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The LG KC780 has an 8 megapixel camera with red eye reduction and face recognition. It has a high quality lens and promises excellent photographs. It can also record DVD-like quality video at up to 30 frames per second. There’s 140MB of internal memory, which can be upgraded using a memory card, up to a maximum of 4GB.
HTC’s Touch HD (previously known in development as HTC Blackstone) is now available to pre-order on both Orange and O2 networks. The HTC Touch HD is the top of the range Windows Mobile handset (alongside the Touch Pro) with a large 3.8” wide, WVGA (480×800 pixels) screen that hints at it’s superior mutlimedia capabilities.
This amazingly large, clear and crisp screen alongside a 5 megapixel camera, standard 3.5mm headphone jack, integrated GPS, microSD™ memory card slot, RDS FM Radio and HSDPA internet capabilities gives the Touch HD a compelling list of multimedia specifications.
The Touch HD’s superior screen coupled with the intuitive TouchFLO™ 3D interface makes browsing the web using the pre-loaded with the Opera a joy. Double tap the screen and the browser zooms in smoothly to your chosen web page. Then simply swipe across the screen with your finger to scroll around web pages quickly and effortlessly.
Listening to music using HTC’s music player is a breeze. The intuitive touch screen controls work equally as well when scrolling around the inbuilt, GPS powered Google Maps. Size wise the dimensions of the Touch HD are 115 mm x 62.8 mm x 12 mm, with the handset feeling particularly thin due to the omission of a slide out QWERTY keyboard when compared to the Touch Pro. The Touch HD also feels quite light at 147 grams (with battery).
With its large screen and advanced multimedia capabilities the Touch HD will no doubt become a best-selling web browsing, email, office, movie and music device.
Orange are claiming exclusivity until 2009 and will be charging £80 for the Touch HD on an 18 month contract. But the CPW group will be selling it on O2 and Orange and it will be free on an 18 month contract at £35 per month. It can be pre-ordered now and first stock is due on 7th November.
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The T-Mobile G1 (or Google Phone) brings you everything you love about the Internet in a mobile phone. With a 3.2 inch touchscreen and trackball, it’s made for browsing the web. Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Calendar and much more are just a touch away. With GPS you can use Google Maps to shows detailed street, traffic and satellite views.
It has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and video record. The G1 is the first phone to run on the Android platform, which is an open source operating system. This means there are plenty of third party applications to download and install on the phone. Other features include HSDPA, Wi-Fi and GPS.
The Aura is a luxurious new mobile phone from Motorola. It’s the first phone ever to feature a circular display and it will be available from December 2008.
Motorola have been out of the limelight for a while but the new Aura is bound to be on few Christmas lists this year. It’s constructed from top quality materials and it has a Swiss-crafted rotational opening mechanism. Features are basic with a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and 2GB internal memory. The 1.5 inch screen is small but has a high resolution, an impressive 480×480 pixels.
With a price tag of more than £1,000 the Motorola Aura will be very exclusive.
The new all-you-can-eat music service from Nokia has been launched in the UK this week.
So how does it work? You buy a Nokia 5310 music phone on PAYG for £130 and you’re given a 12 month subscription to Nokia’s Comes With Music service. You can browse the Nokia music library on the Internet and download as many tracks as you want to your PC. You can then transfer tracks to your phone using the supplied data cable. The music is DRM protected, which means it can only be played on your computer or on your Comes With Music phone. You can’t copy them to your iPod or burn them to a CD.
If your computer breaks then whatever you already downloaded can be downloaded again to a different computer. If you accidentally delete or lose your music you can download it again for up to two years after your 12 month subscription has ended.
For £130 it’s very good value for money. There are millions of tracks available, mostly mainstream chart music from past to present. The Nokia 5310 is a decent phone too. Available now with a range of seven different colour combinations.
Now available to order, stock due next week. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 combines a 3 inch wide VGA display and a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body. Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, the XPERIA X1 lets you choose from a dynamic range of activities at anytime and anywhere; from enjoying your favourite entertainment content to working efficiently on-the-move. Access a world of experiences simply by touching the XPERIA panel on the screen. Configure and have your XPERIA panels just the way you want them.
The XPERIA X1 from Sony Ericsson will be the first in a line of devices in the XPERIA range. The XPERIA X1 has a 3 inch touchscreen and optical joystick navigation. A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the side of the device. It has GPS and Wi-Fi, 3G with HSDPA and HSUPA, plus Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is powered by a 520 MHz CPU with the Qualcomm 7200 chipset and 128MB of RAM. Extra memory can be added using a miscoSD card.
