Cell Phone Reviews by Cellphonedia

Samsung SGH-X700: Samsung X series has come up with few handsets that left their mark on cell phone markets. X600, X100, and X210 and a lot more in the X series assembly line, were equipped with latest features as well as tested with new innovations. Today X700 is the handset we would be reviewing.

The candy bar X-700 is somewhat similar to other cell phones like X620. The cell phone is sleek and slim and available in black and silver combination. The matt finish of X-700 makes it look more sophisticated and business class hand set.

The LCD is brilliant and impressive. The massive 1.9 inch screen can display more than 260K colors. The LCD screen various features like brightness, contrasts, color levels can be controlled to make it more user efficient.

The keys on the pad are widespread. Typing text messages are very easy and you won't press the wrong key often because of good amount of space in between the Read more »

Samsung SGH-D500: There is nothing more proud for a cell phone manufacturer than its cell phone winning a GSM Association Award for the Best Mobile Handset. SGH-D500 is one of those cell phones which Samsung is proud to manufacture.

The slider D500 is a gem piece. With classic charcoal black color, the cell phone is build with fine quality material. 93.5x45.7x23.5mm being the size of D500, the cell phone still is only 99grams and feels good in palms.

The sliding mechanism is semi-automatic and works great. A one thumb push makes D500 ready for action. The key pad looks to be very much compact. Some may find the keys very close to each other. Back of the cell phone lie camera lens, mirror for self portraits and photo light. The right side contains headphone Read more »

Motorola E815: Motorola being the second largest mobile manufacturer, is on the carriers support list for long time. Since the introduction of V Cast, Verizon is looking for cell phones which could support its high profile network. E815 by Motorola was the perfect choice for Verizon.

The flip cell phone measures 3.7x1.9x1 inches and weighs a little above 4.5 ounces. E815 is available in silver and gray combination color with exterior retractable antenna. There is a LED flash below on the left. The camera is just above the exterior screen of the flip handset.

The exterior 1.5 inch screen displays approximately 4000 colors and displays info just like a typical external screen. Inside there is an eye catching 2 inch sharp LCD which can process more than 260K colors. The keypad is comfortable to work around with, so do the navigational control keys.

E815 include various features to talk about. Beside its 3G V Cast capability, Read more »

Nokia 5300: During the first quarter of 2006, Sony Ericsson clearly dominated cell phone industry because of its music cell phones. The domination continued because there was no such true competitor. But later on we found famous manufacturers followed the trend and introducing music cell phones. Nokia released its 5300 to break down Sony Ericsson's music cell phone market.

5300 looks a bit bulky with size measurements of 3.6 by 1.9 by 0.8 inches but its feather light with weight just above 3.5 ounces. The Xpress cell phone looks good in red/white or traditional black/white combinations. The slider functionality works perfect.

The brilliant screen of music Xpress measures 2 inches and support 262k colors at massive resolution of 320x240 pixel. Like all music cell phones, the most common control keys are placed perfectly for ease of use. The music keys lie on the left spine while volume and camera control keys lie on the right spine. The camera lies on the back of cell phone along with a mirror for cell portraits. The expansion slot Read more »

Nokia N91: Nokia N91 was released way back in April 2005. Since then the cell phone got respectable number of buyers. But even then, N91 is being somewhat pin down by its Sony Ericsson and LG rivals.

The cell phone is a bulky slider. We said bulky because the silvery N91 got its physical size as at 4.4 by 2.2 by 0.9 inches and 5.8 ounces and weight just below 6 ounces. Even then, it is constructed so well, it still looks awesome in hands.

N91 has music control buttons just below the screen. Left spine contains volume control, USB port and a speaker. The opposite has place for menu button and a back cover removing button.

The diagonally measured 2.2 inch screen shows 262K colors and the very good quality. However the resolution of 176x208 appears to be a little less than we expected to have before the cell arrived in market.

Nokia engineers tried to make N91 more "Music player" than "cam coder" Read more »

Palm Treo 700w: Palm Treo w series was introduced with an intention to create an all in one Personal digital assistant which can support various general purpose and multimedia applications. The series was started with Palm Treo 700w.

Palm Treo physical measurements came out good enough to declare it a sleek device in Personal digital assistant category. 4.4 by 2.3 by 0.9 inches and weight slightly lower than 6 and a half ounces, gives PDA a solid construction and just perfect for business and corporate use. Charcoal black and sliver combination suits Palm Treo very well.

The screen quality is not that much good as compared to other specifications of 700w but still showing 65000 colors at resolution of 240x240 seem to work. We got the keys over the PDA sorted as the functional and application keys at the top surrounding the 5 way navigation key and character keys aligned in four horizontal rows. Left spine of the PDA contains volume Read more »

Nokia N93: The famous N series by Nokia is continuously climbing up in cell phone markets. The series has numerous pros and cons but never the less; it is coming up with cell phones that Nokia itself call as multimedia computers.

N 93, one of the most famous of all N series cell phone finally arrived with bundle of features. The cell phone is one hell of a multimedia device bringing each and every technology feature in one box.

Nokia N93 is not a sleek and slim cell phone. With size measure of 4.6 by 2.1 by 1.1 inches and weight over 6 ounces, the device looks like a landline telephone cradle when flipped open and its length become as big as 7.5inches.

The cell phone has cam along with a plastic protected flash on the left spine. While on the right spine zoom in/out control keys, shutter, 4 way navigational Read more »

Motorola W205: Motorola has been providing cell phones to low end users who are intended to use mobiles just for making and receiving calls and text messages. Most of the cell phones in market nowadays are providing hell lot of features but the basic purpose of the cell phone, no matter how much mega pixel camera it contains and which software it operates on, its primary functions are to send/receive text messages and make phone calls.

As we said, Motorola is still manufacturing cell phone for the basic users. W205 is just one of them. The cell phone is available in true black color which makes it look like an expensive high end mobile device. The cell phone is perfectly slim with thickness of only 14.9mm. W205 is also very light to hold. Only 78 grams of communication device is just a feather to put into any pocket.

The cell phone is dual band and works on 900 and 1800 MHz. The GSM is available world wide so carrier availability for W205 is not an issue at all. The brilliant CSTN display screen shows 65000 colors at resolution of 128x128. Although the device is not that expensive but screen quality hasn't been compromised Read more »

Sony Ericsson W880i: The sleek and slim design always impresses the cell phone buyers. This gave rise to the competition to introduce the slimmest cell phone a company can manufacture. Sony Ericsson provided its version of slimmest cell phone with introduction of W880i.

The slimmest candy bar ever produced by Sony Ericsson requires other than usual equipment for the measurement. The 9.4mm is hardly 70 grams in weight but still gives a good grip and feel comfortable in hands or with ears.

The walkman cell phone comes in traditional grey/black with stainless steel front and rubber finished rear casing. W880i has great looks with its small keypad but is a bit difficult to operate on such tiny buttons. The multi connector port is located at the bottom conventionally. A primary camera is located on the back while a secondly camera has its place beside the ear piece. SD card slot has a good place near Read more »

Palm Treo 700wx: Palm Treo has been providing personal digital assistants (PDAs) with high quality and quantity of features. The 700wx of this very company was released with some new and unique features as compared to its successors eg Palm Treo 700w.

The PDA can be used as a mobile modem for a laptop, on the way for businessmen. The PDA supports wi fi as well so network connections aren't any problems if one have Palm Treo 700wx in his hand.

Palm Treo 700wx has a sporty style with size roughly measured as 5.1 by 2.3by 0.9 inches and weight a little above 6.4 ounces. A buyer may argue on its bulky size but nowadays somewhat big PDA's look good and give a professional style.

The mobile device has a complete keyboard aligned in four lines horizontally and a navigational key at the top. The space distributions between the keys are well engineered and even a newbie to PDA wouldn't mistype much. . The left spine of of 700wx has customizable shortcut key and volume control keys. The infrared port ringer/silent button lie at the top. PDA has head Read more »

Samsung SCH-A990: Previously, we had cell phones with only two features, call making and text messaging. Later on we got cell phones with some minimum of software applications, games etc. Nowadays we got cell phone hard ware became so much complex, it includes everything from camera to mp3 playing and GPS and FM capabilities. Samsung became the first cell phone manufacturer to ever introduce a 3.2 mega pixel camera in a cell phone SCH-A990.

The smart little flip open has size measure of At 3.8 by 1.8 by 0.8 inches and weight around 4 and a half ounces. The flip can be twisted up to 180 degrees clock wise. The left spine contains music control buttons, headset port and SD expansion slot.

The multimedia SCH-A990 cell phone has 1.25 inch external screen capable of showing 65K colors. The inner screen is as usual bigger with size of 2.2inch and Read more »

Nokia 7380: With introduction of L'Amour fashioned cell phones by Nokia, the cell phone making trend changed from normal candy bar style cell phones to mobile sets which don't look a communicating device either. Without any usual keypad or regular looks, Nokia 7380 seem to be a fashion accessory rather than a mobile phone.

The lipstick shape 7380 weighs as low as 2.8 ounces with dimensions as 4.5by 1.2 by 0.8 inches. It is very comfortable while in hand as well as ear. The cell phone has a good mechanism for sim card insertion which lies on the left spine. The head set slot, battery charger port lies conventionally at the bottom. Read more »

Palm Treo 700p: The border of difference is disappearing between cell phones and pocket gadgets. However both still retain their identity and gadgets are continuously manufactured regardless whatever Nokia, Samsung, Motorola is contributing in cell phone manufacturing.

What we are going to review is Palm Treo 700p, an all purpose pocket communication device with physical dimensions of 58 x 129 x 58mm. The sophisticated PDA is available in charcoal grey color.

The built of this PDA is very much impressive and even after it's bigger than usual shape; it fits well in every pocket and hand.

The PDA has a QWERTY keyboard which comprises navigational key surrounded by conventional green and red button and talk, home, calendar and message buttons.

Below lie the 4 lines of keyboard characters. The left spine of the communicating device contains volume control keys and customizable shortcut key. The infrared port has its place on the top along with ringer/silent button. At the bottom, the PDA has jack for head set and multi connector port. The camera lens is on the back along Read more »

Nokia N73: Nokia's famous N series open new door ways for the next generation multimedia cell phones. N73 is successor to N70, which already attracted large number of buyers since it was introduced first.

Nokia N73 has got a beautiful sporty look and a bit of variety is available as far as the color of the cell phone is concerned. We saw silver combination with the plum one. And a stylish looking white with metallic red. The cell comes in physical measurements of 4.3 by 1.9 by 0.7 inches and weight of about 4 ounces. It would seem quiet bulky to the readers but it is fairly sleek and it feels good while in hand.

The cell phone got camera shutter key on the right spine followed by a volume control which also acts like zoom in/out function key for the pictures. The mini SD card expansion Read more »