Cell Phone Reviews by Cellphonedia

Once in a while, we, as consumers, witness partnerships of big name companies that offer us products that either fall short of expectations or thrill and delight us in many ways. Apparently, the cellular phone industry is not excluded from this trend. For most, if not all of us, the names Sony and Ericsson are brands that need no further introduction.

Hard to believe that it was more than a decade ago that I had the fortune of having an Ericsson handset with a one liner monochrome display. Though packed with not a lot of features, even at that time, I appreciated it's tough and masculine feel and clear signal.

Now, of course, Sony is another brand name Read more »

Can you say functional elegance? That is exactly the personification of Virginia. Virginia is the codename for the stylish brown colored Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte, the latest addition to the 8xxx series from Nokia. So what makes this mobile phone a step above the rest? Imagine a mobile phone with panels covered with manually embossed goat hides of Eastern India and a body made of metal and glass. The goat hide is covered with a protective layer to guard against regular usage while the body is coated with an anti-fingerprinting material to protect against smudges. And the crown jewel for this masterpiece is actually a real jewel.

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte is enhanced with a genuine sapphire gemstone navigation key that accents the polished steel casing and soft leather giving the user Read more »

The Internet literally at the palm of your hands! This new offering from Sony Ericsson, the K660, is designed to be a fully functional mobile Web browser that would make Internet surfing as convenient and simple as browsing on your personal computer. In today's web based fast paced lifestyle where everyone is constantly on the go and depend on web based applications for their daily schedules and routines, the K660 provides a viable option as a mobile Web browser. The K660 which was developed using Sony Ericsson's Java Platform 8 (JP-8) and supports Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) JSR 248, touted as the next step to the Java umbrella standard offers the user HDSPA mobile broadband connection experience. HDSPA offers download speeds that are four folds faster than any regular 3G connection.

Sony Ericsson is targeting the Web Generation with the K660 by providing then a rich, satisfying and user friendly web browsing experience. With the growing number of people arranging their lives around web based services, the development of the K660 is truly a step in the right direction of making the mobile phone a more functional and responsive tool for those who manage their lifestyle and social networks over the Read more »

The last quarter of 2007 will feature the unveiling in the mobile phone market one of the most exceptional phones to come out from the industry leader Nokia. Available in markets worldwide by the last quarter of 2007, the Nokia N82 which is the latest member of the N-series is guaranteed to bring satisfaction to its user. The N82 which is powered by the Symbian 9.2, S60 release 3.1 operating system is definitely one of the most advanced and feature packed computer mobile phones to come out in the market. This multimedia icon pushes photography, mobile Internet and navigation to new and greater heights. Although on paper it looks as powerful as Read more »

Don't touch me! Sounds surprising? With continuous research and development, Sony Ericsson continues to improve and push its W-series walkman phones in the market with the introduction of the W380. For the first time in the walkman phone family, the Gesture Control feature will make its debut. The Gesture Control is a motion detector that gives the user the powerful functionality of snoozing the alarm or muting your mobile phone just with the wave of a hand giving the truly "hands free" experience. Aside from this new innovation brought to the market by the W380, Sony Ericsson is also presenting the W380 in a clamshell form factor with two available colors; Magnetic Gray and Electric Purple.

Another hip feature of the W380 is the way the hidden display lights up when you tune in to the radio or when you receive a call. The Sony Ericsson W380 may Read more »

The slim line of Samsung mobile phones just unveiled the newest member of its clan; the SGH-F210. The F210's slim and slick body design can bring confusion to the average mobile user because it looks more like a music player than a mobile phone. It seems that Samsung is trying to capitalize on the growing mobile music industry by adding features to the F210 that appeals to the hip and chic music lovers. Just below the display screen, a metallic dial pad is installed which acts as the navigational key of the mobile phone that allows the user to scroll available menus with ease. This uniquely small device measures 87.7mm x 30.9mm x 20.4mm and weighs only 72 grams.

The F210, which is extremely light and small measures about 150mm when opened. This spinning design device comes in pink or black color variants Read more »

The world of telecommunications most especially the world of the mobile phone is competitive and fast paced with every major player jockeying to be in the top position in the market. It is almost an impossibility to see someone who does not own a mobile phone because it plays such a vital role in our daily lives today. With the stiff competition in the market, every manufacturer is coming out with more features that aim to satisfy the needs and increasing demands of a continuously growing market. Nokia in its trend setting ways brings the competition to a whole new level with the introduction of the Nokia 3110 Evolve which brings with it a very strong message: that ecology can not take Read more »

W for Walkman! Welcome the newest addition to the Walkman mobile phone product line of Sony Ericsson, the W890. The Walkman which was one of the most popular products from Sony during the early 1990s has made a comeback in the music scene through the efforts of Sony Ericsson when they fused together features of the Walkman and their mobile phones to come up with mobile music.

True to the identity of the Walkman mobile phone series, the W890 promises to deliver unmatched entertainment value with music, games, 3D, fast web access and video. The slick metallic body that comes in Espresso Black, Sparkling Silver and Mocha Brown color schemes adds simple elegance to the w890's stylish CD cover slim profile that measures only 9.9mm and weighs in at a measly 78 grams or 2.7 ounces with the battery inside the compartment. The W890 which possess most of the traits of previous W-series mobile phones prouds itself with some technological upgrades because of the Java Platform 8 (JP-8) from Sony Ericsson which supports Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) JSR248. This platform is being hailed as the umbrella standard of Read more »

The use of Nokia mobile phones had been a part of everyone’s life. As one of the in-demand and known mobile phone manufacturers, Nokia caters the need of every consumer when it comes to mobile phone technology by developing the latest mobile phone unit its workforce could think and create. From the ancient analog phones up to the most high-end cellular phone available in the market, Nokia satisfies the community with its user-friendly mobile phone interface just like the announced Nokia 6110 Navigator built for those who always find themselves lost around big cities.

The Nokia 6110 Navigator is very much different from the Nokia 6110 that was used 10 years ago and now jokingly considered as an antique cellular phone by most people. Getting Read more »

The Sony Ericsson K630 is a thing of beauty. Available in two colors Quick Black and Havana Gold, the new Sony Ericsson K630 gives you more control with regards to your multimedia and phone communications needs. The Sony Ericsson K630 is powered by a 3G turbo HSDPA and weighs only 97 grams, a fairly light mobile phone to let you carry easily around. The Sony Ericsson K630 provides a PC quality web internet surfing opportunity that commenced speed connection and instant connectivity to the World Wide Web.

The Sony Ericsson K630 gives you the power to sync and check your emails on your phone by the help of the ActiveSync of Microsoft Exchange which can be pre load and Read more »

The Samsung A411 is a wonderfully designed mobile phone that one can never be ashamed to show off in public. It’s simplicity in design and the classic, retro like antenna on the top gives it a old school feel that still pleases the eye and conveys good style.

But as they say design of a mobile phone is just one of the things you look for a dependable mobile phone and what counts the most is the features and what it can offer, well make no mistake about it the Samsung A411 delivers in this field also. With an acceptable size of 94 x 48.5 s 19.5 millimeter size, the Samsung A411 is easy to use and store in your pocket, a lightweight with its 88 grams weight it is very easy to Read more »

The Nokia 6280 is a revolutionary 3G mobile phone and is the follow up model to the Nokia 6270. The Nokia 6280 has two built in cameras, a 2 megapixel camera found on the rear side that has a function of 8 times digital zoom and a flash, while the other camera which is used for video calling is located on the front part of the mobile phone.

The Nokia 6280 comes with an expandable mini SD memory card and uses a Nokia series 40 platform for mobile phones and can be locked in the network by using a locking mechanism called the base band 5. All of Nokia 6280 are available in mainly four colors: Burnt Orange, Silver, Plum Read more »

The Samsung Group, South Korea’s biggest conglomerate and the world’s largest electronics company, announced the release of their latest Samsung X550 mobile phone in the third quarter of the year 2007.

The Samsung X550 is regarded as the successor of the very popular E700 because of the two mobile phones’ numerous similarities. In fact, it is hard to tell these two mobile phones apart just by looking at them. Aesthetically, both mobile phones have the classic silver body lined with a blue front and back plate. Both phones have internal antennas and the eye of their VGA cameras is cradled at the head of the center of the mobile phone. Both the Samsung X550 and the E700 are in the clam shell form type which makes them easy to flip open Read more »

The Communicator Series of the Nokia phones is very popular, especially with the ever busy business people. One of the latest releases in the Nokia Communicator Series is the Nokia E90 phone, and was announced last February 2007, in the annual 3GSM show in popular Barcelona.
The very first unit of the Nokia E90 phone which was sold was in Jakarta, Indonesia, in an auction, on the 17th of May of the same year.

The winning bidding price was decided to be Rupiah 45,000,000, or roughly an astounding $5000! This is not a big surprise, as Indonesia is largely known as part of the most competitive when it comes to the market for Nokia’s super cool Communicator Phones Series. This Read more »