We like phones that aren’t pretentious. We like phones that don’t pretend to be more than what they are. And we like phones that feel well-designed from top to bottom and from inside to you.

Three simple things, but three things that very, very rarely get a tick from us in relation to one phone. The Samsung Jet S8000, however, gets a nice big red check against each one of these.

Not pretentious? Nope, this is a mid-range phone, not pretending to be anything else. But that’s not to say it’s lazy, either. A good example is the camera. Fair enough, it’s only 5 megapixels. But with those five megapixels you get Autofocus, a Dual LED Flash, auto Face Detection, Smile Shot, Panorama option, Blink Detection, Geo-tagging and a nice simple Photo Editor. Then add to that the video capturing at 720×480 with 30fps, and also the slow motion video capture (QVGA resolution) and suddenly your nodding your head, impressed with what Samsung have achieved with the Samsung Jet.

Doesn’t pretend to be more than it is? Nope, this could be nothing other than a mid-ranger. The screen, for example, is not really that big – 3.1-inches. It’s plenty big enough for all the things the phone can do, and with the AMOLED technology is as bright and clear as anything else out there, but Samsung haven’t been tempted to stick a needlessly huge screen on a crap phone to make it seem bigger and better than it is. Not only this, but the rest of the phone’s design is absolutely perfect – from the colours to the materials to the curves, it’s all fantastic.

So it’s well-designed from top-to-bottom and outside. And inside, with the newest version of TouchWiz, zipping along thanks to the 800mhz processor, all is more than dandy too.

What more can we say? Apart from watch this space very carefully indeed, to find out the launch date, as the Samsung Jet could be a phone to make you as happy as it’s made us. Read a full Samsung Jet Review here for more persuading, or have a look at the nice little video below:

If you love listening to music and carry your favorite music with you wherever you go, listen to them in a high quality audio system even while you travel, then the Samsung M6710 BEAT DISC is the ultimate phone you need. Introduced at the Mobile World Conference 2009 M6710 BEAT DISC is the latest member of Samsung’s BEAT edition. It features awesome sound quality from Bang & Olufsen.

The main attraction, the B&O technology, supports the high quality audio output with the external speaker as well as the ICEpower amplifier. It is also equipped with music applications with which you can now easily find music, download them or even recommend, using the tagging facility. And with the 3.5mm audio jack you can connect your own pair of headphones and listen to the good quality music. Running on DISC UI interface, the phone not only carries some great features but surely looks fashionable and stylish too.

The screen is of 2.6inches WQVGA and happens to be touch-sensitive at the bottom half of the display. The phone is easy to carry around as it’s only 107mm x 51mm x 15mm. It also features a 3megapixel camera and the data you want, can be stored in memory space of 80MB with the facility to increase it using microSD slot if you want. The battery is 880mAh and this phone works on GSM 850/900/1800/1900Mhz and UMTS 900/2100MHz networks as well as giving you high speed internet connectivity on HSDPA 7.2.
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We were listening to someone from Samsung telling us about the Samsung Omnia 2 recently and we got that feeling you get when you’re trying not to stare at or ask about something. You know the feeling: a girl with an impressive chest area is trying to tell you about saving pandas… or a different girl with what seems to be a bullet wound in her hand keeps talking about the weather. You keep biting your tongue, keep nodding and mumbling things in agreement, but eventually it’s too much, you snap, you find yourself screaming. And this is what we screamed: WE DON’T CARE ABOUT THE DAMN GPS WITH ITS PRE-INSTALLED NAVIGATIONAL SOFTWARE, TELL US ABOUT THE MASSIVE SCREEN YOU IDIOTS.

Because the i8000 has a massive screen (right in the middle of its face, for everyone to see… how could we not stare?) and after deciding not to call security, the nice girl from Samsung told us all about it.

It is, in fact, the biggest screen ever seen on any mobile phone. Ever. Full stop. That one impressed us.

It utilises AMOLED technology. You know, active-matrix organic light-emitting diode technology. Which means that not only is the screen bright, crisp and clear, not only is it not backlit and so not a massive power drain for the battery, it is also super thin, allowing the Samsung Omnia 2 I8000 to measure an almost obscenely thin 12mm.

With 800×480 pixels the Samsung Omnia 2 is fully widescreen and plays back at a DVD-like quality (that’s not to say, of course, that it’s the same quality as DVD, just that it looks like it could be, and for our superficial selves, that’s plenty good enough).

Then she went on to talk about the GPS again, then the Wifi, the new TouchWiz interface and all sorts of other things, but we were lost. Hypnotised in fact, staring straight into the big wide screen of this very attractive phone. Check out a Samsung Omnia 2 review here with less infatuation, more facts, and the video below almost, but doesn’t quite, do justice to the object of our affection.

The Samsung MBP200 Pico Projector is one of the new generations of players that function as projectors. It comes in a pretty standard box shape. With a weight of only 160 grams, the MBP200 Pico Projector is portable and pocket friendly. It has a 2.2 inch LCD QVGA screen with a 320 x 240 resolution.
It has an easy to use simple touchpad on the right side of the phone, allowing the user to navigate through menus easily.
The phone’s best feature is the projector which can project images on screens ranging from a standard paper’s size to a 50 inch viewing screen, making it an invaluable device for serious movie buffs. The technology used to power this application is the same as that used in DLP HDTV’s, large-scale cinema houses and home theater projectors. The image is respectably bright on a screen placed 3 feet away. The phone comes with built in speakers. The HVGS projection panel allows clear pictures to be viewed. The phone also has a standard 3.5mm jack allowing a wide range of headphones to be used with it. What makes this device even more convenient is the tiny screen holder with a telescoping pole hidden in it which can immediately transform a sheet of paper into a vertical screen on which any media can be viewed easily. This can be either movies, photos, files or even documents.
The Samsung MBP200 Pico Projector can be easily plugged into a Samsung mobile or a laptop and the video transferred. The user can also transfer the media files using a MicroSD card.
The phone supports a wide variety of media files. For pictures, it supports JPEG, animated GIF, GIF and MPB formats. Audio formats supported include MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV and OGG. Video formats supported include DivX, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV9 and simple profile. It also supports documents in a range of formats including MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel and PDF .This gives it additional utility as it can be used for an entire presentation even at work! See Samsung’s mobile site for updates on the Pico Projecter.
Overall the Samsung MBP200 Pico Projector is the ultimate viewing accessory, as it offers advanced entertainment options specifically designed to enhance the user’s mobile experience.

The 5730 XpressMusic is one of the latest additions to the Nokia XpressMusic series scheduled to be released later this year. The phone is a slider phone and features a complete QWERTY keyboard. The phone looks good and will be released in 4 colors. The phone has a neat 2.4 inch QVGA screen which can display up to 16 million colors.

On the front, the phone features a standard numeric keypad. There are special keys for easy access to the camera, gaming, and the user’s music library. There is also a key on the side on the phone for the user to adjust the volume. The phone has decent connectivity options including quad band GSM, WCDMA and HSDPA. The phone also allows Wi-Fi connectivity allowing the user to connect to the internet. The user can access emails. Web pages and can add music to their library on the go.

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusichas an onboard SDRAM of 128 MB and 100 MB for the user to store information in. However the memory can be expanded up to a maximum of 16 GB via the MicroSD memory card slot. The phone battery has a long life allowing talk time up to 5.2 hours and music playback for up to 25 hours.

The phone comes with an inbuilt GPS receiver, making it a good tool for people who travel a lot.
The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic features a 3.2 MP Autofocus camera with a Carl Zeiss lens. The camera has 8 x digital zoom feature along with an LED flash. The phone also has a secondary camera for video calling.

The best feature of the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is definitely the S60 music player which supports a variety of music formats.

When you add all these features together what you get is a good all round phone. See Nokia’s official page for fulls specs

At a recently held press conference in China, Sony Ericsson displayed information about one of the latest models it’s planning on releasing soon. This T series phone, known as the T707 is also known by the code name of Elle. There is only limited information available on this matter and even less possibilities of picture previews but we do know some of the specs for certain.

It’s a flip phone that will be available in 5 colors; green, violet/pink, blue, black and orange. As it’s labeled under the T series umbrella, it would not fall under the Walkman or Cyber Shot lines. But it’s guaranteed to carry all the expertise Sony Ericsson has achieved over the years of experience in the mobile phones industry.

Sources say that the new T707 tends to be similar to the SE W508 and Z610 in some ways. But at the same time carry several features which are unique to the T707 itself. The T707 Elle will be quad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS/HSDPA. The 2.2inch main display is of QVGA resolution and there is also a secondary smaller display on the outside.

The 3.2MP camera somehow is of fixed focus. The extendable memory through the use of microSD slot is complimented with the 1GB M2 card that is given with the package. File transferring can be done by using A2DP Bluetooth. The T707 is 14mm thick and weighs 98g. You will be able to find it in the markets from May onwards but there is no information as to what regions it will be available. For more information check out GSM Arena.

Sony Ericsson has not yet published any official news on the price of this model. However, you can get a basic idea by checking out some of the Sony Ericsson T707 Elle contracts. These T707 Elle contracts and deals will also help to reduce the financial burden upon buying the headset. Sony Ericsson T707 Elle offer you a great range of benefits including free gifts and special offers.

The Samsung Omnia Lite is shaping up to be a pretty nifty little smartphone. Samsung have deliberately stripped some of the high-end features available in the other members of the Omnia family meaning the Samsung Omnia Lite B7300 lives up to its name – it’s very thin for a smartphone (just 13mm) and weighs in just over a hundred grams (impressive especially as it includes a 1500 mAh battery that will provide a reasonable amount of juice for all your needs.

Thanks to all this, the Lite B7300 is a bit of a looker – with brushed metal features, a distinctive cell-like pattern on the back, and a great curvy body that will feel great in the hand, this is a huge step in the right direction away from the somewhat brick-like Omnia phones we’ve seen so far.

The screen isn’t of the highest resolution (64k colours, compared to some similar phones that are hitting the 16million mark), the camera’s a paltry 3 megapixels and has no flash, but we think these are minor enough that what’s left will be more than adequate for all but the heaviest of users. Being Samsung, there’s also the great TouchWiz interface (designed specifically for all-touch handsets) and loads of interesting navigational features and apps to take advantage of the onboard GPS.

There’s also WiFi, 3.5G data connectivity, a maximum download speed on HSDPA of 3.6mbps and an FM radio, so we think you’ll find more than enough to keep your fingers happy for the length of your contract if you choose to buy it that way. It might not be about to break into any new territory or win any awards, but we think the Samsung Omnia Lite B7300’s going to do more than an adequate job for those of you out there who want a smartphone without having to worry about taking out a loan to afford it. Check out this full Samsung Omnia Lite review here for even more details. And look forward to a launch sometime around October (or even earlier if Samsung get their fingers out)

Samsung S5600 is one of the latest additions to the mobile phone community. This stylish handset is of the sliding factor and is touch sensitive. It runs on Samsung’s TouchWiz UI and comes with many features that would fulfill your mobile communication needs as well as multimedia needs.
The screen is of 2.8inches and carries QVGA resolution. The 3megapixel camera is equipped with Smile Shot facility and you can also capture high quality video with it. The attached-in accelerometer enables you to hold the camera either horizontally or vertically as it automatically adjust the screen to portrait or landscape.
It’s quite delicately designed for the measures 103mmx55mmx12.9mm and would be so easy to carry around in your hand as it weighs only 96g. Not only it’s ideal to carry around but also it looks quite fashionable and elegant at the same time.
Connectivity-wise it’s quad-band on 850/900/1800/1900MHz GSM and dual band for UMTS on 900/2100MHz. You can also download online data using the high speed HSDPA connectivity. Apart from these features, you can use the Shazam Music Recognition feature to identify the songs which you don’t know the name of as it can record a quick audio clip of the song. You multimedia can be stored in internal space of 80MB and memory can be extended by using the microSD slot.
The Gesture Lock feature that comes in the S5600 enables you to unlock the phone by drawing a particular symbol on the screen. The 1000mAh battery can support up to 12.5 standby time and 3hrs continuous talk time.
Samsung has not yet released any official information on pricing however S5600 is expected to hit the European markets from May 2009 onwards. You can check out this Samsung S5600 review for more information.
You can get a head start by checking out the Samsung S5600 contracts available online. Samsung S5600 contracts and deals are a great way for you to own this awesome Samsung phone once it’s shipped. This is because S5600 deals offer you a range of financial benefits which will put you at ease and definitely make buying a S5600 a great opportunity for you.

Oh, when will they learn? When will the fiddling, tinkering, time-wasting mobile phone researchers learn that less is most often more. That adding more and more and more features and alternatives not only confuses people, but also wastes valuable research and development time.

Take the new Samsung Omnia Pro as a painful example that’s come our way recently. It’s going to come with not one, but two User Interfaces (UI’s). One called “pro” the other “media.” Although keeping in mind that the launch date is still a fair way away (October 2009 at present), so there’s few other details available (and things might still be scrapped) we think this is a terrible, terrible idea. all things might not be finalised.

We can almost understand the logic – some people will be more media-heavy users, so they’ll want a PMP (personal media player) kind of interface, whereas other will be more heavily business and email-hungry, and they’ll want something more traditionally smartphone or businessphone-like. But, aside from the fact that this is patronising (because business people are too serious to ever use media functions, right, and people who don’t wear suits don’t want easy email access either, right?), it’s also a huge waste of effort. Why not just make the Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 a good phone? Tricky concept, we know, but try it again: it’s one handset, it’s one phone, it’s one device…. so why not just make it good. All-round, every function, every feature: good.

Now, we’re not saying the Samsung Omnia Pro B7610
’s going to be a bad phone, or that this dual identity thing isn’t going to work… we’re just saying it’s probably not going to work as well Samsung hope/pray it will. Check out a full Samsung Omnia Pro review here for all the main specs and features. Or have a squizz at this dull video below.