But, it seems, the world has not learnt, as the Samsung Pixon 12 proves to us all too well. With its 12 megapixels of camera-light-receivingness strapped onto its chest, the Pixon 12 is a veritable human bomber of a phone, out to make a statement and attract lots of attention but, all in all, being little more than a worked up show-off. And why is that? Well, as with most of these idiots, there ideas can be disproved via a series of very short, very simple, and utterly infallible facts. Such as

1. More megapixels does not = better pictures
2. More megapixels only = better pictures when spread across the far, far larger light-receiving sensors of, say, a real camera
3. The only thing more megapixels definitely = is more megabytes in the file size created

However, the world being as it is we don’t doubt that many millions are going to be conned into disagreeing with all of the above, listening to raving lunatics and boldly showing off their new Pixon 12 in many a pub around the world come it’s release date. The sad thing is it’s not a bad phone in its own right, as this Samsung Pixon 12 review tells you, but oh well, we’re off to go and join the hari krishnas and preach peace and love and happiness to all men. Join us. Or just watch the video below instead.

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:

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.