PDA phones are overshadowed by standard mobile phones but they too have all the greatest and latest technical features. They just lack one crucial element of style. This is a big factor for tech enthusiasts now; earlier they just used to focus on the features. LG has a name of making good looking cell phones and now they are trying to do something in the PDA world with LG KS 20. LG KS 20 is the slimmest ever Windows Mobile 6 phone. It is just 12.8mm thick and it is hard to find such a thin touch screen cell phone. It is slightly thinner than the Samsung SGH-i780 which is 12.9mm deep. The LG KS 20 chassis is quite similar to Prada phone which worked well in the market due to the good looks. The façade is uncluttered and the size is pocketable. This is certainly one of the best looking phones you’d  [...]

LG KB770 was released in 2008 and it has great looks. It has the typical LG style but certainly doesn’t look anything repetitive. It is slim and sleek with black color. It is a basic phone and still gives a good set of mid-range features. The features inside along with sleek design will certainly make it popular among the users. It might not have all the high end features that you’d seen in the more expensive cell phones these days but it is still a good handset according to me. LG KB770 has good collection of mid-range features and it includes a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back which has auto focus and can also record videos. There is also a secondary camera for video calling. A unique feature here is that there is TV out function for connecting the phone to a TV or a projection device and you can use the features of the cell phone on a large TV. It will be really fun to watch videos of the cell phone on a big screen and this will be the major selling  [...]

T-Mobile G2X is a high end smartphone having excellent high quality specifications inside like Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core processor. The performance is excellent and the surface of the phone is dominated by a four inch IPS screen that shows stellar quality video. Below this screen, there are Android shortcut buttons for search, back, home, and menu. They are all touch sensitive buttons and on the phone’s top, there is a front facing camera. On the bottom, there are external speakers and microUSB port for charging. Volume rocker button is located on the right spine and on the top, there is power/display lock button, HDMI port and a 3.5 mm headphones jack. MicroSD card slot is located underneath battery cover and you don’t have to remove the battery for accessing it. On the phone’s back, there is camera lens along with LED flash. T-Mobile G2X comes with reference manual, USB cord and AC power adapter. This phone has all the high end features that you’d  [...]

Nokia Astound might not be the highest end smartphone out there but it still has a lot of useful features that you need for everyday use. This phone comes with Quickoffice suite, PDF reader, ZIP manager, voice recorder, dedicated app for YouTube, and Ovi Maps, which offers free turn-by-turn navigation and offline maps. There is also Fruit Ninja Lite and Slacker Radio thrown in. If you want more apps, you’ll have to go to the Ovi Store. Right now, the store lacks in content and visual appeal but I am expecting improvements soon. For storing all the content, this phone comes with eight gigabytes of internal memory and it can be increased to 32 gigabytes through external card slot. Nokia Astound comes with eight megapixel camera which has impressive picture quality. This camera is equipped with dual LED flash  [...]

Sprint is also planning to set up mobile payment network through cellphones according to recent reports. Kevin McGinnis, the Vice President of the Product Platforms at Sprint said that their phones will be having NFC or near field communication technology soon and customers will be able to wave this phone on a terminal that is installed in the retail stores for paying for the goods. Items that are paid through NFC will be shown in the credit card statement of the customer and it won’t reflect on the mobile phone bill. Sprint is not planning to charge the customers will a small percentage of each transaction but will take a share of the revenue that is generated from the deals or coupons for retailers which users have access to through the cell phone payment system. A  [...]

Samsung said that they are investing 15 million dollars in MasterImage 3D, it is a company which makes 3D technology for the movie theaters. This firm is also planning on making PCs, tablets and smartphones that show 3D content on their screens. Samsung said that they will be working on making bigger auto-stereoscopic displays which mean theater like screens through which 3D images can be seen without the need for glasses. Younghoon Lee, the CEO of MasterImage 3D said that they are delighted about Samsung’s investment. He added that such kind of financial support shows that 3D has a bright future in the world of electronics. Indeed a lot is expected from 3D technology in the near future. There are the 3D TVs which are selling really well in the market despite being high priced. There have been a few complaints about giddiness but it is nothing serious and 3D technology continues to be enjoyed by a lot of people around the world. 3D has come in to  [...]

Samsung F480 Tocco is a touch screen phone which feels really comfortable in the hand. The phone isn’t too heavy in your pocket and you will hardly feel it there. The front surface of the phone is dominated by a 2.8 inches touch screen and it adds to the aesthetic quality of the phone. You can customize it in a number of ways for suiting your tastes. Samsung F480 Tocco is really easy to use and you will get a good hang for it in a couple of days. There is haptic feedback for the buttons which means that the device vibrates when you touch the buttons in order to tell you that the touches are registered. In my lab testing, the touch screen was very good and I didn’t have to touch the screen too hard for the touches to register. Good touch screens aren’t really rare these days but still the manufacturer should be congratulated for this. I have just one gripe, the space button is located too close to the OK button and this resulted in a few accidental nudges while  [...]

Nokia 5310 Xpress Music is the Nokia’s version of Sony Ericsson’s W880i Walkman phone. It is very slim at just ten mm and there are cool music playback keys on the front. The slim profile of the phone is a good change from the 5300 which had a rather bulbous design. There are the same row of the music buttons on the screen’s left. The display is large occupies a big space on the front face of the phone. It is also really bright with a crisp resolution of 320x240 pixels. This makes the icon and text look really sharp. Menu system of the Nokia 5310 Xpress Music is really simple and you will easily along with it. It is similar to other Series 40 phones and the Active Standby display comes up by default. This will give you quick access to the functions which are most commonly used through carousel menu. It also displays other useful information like upcoming appointments and song name that is being currently played on the phone. Nokia 5310 Xpress Music’s key feature  [...]