Mobiles and gadgets

Apple has announced the Iphone 4S, not the Iphone 5, so we take a look at the differences between the old and the new.

For starters the handset doesn't look any different from its predecessor, not a single thing has changed. So no one will even know that you have the new version. Considering it's an Apple product we expected it to at least be a bit thinner. However, Apple does claim that the device is a massive 3g lighter. With no face lift or tummy tuck, it's the hardware and software where we find some upgrades.

We'll start with the hardware and look at the processor first. This time round the Iphone 4S has been given an A5 dual-core chip. It's an upgrade from the A4 processor in the Iphone 4, which is only single-core. It's the same chip that the Ipad 2 has, which is clocked at 1GHz but it's unclear if this is the same on the Iphone 4S. Nevertheless, the fruit themed firm claims it can deliver up to twice the power and seven times faster graphics.

The other major hardware upgrade is to the phone's camera. The 5MP camera on the Iphone 4 has been bumped up to 8MP. Apple claims it "might be the best camera ever on a phone". It also has a bigger aperture of f/2.4, the illumination sensor has been ‘improved' and there's additional face detection. When it comes to video the camera will be able to shoot in HD 1080p as opposed to HD 720p, and it will have added video stabilisation that the Iphone 4 camera doesn't have.

When Acer decided to break into the smart-phone market, it chose to buy up the Glofiish brand instead of starting from scratch. The Tempo M900 is the latest result of this partnership. Priced at about £370 SIM-free, has this keyboard-equipped Windows Mobile handset got what it takes to challenge the likes of the HTC Touch Pro2? 
Bulky behemoth
The first thing you notice when you take the M900 out of the box is its sheer weight and bulk. Hiding a slide-out Qwerty keyboard in its frame, it was never going to be the sleekest smart phone on the market, but it feels considerably larger and heavier than other keyboard-toting handsets, like the Touch Pro2 or Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. The phone's rather old-fashioned styling does little to mask its chunkiness, and the build quality isn't brilliant either -- the plasticky case tends to flex rather more than it should.
Large keys
That said, at least the extra space means Acer has been able to equip the M900 with a roomy keyboard. The keys on the keyboard are packed rather tightly together, but they're slightly larger than usual and quite responsive, so, after some practice, you'll find it relatively easy to tap out long emails and text messages.
The M900's screen is also very impressive. Measuring 97mm (3.8 inches) diagonally, it's one of the largest displays on any Windows Mobile device, and its high, 800x480-pixel resolution is especially useful when viewing Web pages or work documents in the phone's Office Mobile suite of applications, as it means you don't have to do as much scrolling back and forth as on other devices.
Beneath the large display, you'll find the handset's other key feature: its fingerprint scanner. This can be configured either to work as a security mechanism -- so that you need to swipe your finger across it to gain access to the phone -- or just to protect individual folders or the data in certain applications, such as your calendar and contacts book. You can also use it as a touch controller to move through menus and select on-screen icons. 
Interface tweaks
The phone runs Windows Mobile 6.1, which has probably the worst user interface of any of the current smart-phone operating systems. Recognising this, Acer has added its own Shell interface enhancements over the top. Shell presents you with a virtual desktop, with various items spread around it. Selecting these items with your finger takes you to the associated applications. The system works reasonably well, but the graphics look rather drab and it's less slick and intuitive than the TouchFlo interface that HTC uses on its smart phones.
The M900 is built around the same speedy, 522MHz Samsung processor used on the other smart phones in Acer's range, but it only has 128MB of RAM. It runs smoothly when you've got one or two apps open, but it starts to struggle with any more than that, due to the lack of RAM. Battery life isn't too hot either. You'll only get around a day's usage from the M900 before it needs recharging. 
The M900 isn't too bad on the connectivity front, though. It supports both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and you also get HSDPA for speedy Web browsing when you're on the move. The on-board GPS is also top-class, proving very quick to get a lock on your location. The 5-megapixel camera has an LED flash and autofocus, and takes decent-enough shots, provided the lighting conditions aren't too poor. 
Conclusion
The Acer Tempo M900's large screen and responsive keyboard are impressive, but this handset leaves much to be desired elsewhere. The design is far too bulky for our liking and the build quality isn't particularly good. Compared to similar handsets, such as the HTC Touch Pro2, the M900 definitely comes off second best.

It feels as if it had been yesterday when we first saw the HTC Touch, the famous forerunner of probably the most successful series of Windows Mobile phones ever. Actually this happened in 2007 (the same year when the iPhone 2GS rolled out), the phone featured WM 6.0 that was well hidden under TouchFLO and was considered a high-end device. The level of personalization was nothing out of this world really (although even two years later, some manufacturers still don’t seem able to catch up), but the compact size and elegant design of the handset managed to win over quite a few people, including us. The Diamond-strewn and Pro-fessional models that appeared later launched HTC into orbit and made the company the world´s leading manufacturer of Windows Mobile devices. Of course, we should mention memorable models like the affordable HTC Touch Viva and Touch 3G.Two years later and just a few days after the official release of version 6.5 of the operating system of the software giant, what we have in our hands is the HTC Touch2 that unlike its predecessor is not exactly technologically advanced for its time. This is a mainstream handset, coming with features that are similar to what the HTC Touch Diamond2 delivers. Its processor runs at the same frequency (528MHz) and the amount of RAM is slightly lower (256MB instead of 288MB). The HTC Touch2 utilizes Windows Mobile 6.5 and a motley version of the TouchFLO interface.

Samsung F480 Tocco Pink specifications:
91 g, 95.9 x 55 x 11.8 mm
5 megapixel Camera along with Auto Focus and Flash feature
2.8 Inch TFT 262k Colour Touch Screen
Samsung F480 Tocco Pink features:
Bluetooth with A2DP Technology
FM Radio RDS
3G HSDPA Technology
Text Messaging
Enhanced Messaging
Multimedia Messaging
Instant Messaging
Email and Predictive Tex
USB Connection
EDGE technology
GPRS
MicroSD Memory Card Option
3 Hours Talk Time
250 Hours Standby Time

The Siemens al21 is a modest cell phone, but it sports a handsfree speakerphone mode built-in. Here is a good deal of information links, among which user reviews and a side-by-side comparison.* My system to determine Siemens al21 ringtones compatibility linked above uses common knowledge on BenQ-Siemens phones to evaluate your chance of getting free Siemens al21 ringtones, but it is not absolutely accurate. Bluetooth-enabled, which is an interesting plus. Bluetooth is not really necessary but may be handy if you want to use a wireless headset or transfer data to or from your (Bluetooth-enabled) laptop, for instance. (score: 7/7) 300 minutes of talking time. It is excellent! (score: 20/20) Siemens al21 works with global GSM frequencies which is convenient for overseas travelers. (Note that additional roaming charges from your home carrier generally apply) (score: 7/7)

Motorola RAZR (pronounced /ˈreɪzər/ "razor") is a series of clamshell mobile camera phones by Motorola. They were first developed in July 2003 and introduced in the fourth quarter of 2004.[1] with sales starting the following year.
Because of its striking appearance and thin profile, it was initially marketed as an exclusive fashion phone,[2] but within a year its price was lowered and it was wildly successful selling over 50 million units by July 2006, making it the most popular clamshell phone.[3] Over the RAZR's four-year run, Motorola sold more than 110 million units, boosting its position to second place in the handheld market behind Nokia.[4] PC World put the RAZR at #12 in The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years.[5]
The RAZR series was marketed until July 2007, when the succeeding Motorola RAZR2 series was released. Marketed as a more sleek and more stable design of the RAZR, the RAZR2 included more features, improved telephone audio quality, and a touch sensitive external screen. The new models were the V8, the V9, and the V9m.[6] However, Motorola relied too long upon the RAZR and its derivatives,[7][8] being slow to develop new products in the growing market for feature-rich touchscreen and 3G phones, so the RAZR's appeal declined while offerings from rivals such as the LG Chocolate and iPhone captured consumer attention, and Motorola eventually dropped behind Samsung and LG in market share for mobile phones.[4] Motorola's strategy of grabbing market share by selling tens of millions of RAZRs led to them slashing prices, cutting into margins which resulted in heavy losses in the cellular डिविजन.

The BlackBerry 8300 Curve Grey comes with a QWERTY keypad which allows the users to easily type the Emails and Messages and the space between the keys of QWERTY keypad is easily identified with the help of its Back light feature. There is a document viewer application in this business phone that facilitates the owners to view documents in popular file formats. The wonderful phone comes with Security Password protection feature which gives assurance to its owners that their phone will not be used by any other person. Other useful features of this gadget are BlackBerry Maps, Hands free speaker phone and Voice Dialing.This blackberry phones is compact in shape which comes with smooth and curvaceous looks. It is a very glamorous looking business phone comes with the overall dimensions of 107 x 60 x15.5 mm and it weight is measured around 98 grams. Its screen displays around 65 thousand colours over a resolution of 320 x 420 pixels.

The 6500 Slide is one half of two new Nokia handsets, the other being the 6500 Classic. Both phones are more or less identical but the 6500 Slide is slightly more specced-up than its counterpart.
The Nokia 6500 Slide comes with a 3।2-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and an LED photo light – all performing well relative to other camera phones। The music player application supports a range of the most common formats (MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC and WMA) and boasts decent sound quality, and there’s a built-in FM radio if you get fed up of your own music। Storage-wise, the 6500 slide has a microSD card slot that is upgradeable up to 8GB.

P2 is a flash-based PMP. P2 has a touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, a FM radio, an E-Book reader and video playback capabilities (MP4 and WMV formats)[1].
The Samsung YP-P2 comes in white, red, and black. Available capacities are 2, 4, 8 and 16 GB.
Some of the features on this device include Bluetooth stereo headphone compatibility with support for multiple sets of headphones and also sports Bluetooth phone connectivity with the ability to use your stereo headphones with your cellphone and speak through the built-in microphone on the player itself. The player also supports file transfers via Bluetooth. Another feature is the drag-and-drop interface for uploading music to YP-P2 which makes it easy interface to managing your media collection.

The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia, originally announced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit in January 2007. N800 allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using Wi-Fi networks or with mobile phone via Bluetooth. The N800 was developed as the successor to the Nokia 770. It includes FM and Internet radio, an RSS news reader, image viewer and a media player for audio and video files.

Nokia N96 is the 2nd latest[1] Nokia smartphone in the Nseries range of products. It is the official successor to Nokia N95.
The handset was publicly announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 2008,[2] and started shipping in September 2008.[3] Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific are the first locations to provide the handset for consumers. The American and Chinese versions were expected shortly thereafter.[4] The general UK release date for the N96 was October 1, although London had a separate date of September 24 when the device went on sale exclusively at Nokia's flagship stores on Regent Street and at Terminal 5 (Heathrow airport).

The Sony Ericsson C902 is a mobile phone released during the second quarter of 2008. The phone is the first in Sony Ericsson's new 'Cyber-shot' C-series of phones, along with the Sony Ericsson C702. With a 5.0 megapixel camera, with features such as BestPic, autofocus and face detection, it is set to be the new camera-focused series. It is available in the colours of "Luscious Red" and "Swift Black". In the United Kingdom, the Luscious Red colour is available only on the Vodafone network.
The C902 is featured in the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. The phone will be available in a rare titanium silver color and will include a 2GB M2 memory card preloaded with several James Bond media.

Sony Ericsson C510 is a Sony Ericsson’s affordable Cyber-shot phone. It was released by Sony Ericsson on 7 January 2009.The C510 has Cyber-shot branding and features like blogging, auto focus and face detection. The phone also boasts a camera cover, scratch resistive screen, and keys that illuminate when in camera mode, to access particular features such as flash. It supports a wide range of exposure setting.The camera can shoot at up to 3.2Mp, and can record video at 30 fps and in QVGA format. A firmware upgrade allowed the phone to run processes such as Windows Live Messenger. The phone supports auto rotation for portrait to landscape via the built-in accelerometer which is also used for various other applications such as a step counter and some games. The phone has the ability to work as a modem, and in a good 3G It has Sony Ericsson Java Platform 8 profile and so allows Flash Lite to run as a front-end to Java ME.signal area up to reasonable broadband speeds can be achieved.

Sony Ericsson P990 is a smartphone and the successor of Sony Ericsson P910. The phone uses the UIQ 3 software platform, which is based upon Symbian OS 9.1. It was released in August 2006. The P990 has a numeric keypad that flips open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard below the display, on the phone itself. This is a change from P910 where the keyboard is on the flip. The flip itself can be attached or detached using the screw and screwdriver found in the box. The phone is a UMTS (3G) and tri-band GSM phone supporting video calls through its front VGA camera. The touchscreen displays 262,114 colours (18-bit colour depth) with a resolution of 240x320 pixels. It also comes with a 2.0 Megapixel camera featuring autofocus and an FM/RDS radio. The P990 runs the Nexperia PNX4008 ARM9 208 MHz processor from Philips.The screen despite a smaller length (2.8 inch) than its predecessors is actually larger in area because of the increased width. The phone also improves over the P910 by including support for Wi-Fi, allowing users to connect to 802.11b wireless networks. You can browse the Web using the built in Opera browser.
Connectivity has been an ongoing problem with the UIQ3 suite of phones from Sony Ericsson and the Mac OS X iSync utility that mac users use to synchronise the phone to the computer. As of February 2008 there are still widespread problems reported with these phones for Mac users.

The Sony Ericsson W910i is a slider model music phone. The W910i was announced on June 14, 2007 as a branded "Walkman phone" and uses version 3 of the 'Walkman Player'. The phone also features the shake control feature found on the W580 that enables music track switching by shaking the phone and also for Java J2ME based video games and applications using the Java Platform 8.
The phone, alongside the K850 Cybershot and the more expensive W960 Walkman was one of the first phones from the company to use the Sony Ericsson Media Manager which replaces the now-defunct File Manager seen on older models. The Walkman music software also uses the 'SensMe' feature which designates the mood depending on the genre and the speed of the track the user is playing. The phone has had its camera interface revamped and resembles the one seen on K850; however the BestPic feature has been replaced by Burst Mode.
The W910i is available in six different colors which have been advertised as "Hearty Red", "Noble Black", "Havana Bronze", "Prime Silver", "Lipstick Pink" and "Silky White". Included in certain retail configurations are a 1GB or 2GB capacity memory card. As well as the Walkman digital music player, the W910i can also play FM radio with features using RDS and GraceNote TrackID service.
On February 14th, 2008, the W910 was given the GSM Association's "Best Handset 2008" award

The Nokia N73 is a smartphone by Nokia officially described as a "multimedia computer". In common with other Nokia 'Nseries' and 'Eseries' phones of its time (late 2006), the N73 comes loaded with many software applications, including contacts, messaging, picture and video galleries, a music player, a Visual FM Radio, RealPlayer, an IM client, a WAP browser, a full web browser based on KHTML/WebKit, a Microsoft Office document viewer, a PDF viewer, an Adobe Flash Lite viewer and some games. The majority of these applications support background execution; for example, one may listen to music while browsing the Internet, and then may switch to write a text message or e-mail, without having to close any applications. With the exception of newer Sony Ericsson phones like K550 and W610, non 'smartphones' typically cannot do this or can do it in only a very limited way; for example, only the music player can run in the background. The feature which most distinguishes the N73 from other 'N'- or 'E'-series Nokia mobile phones is the 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera. The N73 does not support Wi-Fi.

The Nokia N97 is a touch screen combined phone and "mobile computer" in the Nseries of smartphones by Nokia, with a fold-out QWERTY keyboard.
Announced on 2 December 2008,[3][4][5] the N97 is Nokia's second touchscreen phone (after the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic) that is based on Symbian OS with the Nokia S60 platform.
The Nokia N97 was released in US flagship stores on 9 June 2009[6] and soon after was released worldwide. In September 2009 it was reported that two million N97 handsets had been sold in three months following its release.[7]
N97's come shipped with Quick Office, Adobe reader, Ovi Maps, Boingo, JoikuSpot Premium & the Ovi store.

The Nokia N85 is a smartphone produced by Nokia. The N85's functions include those of a camera phone and portable media player, in addition to offering e-mail, web browsing, local Wi-Fi connectivity, text messaging and a built-in GPS receiver, allowing satellite navigation using no external hardware. It is part of the company's Nseries line of smartphones. The N85 runs on Symbian OS v9.3, with an S60 3rd Edition platform with Feature Pack 2. The phone uses a two-way slider to access either media playback buttons or a numeric keypad.

The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface.[1]]