The Viewty Smart looks much more like the Arena than the original Viewty. It’s a slimmer, curvier form, with metallic accents that give it a very “2009″ look. And it’s entirely touchscreen driven, with just one button on the front face. But LG’s new S-Class 3D user interface, based around a rotating cube concept, makes it very easy to use. One of the highlights of this phone has to be the amazing LCD display, which has an ultra-high resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and a huge 3 inch diagonal. It’s a brilliant platform for running the capacitive touch-display, and also for viewing photos and videos.

This brings us on to the next highlight of the device: the 8 megapixel camera. This is a stunner too. As you are probably aware, the quality of a camera is not determined simply by the number of megapixels, but by the quality of the optics. The Viewty Smart delivers the optics to match the resolution, with its Schneider Kreuznach lens, and can take photos that match the best from Nokia, and can give Sony Ericsson a run for their money too. The camera is equipped with autofocus and an LED flash, and also features a new Intelligent Shot Mode that analyses the subject, background, and lighting conditions and compares the data against seven pre-programmed scenarios in order to take the “perfect” picture. It’s taking point-and-shoot to the next level, and does make it easy to get great shots. It’s not going to make you the next David Bailey, but as far as point-and-shoot photography goes, we think that this will match most dedicated digital cameras, at least in good lighting conditions. The camera can also record video at up to 120 frames per second, which means that you can playback in slow motion for special effect. Video calling is also available.

The music player handles all common formats, and the video player can play DivX/XviD formats too. Dolby Mobile provides the best quality audio, and an FM radio is included too. But for reasons unknown, the 3.5mm audio jack and FM transmitter that appeared in the LG Arena have not been included in the Viewty Smart.

A-GPS is included however, as well as full connectivity with WiFi, Bluetooth and USB.

The available user memory is a huge 1.5GB and the phone has a microSD card clot that will accept cards up to 32GB, so there is certainly no shortage of storage capacity.

Battery capacity is typical for this type of phone. Heavy users will probably need to charge on a daily basis, and we would anticipate that anyone who is lucky enough to own one of these beauties is going to make good use of it!

The Viewty Smart is a big step up from the original Viewty. LG have improved the camera, the screen, the user interface, the memory and have added WiFi and A-GPS. And they’ve made it smaller and lighter at the same time! The battery life may have suffered as a result, but we can’t fail to be impressed by the strides that LG are making in the touchscreen arena. And speaking of the Arena, the two phones are very similar: choose the Viewty Smart if the 8 megapixel camera appeals, and choose the Arena if the the 3.5mm audio jack and FM transmitter are more important to you.
Features of the LG Viewty Smart include:

* 8 megapixel camera with Schneider Kreuznach lens, autofocus and LED flash
* Video recording (QVGA, 120fps) & video calling
* Display: TFT LCD, 480 x 800 pixels (3.0 inches) touchscreen with accelerometer
* Music player (MP3/AAC/AAC+/e-AAC+/WMA formats)
* Video player supports DivX & Xvid formats
* FM radio
* Dolby Mobile
* A-GPS
* Speakerphone
* Voice recording
* Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email (IMAP4, SMTP, POP3)
* T9 predictive text
* Document viewer (TXT, PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS)
* Ringtones: 64 voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
* Wallpaper
* Java games, plus 8 built-in games
* Memory: 1.5GB plus microSD memory card slot (up to 32GB)
* Connectivity: USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi
* Internet: WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 12, EDGE, Full web browser, Google Mobile Service
* Vibration alert
* Quadband GSM plus 3G UMTS
* Size: 109 x 56 x 12.4 mm
* Weight: 102g
* Talktime: 5 hours
* Battery standby: 330 – 350 hours

Y-Browser implements most standard features on files (such as copy, cut, paste, etc) & folders (create, remove, etc). Y-Browser is freeware and currently available for Series 60 (including 5th edition devices like Nokia 5800 and N97).

With Y-Browser, you can also hide your image for privay reason. Why would you like to do this? Well, here are some exemples:
- You have taken some pictures with your camera that you don’t want to show up in the Gallery in the phone, so however looks in the phone can see them.

- You have photos attached to your contacts that you don’t want to take unnessesary space in the Gallery application.

- Other reasons I don’t want to think of….;-)

Plug-in add:
Y-Browser BtObex sender plug-in, version 088(English)
Y-Browser Mail folders plug-in, version 088(English)
Y-Browser Text Viewer plug-in, version 088(English)
Y-Browser Zip plug-in, version 088(English)

Change log of the improvements made within the latest update:
* Lots of layout changes Settings Menu Revamped
* Some bug fixes to improve stability
* File modified time changed from UTC to local time
* Added Command short cut accelerators to the menu items
* Edit-Mark, menu has now two additional options: Mark with
wild card & inverse selection
* File association settings added
* Plug-in manager added
* Email folders shown now as well (with Mail folders plug-in)

Download Y-browser

Key features

• attractive yet conservative design
• 16M colors TFT display with QVGA resolution
• Series 40 3rd Edition user interface
• 2 megapixel camera
• microSD memory card slot
• FM radio
• standard miniUSB connector
• 2.5 mm audio jack
• Bluetooth with A2DP profile support

Main disadvantages

• prone to fingerprints
• no UMTS support
• unsatisfactory camera performance
• portrait orientation of images taken with the camera
• videos taken at QCIF (176 x 144 pixels) resolution only
• side keys are difficult to press
• no Infrared port

In a nutshell: Our favourite Nokia for years and the only Nokia phone ever to be rated 5 stars by our users. A classic design with a beautiful stainless steel finish. Slim, elegant, easy to use and with a good quality 2 megapixel camera, a built-in MP3 player, memory expandable to 2 Gbytes, and wireless Bluetooth connectivity. Only the below-average battery life stops this from getting 5 stars. Available in silver, black and white.
Best buy: *Free* with a free Nintendo Wii or Sony PlayStation 3 from Dialaphone; or £69.95 on Pay as you Go from the Carphone Warehouse (available in silver, black or brown).

Nokia’s slogan for the 6300 is “Simply beautiful – beautifully simple.” The beauty comes from the sleek, classic design with stainless-steel surfaces, and the simplicity reflects the fact that this is an all-round kind of phone: not a smartphone, not 3G, but including all of the functionality that most people want. Sounds like a winner! Could Nokia finally be getting back to what it used to do best – a phone that does just what you want and does it well?

Certainly the phone looks good when you pick it up. It’s like the early 6-series Nokia’s: exclusive- and expensive-looking, practically designed with a good sized screen and functional keypad, yet updated for 2007 with a 5-way navigation button and high quality colour display. The size is perfect: it’s very slim (just 11.7mm) and not too wide, and the weight is enough to make it feel solid and substantial, but not so much that it feels heavy. The keypad is a decent size and is easy to use. The display is exceptional: a high resolution 240 x 320 pixel display with an amazing 16 million colours. On the outside the 6300 ticks all the right boxes.

On the inside, the phone is equipped with all the features that a typical user would expect. The camera is 2 megapixels with an 8x digital zoom and with a video recording function. Enough for casual photography, but not brilliant. There’s a music player and an FM radio. A standard Nokia headset is included in the sales package and support for a Bluetooth stereo headset is included. Memory for storing music is limited, with just 7.8 Mbytes of user memory, however you can expand the memory to a maximum of 2 Gbytes by buying a microSD card, which will give you as much memory as an iPod Nano. Both Bluetooth and USB connectivity are supported, and the phone has GPRS and EDGE for fast data downloads. Battery life is below average, which is often the case with superslim phones. The user interface is a standard Series 40 interface, that Nokia users will be used to, but with the latest enhancements. It’s basically a very easy phone to use, with everything well thought out and some real attention to detail.

This is our favourite Nokia phone for a long time. It really is beautiful – quality just oozes out of the phone when you pick it up. The metallic finish completes the look, although this may show scratches if not treated carefully. Ergonomics and user-friendliness are good. The strange thing is that Nokia built their reputation with phones like this, but what have they been doing these past few years with their funky but unusable fashion-phones and their buggy brick-like smartphones? Welcome back Nokia! It was worth the wait!

Nokia 6300i Specifications & Features

Two-way sliding construction
Dedicated music keys
Landscape screen mode
Stereo speakers
microSD memory card slot
UMTS, Wi-Fi, USB, stereo Bluetooth and Infrared support
miniUSB port
FM radio
5 megapixel camera with auto focus
Records video in VGA resolution
GPS receiver with free basic navigation
Symbian 9.2 OS with S60 3rd edition UI plus Feature Pack 1
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
TV-out port
Main disadvantages

* Poor battery life
* Charging through USB is not possible
* No FM RDS
* Voice assisted GPS navigation is charged
* GPS chip doesn’t work with third party applications
* Cannot edit office documents

In a nutshell: The most technically advanced smartphone ever! Complete with GPS satellite navigation, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, 3G video calling, and every other gadget you can think of! On the downside it’s large, and like most smartphones does not have 100% robust firmware. If you’ve used another Nseries phone or Symbian phone before, then you’ll love it! Available in 4GB and 8GB versions; in silver, black or red.
Best buy (Nokia N95 4GB): *Free* with half-price line rental from Dialaphone (Silver).
Best buy (Nokia N95 8GB): *Free* with half-price line rental from Dialaphone (the 8 Gbyte version comes preloaded with a full length copy of the feature film Spiderman 3).
Best buy (Nokia N95 8GB Comes With Music): *Free* exclusively from the Carphone Warehouse.

Another Nokia Nseries smartphone! And this one is the most technically advanced ever! Can it really live up to the hype, or will it prove to be as unreliable and bug-ridden as some of Nokia’s other Nseries phones?

The headline features of the eagerly-awaited Nokia N95 are mouth-wateringly amazing:

* Built-in GPS navigation
* 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss & Tessar optics
* Wi-Fi wireless internet connection
* 2.6 inch display with 16 million colours
* Ultra-fast HSDPA data transfer

Let’s start with the basics. The Nokia N95 is a 3G smartphone built on the Series 60 Symbian interface (version 3.1). Let’s be clear from the start that these types of phone are slow, have a tendency to freeze or shut down, and have unstable firmware. They are also large and heavy. At 120g the N95 is of average weight for a smartphone, but is pretty bulky, despite its slide design. At least you won’t forget which pocket it’s in! When closed, you can access menu functions using the 5-way navigation key and the associated control keys. The N95 also has several other dedicated media keys that can be used as shortcuts to media functions. This is a good feature if you like to have lots of buttons to push, but sometimes they just end up getting in the way. When you slide the phone open you have access to a full keypad, but like the Nokia N73, the buttons are too small to be really comfortable. The user interface will be familiar to anyone who has used a Series 60 phone before: it’s not as simple to use as the Nokias of olden days, but you wouldn’t expect such a high powered device to be, would you? So, without getting into the functionality of the phone yet, we’d give it 2 stars for usability.

Now, the kind of person likely to buy this phone isn’t going to be put off by wimpy considerations like size and ergonomics. Perhaps not even by warnings of bugs and a sluggish user interface. It’s what the phone does that matters most. And this is where the N95 really delivers! The first multimedia feature that you encounter is the screen, and it’s a massive one: 2.6 inches across, 240 x 320 pixels, and an incredible 16 million colours. An ambient light detector is used to control the brightness of the screen, making it usable under most lighting conditions. It’s one of the best screens ever, and does full justice to the camera and navigation systems.

The camera is a first in the UK: the first phone camera to hit the 5 megapixel mark. At this number of pixels, you can (theoretically) match anything that a dedicated digital camera is capable of – provided that you have the optics to back up the megapixel grunt. Nokia have been developing their camera capabilities quite impressively recently using Carl-Zeiss optics and Tessar lenses – the Nokia N93 being the best camera phone before the release of the N95. The N95 lacks the optical zoom of the N93, but retains the autofocus, flash and lens. Does the 5 megapixel sensor make up for the lack of an optical zoom? The answer is no, so in our opinion the N93 is still king of the camera phones, but for practical purposes the N95 is a better option. It can certainly match or beat the Sony Ericsson K800i. The video camera is also outstanding, recording in VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) at up to 30 frames per second with stereo audio. There’s a second front-facing camera for making video calls too.

The other most interesting feature of the N95 is the built-in GPS navigation system. The N95 actually has a GPS system built into the phone, that communicates directly with the satellite. This enables you to use the phone to track your position either on foot or in-car. You’ll need to buy a license to use the Nokia mapping system though. Now, whilst this is a nice feature to have in a phone, we’ve got to say that it doesn’t match the quality of a dedicated satnav system like the TomTom One. The sensitivity and reliability of the GPS receiver is not as good, and neither is the user-friendliness of the system.

These are the most groundbreaking features, but the N95 has almost everything else you could think of including in a phone too: a music player with support for all common music formats, a stereo FM radio, integrated handsfree speaker, speaker independent voice dialling, talking ringtones, HSDPA (the fast data transfer technology dubbed “3.5G”) and lots more! When it comes to connectivity, the N95 is the best-connected device in town, with support for Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Infrared, Wireless LAN, TV-Out and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Its memory is also more than adequate with up to 160 Mbytes of onboard memory and support for microSD memory cards (up to 8 Gbytes). Battery life is OK – when you consider how much work has to be done to power this beast, you can’t really set your expectations too high.

In conclusion, The Nokia N95 is bound to be a smash hit, but equally there are bound to be unsatisfied users returning their N95 to the shop. Early adopters will love the wealth of features that this phone offers (literally the best you can get at the time of launch), but the N95 does suffer from practical disadvantages, and you’ll need to decide whether the benefits outweigh the problems.

The new Nokia N96 is a slightly improved version of the N95 8GB. The new Samsung i8510 is very similar to the Nokia N95, using the same Series 60 user interface, but offers an improved 8 megapixel camera and some other refinements.

From 16th October 2008, the N95 8GB is available with the ground-breaking Nokia Comes With Music service. This deal is exclusive to the Carphone Warehouse. When you buy a Nokia “Comes With Music” phone, you get a whole year of free unlimited music downloads! Whatever you download during the year you can keep forever. We would rate the N95 8GB Comes With Music as a 5 star phone.

Nokia N95 Specifications & Features

The phone comes with easy to use music and control available to a player in the media and a stereo FM radio. The user can listen to music and video on their media player that supports MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC +, AAC + enhanced, H263, H264 and WMA. Users can enjoy their favorite music on the go and watch all animated video clips with ease. The Nokia 3110 classic comes with a 3GPP streaming video feature that allows the user to catch up with all the latest news and entertainment using streaming video 3GPP. The built in FM radio function allows the user to adjust their choices to radio chat show, music or catch up with the latest sports scores on their radio feature. The phone supports MP3 ring tones and MIDI, which allows the user to change ringing depending on their style and taste. The phone comes with a built in camera function that allows users to capture images and capture video in motion. The Nokia 3110 comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera with 8 x digital zoom feature that allows the user to have a clear picture or video whenever they use the camera function. The user can record video using the 1.3 megapixel camera that can be shared or stored on the 3110 classic.

The Nokia 3110 Classic is a tri-band mobile phone that can operate on GSM 900, 1800 & 1900 which provides the user with the network coverage in most of Europe and the USA. The phone is easy to use connectivity options that include Bluetooth technology ®, infrared, USB and offers a high-speed data transfer using the EDGE technology. The user can use a wireless Bluetooth ® to connect within their mobile phone to their PC compatible and enjoy high-speed transfers of data wirelessly. The 3110 Classic comes with a XHTML browser, which allows the user to access a selection of websites on their mobile phone.

The user can communicate with others through a messaging services that are easy to find phones and main menu consisting of a mobile messaging service, text message service and multimedia messaging service complete with a multimedia messaging audio feature. The user can use the multimedia messaging service for sharing photos, video & audio contacts with other multimedia messaging. Users can create, send and receive text messages that comes with an inbox and storage of messages sent functionality. The Nokia 3110 classic comes with a messaging service that allows users to communicate all e-mail contacts and share attachments in file formats.

The 3110 Classic comes with a simple organizer to manage calendar and features a directory that allows users to store all their addresses. The phone comes with an alarm clock which will ensure that the user is never late for these important meetings. The Nokia 3110 classic includes a recorder that allows the user to record voice reminders and voice recordings. The user can take a call on the aircraft loudspeakers that allows the user to chat on the sidelines without having to hold the device to their ear. The 3110 Classic comes with a Push-To-Talk call feature that allows the user to enjoy an appeal in the style of a walkie-talkie style conversation. The user can hold the Push-To-Talk key when talking to their contact & on releasing the key user hear with their back to them. The Nokia 3110 Classic is a classic mobile phone designed with very useful communication and entertainment features waiting to be loved by its user.

The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition comes with a large TFT screen that displays up to 262k bright colors for the user to view information, photos and video recordings. The screen can be consulted when the handset is in the open or closed. The phone comes with a premium user interface that is exclusive to the Nokia 8800. The screen has a resistance to abrasion coated glass sapphire that will protect it from any strike inevitable during the year. The display will provide a colorful screen resolution of 208 x 208 pixel which allows the user to see all their photos and video recordings on a clear and bright screen.

The phone comes with 128 MB internal NAND Flash memory and equipped with a rechargeable battery. The battery provides the user with a maximum of two hundred and forty hours of standby time and three and three quarter hours of talk time. The elegant device weighs a hundred and thirty-eight grams and measures 107 x 45 x 17.5 mm in the closed position. The user can have fun using the built in 2 megapixel camera that is easy to use and comes with photo selectable parameters. The picture settings provide the perfect photo is captured with a professional-quality finishing. The camera can capture images at 1600 x 1200 pixels, which provides the user with a beautiful clear picture that can be saved or shared with other contacts. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition comes with a built in video that can play video that was sent or recorded and record video clips.

The Nokia 8800 mobile phone comes with multimedia messaging (MMS) capabilities that allows the user to stay in touch with other MMS compatible mobile phone users. The MMS can contain music or sound with a video clip or photo that gives the user and their contact with real pleasure and life messaging. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition comes with an instant messaging service that allows users to communicate with someone who is online at the same time that the user. The user can have an online chat with all instant messaging compatible contacts. The phone comes with a messaging service that supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 and APOP. The user has a good selection of messaging service that allows users to maintain contact with all business contacts, friends and family on their mobile phones.

The user can listen to their favorite FM radio station or play their favorite style of music on the built in music player that will play MP3 and eAAC music formats. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition comes with ring tones that were composer Brian Eno composer of ambient music.

The user can take part in a conference call that is easy to install and allows the user to speak to more than one contact on both a call. The user can use the loudspeaker handsfree which allows the user to have experience of Appeal hands free and allows the user to do their work or jobs while taking a call on phones speaker system. The phone comes with enhanced voice feature that allows the user to use voice commands to activate the numbering. The user can use the option rehearsal automatic dialing device and to make the call experience easier and faster.

The Nokia 8800 Sirocco comes with Bluetooth ® technology that allows users to connect to any Bluetooth compatible device ® & enjoy Wirefree a link between the two compatible devices. The phone comes with EDGE technology that provides the user effectively rapid and effective transfer of data which works about three times faster than GPRS. The phone comes with tri-band technology that works on three bands network and will automatically switch between networks without the user knowing.

Our Summary
The Nokia N81 is a high-capable 3G phone that is easy to use and features built in technology. It comes with a function digital camera, music player and a magnificent 2.4-inch color screen high. The N81 comes with Bluetooth ®, EDGE, 3G and WLAN technology, which makes it a quick and efficient mobile.

 Nokia N81 & N81 8GB 3G Phone Review

The Nokia N81 Nokia N81 and 8 GB are members of the Nokia N-Series which includes other popular phones including Nokia N73  Nokia N77 and the Nokia N95. N81 and N81 8 GB are identical in design and functionality But come with different options and memory phones have different colour options on their case. The Nokia N81 Nokia N81 and 8 GB are supplied with a Nokia headset with remote control, cable connectivity, compact travel charger and battery but the Nokia N81 comes with a MicroSD â„¢ 2 GB memory card. The N81 comes with an expandable memory options that allows the user to add memory card according to their storage needs and setting kit includes a 2 GB MicroSD â„¢ memory card. The N81 is mainly black and has colored border around the box and wheel navigation. The N81 comes in a choice of two colors that are graphite grey and blue cobalt. The Nokia N81 8 GB comes with 8 GB of internal flash memory which allows the user to store more data on their new handset. The N81 8 GB also comes with colored border around the box and the navigation wheel are subtly colored cocoa brown. The handset is a solid and robust design that weighs 140 grams and all measurements are 17.9mm deep and 50 mm wide and 102mm high. The Nokia N81 and N81 8 GB are beautiful in design and capabilities. The 3G phones are capable handsets with WLAN technology. The phones are media, music and the Internet to be targeted are combined with a simple drag opening box complete with easy access music, video and function keys. The user can appreciate the big screen when the devices are open or closed. The screen is large extent with a 2.4-inch high-resolution screen and displays up to sixteen million color display quality.

The phone comes with high quality imaging features that include a 2 megapixel camera with flash option and 20 x digital zoom. The flash comes with a selection method that allows the user to turn the flash on and off or automatic flash mode or the red-eye reduction mode. The user can capture still images and record video on their N81 or N81 8 GB devices. The user can record, a watercourse, reading and editing video with ease. Users can store, share and even blog their personal images and video clips. The user will never be short of entertainment on their new phone to both phones can display games in either portrait or landscape mode and the user can enjoy animated action games on their aircraft. The Nokia N81 and N81 8 GB to operate on an operating system Symbian S60, with 3.1 software. A fully charged battery will allow up to 4 hours of talk time GSM, WCDMA 3 hours talk time, 408 hours in standby mode, QVGA 3.5 hours of video recording, 4.5 hours of video playback time QVGA , 11.5 hours listening to music or up to 6 hours of Thursday

The user can rest assure that the call will never be forgotten and missed as the Nokia N81 Nokia N81 and 8 GB are delivered with a call log feature that allows the user to access all missed calls, calls calls received and easily. The phones come with other user-friendly communication features including a Push-To-Talk call function handsfree speaker phone function, conference call & voice over IP Internet call feature. The user can take part in a face-to-face call using 3G video calling feature that allows the user to see who they talk to on the screen. The 3G video call can take place between two 3G compatible mobile phone users and is a fun way to communicate and offers a real sense of any appeal, whether business or pleasure appeal.

The phones really alive when construction music functions are used and the user can enjoy many hours of music entertainment on their beautiful new handset. Both phones come with a high quality music player that supports all popular music formats. The user can access and control their music simply by using the dedication and music volume keys. The music buttons allow the user to play, rewind, fast forward, pause and stop music using the external buttons without having to drag the phone open. The user can create and manage their playlists of music on their phones. The phones come with a 5-band equalizer that allows the user to get the best sound for the type of music being played. The user can enjoy music and wireless Bluetooth stereo A2DP connection. The Nokia N81 and N81 8 GB come with an FM radio with Visual Radio that allows the user to view information on this group or artist plays and the name of the song they are listening.

The Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB work on quadruple band with WCDMA technology, which allows the user to benefit from the global network coverage on their new handset. The phones are 3G mobile phones that provide the user with multi-tasking capabilities and networks wireless phone technology. The user can enjoy wireless connection to compatible devices using a Bluetooth connection between ® devices. The user can transfer files or data, including photos, music videos 7 files using Bluetooth wireless technology ® or USB cable connection. The user will find their new device offers a high-speed transfers with the help of the built-edge technology. The user can enjoy an Internet experience on their mobile phone as both phones come with a browser Nokia’s full mini-map. The phones come with a variety of messaging services that allow the user to stay in touch with others quickly and easily. Users can send and receive text messages, multimedia messages containing photos or video and e-mails with attachments. The messaging services are all easily accessible from the main menu phones and the user can benefit from sharing of messages between all contacts messaging compatible. These phones were designed with the user in mind and the user to take full advantage of their new mobile experience with one of these beautiful devices as their companion.