[photopress:Nokia_6630_black.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Recently I sold my Moto and after adding some sum I’ve bought a smartphone from Nokia – 6630, which is perfect for me on the price/specifications ratio. As a matter of the fact, I’m bored with the cell phones limitations and purchase of a SMARTphone was question of time. The first impression of the phone was horrible. Menu isn’t very handy, the camera isn’t up-to-date comparing to other similar phones, design and layout of the keys are very uncomfortable, and the key-lock is indispensable. I always had this opinion about the Nokia cell-products and now have confirmed it, though after half a day of its usage the number of “French words” about Nokia engineers came to minimum. Besides, my Nokiaphobia was depressed by the fact that my new $286 device surpasses most of the $500+ congeners. Without any problems I’ve found lots of sources in the Net for software, themes, games, etc. for 60-series platform. Then I’ve applied some tuning and styling, and even visited my site through the Opera Mobile using the EDGE. More and more I like its charming screen and the way it lays in palm.

To be continued…

[photopress:W950_front.jpg,thumb,alignleft] 4GB storage plus high performance entertainment suite with touch screen

3GSM Congress, Barcelona, 13th Feb 2006 – A major addition to Sony Ericsson’s family of Walkman® phones is announced. The W950 is an ultra-slim, ultra-stylish, UMTS-enabled device with 4GB of onboard storage complete with touch screen for simple navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums.

More than a music phone, broadband-fast email and Web browsing plus a suite of high performance entertainment applications add to its capabilities, making it one of the most highly specified phones in the Sony Ericsson portfolio.

“Bringing the Walkman® brand to Sony Ericsson phones was one of our outstanding achievements in 2005 and we have now sold more than 3 million Walkman® phones,” said Miles Flint, President, Sony Ericsson, “W950 is our sixth Walkman phone to be introduced since that announcement and listening to music on mobile phones is now an established and growing consumer behaviour. This announcement also demonstrates the flexibility of the Symbian v9.1 and UIQ 3.0 platform to create a consumer focused offering as well as business and the W950 is now our third Symbian based handset to be introduced in 2006.”
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[photopress:samsung_i320_lg1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] The new i320 Smartphone was unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.

The mean’n'lean, wafer thin, none-more-black smartphone weighs in at a sprightly 95g, with a 2.2″ 262K colour TFT screen offering QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) resolution - a healthy improvement on the Treo 700w’s paltry 240×240 screen.

The pocket-friendly i320 runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, and offers the new Direct Push Email functionality via the Messaging & Security Feature Pack when used with Microsoft Exchange Server SP2.

For a fully featured smartphone, the dimensions aren’t too bulky- 111mm x 59mm x 11.5mm only - so you won’t feel too much of a berk walking around with it stuck to your ear.
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A few days ago slashphone published some information and pictures about Motorola famous razr’s series slider called Razr Slider MS600 wich released in Korea. The phone is now available in CDMA network only.
The slider phone MS600 get a 14.8mm thickness, is one of the slimmest slider phone in the world. It has all the razr characteristic, including the slider flat keypad. Other than that the razr slider got a 262k colors screen, 128 polyphonic, 1.3 megapixel camera and able to use as a MP3 player.
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[photopress:samsungX300.jpg,thumb,alignleft]At the upcoming 3GSM World Congress the Korean company Samsung Electronics will introduce its new phone SGH-X300 in the clamshell form with built-in FM-receiver (memory for 30 stations).
[photopress:samsung_x300.jpg,thumb,alignright]Under non-confirmed data the SGH-X300 will measure 86×46x20 mm and weigh 80 g. Its external screen is monochrome 96×64 pixels, and the internal screen – a color one (65K colors), with a 128×160 pixel resolution.

[photopress:e398.jpg,full,alignright]It’s time to say good-bye to my cell that I bought eight months ago. The Motorola E398 proved to be a nice phone, which is capable of doing lots. Well thought-out and with open architecture. After the firmware upgrade it become a Motorola E1 Rokr – able to shoot video, with voice recorder, and iTunes – and the menu view turned magically out to be like a Sony Ericsson W800 Walkman. In other words, a good model in skilful hands. Actually I don’t want to sell it but it seems to be the perfect moment to make best of it. Anyway I’ve lost half of its original price and in a little time my Moto will go to Retro Brick cell phones Museum.
The main point of agenda at the moment is to choose another device. I’ve already marked one out but truly I need your advices. Preferences: seriousness, camera not less than 1 megapixel, extension card availability, price not over 300 bucks, GPRS & EDGE, speakerphone and voice recorder. Do not suggest BenqSiemens, please!

PS. the phone on the picture is not exactly the one I own