Nokia N98 & Nokia N96 - Living Up To The Full Potential

Nokia is popular for its sleek and trendy hi-end phones with unique features. It brings smartphones that offer user-friendly ergonomics and stunning looks. All these handsets are well equipped with cutting-edge features like high resolution display, full qwerty keyboard, high storage capacity and high quality camera. The extensive range of Nokia phones offers excellent multimedia capabilities making it a multimedia centric computer. These phones offer some amazing multiple functions and entertainment features. They are much more than a communication medium. These phones allow you to play games, listen to music, and shoot the special moments and lots more.

The increase in demand for latest mobile phones has made the manufacturers come up with more and more advanced phones. Networks are offering attractive contract mobile phones that give you special offers and gifts. Besides, you also get attractive colours and designs which appeal the consumers. You can go online and search for such deals offered by various networks. The online mobile phone shops help you get the latest brands at competitive prices.

The Nokia N96 is a slider phone equipped with a 5.5 mega pixel camera with support for optical and digital zoom, 2.4 inches TFT display, 4 GB of built-in memory and a set of multimedia controls. Offering a fantastic mobile experience, this device comes with appealing features like Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-fi, etc. The Nokia N96 ensures that you have access to all the latest innovations in mobile telephony. The powerful features make the handset an ultimate mode of communication.

Another powerful handset, Nokia N98is expected to have a 7 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, Symbian S70 (3rd Edition) operating system, Graphics Accelerator, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and HSDPA connectivity. The handset features a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. This quad band Nokia N98 GSM camera-phone has 160 MB of internal memory which has an option of expanding further using a memory card. The built-in WAP 2.0 browser shows web pages in HTML and XHTML formats.

Both these handsets are for smart and fashion conscious mobile users. Get these handsets with a variety of mobile phone deals and choose the one that satisfies your communication needs.

Nokia N-Gage officially launched

Last Friday the re-launch of Nokia's gaming platform N-Gage already went over the ticker. Today, Nokia issued a press-release to formally launch N-Gage with a comprehensive game line-up.

Nokia has announced over 30 N-Gage titles to date. Starting today, you will have access to a range of high-quality games, many of which are exclusive to the N-Gage platform. N-Gage games incorporate online community features, and in many cases, graphical experiences never before seen on a mobile device.

With the N-Gage application on your device, you can create a Friends List, send and receive private messages, and take part in instant messaging style chat.
N-Gage Points can be earned for playing games and participating in community activities.
Moreover, the experience can take place via the N-Gage web portal on the PC. Here you can interact seamlessly with the N-Gage community or purchase new games and download them to your N-Gage compatible devices.

The first set of games include: EA SPORTS FIFA 08 by EA Mobile, Brain Challenge and Asphalt 3: Street Rules by Gameloft, World Series of Poker Pro Challenge by Glu Mobile, and Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep and System Rush: Evolution by Nokia Publishing. These games will be followed closely by Tetris and The Sims 2 Pets by EA Mobile, Block Breaker Deluxe and Dogz by Gameloft, and Snakes Subsonic, Space Impact: Kappa Base and Mile High Pinball by Nokia Publishing. The photo above shows the game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Today's N-Gage compatible devices include: Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N95, and Nokia N95 8GB.

Source:http://www.i4u.com

Review: Samsung Giorgio Armani mobile phone

In our video review of LG's Viewty phone we complained that the touchscreen device was too chunky and wished we could get our hands on a similar but smaller model.

Georgio Armani and the people at Samsung must have heard us because only days later came the new Armani phone. The Samsung Giorgio Armani has the same touchscreen interface as both the Viewty and the Apple iPhone but it is almost half the size and width of the Viewty.

Like that phone the Armani comes with photo-editing software, which lets users remove people or brighten colours, and although the 2.6in screen is smaller than the Viewty's we were impressed that we could see exactly what we were doing. We were also very impressed with the three-megapixel camera which, although it does not have face-recognition technology or an optical zoom, takes clear and bright shots.

It also comes with a range of picture-taking modes including a mosaic feature that takes shots in the shapes of stars and circles. Despite the phone being small, the screen is clear, but navigating around the phone's menus we came into a few problems. Like Armani's catwalk clothing, this designer phone appears to have been made for size zero models (or, specifically, size zero fingers).

Add to this the fact that the phone does not come with a stylus and will not recognise a tap with a fingernail and you often end up pressing unwanted buttons. The problem gets worse when trying to send text messages – it took us a frustrating eight attempts to write a standard 10-word text message and even longer to dial a number.

Navigating to options such as changing the clock's time was even worse and it didn’t help that it kept failing to detect our presses. However, those who only have an eye for looks won't be disappointed. The Armani phone is sleek, black and feather-light.

To make sure it is not ruined by scratches it also comes with a velvet pouch and a leather case to keep it safe, as well as headphones and a data cable that can be used to synchronise email and contacts from a computer. It also comes with a 1GB memory card, which, although easy to slide in, required tweezers to pull out.

Although this phone matches up to the Viewty and iPhone in terms of features and call quality, size isn't everything, and the quality of this phone doesn't match up.

source:http://www.vnunet.com