Blackberry 9000 Bold is an Orange Network Exclusive - Blackberry Bold

It has been well over a year now since the initial announcement from Blackberry RIM that they were to launch a handset by the name of Blackberry 9000 Bold, the forums and blogs of mobile phone enthusiasts lit up at the prospect of a super slim Blackberry device offering the very latest in technology and design.

Well, a year on the handset has finally made it to UK shores and over the past few weeks the forums and blogs have been putting out the rumours of its release date. The Blackberry Bold was finally launched but has been signed off as a network exclusive to the Orange UK network.

Great news that consumers can finally get their hands on this amazing peice of mobile technology, but not so good news about the exclusivity deal. Consumers can only buy the Blackberry Bold if they take out a 12 or 18 month contract agreement with Orange, those who would like the handset on a different UK network will have to wait for this initial exclusive period to end and fro the other networks to pick up the phone.

This means that consumers only have the choice of Orange tariffs which are more commonly known by animal names, ie: Dolphin, Panther and Canary. There is no way of comparing these deals and packages against other network offerings until the limited time launch period has ended.

It will only be at this point that consumers will find out if they have already bought the new Blackberry Bold on Orange whether they did in fact get a competitive deal. Although there is a good range of tariffs on offer from the network some consumers stay clear based on the operators customer service history and another very important fact - Orange lock the handsets to their network.

This means that should a consumer buy a Blackberry Bold on Orange, even when the other networks release this phone theirs will still be locked to Orange, they will only ever be able to use an Orange registered SIM card. There are various companies that will unlock mobile phones from their initial network settings but with more complicated devices such as PDAs, smartphones and Blackberry handsests these are not usually available for some time into the release of the phone.

Blackberry Bold 9000, also referred to as the Blackberry Bold, offers all of the best quality features of a Blackberry Messaging smartphone plus extras. Complete with a large TFT display and handwriting recognition, full Qwerty keyboard and trackball navigation, the Blackberry Bold 9000 is packed with features.

Powered by a 624Mhz processor and running Blackberry's own operating system, the Blackberry Bold offers a 1GB internal memory capacity with the option to expand to as much as 8GB using the memory card slot that will recognise and support both microSD and microSDHC cards.
A quad band GSM device with GPRS and EDGE technology, the Blackberry Bold 9000 includes 3G connectivity and WiFi capabilities.

Bluetooth wireless with A2DP stereo support is also present as is a USB port, handy for straightforward PC to phone synchronization. Offering a complete messaging solution that everything from Email to Instant Messaging, the Blackberry Bold 9000 also has a built-in GPS Receiver with the all important Blackberry Maps preloaded and a whole host of multimedia features that include a 2 mega pixel camera, media player and video player.

Primarily a business device the Blackberry Bold 9000 wouldn't be complete without the traditional PIM functionality, organiser, phonebook, document viewer and editor or voice dial and built-in handsfree.

Although initially exclusively released on Orange in the UK, the new Blackberry Bold will shortly be available on other mobile networks, so if consumers do not want the hassle of owning a network locked mobile phone the advice is to wait for the other networks to get their hands on this new and exciting mobile phone.

Sony Ericsson C902 - Review of a Great Mobile Phone From Sony Ericsson

The new mobile phone that will be out on the market soon is the Sony Ericsson C902. It comes in red and black as colors. Nicknamed the C902 Cyber-shot, this phone was made specifically to make great pictures. The Sony Ericsson C902 has a slide-out lens cover that activates the 5 megapixel camera, an amazing size to be combined with a mobile phone. You can make adjustments to the picture via the mobile phones touch keys.
Some of the amazing features of the Sony Ericsson C902 are a thing that is simply named the Storyteller, this application is said to be able to bring your pictures to life like has never been possible in other mobile phones on the market. You can create a slideshow on your mobile phone, even add thought bubbles to the screen, use paint to make your pictures look even more creative, or perhaps you want to use the clone feature and clone parts of your picture and send them to friends for laughs.
You may also want to take advantage of the photo feeds this will allow you check not only your own blogs, but those blogs of your friends and family. You can access them all from one place, yep your mobile phones Media photo album.
Video clips are a great way to save those moments you want to share with all the people around you. The great thing about having the ability to take videos from your mobile phone is for those moments that come out and surprise you. Now you will have the ability to take the video and save it for others to see also.
No we're not done with the features of the Sony Ericsson C902, you can also complete slideshows using your phone, and you can do it just like you were using Microsoft PowerPoint, with sounds and transitions, but only using your mobile phone.
Having a problem hearing your phone call, all you need to do is put the phone on speakerphone, and you will be able to use your hands-free kit for your mobile phone and have an easy conversation and be able to hear perfectly.
How about a video conversation. With Sony Ericsson's 3G technology you will be able to share a video conversation with a loved one very easily. They can see you if their mobile phone is also a 3G technology phone.
We've already stated that the Sony Ericsson C902 allows you to look and update your written blogs; it also offers you the ability to do a video blog. How cool is that for a mobile phone to offer you all these things? It's great, one way to keep friends and family up to date of what is going on in your life.
There is also what is called the BestPic option; this will take a quick nine pictures with one press of the camera button. The best picture or pictures that you like just save to your phone, delete the rest.
Also you can rotate your pictures to which ever mode you like to look at the picture the best from, be it portrait or landscape mode.
The Sony Ericsson C902 has impressive download speed and speed when you go onto the internet. Large files or even larger email attachments will download in a snap be ready to be impressed.
You will be able to access your email from anywhere in the world with the Sony Ericsson C902, also your new Sony Ericsson C902 will hook up to other devices with Bluetooth capability.

Sony Ericsson K800i - Camera Phone With Internet Features

Another mobile phone coming out from Sony Ericsson is the K800i. Here we will do a quick review of the mobile phone and show what you can expect from it if you decide to buy it in the story.
First off if you like to take pictures you will be surprised by the quality of the Ericsson's 3.2 megapixel digital camera. Everyone loves to be able to take a great picture with their mobile phone; well with this phone you should have no problems snapping that picture that is high quality. In fact the camera on this mobile phone actually gives you some features that are more common to a regular digital camera, not a mobile phone camera.
The camera also has a built in digital screen viewfinder, with its own dedicated menus and direct interaction, also available are in-phone imaging and messaging features.
You can also take the pictures and combine them with your blog which you can post for all your friends and family to see and enjoy. In fact you can also add some text to your pictures.
RSS feeds to your mobile phone; this allows you to see news that is up to the minute. Also you can view content from other selected blogs and websites. All you need to do is subscribe to the feed and it will come to your Sony Ericsson K800i.
You will also be able to enjoy video feeds from the internet. You won't need to download them onto your mobile phone using up your precious storage space, just look at the live stream.
Your Sony Ericsson K800i features Bluetooth technology. This allows you to be able to connect with other devices wirelessly, and up to a range of 10 meters. Bluetooth technology is great to use and have the capability to use.
You can use your Sony Ericsson K800i to become a mobile journalist. How you may ask? Well of course take and sell your photos and videos to the press. All you need to do is find something that would be newsworthy and take a picture or film of it, then send them into the Scoop. Here they will market your images and movies to the media. If it sells you get some money, how cool is that!
You can get your email from anywhere on your mobile phone. It's like having a computer with you at all times, but on a much smaller scale then a laptop would be.
If you travel a lot the Sony Ericsson K800i would be a great choice for you with the flight mode function that will inactivate radio transmitters and receivers so you will be able to use your mobile phone in the hospital or on a plane.
So as you can see the Sony Ericsson K800i is a great phone to have, there are a lot of cool functions that you have available to you. So go to the store and check it out, you might walk out with a new phone.

T-Mobile Mobile Phones - How Do You Like the Service?

In the mobile phone revolution T-Mobile is up there among the top contenders. In fact if you're looking to get into a mobile phone plan or even a day to day plan you should seriously consider T-Mobile as one of your choices.
They have some outstanding phones that you can get for free for signing up, such as the Samsung Soul, one of the newer phones out, and as a matter of fact this phone is Samsungs flagship phone for the year. Or check out the kicking Nokia N95, a beautiful phone that comes with 8GB of memory internally on the phone. Also another one that is free is the Nokia 6650 which is another great phone. Also the Samsung Tocco is a free phone on most of the T-Mobile phone plans. There are tons more phones that you can choose from.
Also you can choose to pay as you go, this offers you a better way to keep your phone bill under a certain amount. This isn't always the best way to go, because with most companies it seems that you don't get enough minutes to use. But if you only have a certain dollar amount to spend on a phone during the month you should check into this option, it's not always the best choice but it works for some people better than others. But let's look to see what some of the phones are that you can get when you choose to pay as you go. For one you don't get any of the phones free, so the cheapest one that is available is the LGKP100 for 14.99 pounds, next you have 19.99 pounds for the Nokia 2610 black. You have several choices and the highest phone you can get into is the Nokia 6500 classic. As far as plans go for the T-Mobile pay as you go choices, you have three plans which you switch between as you want too.
But let's talk about the other plans that are available from T-Mobile. These plans go from 15 pounds a month in which you will receive 100 minutes and 200 texts. Most people I know would blow through this in a day. So check out a higher plan for 30 pounds you get 700 minutes and unlimited texts, this is an outstanding value. The highest you can go in plans is the 36.00 pounds for 1000 minutes and again unlimited text messaging.
T-Mobile seems to have some outstanding deals if you are looking to get a new mobile phone. They have some outstanding phones and a lot of the time these phones will come free with a monthly plan, but even so they will give you great deals on purchasing one if you want a nice phone that has a great camera or something else with it. So check them out and you will be surprised by what you see. T-Mobile can get you into a cell phone in no time!

Samsung I900 Omnia - Mobile Phone Review

The new Samsung i900 is the most desirable phone of 2008, a bold statement, but on merit this is most certainly true. This beauty hailed an iPhone wannabe, really has got it all. After a few attempts at producing the best touchscreen phone (namely the Armani and Tocco), it seems Samsung may have finally cracked the code with the i900 Omnia. In fact the Samsung Omnia is so good that you could say it makes its Apple counterpart look mediocre. An iPhone wannabe you say then? Far from it!

So what is it that makes the Samsung i900 Omnia so good, well many things. Firstly, this is designed to perfection. They say first impressions last; well then Samsung knew exactly what they were doing. Here you have a large WQVGA 3.2 inch screen with a 16:9 widescreen aspect, only fractionally smaller than the iPhone. It is just as user-friendly as it looks and with a sleek sexy look and a platinum finish, it is bound to turn heads. The Samsung Omnia is also rather slim and fits nicely into the hands.

But what use is a good-looking phone without substance? Right and that is exactly why Samsung have packed this gem with countless quality features that puts it up there among the best of phones. Firstly, it is important to note that this runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, something that will certainly please Windows users who will see similarities. As such you can also edit documents such as those made in Word and Excel. However as this is essentially a smartphone, the response time may not always be great to some users.

The Samsung i900 Omnia is a 3G phone, which is great for anyone wanting better internet connection and wanting to make video calls. Web browsing is excellent, using the Opera browser, which is incredibly easy to use, and a more suitable option that Internet Explorer. Combine this with the very fast HSDPA downloads, and you have a mobile phone that will provide a great web experience. The i900 Omnia also has Wi-Fi, and comes equipped with some handy extras such as a GPS receiver. Essentials like Bluetooth and USB connectivity are all here too.

Among the best features on the Samsung Omnia is the 5-megapixel camera. Not only does it have face detection, it even includes smile detection! Another excellent feature associated with the camera is that using the GPS photos can be geotagged. Intrigued? That means the exact location, date and time of where the picture was taken can be saved too! The Samsung i900 Omnia also has an LED flash and digital zoom for good measure. It also has a very good video camera. Overall it is up there among the best camera phones, and a lot better than the iPhone.

The Samsung i900 Omnia really does score points on the multimedia forefront. The i900 has fantastic media playback capability, you have an FM radio and the MP3 player supports countless formats. This was expected since it is a rival to the iPhone, but the i900 really does deliver. An outstanding feature is the massive memory to save all your videos, tracks and photos to. It is available in both 8 and 16 GB, both more than adequate for the average user. Finally, there is no point having so much to enjoy if the battery life will let you down. With the Samsung Omnia, this will never be an issue, the battery life is very good.

It is safe to say then that based on merit, the Samsung i900 is the best phone of 2008 (at least so far). It really does deliver in many respects, with fantastic features, a great look and ease of use, the i900 will be a popular choice. Most of all, it is very affordable which may give it the edge over the iPhone as a better all-round choice.