LG GD900 Crystal Deals

February 28th, 2010 | Camera Phones, LG, Mobile Phone Reviews, Touchscreen

If you are in the market for a new mobile phone or just browsing to see what is available then the LG GD900 Crystal may catch your eye.

After searching through many mobile phone reviews and deciding that an LG mobile phone is the one you want, you may find that there are some excellent deals to be had. The LG GD900 Crystal is a popular phone and has some really good features and if you are looking for cheap mobile phone deals then look closer at this one.

Almost all service providers appear to be currently offering this mobile phone free of charge on their higher price plans, so the only thing left to decide is how much a month you want to spend on line rental, and how much talking you want to do.

One well known service provider is offering the phone for free on a two year contract for £25.00 a month line rental which includes 300 minutes of free talk time, unlimited text messages, three months free insurance and as an added bonus £20.00 worth of free accessories.

For those not really wishing to commit to a 24 month contract there is also an option for an 18 month contract, but the deal terms change slightly. One deal is an upfront cost of £58.99 for the phone and £30.00 a month line rental. The rest of the package stays the same with the exception of the accessories.

If you have an approximate idea of your potential monthly usage then you can easily find a deal which suits your needs.

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Getting money for your old mobile phone

February 27th, 2010 | Mobile Phone Recycling, Mobile Technology

Quick and easy communication is becoming almost essential to daily life in the 21st century with everyone seeming to have a mobile phone attached almost permanently to their ear. New technology and features are being added to these ubiquitous devices on an almost daily basis with consumers encouraged to upgrade their phones to the latest model almost as often.

This has led to there being a large number of old, unused and unwanted mobile phones ending up either in landfill sites or languishing forgotten at the back of drawers. Some of the materials used in mobile phones can be very toxic and harmful to the environment so disposal along with normal household rubbish is not ideal. Additionally if a phone is sitting in a dusty drawer it is losing value almost constantly and will very quickly become worthless.

Thankfully, in recent years services have sprung up online that offer to pay cash for mobile phones and either recycle or reuse them. These firms, such as Fonebank, Mazooma and Envirophone offer a straightforward system by which you can check your phone’s value on their website, send it to them using packaging which they will provide, and get paid depending on the value of your old mobile. The whole process is very quick and can take up to as little as a week from beginning to end.

There is no better way to clear out the old phones cluttering your home, make a little bit of money, and protect the environment from harmful chemicals at the same time.

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Samsung S5600 Review

February 24th, 2010 | Mobile Phone Reviews, Samsung Mobile Phones, Touchscreen

The Samsung S5600 has a 3-mega pixel digital camera that operates like a standard digital camera with a built in flash but it has an added happy feature – it has a smile detector.  When the subject smiles the camera will click, ensuring the best photograph possible.

The video option on this particular phone is also of high quality, recording footage at fifteen frames per second.  The video can be re-played in MPEG4, WMV, H264 and H263 formats.  Both video captions and photographs can be stored in the phone’s photo album for easy replay and will be stunning on the screen that displays approximately sixteen million colours on the high resolution display.

The S5600 is a stylish phone and is loaded with communication and multimedia features.  The S5230 and the S5600 have the same basic design but the S5600 has additional sophisticated features.

The phone has eighty megabytes of built in memory but this can be increased using a memory card to a maximum of sixteen gigabytes.

An FM radio and a built in music player come as standard options.  The user can listen to the radio and check their email or text messages at the same time thanks to the RDS that provides information with radio station updates.  Music can be downloaded via computer or online methods.

The quality of ring tones on this phone is of particularly high quality and a ring phone or message alert can be listened to in either MP3 format or polyphonic sound.

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Sony Ericsson Aino Review

February 23rd, 2010 | Mobile Phone Reviews, Sony Ericsson, Touchscreen

Sony Ericsson mobiles are always popular as they generally tick all of the boxes and leave the users extremely happy.  The mobile phone news has been buzzing with details of how good the Sony Ericsson Aino is, and the users that have also had their say are in agreement. 

This is one stylish looking piece of kit, featuring a touch screen with a hidden keyboard that slides out from the bottom; a standard phone keypad not the QWERTY keyboard that others have used.  However that said this doesn’t impact greatly in any way and the good news is there is some excellent mobile phone deals to be had with this phone so there is sure to be something that appeals to you.  Remember that you will get the cheapest offers by taking out a contract mobile phone deal; the price will vary depending on for how long you fix the contract term.

Choosing Sony Ericsson mobile phones leaves you confident in the knowledge that you are getting a mobile phone of quality.  These phones are known for their reliability and ability to withstand the knocks of daily life.  The Aino is no different and is jam packed with a myriad of features that are sure to appeal to many potential users. There is one key feature that is sure to appeal to the younger generation, the ability to remote into your Playstation 3 – which is a sensational feature if you have one of these games machines.

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Choosing a Broadband Provider

February 19th, 2010 | Broadband, Mobile Broadband, Wireless Technology

With a multitude of broadband providers to choose from, all of them offering great broadband deals, it’s important to compare the packages on offer before choosing the one that’s best for you. Broadband comparison sites abound on the Internet. If it’s mobile broadband you’re after, again there are many providers out there and a careful mobile broadband comparison can save you a lot of money in the long run.

Orange home broadband has a range of great deals from the starter pack to an all-inclusive package offering savings on international phone calls. Sky broadband and Virgin Media broadband will bundle your cable TV and telephone in with your broadband connection. With broadband providers like TalkTalk broadband, Be broadband, Plusnet broadband and even supermarket names like Tesco broadband wading into the marketplace, the difficulty lies in choosing. This is where the broadband comparison websites such as Thinkbroadband come in to their own. With such intense competition, and such great broadband deals out there, it’s important to take a little time to decide which broadband providers you should be looking at.

A good starting point would be to first split the broadband providers into those specialising in domestic or business use. Orange home broadband offers several broadband deals for the home, whilst Business broadband from BT and UK broadband focus more on the varied requirements of a business environment, with the ability to set up for example multiple virtual networks – not usually a requirement in the home, even for teenagers.

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Nokia N86 Review

February 18th, 2010 | Camera Phones, Mobile Phone Reviews, Nokia

The Nokia N86 is touted as the phone for the photographer on the move. Nokia has always included a good quality camera in its phones and this is its first 8-megapixel version. It features a wide angle Carl Zeiss lens and has a dual LED flash with software that makes downloading images onto Flickr easy.

This slide top phone is packed with features and applications such as GPS, Nokia maps, 8GB memory, Wi-Fi and HSDPA, although its keypad is not the most attractive on the market, or the easiest to use. It is similar in many ways to the earlier N85 but slightly heavier with improved memory and camera.

The N86 is a fast, responsive mobile phone with a return to the universal 3.5mm jack point. The 2.5 inch screen is made more visible with the Advanced Matrix OLED technology. Design wise it is a sturdy enough phone available in grey or black metallic finish and comfortably fits into your hand, pocket or bag.

Slightly disappointing is its inability to connect to the popular Twitter and Facebook sites to download images, and the lack of a dedicated camera-operating button for taking pictures, lets the phone down a little.

The main selling point of this model is its photographic features. The results are comparable to many mid-range dedicated digital cameras and its video facility supports MPEG4, 3GP video capture and has a front facing lens for conference calling. There is also a decent multimedia system, which includes FM Radio with RDS and an integrated hands-free speaker.

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Blackberry Bold 9700 Smartphone

February 15th, 2010 | Blackberry, Mobile Phone Reviews

Blackberry mobile phones have always been the choice of business people and celebrities. The  Blackberry Bold 9700 shows that this is a serious and compact mobile phone. It is a slim, sleek and elegant mobile but it also has weight. Many criticisms of today’s power hungry smart phones centre on their battery life, but this accusation cannot be levelled at the Bold 9700.

Known for their business use and communications applications, Blackberry mobile phones are not manufactured initially as media players, but this one has a passable system. Although the screen is small, this is compensated for by the addition of high definition imagery, which is crisp and clear, though the sound system is nothing out of the ordinary and includes a standard 3.5mm jack point.

Where most other producers seem to have rushed in with swipe screen technology, RIM has kept faith with the keyboard. It has remained the main form of access to the Bold 9700’s applications and they have not attempted to replace the useful keypad facility. The camera that is included, while not capable of professional quality pictures is good enough for documenting your day-to-day activities and downloaded results are quite acceptable.

Those unfamiliar with Blackberry’s challenging menu selection function will have a bit of trouble getting started, but once confident with the system they should find it an easy, if somewhat complicated set up to navigate.

The Bold 9700 performs well as a multipurpose, compact mobile phone, and has sufficiently good business and communication programmes, plus a more that adequate image system.

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Getting some money for your old mobile

February 11th, 2010 | Mobile Phone Recycling, Mobile Technology

In these technology driven times we have come to take for granted all the electronic gizmos and gadgets available without really thinking about what happens to them when we upgrade to the next model. All the advanced technology devices we surround ourselves with do not last forever, and what happens to it when we are finished with it?

The components in most modern electronics can contain some pretty nasty chemicals and if they’re not disposed of properly these chemicals can damage the environment, and our health. Televisions and other large electronic items must, by European law, be dealt with by the manufacturers, but this law does not cover smaller items such as mobile phones.

Thankfully there are a number of easy to use services that will recycle, re-use or dispose of old mobile phones for us. They’ll even pay cash for mobiles that can be reused whilst recycling those that are truly dead. Reused phones will often be sent on to be resold in the developing world where mobile phones are becoming an essential way for people to keep in touch.

With maybe 50 million unwanted and unused phones lying around in drawers and boxes across the UK, the materials locked up in them can either be recycled into the next generation of phones or left to pollute our environment. A better option is to simply visit one of several websites, like Fonebank, Mobile Phone Exchange, or Mazuma, and find out if your old mobile can be turned into cash.

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Motorola Dext with QWERTY keyboard

February 10th, 2010 | Mobile Phone Reviews, Motorola, Touchscreen

A Motorola Dext review reveals that the company have combined android technology with a QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen and a variety of downloadable additions. The second android on the market after T-Mobiles G1, the Dext is a definite improvement on the technology and probably the best phone from the Motorola workshop for quite a while.

The Motoblur operating system is a bonus, as it fully integrates and personalises all your applications and enables you to network socially with all your friends while on the move. It displays all your Tweets, Facebook updates and MySpace details automatically. The Motoblur system also enables you to track a lost phone on GPS and if need be wipe the phone remotely, ensuring data does not fall into unwanted hands.

For those who prefer the safety of a real keyboard the Dext is a definite solution. It’s a little small but that’s to be expected, the backlighting could be brighter and some of the icons are much too small. Its camera doesn’t have a flash facility and the battery life is not exceptional, plus it is quite heavy to carry around with you.

The Motorola Dext comes with the expected services, camera, video and multimedia and a standard 3.5mm jack point. Its specifications are fairly standard and there is nothing really outstanding here.

A good phone for the social networkers out there, with excellent features available in that department.  Its physical keyboard is also a sound feature but it is let down by its looks and the audio quality is a little tinny. The touchscreen is very responsive and there is a good range of downloadable Android applications.

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LG Arena KM900 Review

February 8th, 2010 | LG, Mobile Phone Reviews

Every smartphone is going to be measured against the iPhone. For people who compare mobile phones, it’s the smartphone gold standard. The LG Arena KM900 might not quite be an iPhone, but it’s certainly a very good offering, and packed with features.

When it comes to sound, not only is there Dolby mobile surround sound on this handset (which is great when watching movies), but also a 3.5mm headphone jack for private listening on a user’s headphones of choice.

The camera has five megapixels, and for once it’s one that works pretty well even in low light, even if it doesn’t do all the movie bells and whistles.

The mobile phone’s styling is good; it fits in the hand well, and the rounded corners are appealing – it’s as good to look at as it is to use.

What else is good? The GPS, which utilises Google Maps, is excellent, and easy to use, and although a three inch display might seem a little small, it’s very clear and sharp for video.

However, the interface could be better. It’s awkward, and certainly not intuitive. Rather than up and down, the screens only move from side to side, which can be confusing to users, as will the lock, which requires a user to briefly hit the power button to reactivate the handset from idle.

For those who can acclimatise themselves to the vagaries of the touchscreen, the Arena KM900 offers a good, solid smartphone experience. But it’s not an iPhone – and for many that will be the big drawback.

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