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In the last decade, mobile phones have stopped being juts a device for voice calls but have become a gadget for data communications. First, there was SMS or Short Message Service, a service that allowed people to send alphanumeric messages to mobile phones using the GSM network. Now the mobile phones have been packed with so many features including full keyboards, multi-media support capacity, internet connectivity and other mobile applications.

Palm Inc. was among the first to introduce Smart phones with emailing and internet connectivity and full keyboards that made it easy to use the mobile phone as an extension of one’s office. It allowed voice and data connectivity, both very important features for professionals on the go.

Today , the Treo Smart Phones from Palm Inc. are among the top choices of business executives and other professionals because of the mobile applications that allow people to use their phones for a variety of purposes. All high technology features of the Treo Smart phones would be for naught if it weren’t for its ease of use. The latest Treo Smart Phones with Windows OS are even more easy to use than the first Smart phones introduced years ago. The Windows OS also allow the Treo Smart phones to handle Windows documents better allowing you to work seamlessly between your PC and your mobile phone. Both the Windows OS and the Palm OS also make the Treo phones among the fastest mobiles in the market, allowing for a great computing experience and a seamless internet connection.

Today, Treos are still among the much-coveted phones. With WiFi and lighter and slimmer form factors, Palm has really raised the bar in mobile phones. Aside from the voice and data connectivity, the Treo also features a camera and supports both still photo and video. The phone’s operating systems also allow support of various multi-media. Mobile phones these days are really more like mobile computers in a light and tight form. Packed with features, the new mobile phones may be considered cheap considering that such technologies were not available just a decade ago and that owning mobile phones then that only featured voice calls already cost an arm and a leg.

Aside from the quick tour upon phone start up, there are also a number of websites that offer great information on the Treo phones. These websites offer reviews of the latest Treo mobile phones and even the latest discounts and packages from different mobile networks helping consumers get the best deals on Treo Smart phones. There are websites that provide some of the most useful information on Treo phones on the internet. Aside from great deals and packages, these websites even have eBooks or complete guides that will help you learn navigate your mobile phone and get the most out of it. The Smart phones have a lot of great features that are not described in the phones’ quick tour. Even if the phone is designed to provide ease-of-use, it is still best to get expert information on your mobile phone.

By: Fouad Ahmed

The mobile phones revolution has stormed the mobile phone market of UK and the mobile business is growing many folds with each passing day. With such a situation, the fear of saturation in this industry is also arising. The mobile phone users are becoming more and more demanding with each passing day. So, to allure them towards buying a particular mobile phone is quite difficult task. Thus came the concept of lucrative mobile phone offers that are prevalent in the modern UK market. The mobile phones are now sold as a part of the mobile phone deals better known as the contract mobile phone deals.

Ideally, these mobile phone offers are a contract between the mobile phones manufacturers and the network service providers and is marketed by the mobile service providers. The user is given a lot of benefits in the form of calling incentives as discounted talk time, discount on text messages and free calling to a particular destination and so on. The mobile phones come as a part of this deal and they are given away for free. Plus, you can also get a lot of other free gifts that are an addition from the mobile phone dealers end. You could simply make the best out of the other deals that are available in the market. The users sign a contract with a particular mobile phone network service provider for a particular span of time wherein they are supposed to abide by the terms and conditions of the particular plan for that time. These plans can be of varied types like the 12 months free contract plan, cheap pay as you go mobile phones plan and so on.

The gifts which come as a part of the mobile phone offer could be as a varied as Satellite navigation system, i-Pod nano, LCD screen and so that come as a part of the whole offer. So, the user can get benefits from these mobile phone offers that are quite perky in nature.

By: Amanda Dorothy

Join the music revolution by Sony Ericsson W880i! Its true, with the Sony Ericsson W880i the users are really going to built a relationship that would be solely based on music, and only on music.

The comes as a musical masterpiece for those music buffs who eat on music, sleep on music and live on music. With this masterstroke in hand they, the users, could easily manage and live contently in their own world.

The phone work as your own digital music player, it download, stream and play music of yours choice. The phone is so user friendly that users will not find any difficulty to play, rewind, fast forward, equalise, shuffle tracks and create playlists. It has the platform supporting several file formats including MP3 and AAC.

Adding to it, the boasts of transferring songs of your choice straight from a music CD to your mobile phone - for this you have to just drag and drop. The embedded Disc2Phone software in it do it all for you, without any fuss.

As it was enough, the TrackID feature in it comes as a tool as well as a weapon for music lovers. Recording a few minutes of a song, the software in it not only recognises the name of the particular track, but the name of the artist and the album.

The phone not only take care of your ears but it takes of you when you are in places like hospital. In the flight mode of the phone, with the ban on making and receiving calls, there still remains some feature active that you can use.

The Sony Ericsson W880i is accomplished with all those cutting-edge features that the third generation of mobile networks could provide. It has the convenience of a broadband Internet from video calls, to audio and video streaming, to Web surfing, and to multimedia messaging and email.

By: Alice

With Samsung mobiles, the slider mobile phones got a new identity and style value. And what made them all stand out was their incredible slim casing. But just when users think they have got the most interesting Samsung handset in hand, the manufacturer brings forth something else. The latest to make head turn is the Samsung U600. The handset is a smart looking slim and compact mobile phone, that measures just about 11mm thick. But the small size does not hamper the phone’s competency. On the contrary, the phone is endowed with many impressive features. Thus, like all its siblings, even this slider - Samsung U600 includes an ability to offer good ergonomics in an amazingly slim package.

For such a compact phone, it is quite pleasant to see that the Samsung U600 is occupied with a surprisingly a large screen. The screen is tall and wide, measuring an eye pleasing 34mm wide by 45mm tall. This also means that there is no threat to readability and even under direct sunlight one can read the text easily. The screen also become a visual delight for viewing pictures and videos.

At the rear of , there hides a 3.2 MP camera. This not only to give protection to the camera but also makes the handset look clean from the front. The Samsung U600’s camera comes with auto focus and LED photo light, though there is no xenon flash. One of the most noteworthy feature of Samsung U600’s camera is its ability to take photos of business cards using the namecard recognition service. This specially becomes useful feature for busy socialites and professionals.

In terms of music, Samsung U600’s music player is quite impressive. The music player is of power and good strength and can play tracks including MP3, AAC files and protected Windows Media files. One can even set music to shuffle or repeat, rate individual tracks, create playlists and adjust the equaliser.

comes with a nice aesthetic appeal too. The Samsung U600’s spring-loaded slide mechanism is smooth and pops open with just a small push.

Other features that makes Samsung U600 a mark of excellence are - an FM radio, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) and a Web browser, and host of messaging and PIM features.

By: Alice

If your mobile is an extension of your lifestyle, then can it be an extension of your world as well? Replying with an affirmation, the Sony Ericsson brings forth its new handset the Sony EricssonS500i, and poses a smile of a victory. A brilliant display of intelligent design, the Sony Ericsson S500i tells us what harmonizing with environment is all about. The handset is a slim, compact device, with impressive and intelligent features. But what makes the Sony Ericsson S500i unique amongst all, is its clever illuminating effects that changes with time of day, seasons and weekends.

The visual pleasure of the Sony Ericsson S500i comes alive with the handset’s distinctive themes. These include clarity, everchanging and day & night. While the two themes - clarity and day & night provide a static pleasure, the theme of everchanging offers great dynamism and excitement. In this, the animated wallpapers and screen savers automatically change will time and seasons. So, during the daytime, the floral wallpapers are lit by yellow rays and coloured butterflies, appearing at random; and at late evening or night, the same wallpaper is shows randomly flying fireflies. Further, this theme also changes its style and look with the different seasons. And to make these themes and experience more exclusive, the handset of Sony Ericsson S500i includes such programs that only users of this handset can experience the feel and fun of these exciting themes.

The Sony Ericsson S500i also poses as a nature lover. The handset comes in two colour schemes: mysterious green and spring yellow. The concept of unique colours further make this device a cut above the rest.

Other highlights of the Sony Ericsson S500i includes a 2 Megapixels camera and a music player. The music player is contemporary and supports formats like MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV, WMA and m4a. Further, with an internal memory of 12MB the users can download and store more of their favourite tracks. There is also a supplement memory stick micro card slot. The Sony Ericsson S500i is rated for up to 9 hours of talktime and 15.4 days on standby.

By: Alice

Nokia 7373 comes with special video ringtones which the user could use. The special ringtones comes with the visual effect as well as with great sounding ringtones. The ringtones comes in the format of MIDI, MP3, SpMidim AAC, AAC+ & Enhanced AAC+ platforms.

The user can set up a voice dialling feature which makes calling the contacts easy with a quick voice command. The comes with an integrated digital music player with popular music formats which include MP3, AAC, M4A, eAAC+ & AAC+. The user can use the built in radio feature to tune into any FM radio station.

The radio comes with a visual radio feature providing the user with on screen information provided by the radio station. The user can interact with their favourite radio station using the visual radio feature. The user can use the push to talk feature between the compatible push to talk mobile phones users.

The phone comes with high quality imaging with the built in 2 megapixel camera feature complete with a 8 x digital zoom function. The user can take still photo, record video footage & playback video on their . The phone comes with a dedicated camera button which is easy to access & allows the user to take a quick shot in an instant.

The phone comes with Bluetooth technology making it compatible devices with other devices like Bluetooth® compatible printer, headset or laptop. The user can enjoy EDGE technology enabling users to transfer data & download files instantly & at high speed thanks. The phone comes with a WAP Internet browser which facilitates users to view websites in either HTML or XHTML. The user can use their mobile Internet browser like they would their personal computers browser. The tri band technology works over GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900 which will automatically switch between the three bands. The Nokia 7373 comes with a battery, charger & Nokia headset included in the kit which will get the user off to a great start.

By: Alice

The Nokia 7373 is beauty personified. It comes under the genre of the much loved L’amour series and truly exemplifies design par-excellence. Like each distinct handset under the genre, even Nokia 7373 comes with alluring physical attributes and an exclusive distinctive charm. But besides its well thought looks, the Nokia 7373 is also empowered with impressive ergonomics to make a perfect blend of form & functionalities. Further, Nokia 7373 is designed to catered both the sexes. It is available in two different colours - in bronzed black coloured casing and in powder pink colour casing.

The Nokia 7373 is empowered by a spring loaded swivel design that can rotate 180 degrees. Its surface is finely tooled, with flawless finish and impressive highlights. The beauty of gets more value with its elaborate tribal marking, making the Nokia 7373 a rare classical piece. The motifs of swirl and waves further enhances the look.

On closed position, the remains undisturbed by any keys or design innovation. The exterior being dominated by a high resolution colourful screen. The screen is competent to reflect 262 K colours, which means better and apt visibility when it comes to pictures and videos. Plus, the user interface is quite friendly. There is also the option of short cut buttons for ease of use. The keypad is impressively done as well. One of the most interesting thing about the Menu of Nokia 7373 is that, it can be displayed in 4 different ways - as a list, a 3×4 icon grid layout, a 3×3 icon grid with labels, or in a tabbed fashion.

Nokia 7373 is predominantly a fashion phone, but it is vested with many essential features as well. For imaging experience, the phone comes with 2 MP camera with 8 x digital zoom. More, this rare beauty offers GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB. The Nokia 7373 runs on 3rd edition of the S40 interface, and comes with a decent memory and battery life.

By: Alice

After launching many hi-end phones, Nokia finally brought out a neat nugget to express their magic of simplicity. The new handset, the Nokia 6300 is quite a substantial handset that brings forth an impressive blend of form and functionalities. It is one of the most tactile phones in the todays mobile market and surely impresses the users with its usability.

There is nothing flamboyant about the Nokia 6300, yet it makes a good statement in front of its users. Unlike the heavy cheap plastic phones, the Nokia 6300 comes in a slim candy bar design with external layer wrapped in stainless steel. This not only makes the phone very stylish but also provides a satisfying sense of solidity, when held in hands.

For easy navigation, the Nokia 6300 includes a sensibly-spaced four-way rocker switch and Enter key, While the keypad is large enough for heavy-duty texting. The screen is also large and the icons and messages are perfectly legible.

is designed to be a user’s delight. Most of the Menu options are within one or two clicks, and there are not too many vertical menus to scroll through. Further, most of the features that are regularly used can be activated by moving a certain direction on the four-way rocker.

For satisfying multimedia functionalities, offers 2-megapixel camera and music playback. The player supports all popular music format and comes with an integrated FM radio as well. One of the appreciated feature of Nokia 6300 is its Push to Talk feature. With this, one can simply get connected to the compatible sets and turn the device into Walkie Talkie. The only problem here is that one has to go through a very convoluted sign-up process for getting started.

Nokia 6300 surely represents an evolution of the modern monoblock design and ergonomics. As said by Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Phones, Nokia, “Like an impeccably tailored suit, the Nokia 6300 is perfectly proportioned, always in style, but best appreciated for its attention to detail.” (mobileblah. com/content/view/1076)

By: Alice

The league of extraordinarily powerful devices by the name of N-series phones finds another performer with name ; another powerful performer with loads of specialities to feature in the elite league of N-series - yet so distinctly and differently stylised from any of the other phones in the same family.

The looks of the phone has an uncanny resemblance to Motorola RAZR phones. But leaving the exterior, is different in many ways. Most noticeably in the department of features. And amongst the lot a 3.5 mm headphone jack that makes it a virtual music console and a reliable Series 60 platform - are the two main differences. In a slim clamshell form factor the phone comes with an elegant mirror finish look. Multimedia playback buttons placed below the LCD help in attaining quick access to all favourite tracks in the phone and and control them. Its highly stylised flat keypad offers a sophisticated looks to the phone.

An ambient light sensor makes the phone glow in dark. There are dedicated multimedia keys, enabling you to have swift access to all the interesting multimedia functions. The long list of features comes to offer you with GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, and USB 2.0 connectivity, and let you enjoy the most out of your mobile life. With Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support, you can listen to your favourite tracks wirelessly. The Quadband network and 3G features makes Nokia N76 suit best to the requirements of fast network connections un-interrupted. With Microsoft outlook, PIM tools, document viewer programs, you can make professional presentations on the go. Now, talk, click or browse internet. With all the powerful features in one entity the stands to enamour millions with its looks and brains. It is a perfect pocket friend, ready to accompany you and help you every where you go.

By: carly charu

Nokia 8800 is a sensational device. It is innovative, classy and enriched with the latest multimedia functionalities to raise the industry standards, and redefine elitism. The handset is wrapped with a stainless steel casing that has an impeccable finish and smooth contours. Clearly showing that Nokia 8800 has this time gone for a better material, as compared to the predecessor Nokia 8810.

The Nokia 8800 is constructed with Porsche technology. Which means, the slider is smooth and is quite satisfactory as well. Further, the device is enabled with a scratch resistant screen, to ensure that the beauty of Nokia 8800 is not marred. Talking of screen, the Nokia 8800 has an impressive screen that dominates the external fascia of the handset. The screen has 208 x 208 pixel resolution, making reading and viewing a pleasurable and effortless experience.

In terms of size, the Nokia 8800 is quite slim as well. It measures only 107 x 45 x 16.5 mm. This makes it possible for the device to be easily slid into mini purses or pockets. On being opened, the Nokia 8800 reveals an stunning keypad, which marries well with the overall look of the handset. But the joy gets a little spoiled because the key are too small and it poses problems for people with fat fingers.

The Nokia 8800 has a camera situated at the rear. It has only 0.5 MP. This comes through as a mere favour, specially in the times when 3 MP camera are considered the benchmark for average camera phones. Nonetheless, for users who desire to capture some impulsive moments of the life just for some fun, the camera of Nokia 8800 comes quite handy. For more fun and entertainment, the Nokia 8800 is empowered with a FM radio, video recording capability, digital music player and provision for playing/ downloading games.

Other highlights of Nokia 8800 are Bluetooth, tri-band connection for data and voice connectivity, XHTML browser, EDGE and GPRS. The Nokia 8800 includes 64 MB memory and offers a talk time of 3 hours.

By: Alice