Nokia E90 Communicator belongs to the E series and the E series of Nokia phones has earned a good reputation for making powerful smartphones for the business users. For instance, the Nokia E65 and Nokia E61i have been great products and the E90 is the granddaddy of them. It is a descendant of Nokia 9300 and has a good collection of features with solid performance. There is GPS, Wi-FI along with a latest version of Symbian OS. I was disappointed to see that there is no 3G on the phone but this omission is a bit hard to swallow considering the high $1,100 price tag for the unlocked version. This is a sharp device but if you are looking for a more affordable cell phone, I would recommend you to take a look at the AT&T Tilt. Nokia E90 Communicator is a really huge phone. It is 5.2 inches tall, 0.7 inch deep, 2.2 inches wide and weights about 7.4 ounces. It won’t be easy to slip this phone in to your pants pocket comfortably. On the bright side, the construction  [...]

LG KF 390 looks like a phone which has a lot of pride. The black glossy finish and the lack of any mechanical buttons on the face make it look futuristic. Just like a lot of phones from LG (or Samsung too), this illusion breaks up when you see it up close. It is a plastic and unremarkable handset with just one exception. Just like other low end mobile phones from LG, the LG KF 390 has some cheap thrills for distracting it from otherwise pedestrian looking design. There are touch-sensitive menu selection buttons located around centre navigation button and are activated when you push up the slider. In our test model, the right and left selection buttons were dedicated to Telstra serves with buttons below them activating music player and task manager. The touch sensitive buttons are nice but I mishit them a lot especially while using navigation button. Above these buttons on the LG KF 390, there is a two inch display  [...]

HTC 740 is the successor to S730 and the 740 has a full QWERTY keyboard and classic numeric keypad. This ordinary looking cell phone can easily turn in to a cool messaging device by just moving your fingers. In terms of specifications, the HTC 740 is much ahead. There is a faster processor inside the hood, better camera, more RAM amongst others. But the specifications alone are not enough to determine if the phone is good or not. So let’s go ahead in to more details about the HTC 740. The design of HTC S740 or HTC 740 is in line with the new design language of this company. The back is diamond like and the front is totally flat. However, the shiny and smooth surfaces are a fingerprint magnet and it easily grabs a lot of fingerprints. When it is closed, the phone looks like an ordinary handset but the dimensions are interesting. It is not much longer than HTC Touch HD and the width is normal but  [...]

At CES 2011, Verizon said that they will be covering 49 new markets for its 4G LTE network by the end of this year. Now the service provider has used CTIA to announce that more 59 cities will be covered and this brings the total tally to about 147 cities till the end of 2011. These cities are for the entire US doesn't include Alaska but Hawaii is there. The 4G LTE service of Verizon is currently present in 39 markets and they are covering about 110 million right now. Verizon Wireless chief technical officer, David Small said that expanding their network beyond the metro areas is to reiterate the fact that 4G LTE technology is in heavy demand and everyone is waiting for it to arrive. The service provider, according to Small, is committed to reach in to smaller areas by the end of this year and they will  [...]

Sony Ericsson recently announced on their blog that Xperia Play has already arrived in 11 international markets for sale but US isn't one of them. The Playstation smartphone is now available for sale in countries like Switzerland, Russia, and Germany but in the US, where it is going to come with Verizon Wireless, customers will have to wait for a few weeks. The manufacturer said at CTIA last month that the smartphone will be launching by early next month but our sources say that Verizon is going to release the phone on April 14th. This also fits the recent announcement by Sony Ericsson that the phone is is going to be released in six new markets in the coming two weeks. Canada might not get the phone anytime soon too. Rumors say that the North American  [...]

Not everyone out there is a fan of PDAs and hence I feel that the HTC P6300 will only cater to a small part of the audience. This phone is quite similar to its predecessor and the specifications are largely similar. You can use it for making phone calls or surfing the Web through Wi-Fi and GPRS. This device is a good entertainer, it can be used for playing videos and music and you can also edit and read the most common file formats like Excel and Word documents. This sounds like a versatile phone which caters well to both the youth and business sections of the people. HTC P6300 is exclusive to O2 and it is offered for free on the business contracts of the company. The design of this phone is a bit letdown and according to me, this is the only reason why I think that this device  [...]

Sony Ericsson is known for making some of the best camera centric phones in the market and hence I expected a lot from the Sony Ericsson C 905 when it turned up in my labs for review. The manufacturer says that this phone is made as a camera replacement instead of just another camera phone and hence this handset has plenty to live up to. Sony Ericsson C 905 is offered for free on monthly contract of about £30 to £35 per month. Some phone makers say that they want to make their camera phones look more like phones and less like camera but Sony Ericsson has taken a different route here and this phone has been made to look more like a camera. You might think that this handset is too large. I thought so too but after testing the phone for a while, I realized that the size is very useful while talking photos. You can hold  [...]

When the Treo 300 first came out, it was the best PDA design ever in the US and due to its PDA leanings, the phone suffered a bit and it was also hard to hold the gadget against your ear. The Palm Treo 600 is the successor to it and this phone is quite similar to a standard candy bar design phone. It is about three percent smaller than Treo 300, the dimensions are a bit small at 2.4 inches by 4.4 inches by 0.9 inches but the weight is a bit high at six ounces. Because of the design, this phone is more compact and fits in the hand comfortably in the hand and in the pocket. One gripe that I have here is that the Palm Treo 600 easily gathers dust and fingerprints. The manufacturer says that they will be shipping this phone along with a protective  [...]