, RV (RealVideo)
* RealPlayer Media Player

Connectivity
* WLAN (IEEE802.11 standard, g/b compliant) with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support (RM-156 only)
* Flash player (v9)
* Bluetooth 2.0
* Dial-up Networking, File Transfer, Generic Access, SIM Access, Object Push Profile, Human Interface Profile, and Serial Port profiles
* USB 2.0 high speed device mode for PC connectivity
* Auto-connection to saved Wi-Fi hotspots or through Bluetooth compatible phone