MWg Zinc II Mobile Phone Review
July 30, 2008
This one is fast. The configuration is one of the best picks. In addition to a Samsung 2442 500 Mhz processor, which itself is quick enough, there is the smart inclusion of a SirFStar III GPS receiver that accelerates things to a whizzing tempo. Add again, a swift HSDPA assistance of 3.6 Mbps along with the 3G, to it and you get a picture of the new MWg Zinc II 3G Mobile Phone’s capabilities. The inclusion of the augmented Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional as in the Hewlett Packard iPAQ 514 Mobile Phone plays the perfect foil for an intriguing configuration, evoking reminiscence of a 007 gadget.
A view to a Kill
Obviously, this one has killer looks. A transflective TFT display is intelligent enough to adjust itself to the available light needing no external hand. This, along with a blue backlit QWERTY sliding keypad delivers a lethal gaze. The supports for video as well as images point to a range consisting of MPEG4, WMV, 3GP, BMP, GIF, JPEG and PNG files. Above all, the black shade rendered to the casings of the phone, certainly proves a point here. However, there are many designs in the market those have exploited the mystery of the black colour effectively like the E-Ten Glowfiish X650 Mobile Phone and if your mind shoots a question as, ‘has not the model emerge in the market as an HTC killer?’, definitely that has to be all about sharp instincts.
World is not Enough
The connectivity factors of the quad band GSM model simply excel. As you know well, the HSDPA technology enables a communication data download speed that is nine times the speed of the 3G download. Apart from these, you also have the good old GPRS class 10 support along with the EDGE advantage. The GPS receiver leads the de-jury connectivity battery and a parade of deputies like the Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 2.0 and mini USB version 1.1 follows. Apart from the MS Windows Mobile 6.1 interface, the phone also supports an array of Microsoft readied applications ranging from Outlook Mobile to Active Sync. An active Push E-mail, MMS and an evergreen SMS reduce messaging to trivia.
Quantum of Solace
If you think that music is one way to solace, then you have at your disposal, a live wire music player that facilitates the playback of a galaxy of music files as the MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, MIDI, WVE, AMR and AAC+. A handsfree aiding, built-in speaker comes more than handy at rush hours while a stereo speaker offers you smooth stereophonic sound output. You are also entitled to use it wireless, through a decent Bluetooth wireless stereo (A2DP). The ringtones support the MIDI, MP3 and WMA files and lie subject to download from the internet. That explains the solace part while the quantum remains myriad.
The Golden Eye
Undoubtedly, refers to the 2 megapixels camera of the MWg Zinc II Smartphone Mobile phone. It has a CMOS sensor and a 4 x digital zoom. The camera supports automatic focusing and an LED flash works for the desired light acquirement. Apart from these, you also have a luxury addition of image editing in the camera along with a smart night mode. Video picture capturing is also facilitated here, as the combined army of connectivity aspects and the software applications stand ever ready to enhance your conception by personalisation as well as putting them forth for smart sharing.
Samsung F480 Mobile Phone
July 20, 2008
Samsung F480 Tocco Mobile Phone comes with a variety of amusement factors. A touch screen that offers full touch navigation realised via Haptic technology stands the prime attraction. Then the compact design of this model that is very much ‘card like’. Finally, a 5MP camera with video capturing capability plays the perfect foil for the best part.
Good Internet Features
With this phone, one can enjoy a complete internet experience with full browser support. The connection speed is 7.2 Mbps by means of HSDPA. This phone also boasts of 3G, GPRS and a Triband GSM. Browser engaged here, is a high-speed variant, the WAP 2.0.
Camera and Music Player
Samsung F480 Tocco Mobile Phone employs a 5MP camera that not only takes still images but also captures video pictures. This camera offers autofocus aid to the user too. Other aspects of this camera are;
- Digital Zoom x 4
- Image Stabilisation
- Face Detection
- Shot Mode
- Quick View and Power LED
- In-Camera Editing
The music player that comes along this mobile plays almost all forms of music like the MP3, AAC, WMA and SMAF files. It also accommodates an FM Radio. A Music Library feature is also an ingredient here.
Messaging and Call Features
Samsung F480 Tocco 3G Mobile Phone presents E-mail as its best messaging aspect. This device also features SMS and MMS along with it. The supportive features given here are a Predictive Text Input, a T9 Dictionary and a Cell Broadcast Aspect. Call features of this model also excels with a displayer for Call Costs as well as Times, record for Dialled, Missed and Received numbers and Multy Party Calling.
Other Significant Features
- Calendar, To do List, Memo Book
- Clock, World Time, Alarm, Stop Watch
- Language, Currency Converter
- PictBridge Printing
- Video Telephony
Technical Specifications of Samsung F480 Mobile Phone
| General Features | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Samsung |
| Model | Samsung F480 Mobile Phone |
| Colours Available | Black |
| Weight | 106 g |
| Dimensions | 98.4 x 55 x 11.6 mm |
| Warranty | 1 Year |
| Display Features | |
| Display Type | QVGA 262K TFT Touchscreen |
| Size | 2.8" |
| Memory | |
| Phone Memory | 223MB user memory |
| Phone Book | 1000 Entries |
| Memory Expansion Slot | microSD |
| Ringtones | |
| Type of Ringtones | 72 Polyphonic, MP3 |
| Vibration Mode | Yes |
| Connectivity & Internet Features | |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| GPRS | Yes |
| WAP | Yes |
| EDGE | Yes |
| Features | |
| Messaging | SMS, MMS, Email |
| Games | Java Games |
| Browser | Internet HTML Browser Wap 2.0 |
| Camera | Yes |
| Camera Resolution | 5MP |
| Other supportive features | MP3, AAC, MIDI- Music Player, FM Radio, Speakerphone, vCard, vCalendar |
| Battery Information | |
| Battery Type | 1000mAH |
| Battery Life in Stand-by Mode | 250 Hours |
| Battery Life in Talk Time | 3 Hours |
Palm Centro Mobile Phone
July 16, 2008
The first impression about the Palm Centro Bluetooth Mobile Phone is all about refinement. The machine simply looks the embodiment of refinement. A fine piece of innovation, tailor-made for the connoisseur, starts life as late as at 5 o’ clock, as it starts for the dynamic executive or so claims the company. The thing is pretty small with a full QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen.
The World at your Doors
All thanks to a fast, Blazer mobile web browser that comes built in the phone and the synergy provided by the GSM, GPRS and EDGE, combined. The firing of a text as Instant Message and launching an E-mail along with handsfree talking is materialised by the Centro by means of MSN, Yahoo or AIM. The Palm also has nowhere to go for an operating system while they proudly furnish the model with their own best.
The Second Mate
When on the go, there is very few machines that pars the features offered by the Centro. Keeping in touch with the needed lot is a no-worries matter here and the Web support more than proves handy. Apart from all these, an explicit Google map strengthens this part further by highlighting locations, freeways, parking lots etc. A good number of Points of Interest like hotels, restaurants and picnic spots are also available on the map and what more than the display of red, yellow and green routes in real time.
And a Good Entertainer
The Palm Centro Multimedia Mobile Phone comes with a 1.3 MP camera that realises still as well as motion images and an audio player that can play various files as the MP3, AAC, WMA etc. The pictures can well be stored in digital albums or synchronised with a computer. In addition to these, the phone promptly offers multiple aspects of convenience as the organiser, Calendar, Tasks list and Memos.
Technical Specifications of Palm Centro Mobile Phone
| General Features | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Palm |
| Model | Palm Centro |
| Colours Available | Black |
| Weight | 120 g |
| Dimensions | 107 x 54 x 19 mm |
| Warranty | 1 Year |
| Display Features | |
| Display Type | 65K colours Touchscreen |
| Size | 2.2" 320 x 320 |
| Memory | |
| Phone Memory | 64 MB |
| Memory Expansion Slot | microSD |
| Ringtones | |
| Type of Ringtones | Polyphonic |
| Vibration Mode | Yes |
| Connectivity & Internet Features | |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| GPRS | Yes |
| EDGE | Yes |
| Features | |
| Messaging | E-mail, MMS. SMS |
| Games | Yes |
| Browser | Yes |
| Camera | Yes |
| Camera Resolution | 1.3 MP |
| Battery Information | |
| Battery Type | Li-ion |
| Battery Life in Stand-by Mode | 12 days |
| Battery Life in Talk Time | 3.30 Hours |
JCB Tough Mobile Phone
July 11, 2008

You would be familiar with those yellow and black clad earthmovers as well as the tipper trucks that frequent the country roads. Not to forget the range of machines with the same colour complexion, seen at the building sites. If the big machines tell the story of JCB monopoly in the building machines trade, the giant is all set to hit the UK mobile phone market with the introduction of their debut venture, the JCB Tough Bluetooth Mobile Phone .
Rugged to the Core
This phone can resist the toughest of shocks, rutty moisture as well as heavy impacts. The wide perception is that JBC designed the model with a calculated view to that thick population depending on the building trade, for an occupation. The anti-glare screen is as much scratch resistant to make the model an ideal choice not only for the building site workers, but also for those daring seamen, trackers as well as foragers. Any man who earns a living in precarious conditions is welcome here. The extra loudspeaker and ringtone volume aids in noisy environments as in industries.
Sluggish as a Grazing Bull
The JCB Tough Yellow Mobile Phone , despite its outward toughness, presents a torpid connectivity related approach, with no 3G or HSDPA technologies to augment it. The device has just a GPRS feature to boast of, though consolation comes in the form of a smart Bluetooth feature as well as a USB port. The phone can send and receive multimedia dainties like pictures, ringtones and text as well. The conventional SMS is also supported here. You, obviously find polyphonic ringtones and a handy handsfree speaker in here. Finally, if anything would give you a turn off that definitely must be the 200 hours standby mode and the 4-hour talktime that the model’s battery squeezes out for you.
Technical Specifications of JCB Tough Mobile Phone
| General Info | |
|---|---|
| Brand | JCB |
| Model | JCB Tough Mobile Phone |
| Colours Available | Black And Yellow |
| Weight | 113 g |
| Dimensions | 113 x 50 x 22 mm |
| Warranty | 3 years |
| Display Features | |
| Display Type | 65K colour |
| Size | 128 x 160 pixels |
| Ringtones | |
| Type of Ringtones | Polyphonic |
| Vibration Mode | Yes |
| Connectivity & Internet Features | |
| USB | Yes |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| GPRS | Yes |
| WAP | Yes |
| Features | |
| Messaging | SMS, MMS |
| Browser | WAP |
| Other supportive features | Handsfree |
| Battery Information | |
| Battery Type | Li-ion |
| Battery Life in Stand-by Mode | 200 hours |
| Battery Life in Talk Time | 4 hours |
Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Mobile Phone
July 7, 2008

Today the UK mobile market is flooded with scores of mobile phone designs. At times, you wonder at the optimism level of a good lot of manufacturers. Watching the rat run is more amusing than pondering over the prime motorway where the rat race takes place. Here, you watch aspirers from nowhere bludgeoning the scene with bizarre products, simply with a view to course themselves to the prime motorway as mainstream challengers. Scenario is no different here, as a Taiwanese wannabe launches their maiden venture, the Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Quad Band Mobile Phone , studded with features, of which, Windows Mobile Today interface stands tall.
Really Fast
In the course of time, you will find that the model’s communication downloading pace is tremendous for the introduction of the HSDPA technology apart from the advanced 3G constituents - a Quad Band GSM, UMTS and EDGE. You know well that as the 3G factor is considerably faster than the good old GPRS, the HSDPA technology provides a speed, nine times that of a 3G device at 7.2 Mbps. Furthermore, you have some advanced delicacies of the time to assist you in the mobile phone like the WiFi WLAN and Bluetooth 2.0 as interfaces for data transfer and WAP for smart browsing. Since this is the first PDA phone from Gigabyte, they have painstakingly loaded the device with the smartest and latest messaging aspects as the Windows Push E-mail and the MMS apart from the conventional SMS.
Real Fun
The ride starts with a 2.8" extra large QVGA LCD TFT Touchscreen that forms the fundamental to shoulder a galaxy of technological stunners. A 2 MP camera with digital zoom, Autofocus and video recording is a nice resort to an aspiring shutterbug as the music savvy in you can be more than satiated with a remarkable media player allowing MP3, AAC, WMA, AMR, WAV, MID G files. Further, as much as 192 polyphonic ringtones parade your domain virtually offering you a Guard of Honour.
Summary
The Gigabyte GSmart MS800 GPS Mobile Phone proudly sports a GPS receiver for location service. It is flummoxing to know that the receiver is the advanced SirFStar III type. For such a powerful receiver being dissipated to just a locating device with no credential factors to support real navigation as the TMC or Text to Speech features. However, the voice commands given in the device acts a compensator. Other blemishes you find here are a weak battery as well as poor ergonomics-compliance in the designing part.
Technical Specifications of Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Mobile Phone
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Gigabyte |
| Model | Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Mobile Phone |
| Colours Available | Green |
| Weight | 130 g |
| Dimensions | 116 x 59 x 14.95 mm |
| Warranty | 1 year |
| Display Features | |
| Display Type | QVGA |
| Size | 2.8" |
| Memory | |
| Phone Memory | 256 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM |
| Memory Expansion Slot | microSD, microSDHC, Transflash, SDIO |
| Ringtones | |
| Type of Ringtones | Polyphonic, MP3 |
| Customized Ringtones | Downloadable |
| Vibration Mode | Yes |
| Connectivity & Internet Features | |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.0 |
| GPRS | Yes |
| HSPDA | Yes |
| WiFi | Yes |
| WLAN | Yes |
| UMTS | Yes |
| EDGE | Yes |
| WAP | Yes |
| Features | |
| Messaging | SMS, MMS, Push E-mail |
| Games | Yes |
| Camera | Yes |
| Camera Resolution | 2 MP |
| Other supportive features | MP3, AAC, WMA, GPS, Windows Messenger, FM radio |
| Battery Information | |
| Battery Type | Li-ion 1300 mAh |
| Battery Life in Stand-by Mode | 150 hours |
| Battery Life in Talk Time | 3.5 hours |

