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Review of Sony Ericsson W980i Walkman Phone

The good news for who looking to upgrade to a better music phone. Sony Ericsson recently announced its W980i Walkman phone.

The sexy clamshell phone is billed as the perfect device for music enthusiasts with dedicated music control buttons on the front flip panel as well as a smaller LCD screen that displays song information.

The W980i also has the company’s shake control feature that allows you to shake the phone to change songs.

With 8GB of internal memory, music lovers will have lots of space to store their favourite tunes.

The phone also features HSDPA high-speed Internet connectivity for web surfing and video conferencing. Also, the phone comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording.

SE said that the W908i will be available in the third quarter this year.

Review of Sony Ericsson K660i

The new K660i is a compact quad-band phone reminiscent of earlier K6-series phones from Sony Ericsson. Despite its diminutive size and simplistic design, it is however a proper 3G phone with HSDPA and video calling. The quad-band radio supports practically any GSM network in the world, while HSDPA offers high-speed Internet connectivity. To make best use of the HSDPA feature, the K660i features a fancy web browser that can be rotated to landscape mode. To navigate the web, the K660i has cursor navigation, letting you move a mouse cursor around just like you would on a PC or laptop.

Moving back to the design, the K660i has a bright 262K color LCD display with a resolution of 240×320. The main keypad consists of small round buttons similar to the K810i; a design that is often questioned lately. The last column of buttons, however, light up and perform shortcuts such as screen rotation. Navigation keys consist of a 4-way rocker with a single OK button in the middle. The familiar call, option, cancel and softkey buttons are all arranged neatly on either side of the navigation keys.

The phones features stereo Bluetooth, a media player, FM radio and an RSS feed reader. The camera on the back is a simple 2-megapixel pinhole unit with fixed focus, while a VGA camera sits on the front for video calls. A welcome feature on the K660i is the USB storage capability. Using the included USB cable, you can plugin the phone to a standard USB port and access the phone or card memory like any USB storage. The phone itself has 32MB of memory, which can be expanded with up to 4GB of M2 memory cards thanks to an M2 slot in the side.

Although the K660i is not as feature-laden as its higher-end brethren, it serves its purpose very well with a compact and simple design. Yet, it still offers a few goodies such as the HSDPA, USB storage and enhanced web-browsing.

Features:

• 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and Carl Zeiss optics
• Xenon flash and active lens cover
• 2.4" 16M color QVGA display
• 128 MB RAM
• Wi-Fi with UPnP
• Built-in GPS receiver and A-GPS functionality
• Nokia maps application covering over 100 countries worldwide
• Convenient standard 3.5 mm audio jack on the top
• 3G (with HSDPA), EDGE and GPRS support
• Symbian OS 9.2 Series 60 3rd edition Feature Pack 1 UI
• TV-out functionality
• Automatic UI rotation
• Stereo speakers
• Large capacity battery

Highlights:

• Controversial design and questionable ergonomics
• No RDS for the FM radio
• Below average GPS performance
• Extra charges apply for voice assisted navigation
• No office documents editing application
• Doesn’t charge off USB

Nokia N82 is the kind of gadget to make high hopes inescapable and it is important to know whether it lives up to the responsible job of being the N73 successor.N82 has all the premises to become a true bestseller, combining full smartphone functionality with the best camera on the mobile phone market. Upgrading from Nokia N73 seems the definitive choice, if not the only option.

As for the rest, who are considering Nokia N82, we say it’s a buy you will hardly ever regret. Looking at your options first won’t hurt though. The simple math tells that Nokia N82 with an 8GB microSD memory card costs about the same as Nokia N95 8GB, so the choice between the two is purely a matter of priorities. Whether you prefer larger screen or xenon flash should tilt the scales this way or the other.

As for the cameraphone lovers, the decision is as simple as that - if you want the best camera on a phone and you’re willing to pay for it, Nokia N82 is the way to go.

Nokia N95:

 

General: 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 2100 HSDPA 850 / 1900 - US version
Status :Available. Released 2007, March.
Dimensions: 99 x 53 x 21 mm, 90 cc.
Weight: 120 g.
Display Type: TFT, 16M colors .
Size: 240 x 320 pixels, 40 x 53 mm .
Ringtones Type: Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3.
Vibration: Yes.
Card slot internal memory: microSD, hot swap, 128 MB card included, buy memory, 160 MB internal memory.
Processor & Ram: 64 MB SDRAM memory, ARM 11 332 MHz processor
Connection: EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps; DTM Class 11, 177 kbps,3G HSDPA,WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11,b/g, UPnP technology ,Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP,Infrared port ,USB v2.0 miniUSB.
Features OS Symbian OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1.
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging.
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML.
Games Downloadable, order now .
Camera: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary CIF videocall camera.
GPS: Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS function, Installed Maps application covering over 100 countries

Design: Dual slide.
Java MIDP 2.0
Media: MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player, 3.5 mm audio output jack, TV out, Stereo FM Radio, Built-in handsfree, Push to talk.
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 950 mAh (BL-5F),Stand-by Up to 220 h,Talk time Up to 6 h 30 min.

Nokia N96:

 

General: 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 2100
Announced 2008, February, Status available soon.
Dimensions: 103 x 55 x 18 mm, 92 cc.
Weight: 125 g.
Display Type: TFT, 16M colors Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches.
Ringtones: Type Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3.
Vibration: Yes.
Card slot & internal memory microSD (TransFlash) 16 GB internal memory.
128MB RAM, 256MB storage memory.
Connection ata GPRS Class 32, 107 / 64.2 kbps, HSCSD ,EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps; DTM Class 11, 177 kbps ,3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps,WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology, Bluetooth, v2.0, with A2DP, Infrared port, USB, v2.0 microUSB.
Features OS Symbian OS, S60 rel. 3.2.
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging, Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS reader.
Camera 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary VGA videocall camera.
GPS :Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS function, DVB-H TV broadcast receiver
Design: Dual Slide.
Java MIDP 2.0.
Media : MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player, 3.5 mm audio output jack, TV out, Stereo FM Radio with RDS, Built-in handsfree, Push to talk.
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 950 mAh (BL-5F),Stand-by Up to 220 h,Talk time Up to 3 h 40 min.