Review Sony Ericsson W595

The Sony Ericsson W595 is a 3G music phone which comes in a fashionable slide opening handset. The W595 is available in four colour options including blue, cosmopolitan white, ruby black & a jungle grey coloured casing. The phone comes with high quality Walkman® music features which include a music player, shake control, music recognition feature, FM & AM radio with a radio data system function. The user can capture still pictures & video using the integrated 3.2 megapixel camera feature complete with easy to use imaging settings. If you enjoy music the Sony Ericsson W595 will enjoy it with you.


Design
W595 is a nicely styled slide phone with a tapered top edge and a smooth slide action. It’s an excellent size - not superslim, but compact and good to hold. As a Walkman phone, it has music controls featured prominently when the slide is closed. The keypad is easy to use, despite the keys being a touch small, and it has an easy-to-use circular navigational key.
Has a bright and vibrant QVGA display with excellent layout and icons that are eminently readable.

Music

Music is at the core of what this phone does and a key on the side of the casing drops you right into the Walkman software. It also doubles as the shake control key. Hold it down and you can shake left and right to switch tracks, up and down to change volume. Sony Ericsson should really ditch this feature. It isn't as accurate as using the easily accessible D-pad controls, and in my view you'll look demented while doing it.
SensMe, which has been around for a while on Sony Ericsson handsets, helps you choose music to match your mood. Memory runs to 40MB with a 2GB Memory Stick Micro also included.
Sony Ericsson simply can't get rid of its proprietary, side-mounted, headset connector, but in this case it ends in a chunky 3.5mm splitter. I'm getting images of lovey-dovey types sharing their favourite tracks on the train and people doubling up to listen to a podcast so they can share the laughter/information/whatever. It's sweet to think that Sony Ericsson cares so much, but you might find it annoying to carry bulk at the phone end and the 3.5mm end of your headset. ]

Battery
Battery life was reasonable. I got six and a half hours of music from a full charge. Sony Ercisson quotes up to nine hours of GSM talk and 385 hours on standby. I easily got a couple of days between charges with .

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Review LG KC910

The LG Renoir is the first 8 megapixel touchscreen phone. Added benefits include 3G video calling, a high quality video camera with slow motion effects, an MP3 player, an FM radio, Dolby Mobile, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps for broadband internet speeds, Assisted-GPS and an 8GB memory card. This is one of the most powerful multimedia devices ever created.

Design
The Renoir looks very similar to the Viewty. It's a flat touchscreen phone that's slightly larger than the Viewty, but more compact than the iPhone 3G. Weighing 110g, it's a fairly weighty phone, but feels about right for its size. Remember that heavier phones are better for taking photos, as you can hold them steadier. The size of the phone also gives space for a large LCD display - an important factor in a camera phone, and a fact that also makes the touchscreen user interface easier to use. The screen is exactly the same size as the Viewty in fact - a monster 3 inches across, with an ultra-high resolution of 240 x 400 pixels. We like the touchscreen user interface very much. It uses haptic (vibration) feedback to confirm that you've pressed a "button" on the virtual screen. New users may take a little while to get up to speed, but after some practice you should be able to text just as quickly as using a numeric keypad. Some things may be slightly trickier, but the sheer pleasure of using a virtual on-screen QWERTY keyboard and buttons more than compensates for this. The phone also supports T9 predictive text via a virtual keypad, and you can use handwriting recognition if you prefer. There are real buttons below the touchscreen, so you should have no problem turning the phone on and answering calls!

Camera
The LG-KC910 phone leads the industry with its 8 megapixel camera, which is being developed to include Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, a xenon flash and ISO sensitivity up to 1600. Further strengthening the phone’s camera features are image stabilization, auto-focus, manual focus, Face Tracking, Smile Shot and blink detection. An embedded GPS receiver gives the LG KC-910 camera phone the ability to geo-tag photos for later plotting on an interactive map. A variety of creative shot modes, so far only found on standalone digital cameras, will be included.

With all your appetites whetted, it's time to reveal the real star of the KC910: the 8-megapixel camera. But it wasn't as shining as we had thought. Taking the standard resolution and color chart tests, we noticed that the KC910 returned readings of LPPH 1000 on the vertical axis, scoring better on the horizontal axis with a reading of 1100. Colors were adequately saturated, though it seems as though the colors were slightly towards the cooler spectrum. We'll let the images do the talking with a few sample shots below, taken on Auto settings.

GPS
Rounding out the phone’s comprehensive feature set, are A-GPS enabled navigation, compatibility with the latest 3G HSDPA networks for connections up to 7.2Mbps and Wi-Fi for even faster internet access. The phone also includes a Jogging Buddy program that uses GPS technology to help track workouts, a feature sure to please exercise enthusiasts. A 3.0-inch WQVGA full touch LCD screen is the ideal canvas for experiencing and interacting with the LG-KC910’s multimedia features. A customizable interface, with numerous widgets and shortcuts, makes the phone’s myriad features even easier to use

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Review HTC TOUCH 3G

The good:
TouchFLO 2D is great
Good performance
Excellent battery life
Great online experience
The bad:
No substantial internal storage
No physical keypad
Charging port doubles as headphone socket


The Touch 3G, on the surface, is a 3G version of the original Touch, but several things make it much better. It uses Windows 6.1 instead of 6, plus HTC's updated Touch 2D system. This was first seen on the disappointing Touch Diamond - a feature-packed phone that was too slow and unresponsive.

A potentially useful feature is a super-simple modem function that lets you plug it into a computer's USB port to connect to the internet - usually a right kerfuffle.

It's still faster to type on phones with keyboards, but the features are packed in, it's fun to use, the 71mm screen feels big on such a small (96g) phone and the price is reasonable.

Design
The Touch 3G is a very tidy package. Below the 2.8-inch touchscreen display is a trio of razor thin mechanical keys: start and end call buttons and a five-way nav keypad. For those struggling with the touchscreen navigation, HTC have included a toothpick-sized stylus sheathed on the top right of the handset. On the back is a flashless 3.2-megapixel camera and a micro USB port is located on the bottom edge. The lower half of the handset is tapered ever-so slightly, helping the phone to nestle comfortably in your palm.

Features
Running on Windows Mobile 6.1, the Touch 3G offers a range of business applications, with support for MS Exchange, push email, mobile versions of MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint, a PDF reader, plus a few convenient touches like threaded SMS messaging.

Out of the box the Touch 3G shares 256MB of memory between applications and free space for us to store music, photos and documents. It supports MicroSD expandable memory with a reader slot located under the battery cover.

Its 2.8-inch screen is a decent size for watching YouTube videos, but the mini-USB port doubling as a headphone port is one of our pet peeves. Not only does this mean you can't charge the phone and use headphones at the same time, but it also means you're stuck with the using the headphones in the box rather than your favourite cans. It's not really intended as a media player, and those looking for the best multimedia experience may want to wait for the release of the Touch HD in Q1 of 2009.

Camera
The HTC Touch 3G has a 3.15MP module strapped to it. The phone doesn't have any light assistance hence night mode and low lit images didn't have much support. Overall the quality is good enough from a simple 3MP camera in well-lit conditions. Video quality is strictly average.

Battery Life
The HTC Touch 3G has an 1100mAh battery. The phone has been optimized to perform under 3G network. Hence under 2G network it was able to perform quite well. The phone provided with a little over two days of battery backup easily. Two days consisted of around 2.5 hours of talktime and 2-3 hours of music daily. Add to that some Wi-Fi usage coupled with GRPS usage of about 20-25 minutes, the phone ran pretty fine. All this translates to a good battery life.

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