The Register comments on the new Sony Ericsson P990 mobile phone. Though to call the P990 just a phone is somewhat of a misnomer. More of a tiny laptop that also includes a phone. In fact I still use a laptop from time to time that has less power than the Sony Ericsson P990. It seems it is aimed squarely at the Blackberry market. Remember Transformers - Robots in Disguise? The Sony Ericsson P990 would have been one of them if mobile phones had existed back then.

The Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone is a stylish device that offers lots of great features. The Sony Ericsson K750i’s clean design integrates a slide-activated 2.0 megapixel camera and a 262K TFT colour display. Once shot, images or video can be edited using the Sony Ericsson K750i’s software and sent via to Bluetooth or multimedia messaging service (MMS) compatible devices. The Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone also features a multimedia player with Mega Bass™ an RDS Radio and PlayNow™ software for easier music downloads.

Sony Ericsson K750i Features
- 2.0 megapixel camera with 4 x zoom auto-focus & flash
- High-resolution 262K colour display
- Multimedia player with Mega Bass™
- Music DJ™ & Video DJ™
- RDS FM Radio
- WAP 2.0
- Bluetooth™

According to this mobile phone article in the Guardian, mobile phone insurance is a waste of money, is often invalidated withouth the customer knowing and most people could save around £100 per year if they didn’t have it. Apparently a handset could be replaced for around £40.
It said though that cover for unauthorised calls isn’t taken into account. Surely this is the main reason for having the insurance. I have a friend who had £1200 of unauthorised calls on his stolen phone. He wished he had taken the insurance.

According to this article in the Telegraph, Samsung have noticed that a lot of us brits just don’t like being available all the time and have branded us ‘anti-digital’. So theyre now bundling a bunch of soothing sounds and meditation images with the Samsung D500. NOt sure about this. When I’m feeling ‘anti-digital’, the OFF button usually does the trick.

The Nokia 7710 mobile phone is a multimedia device packed with great features. The Nokia 7710’s design centres around its huge 640 x 320 pixel 65K TFT widescreen colour display. The Nokia 7710’s touch-sensitive screen allows high-resolution images taken by its 1 megapixel camera to be seen in all their glory!

The Nokia 7710 also features Quickoffice document viewers (Quickword Quickpoint Quicksheet) for those who want to work on the move a multimode Internet browser and Enhanced GPRS. The Nokia 7710 keeps you organised entertained and in the know!

Nokia 7710 Features
# Integrated 1 megapixel camera
# 65K TFT widescreen colour display
# Touch-screen
# HTML and XHTML multimode Internet browser
# RealPlayer™
# E-mail client
# Enhanced GPRS

LG U8138 Mobile Phone Features

Video telephone live streaming
Built in camera (VGA Level CMOS)
Main LCD : 2.2” 176 x 220 pixel 65k colour TFT
Sub LCD : 1.3” 88 x 100 Pixel 65k colour
64 chord polyphonic ringtones
32 MB memory
Video on Demand / Video recording
MMS
WAP 2.0
Java 2.0
Multi media player (MPEG4, MP3, AAC)

The LG U8130 mobile phone is essentially a straight upgrade to the LG U8120, with the new features being primarily about call reliability.
Compact clamshell design
Avatar address book - have fun with cartoons of family & friends that pop up on screen every time they call
Speakerphone for easy video calling and playback
Integrated video and VGA still camera with 2-stage zoom & light Text, picture and video messaging
Capture and send pictures or video in 3 simple steps
JAVA MIDP 2.0
120 hours 3G standby battery life, 140 minutes talk time, 100 minutes video calling
32Mb internal memory for contacts, video clips, images, tones, messages & music files
Connectivity: USB, PC Sync, SyncML OTA,Infra-red
3G Video Streaming

LG U8120 Mobile Phone Features

Compact clamshell design
Avatar address book - have fun with cartoons of family & friends that pop up on screen every time they call
Speakerphone for easy video calling and playback
Integrated video and VGA still camera with 2-stage zoom & light Text, picture and video messaging
Capture and send pictures or video in 3 simple steps
JAVA MIDP 2.0
120 hours 3G standby battery life, 140 minutes talk time, 100 minutes video calling
32Mb internal memory for contacts, video clips, images, tones, messages & music files
Connectivity: USB, PC Sync, SyncML OTA,Infra-red
3G Video Streaming

The Siemens SL65 comes in a suberb little package that slides open to reveal the keypad. The SL65 has a built in camera allowing photos and video to be taken. The Siemens camera has a 5x zoom. Pre-installed on the Siemens SL65 are a 3D Golf game and Rally simulation.

Siemens SL65 also comes in silver or black. Integrated calendar, address book etc all can be synchronised from PC as well.

The Siemens SL65 is a highly impressive little phone in a small package.

The Samsung D500 mobile phone is an extremely slick piece of engineering. In the D500 Samsung have incorporated a slide open keypad and a 1.3Megapixel camera. The Samsung D500 is stacked with other features too.

The samsung D500 contains 80MB of storage which is enough for hundreds of photos, or even up to an hour of video, as well as all those phone numbers you need to keep handy.

With Bluetooth, MP3, games, email and dozens of other features, the Samsung D500 deserves a very close look.