Get ready to rock along with the latest music orientated handset from Motorola.  The experts claim with just ‘one touch’ you can change from music to talk, giving you the only functions you need.
Taking a basic approach this new handset is perfect if you have a busy lifestyle, using ModeShift technology it takes minimal effort to switch between the various applications.  When using the camera function it only shows camera buttons, when using the music player you can only access the music player buttons etc.
With crystal clear speakers this phone is more complex than its outer minimal shell; the Motorola ROKR E8 was built to revolutionise music technology… & yes it has a better memory than the original ROKR which only stored 100 songs. With a 2GB internal memory which can expand to 4GB with an additional memory card, this is still smaller than the Apple iPod nana. It can play back MP3, MIDI, AAC, WMA, WAV, AMR and RealAudio music formats plus its great for videos with a large landscape format. The ROKR E8 can also be used with a variety of wired and wireless headsets and speakers. There’s an FM radio too. You can really ROKR the night away with music application like this.
The 2 mega pixel camera is a bit of a let down with no flash or autofocus although this is not the phones priority. Other shortcomings include no Wi-Fi or 3g which would be handy when downloading tunes onto your musical phone.
If you’re looking for a great phone for playing and listening to music that you can dance along to the ROKR is for you!

It’s hard to believe Nokia are now the only brand still making handsets with buttons…Is the latest touch screen technology needed or does it just complicate typing?

One of the main selling points of the Samsung Tocco F480 phone is the Widget application. These are tiny application that perform functions such as showing the time,or playing music.
With the Samsung Tocca you can place these wherever you want by simply dragging or dropping into the tool bar. This gives the handset a personal touch allowing you to change it accordingly.

With a card-like size it is very portable, and probably very easy to lose too.

Launching the smile shot function on the 5 mega pixel camera this handset boosts a fantastic picture for a minuet handset. Although with a memory of 223MB the phone is quite slow and struggles to do more than one task at a time.

With 3G internet the Tocco is great for surfing the internet with speed faster than most home broadbands. After testing this out I found it’s quite slow loading pages so not to sure about this 3G technology.

This phone has something for everyone with a great music player that stores thousands of songs plus it has a song tracking service called ‘Shazam’ which allows you to identify the song your listening to….if this is something you need to do.

With such great features there had to be some problems with the Tocco and there are. The handset has a habit of dropping calls for an unknown reason while the voice quality is sometimes poor.

Overall with such fantastic applications you could put up with the slowness, this phone is for you if you have style & patience.

Sleek, mobile sophistication in gorgeous pink. We are of course talking about the very latest “get noticed” phone offering from Blackberry. The Blackberry 8120 Pink.  Lightweight by design but certainly not as a contender for pure innovation, Blackberry have gone to great lengths with this mobile to pack in a full application feature set.
The Blackberry 8120 Pink has a 240 x260 pixel TFT display which is surprisingly bright and yet large enough to enjoy excellent video playback. With a standby batter time of an amazing 2 weeks and 1 day, this Blackberry breaks the mould with its own power.
The phone has an apt nickname of “pearl” and you will soon see why when you make the purchase. The Blackberry features a 2 megapixel webcam with Wi-Fi support meaning it is highly connectable to any Wi-Fi network. Supported with an internal memory, you won’t lose that crucial contact information.
This stylish Smartphone is not just aimed at the fashion conscious; it means business and is an ideal companion for any business user.
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Blackberry Pink 8120 Pearl Smartphone

If the Nokia E66 is anything to go by then the expert’s brand new range of business handsets are sure to be a winner. Say goodbye to dull, drab business mobile phones and welcome the new stylish sophisticated E66. With a beautifully slim sleek chrome shell that is very shiny, the handset is made for work but also has applications for play.

The stunning design of the phone with 2.4 inch screen & mirror finish buttons allows you to change the orientation of the screen with a slight twist of the wrist.

The applications on this phone only add to the sophistication of the handset. From a business aspect it allows constant communication, excellent internet connection & the ability to view spreadsheets, presentations & documents.

This great new phone is also great for entertainment with a 3.2 mega pixel camera, music & audio player & built in GPS. With easy screen modes it is simple to switch from work to play.

The E66 is a great step up from the E65, it is a revolutionary for professionals & sure to be a hit, as long as you like blinged up mobile phones!

A Virtual world on your Mobile phones? The craze was started by Second Life who designed a 3-D virtual world which since opening to the public in 2003, it has now gained millions of residents from all around the world.

With the 3D virtual world Second Life you can take the form of an avatar and do all sorts of things such as buy things, chat to people or just walk around?

Now this phenomenon is taking on the mobile phone market! The virtual world is a hang out place and this could take off in the mobile world for chat and social activities.

Japanese company Eitarosoft have jumped on the bandwagon early by creating a mobile online virtual world called Lamity. It is in the stages of being preloaded onto mobile phones with makers Sony Ericsson, Sharp and NEC taking part. There are further plans in the pipeline such as 3-D games for users and lots more online shop where you can spend virtual money…which then ends up on your phone bill at the end of the month.

But you may ask what the point is? Is it just another distraction?

In the virtual world things happen that would never happen in the real world? You can experience a hurricane or explore a Van Gogh painting….if you want to that is!

Virtual mobile may be a good idea for interacting in the video game world but as for social networking I think mobile phones provide enough communication.

Wondering why the experts are complaining that to much is going to waste? A recent article in the UK daily newspaper The Independent suggested that there are already 11,000 tons of unused cellular phones in the UK that have not yet been disposed of

Most of these phones will eventually be discarded,due to the rise of cheap mobiles, along with old laptops, portable music players and video game consoles. These electronic products are all made with highly toxic metals and other chemicals that invariably leach into the earth when discarded. In fact, thousands of tons of electronic waste already do reach landfills each year as users upgrade to new mobile phones and discard the old ones.

At the same time, says the newspaper, an estimated one billion mobile phones are sold worldwide each year, with a staggering one million of them each day being Nokia handsets. Of course, most cellular phone service providers promise a free new handset for anyone who signs up and, while many companies offer to recycle used mobile phones, the vast majority of such phones are still thrown away with the general rubbish. Upgrade annually – perhaps every 18 months depending on the contract – and that is a lot of handsets thrown into black bin liners with the potato peelings.

Some 100 million people upgrade to new phones each year in Europe alone, even though the average handset has a life of five years. But would you want to hang on to your 1 megapixel dinosaur when the average camera phone is fast approaching five megapixels?

To encourage phone reuse, at least one provider, Green Mobile, asks new customers to keep using their old handset and rewards them with a lower rate offered by companies who subsidise new phones each year. Green Mobile, in partnership with the Woodland Trust and Friends of the Earth, has created the UK’s first environmentally friendly mobile phone service.

E-waste is entering public consciousness one way or another. The so-called WEEE Directive, for example, is EU-imposed regulations on manufacturers and distributors to dispose of electrical and electronic goods in a prescribed fashion (at designated disposal sites) or face fines. Maybe, as food and fuel prices soar, the prevalence of recycled phones is will grow and become as much a fashion statement as the latest Armani- or Lg Prada handset.

Researcher ABI estimates that these factors, in addition to shorter handset replacement cycles and a growing demand for cheaper phones will cause the global recycled handset market to be worth $3 billion by 2012, with recycled phone shipments numbering above 100 million.

Just as many people’s transport habits began to change dramatically with the rise in fuel prices at the pumps this summer, maybe it’s time for a back to basics approach to mobiles: a mobile phone as an instrument for making and receiving calls and texts, with a bit of snapshot-taking and Web browsing thrown in if you really need it.

Samsung are set to take the industry by storm with the new 8 mega pixel Samsung i8510 Innov8. First of its kind it wont be long before others start to follow.

The i8510 says “this is the future” in fine style with a 2.8-inch TFT display with 16 million colours and 240 x 320 pixels resolution. The camera is an eight megapixel beauty with auto focus, image stabilizer, face detection, dual LED flash, geotagging (automatically tags pictures with the location they were taken) and video recording (QVGA at 120 fps or VGA at 30 fps).

While pixel count is not a guarantee of picture quality, it does add fuel to eight megapixels becoming the norm in the fancy cameraphone brigade

Other features of this beautifully crafted slider phone include GPS, Wi-Fi and a microSD card slot. It runs on Symbian S60 3rd Edition operating system and is the first S60 smartphone to support an 8 megapixel shooter.

The i8510 comes in 8GB and 16GB variants, with 3G and dual-band (900 / 2100 MHz) HSDPA (for fast Internet use at 7.2 Mbps) as well as the Wi-Fi. The storage card can take up to 24 GB, which makes perfect sense, augmenting 16 GB of internal memory.

The inclusion of DivX and DNLA certification (for playing high-quality videos and interoperability in hooking up to secure transmission of copyright protected materials) is an entertainment bonus. It will play back DivX, WMV and Real Player video files and supports MPEG4, and 3D surround sound. It is so feature-rich that the “givens” list must now include Bluetooth, FM radio, music player and a USB slot.

If you insisted on a touchscreen, then you’d be disappointed – there’s a slide-out keypad instead – but who cares when the phone is this sleek. Samsung rates the i8510 as providing up to 8.5 hours of talk time and up to 310 hours on standby. Now its time for the rest of the industry to show their cards with the latest phones? Will we be seeing the 10 Mega Pixel camera soon …..

For a top-of-the-range device that blends attractive design, wonderful technology and    broad, sensible functionality, Samsung has come up trumps with its U900 slider, known as the Samsung Soul. It is the Korean manufacturer’s flagship phone of 2008 for good reason: it is super-sexy and super-slim with slide phone that sports dual-screen touch-sensitive controls and metal casing.

With a five megapixel camera with autofocus and advanced face detection technology, 3G video calling, MP3 player, FM radio and a sensible chuck of memory the Soul – in Graphite, Silver or Pink – fits the bill for most people.

It incorporates a feature called Magic Touch which allows the Soul to display different button icons according to the application currently in use. When in music mode, for example, playback-related icons light up on the navigation panel.

It offers 3G (HSDPA) data connectivity for speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s, so you download songs, for example, then play through the U900′s ICEpower digital power amplifiers – courtesy of high-end audio equipment manufacturer Bang & Olufsen.

It has 100 Mbytes of internal memory and a memory card slot; applications include a document viewer as well as email, wireless connectivity via Bluetooth and triband GSM: one wonders why not quadband, though.
Perhaps the most significant point in its favour is that the only real carping has been about the volume – or, rather, the lack of it – of the ringtones!

All in all samsung has bared its soul and got it right big time making it a bestseller !

Now that the dust has settled from the 2007 fallout on mobile phone cashback deals we take a look to see what all the fuss was about and whether they are still any good for you…

For the unfamiliar cashback deals are where a mobile phone retailer offers to give you some of the commission that they receive from the mobile phone network (3, Orange, Virgin, T Mobile, Vodafone, O2). Surely a good thing eh?

Well yes and no. What mobile retailers realised was that if customers had to claim this cashback in installments over a number of months then there would be a drop out in the number of customers who would remeber to claim this cash.

In the early days only around 30% of people bothered (or remembered) to claim this cashback on their mobile. This was great for the retailer because after the claim period had closed they could pocket the cash. It was actually quite good for the consumer as well because the mobile retailer thought “well if only a third of people claim the cashback I can offer a cashback three times as large because only a third will take it up”. This lead to a massive rise in cashback offers for consumers.

While this was happening the consumer watchdogs were pretty silent. No doubt because their consumers were getting amazing deals that could offer a 12 month refund on line rental on a 12 month contract!

The problem came when consumers got wise to this and started to diarise their cashback claim timetable (ie send back voucher in month 3, 6 and 12 etc..). The rise of Microsoft Outlook’s diary system meant the fall of many cashback retailers!

Instead of only 30% of people claiming it ended up that 70% of people claimed. Some of the smaller mobile phone retailers had already spent the cashback that they didn’t think was going to be claimed and so all of a sudden they were having to pay cashbacks from money they didn’t have.

There were then a number of high profile mobile retailers who went bust leaving many customers waiting for their cashback that never arrived …. no matter how well they had diarised it in Outlook!

Where sleeping watchdogs had once lay, they awoke with howls of constantation and cashback became the dirty word of the mobile industry.

So where does that leave the consumer? Are cashbacks good or bad?

We think that the only logical conclusion is that if retailers offer a sensible cashback that they account for financially and allow the customers to claim it in an easy to use way then why not? Giving value back to the consumer has to be a good thing surely?

So if you are looking for your next mobile provider we suggest that you select a straightforward deal from a reputable company and to claim your cashback in one easy to use step rather than months and months of diarising.

And of course it just so happens that these are available at Mobilesplease !

If I was to say that there was a new mobile technology emerging from the East which would revolunitionise the materials used to build a mobile phone you would probably be thinking titanium, or some ultra light alloy. But would you be thinking wood?

Nokia might not be quaking in their boots just yet but there is a Russian man who uses apple tree wood to build mobile phones. Ok he doesn’t build them from scratch as he takes apart a new handset and replaces the non electronic parts with wood. The case becomes wooden and he builds casings for the antenna, battery & even the sim card!

Now as someone who has dropped a mobile in a canal before (it was a on the phone non handsfree bike riding on cobbles situation … don’t ask) I would have been delighted to see my little mobile float rather than sink.

While my situation is pretty rare it’s a fact that the no.1 mobile phone insurance claim is for mobiles that have been dropped down the toilet. Would you be prepared to fish out your floater (that’s your mobile by the way) if you drop it down the toilet? Do you really like your contacts address book that much?