LG M4300

The LG M4300 works on three bands: GSM900 / GSM1800 / GSM1900. It is a clamshell phone and has an internal antenna. It weighs 110gms. The dimensions of the LG M4300 are 94x48x25 mm. The screen is a TFT screen with 256k colours with a size of 176x220 pixels. It has a second 65k colour display of 96x96 pixels. It has the Photo Call feature and has a miniSD card slot. The LG M4300 supports polyphonic ringtones and has 40 channels.

It has GPRS(Class 10), EDGE(177kbps), Bluetooth, WAP 2.0 and Infrared.
The camera is VGA with 640x480 pixels that supports video capture and flash. The LG M4300 has an mp3, AAC player, an organiser and java games that are downloadable.

The LG M4300 is shaped like a sports car and is a highly capable music phone.

Breathalyzer

Korea has launched the world's first sports car phone with alcohol Breathalyzer. It seems to be getting great popularity. The cell phone that is manufactured by LG looks like a sports car which appeals to the youth tremendously. The 3 brands, LG SD410, LG KP4100, LG LP4100 have sold over 200,000 units in the first four months and is still selling about 1,500 units a day!

An alcohol level measuring device integrated with a cell phone is an innovative idea, especially among the younger crowds who drink after work or school on a regular basis. Using the sensor is very simple, all the user has to do is to open the phone and blow on the sensor, the LCD will tell the user whether the level of alcohol in his blood is safe to drive.

Sony Ericsson W900i

Sony Ericsson today announced the W900i Walkman phone, which was previously indicated as W850 by rumors on the web. This quad-band 3G phone (UMTS and GSM 900/1800/1900) measures 109×24 x 49 mm (4.3×0.9×1.9 inches) in dimensions and weighs 148 g.

The W900i features a 2 Megapixel camera with autofocus and 8x digital zoom, a video call camera, LED photo light, a 2.2” 240×320 QVGA TFT-LCD with 262K colors, video recording and full screen playback, push e-mail, a stereo portable handsfree and FM radio. Its built-in Walkman player supports playback for MP3, AAC and AAC+ audio formats. The package also comes with Adobe Photoshop Starter Edition 2.0 and Apple QuickTime Player for PC to make the users ready for image editing and movie playing on their PCs.

The W900i Walkman phone comes with generous 470 MB built-in memory and a Memory Stick PRO Duo slot for of up to 2GB of expanded memory. It offers up to 8.4 hours talk time and 370 hours standby time in GSM mode; and up to 2.2 hours talk time, 1.6 hours video call time, and 300 hours standby time in UMTS mode.

The W900i also features exciting 3D games just as the W550i/W600i.

Features on the W900i include:

* 470MB of built-in storage plus a Memory Stick Duo card slot
* GSM 900/1800/1900 with UMTS 2100
* QVGA 262K color screen
* 2 megapixel camera w/ autofocus and 30fps video capture
* Stereo Portable Handsfree
* Bluetooth
* Music player can handle MP3, AAC or AAC+
* Dedicated music controls
* Remote control (3.5mm jack))

Nokia 6680

Key Features:

* Two integrated digital cameras: 1.3 megapixel and VGA which means reasonably good qualiy pictures to be printed.

* Experience two-way video calls and see face-to-face as you talk in real time which is made possible by the two cameras.

* Video sharing capability

* High-resolution, 262,144-color display - means a better and more colourful screen.

* Nokia XpressPrint printing solution: PictBridge, Bluetooth wireless technology, MultiMediaCard (MMC) which enables easy printing of pictures and transfer of pictures, videos etc to other computers or mobile phones.


* Fast WCDMA and EDGE connections for broadband-speed browsing plus tri-band which simply means better and faster internet access.

*GSM phone with global roaming capability so you can continue to use it all over the world.

* Convenient email access with automatic download to send images and view
documents

* Calendar, contacts, and other personal information management features plus
data printing

* Music player with stereo audio thus providing very good qualiy so your phone works as a portable mp3 player because you can also store audio tracks on the phone.

It shares most of its features with the 6630 except two digital cameras which are an un-neccessary accessory. However, the camera in front may be useful for 3G [video caling] which I dont know if it has been introduced in India or not. It also has a reasonably good flash light for taking pictures which was missing in most Nokias prior to this.

No doubt it is an Imaging smartphone as described by Nokia, but it does lack the looks and visual appeal just like its predecessors 6600 and 6630 phones.

Microsoft I-Mate

The i-Mate Smartphone is above all a great mobile phone based on Microsoft’s Windows Powered Smartphone operating system. You can expect to find all the basic and advanced phone functions on this Smartphone, but what makes it the smartest phone available on the market today is the Windows Powered software that lets you E-Mail, Instant Message, surf the Web, listen to music, play games, and much, much more. Having Microsoft Windows as its operating system is an ease to sync information from Outlook to Smartphone and back, synchronization is limited to Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Inbox.

The display is a crisp 65k colors in TFT screen LCD, but there’s no font smoothing, though, so jaggies in the fonts is immediately noticeable. Watching videos encoded exclusively for the SP is great! Its only bogged down by the constant turning off backlight -- if only Microsoft added a backlight feature in the Windows Media Player version of the Smartphone 2002, watching videos is more pleasant.

The keypad layout of the SP is easily adaptable and quite easier to use contributing to its large buttons and neat configuration. The voice recorder and volume control buttons are located to the left of the Smartphone which is a little cumbersome to use for right handed folks.

The ability to turn the radio (signal or network) off is a plus, since going to an institution where one should turn off their mobile phones and using just the PDA features of it is definitely important. The speakerphone feature is a must if having both of your hands full.

The Secure Digital (SD) slot is also a great addition to the SAP since one can buy or upgrade memory as long as it is supported by the Smartphone.

With its ability to install user-installable applications and games, it all goes down with third-party developers to make the necessary software and Microsoft’s promotions to offer the Windows powered Smartphone 2002 to mobile phone operators -- its a great offering for business and casual users.

Overall, the i-Mate Smartphone is a neat, streamlined and simple device that the user will quickly adapt overtime.

Specifications:
Microsoft Windows Powered
Emails and Internet
MSN Messenger
Picture Messaging
Games, Video and Music
Large Colour Transflective LCD Screen
32MB ROM 16MB RAM
SD Card slot for extra memory
Triband

Conclusion:
It’s a great device and can almost mimic everything a desktop PC can do. It’s perfect and if I’m honest unless Microsoft upgrades the software, include Bluetooth and a built in camera (not that I want that), do something about Java and get a few more big operators/phone manufacturers to take up the Smartphone platform.