Samsung Armani M7500 Night Effect Ultimate Review.

Samsung first joined forces with fashion designer Armani back in late 2007 and the result was the beautiful Samsung P520 Armani, a svelte touchscreen handset with a clever interface designed specifically for it. It was a massive success and loved by both techies and fashionistas, but it was eventually overshadowed by the superior Samsung Tocco, which did the phone-side better but lacked the designer branding.

Fast forward to October 2008 and Samsung unveiled their newest collaboration with Armani, the M7500 Night Effect. This time the branding was not simply Armani, but Emporio Armani, their popular range for the younger, fashion conscious person. Since then we’ve had to wait a while until the M7500 was ready for … continue reading "Samsung Armani M7500 Night Effect Ultimate Review."

The Ultimate Google G1 Review

As soon as Google announced the development of the Android mobile phone platform way back in 2007, people began eagerly anticipating the release of the new phones that would be created. The early versions of these phones are finally starting to be released to the market; the first one to come out is the T-Mobile G1. Dubbed the HTC Dream during its development, the T-Mobile G1 has been anxiously eyed by everyone who wants to know how much a Google phone platform could possibly shake up the mobile phone world. The G1 brings together the best Google software programs (like Gmail and Google Maps) with innovative third-party software options (available through the Android Marketplace) to give you a phone that can do the things that you want it to do, whatever those things may be. It’s an early version of the … continue reading "The Ultimate Google G1 Review"

LG Hero KU580

LG are launching yet another phone with a snappy name that doesn’t really fit with an electrical product… but still sounds pretty cool. Welcome to the LG Hero!

Actually there’s a bit of confusion as to its name, some people are describing it as another follow up to the Chocolate, bearing as it does more than a passing resemblence to the latter with its red touch-sensitive navigational backlights (see pictures below), but the Hero it is, and the KU580 to give it its full model number.

The most notable feature is the landscape screen, that makes it look a bit like a smartphone, but other than being 3G it’s pretty much on a par with the LG Chocolate Platinum or the LG Shine. It has a 240 x 320 pixel display with 256K colours, a 2 megapixel camera with a VGA for video calling, a web browser, FM radio and an MP3 player.

On first glance you have to say it looks like it could do with losing a bit of weight, but you’d be wrong! It’s actually extraordinarily light - a mere 73 grams, that’s 40% lighter than the Shine!

Just one thing, is it me, or is it a slightly fatter version of the Samsung U600? Either way they’re both pretty good looking phones.

No information yet on release dates or price, but we’ll keep you updated when we know.

The Nokia 6120 Classic - What a package!

Ok, on first glance the Nokia 6120 Classic doesn’t exactly make you go weak at the knees, but look beneath the surface and this is actually quite a remarkable little phone.


For a start it is equipped with the latest HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) which means it can download songs and videos at up to 3.6 Mbps. To put this in perspective, the first Nokia phone to be released with HSDPA was the N95, which is a staggeringly well equipped handset.

It is a 3G phone with a decent 2″ display in 16 million colours, has a respectable two megapixel camera on the front, and a second camera on the front for making video calls. It runs on the Symbian S60 operating system which means that you can add your own applications to it.

What is truly impressive about this phone is the sheer amount is packs into a meer 89 grams (lighter than any other Nokia phone we’re selling at the moment), at a very reasonable £160 before tax and subsidy. A phone to bring high speed downloading to the masses!

Mobile Gazette, the marathon phone reviewers have called this Nokia’s best phone ever, and they see a lot of phones!

It should be with us in the next couple of months and you can expect it to be positioned somewhere alongside the current Nokia 6300.