If you thought Bluetooth headsets – staple ear decoration for mini-cab drivers, construction site foremen and, well, all ****s who think that a flashing piece of plastic hooked into their ear hole looks good – were painful to be around in your day to day life, just you wait until the next mini revolution in mobile phones happens: watchphones.

That’s right, in some kind of back to the future style scenario, watchphones are back in the shape of the Samsung S9110 (and we say back, because one of Samsung’s last notable efforts in this category came in the shape of the SPH-WP10, an almost unbelievable ten years ago). And as well as the S9110, LG are getting in on the act with the GD910, although their effort is arriving next month rather than this, and costs £1,000 whereas the Samsung S9110 comes in at under £400. But regardless, we don’t doubt that in a few months, you’re going to start seeing a lot of people with strange looking watches. All the most strange when you see them seemingly dislocate their elbows and wrist in an attempt to talk into these things like they’re a phone. See…. do you see why we’re worried? Because, as quaint an idea as a watchphone is, we just fail to see how it’s going to be all that practical. Either it’s going to be something you have to twist and turn up to your face in some weird way, or it’ll just be on permanent speakerphone (which will really, really wind us up). Or it’ll go down the route of the so-called “hands-free” sets. And don’t get us started on hands-free sets… IT’S NOT HANDS-FREE YOU IDIOT BECAUSE YOU JUST TOOK LONGER TO USE YOUR HANDS TO STICK THE EAR PIECE IN, RE-ADJUST THE STUPID DANGLING MICROPHONE AND THEN ANSWER THE CALL THAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY TAKE TO ANSWER THE CALL. AND LOOK! LOOK! NOW YOU’RE HOLDING THE MICROPHONE BIT CLOSE TO YOUR MOUTH AS YOU TALK. JUST USE THE ****ING PHONE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON YOU ****ING **** ****.

Ahem. Anyway. Yeah. Watchphones! Woooo!

Check out this Samsung S9110 review for less rant, more stats. Or have an early look at some Samsung S9110 deals.

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)

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.

The Samsung Omnia HD i8910 was one of the most eagerly anticipated phones which was unveiled during the MWC. The specs’ sheet is something which is totally unprecedented.
The Samsung Omnia HD i8910 comes with a 3.7” OLED touchscreen which has a resolution of 640×360 and can show upto 16 million colors.
An 8 MPIX shooter with the first ever 720p HD video recording at 24fps has made the headlines. Other imaging features of the Samsung Omnia HD i8910 include smile and face detection, geo – tagging and WDR setting.
The Omnia HD makes use of the newest S60 5th touch UI platform. As far as connectivity goes, there is Wi-Fi with DLNA, microUSB port, stereo bluetooth 2.1, TV-out and a 3.5mm headset jack. A GPS receiver is also available with A-GPS functionality.
You can select whether your phone should have 8GB or 16GB of internal memory. You can then extend the memory with a 16GB microSD card. There is also support for XviD/DivX, accelerometer, FM radio and a proximity sensor.
The OmniaHD is a quad-band phone with HSDPA and HSUPA support.
Samsung have done a good job of changing up the normal S60 UI which was first found in the 5800 XM. The TouchWiz homescreen is used, which really makes the homescreen very useful.
Some of the really nice features of the UI include the photo contacts screen, whereby you can dial the contacts just by pressing their photo.
The OmniaHD is really an eye-catching device, even though it’s quite big, but you should understand that there is absolutely no way that you can put in so many features along with a 3.7” screen in a smaller package.
check out this video
Once it’s released, you can get some good phone deals here.

Follow the links below for network specific deals:

Samsung Omnia HD on Orange
Samsung Omnia HD on O2
Samsung Omnia HD on T-Mobile
Samsung Omnia HD on Vodafone
Samsung Omnia HD on 3 Mobile
Samsung Omnia HD on Virgin