The popularity of the Nokia X6 keeps on growing with the introduction of this great phone in blue. Music is at the heart of the X6 and great sound quality is on offer through stereo speakers or your own headphones connected to the universal 3.5mm audio jack. In addition to the music/video player there is also a stereo FM radio with RDS.

The other area in which the Nokia X6 excels is in the camera department, Carl Zeiss optics give a quality feel to your pictures and auto-focus ensures blurry images are a thing of the past. The X6 also has the edge on its competition with a video recorder that captures images at 30 frames per second in either landscape or portrait views.

Nokia can’t be praised enough for the X6 as they have hit the nail on the head when it comes to offering users what they really want. The 8GB memory is very generous and the new blue colour scheme makes this one stand out in a crowd.

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One of the most desired features of todays handsets is the inclusion of a camera and with the latest technological advancements on offer our range of high-end smartphones can out perform dedicated camera devices. Here are three of our most popular camera phones that have wiped out the need to carry two devices:

The Sony Ericsson Satio is simply perfect with a 12.1-megapixel camera that reproduces images onto its 3.5-inch display (360×640 pixels) that has a palette of over 16 million colours to bring your images to life. Tools at hand to enhance your images include Xenon flash, red eye reduction, image stabilisation, touch focus and smile/face detection. A TV-out socket allows your captured moments to be shared easily and with video calling and video capture at 30fps the Satio is most definitely top dog.

The Nokia N86 has an 8-megapixel camera with auto focus and dual LED flash, all of which are compressed into a compact, neat and tidy slider form. What makes this handset special is the wide 28mm Carl Zeiss lens and AMOLED display, superb for flicking through your list of captured pictures. VGA video calling is on offer along with video capture at 30fps.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 again has an 8-megapixel camera and boasts a huge 4-inch scratch resistant display (480×854 pixels). Built-in YouTube, Facebook and Twitter applications provide an excellent platform for sharing images and you can be confident of great results with image stabilisation, touch focus and face/smile detection.

The latest figures to hit the news from GFK show that Android’s share of the contract phone market in the UK has more than quadrupled from 3% in Q1 of 2010 to over 13% in Q2.

To use nerdy Star Trek speak, Google look like they are going to translate their tactics in the online services sector to mobile phones and Borg us all.

To me, this battle for the smart phone operating system crown looks alot like the way the computer OS market went in the late eighties/ early nineties.

Back then there were a handful of serious players – Microsoft had DOS and the embrionic windows which were not tied to hardware, Apple were doing what they do now and selling hermetically sealed software/hardware combos, IBM had OS2 and Linus Torvalds was beavering away on Linux.

Ultimately Microsoft won, with Apple as runner up OS2 consigned to history and Linux finding a small niche with nerds.

The players in the phone OS game right now are Google with android,available free to any manufacturer who wants it, Apple again tying the hardware and software together, Microsoft with Windows Mobile and Samsung and Nokia with their proprietary Bada and Symbian systems.

So who’s going to win?

I’m not a betting man, but if I was I would be looking back at why MS won the PC operating system wars.  The bottom line is that there was more and better software available for windows than any of the others. It’s the same reason VHS won over Betamax and HD-DVD lost out to Blu Ray. Content.

Importantly in all these cases, the format’s fates were decided by third parties, the movie studios in the cases of VHS and Blu Ray, and software developers on the case of Windows.

Looking at the phone OS battle through this lens, it looks to me like a two horse race between Android and Apple. Microsoft are throwing money at developers and Samsung and Nokia have a small base of app developers too, but none of them compare to the numbers of  developers working on Android and iPhone apps.

Now, if you held a gun to my head and made me choose between them, I would have to say Android is going to win.

Apple have one product in the mobile phone sector, the iPhone, whereas every single major phone manufacturer aside from Nokia is rolling out Android phones. Developers go where the money is, would you write apps for one phone or apps that owners of many different handsets could use?

On top of that, many developers are growing concerned about the Orwellian level of control that Apple exert on their App Store, by contrast Android Marketplace is a wild west style free for all.

Apple will always have a place in the hearts of style concious buyers, unkindly dubbed” fanbois” by the less charitable commentators, they will always have a significant share of the market, but I can’t help feeling that Android has the edge.

Created with a keen eye on absolute perfection the Nokia N8 has one of the richest feature sets so far from this year’s superb collection of smartphones. A powerful optical package sees on-demand Web TV from sites such as National Geographic and CNN among many others and can be enjoyed on the 3.5-inch OLED display in 16:9 nHD widescreen. For enjoying media features with friends and family the high definition HDMI port allows a cable to be connected to a TV or projector and Dolby Digital Plusbrings a crisp and 3D styled audio experience when connected to a home theatre sound system.
Professional images can be captured with the finest of details thanks to the 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, xenon flash and a photo/video-editing suite. To ensure the N8 is top of its class Nokia has also included high-end features such as face recognition, geo-tagging, music/text & image overlaying on captured footage and a variety of transitional effects for making the perfect slideshow.

The Symbian v3 Operating System provides a widget based menu system with 3 customisable home screens that rotate with a simple swipe of the finger. Updates from social networking sites are provided in a live feed on the home screen and a dedicated SNS widget allows 1 or all of your social networking sites to be updated at once. A refined 3G HSDPA Internet connection provides a gateway to a multitude of downloadable applications from the Ovi
store and the inclusion of a Stereo FM radio and the Nokia Music Player ensures there’s plenty to keep you entertained when offline. A full range of connectivity options has been engineered into the compact and sleek design
with WI-FI, Bluetooth, push email and GPS with Ovi maps providing turn-by-turn navigation on foot or by car.

The Nokia N8 has all that is needed to impress even the most demanding of users and is set to be the highlight of this years new releases.

With the intense competition in the smartphone sector right now Nokia will probably keep the price as low as they can, this means that many networks will most likely offer a free Nokia N8 on contract.

Mobiles Please compares high end smartphones, brilliant camera phones and super stylish fashion phones but what about those who want a fuss free phone with a great price tag I hear you cry? With Pay As You Go prices starting from just £2.95 we can get you a really cheap phone to help you stay in touch with friends and family when you are on the go.

Lobster 621i

Exclusive to Virgin, the Lobster 621i is a user friendly, lightweight handset with a glamorous look. The slim size of the Lobster 621i adds to its appeal making it very pocket friendly and with small rubberised keyboard and navigation pad it is very easy to explore the basic features of this handset. Inside the phone you will find a music player supplied with high quality earphones, 1.3 mega pixel camera with multiple shot and timer options and 2D Java games including Helimanator and Rocket Adventure, as well as a downloadable PC Suite.

Nokia 2330

A step up from the Lobster is the Nokia 2330. With prices starting from just £9.79. The stylish candy bar phone is packed full of essential features to keep you connected, informed and entertained throughout the day. There is a basic camera on board and a music player to keep you entertained. With a solid compact design the Nokia 2330 Classic is available in a black and grey casing with smooth curved edges plus with user friendly features it is a simple easy to use device. Perfect for a first phone or if you need a user friendly handset for simply making calls and browsing the web.

Nokia 1661.

One of our more popular cheap mobiles is the Nokia 1661. At a bargain price of £4.50 on a number of networks the 1661 is ideal if you want a really basic handset for everyday use. Weighing only 80g it is a very pocket friendly device and includes some handy features such as a torch, FM radio and conference call application. With the classic Nokia candy bar design the handset features a large TFT display which allows you to explore the handset easily and MP3 ring tone support. Ideal for those looking for a basic handset to make and receive calls and send texts the Nokia 1661 comes with large keys to navigate your way around the handset.

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The Ovi store is slowly building up a decent set of apps to give Nokia mobiles an app store almost ready to compete with the giant iPhone App store and the Android Market. Recently announced by Nokia is a free application called Own Voice for Ovi Maps. The app gives your phone’s navigation system a great individual feel by recording 53 vocal commands and using them for turn by turn directions from Ovi Maps.

Your own voice commands can be uploaded to the Own Voice website to share with others and you can rate and download others to your own device for a great user experience. This could turn out to be great fun using friends voices to guide you home or having a random crazy person shouting at you to turn down the right street (if that float’s your boat!).

Own Voice is compatible with the latest version of Ovi Maps so will work on the X6, 5800, N97 mini and E72.

Another kooky app from Nokia comes in the form of the Carpe Diem Daily which apparently helps people ‘discover fascinating facts about the world and themselves in an inspired and playful way’.  It basically gives a ‘daily do’ which encourages you to submit interesting text, photos and videos to Nokia’s Carpe Diem website reminding you that something positive happened in your day!

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Nokia have finally released full details of the highly anticipated and coming soon N8 and boy are they good! The new flagship phone is so packed full of brilliant features that the Finnish phone manufacturer’s could now be the ones to beat in the smartphone and camera phone market. Deals will be arriving shortly for this exciting new phone but first lets have a look in details at the Nokia N8.

So what’s so exciting i hear you say?

Well the 12 megapixel camera has image enhancing features to die for. The 28mm wide angle camera boasts Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and HD video recording with built in video editing tools. Nokia have even said that the image sensor “rivals those found in compact digital cameras”…exciting stuff!

The high end features don’t stop at the camera though, the N8 is the ultimate in entertaining phones. With HD quality film and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound as well as access to local and global Web TV services the N8 provides the perfect cinema experience wherever you are. If movies aren’t your thing then users can chose from thousands of Ovi Store apps to download, turning the N8 into your dream machine!

Not only that, the N8 will be the first phone to run on the new Symbian^3 operating system which offers multi-touch support, multiple homescreens, multi-touch support, 3D and 2D graphics and pinch/zoom function.

Social Networking fans, fear not! The N8 integrates networking sites like Facebook and Twitter into the homescreen so users will never miss out on vital gossip!

The phone will hopefully be available at the end of summer without any hitches and should propel Nokia fully into the super smartphone market.

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With hundreds of phones on the market from uber basic to super smart it can be a hard task to choose your dream handset. If you are just after a great phone that won’t take up much room in your pocket or handbag then I have selected some of the best pocket friendly handsets with great purse friendly prices!

Sony Ericsson Jalou

If you need your phone to be the ultimate fashion accessory then the beautiful Jalou from Sony Ericsson is a facet cut shaped flip phone measuring just 73 x 45 x 18mm; ideal for popping in a tiny bag and dancing the night away! Underneath the glossy exterior the Jalou has a great spec including a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, video record and calling support, media player and FM radio. Connectivity wise there is HSDPA, EDGE and Bluetooth. This phone is ideal for someone who loves to stand out in the crowd with a great piece of arm candy.

Nokia 6600 slide

Vodafone – the world’s leading mobile phone telecommunications group have announced the ‘lowest-cost mobile phone on Earth’; the Vodafone 150. Aimed at the developing world and set to be initially launched in India, Turkey and eight African countries the 150 will be priced at a tiny $15!

With a predicted 5bn mobile phone owners by the end of 2010 and most of the growth coming from the developing world The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has said that demand has been driven by people using their phones to access banking and mobile health services. ITU secretary general Dr Hamadoun Toure said, SMS can be used to “deliver instructions on when and how to take complex medication such as anti-retrovirals or vaccines”.”It’s such a simple thing to do, and yet it saves millions of dollars,” he said.

The handset is very basic with a 1inch monochrome display, polyphonic ringtones and a built in torch. It is very useful however, with the ability to make phone calls, send and receive text messages and with a battery life of 16 days standby time the 150 is a practical and affordable phone.

The 150’s slightly more advanced sibling is the Vodafone 250 which will cost around $20. The colour screen is a little bit bigger at 1.45inches making it an understated but attractive looking device and there is also an FM radio on board.

Unfortunately these devices are set for developing countries so are unlikely to enter the UK market but if you are after a cheap and fuss free handset then the Nokia 1208 is a great alternative with a SIM free price of just £25.

A number of mobile phone companies have been turning their plain black and silver phones into girly pink devices that are sure to make an impression and even set a new trend in time for the season of love! Mobile phone brands have caught on to the fact that girls love to make a statement with their mobile phone and have come up with a way to make it their ultimate arm candy. From hot pink to cutsie baby shades, pink phones are here to stay!

Recent phones to be tickled pink include;

The Nokia 6700 Classic Illuvial - a super stylish hot pink powerhouse. The 6700 is the epitome of what Nokia represents, a highly accessible, simple and stylish device that ticks all the boxes with it’s features and the Illuvial makes it more accessible to the female market. The flat keypad has hot pink numbers and pink accents around the phone with a floral pattern engraved on the back.

Samsung Tocco Lite Pink – A pretty pearly pink touch screen multimedia machine, the Tocco Lite includes a 3 mega pixel camera, fm radio and 50MB of onboard memory. A pocket friendly device, the Tocco Lite provides a vivid bright screen which is fully touch sensitive and makes it easy to navigate around the many applications on this handset.

LG GD510 Pop – The LG Pop GD510 is the most compact 3 inch full touchscreen phone on the market and is now available in baby pink.  The GD510 looks and feels like a high end handset which means a compromise has been made with it’s features to produce a mid-priced phone. Features include a 3 megapixel camera with video record, mp3 player and FM radio to keep you entertained on the go and Bluetooth support.

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