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Samsung Galaxy Apollo Android smartphone

Samsung Galaxy Apollo
Review Handy social behaviour?
Samsung’s mobile phone portfolio grows ever larger, and while the differences can be hard to distinguish, the Galaxy Apollo does have its niche, at least as far as the marketeers are concerned. It is aimed at the connected lifestyles of younger people who want social networking tools at their fingertips. Samsung Galaxy Apollo …
05 Oct 12:00

Garmin Asus Nüvifone M10

Garmin Nüvifone M10
Review Satnav meets smartphone
Smartphones and satnav are a pretty good combination, and there are plenty of configurations to choose from. You can use a free service like Google Maps or Nokia’s Ovi Maps, or buy an add-on like CoPilot Live. Typically, smartphones often come with at least one option pre-installed, but there is a third way. Garmin Nuvifone M10 …
10 Aug 08:02

Acer beTouch E400 Android smartphone

Acer beTouch E400
Review HTC beater?
Acer is fully committed to producing smartphones, but seems to be slightly schizophrenic in its approach. There are devices in the Liquid range, which tote Android and are nicely high end, devices in the neoTouch range which run Windows Mobile, and devices in the beTouch range which again run Android and occupy the mid to lower …
23 Jul 07:02

Vodafone 845

Vodafone 845
Review Small size, low cost
Vodafone’s 845 is right on trend as it is a small format Android handset. Sony Ericsson’s tiny Xperia X10 Mini - reviewed here - and X10 Mini Pro have both had a surprisingly good reception, and Vodafone clearly thinks there's something in this compact smartphone lark. Vodafone 845 Vodafone's 845: extremely small, extremely low …
13 Jul 07:02

Viewsonic VEB620 e-Book reader

ViewSonic VEB620 ereader
Review Monitor maker's word view
Given ViewSonic’s penchant for monitors it might at first sight seem a little odd that its e-reader debut is to launch a pair of standard, 16 greyscale E-Ink devices, the VEB620 and VEB625, rather than going for colour. But E-Ink’s displays are easy on the eye, deliver excellent battery life, and are less expensive to build than …
23 Jun 07:02

Nokia C5

Nokia C5
Review Compact candybar for avid texters
Nokia’s lower end and mid range handsets might not offer the bells and whistles of the leading edge phones, but they can be solid workhorses. The C5 is a case in point. Just be aware when eyeing up the specs that its small screen means it can’t do some things nearly as well as bigger screened alternatives. Nokia C5 Slimline …
17 Jun 07:02

Samsung Monte smartphone

Samsung Monte
Review High-end pretender
Samsung says the Monte provides the style and performance of a high-end handset at an affordable price. Oh really? Sure, the headline features are quite impressive. HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, motion sensor, an emphasis on social networking with support for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Bebo. There's MS Exchange ActiveSync support for …
27 May 07:02

Vexia Econav 480 satnav

Econav 480
Review GPS for treehuggers?
Arguably there’s been nothing really innovative in satnav for some time. But the Econav 480 claims to be able to help you save fuel and the environment by telling you how to drive in a fuel efficient way while getting you from A to B. Vexia Econav 480 The Green Economy: Vexia's Econav 480 It does this by comparing your …
26 May 07:02

Sony Ericsson Elm

Sony Ericsson Elm
Review Buy this phone and save the planet – maybe
Sony Ericsson has been busy producing a range of eco friendly handsets, produced under the GreenHeart banner. GreenHeart phones are made from recycled plastics and have no hazardous chemicals in the build. As a green marketing wheeze, by and large, these handsets have been given the names of trees. There’s an Aspen, a Hazel, the …
19 May 07:02

HTC HD mini

HTC Mini HD
Review The smartphone for small pockets?
Smartphones with large screens are great up to a point, the inevitable drawback being a chunky handset. With the HTC HD mini, the 3.2in screen allows even petite paws to reach all the way across it for one-handed use, making it very easy to pocket. HTC Mini HD Slim pickings: HTC's HD mini The handset runs Windows Mobile 6.5 …
27 Apr 12:02

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen
Review Save your scribbles
Who would have thought something as basic as the pen could be up for a geek-friendly makeover? The folk behind the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, obviously, because what they’ve come up with is a pen which can record your writing and anything you or others say, and then squirt it all into a computer for keeping and sharing. …
20 Apr 07:02

HTC Legend

HTC Legend
Review Hit or myth?
HTC’s Legend is to all intents and purposes the follow up to the very popular Hero. Like its predecessor it is an Android handset, and GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G are here as Android staples but, as you would expect, the Legend has a lot that is new, updated, enhanced and tweaked too. HTC Legend Nice touch? HTC's Legend For a start, …
23 Mar 08:02

SWaP Signature watchphone

Signature SWaP
Review Timepiece telephony
The Smart Watch and Phone (SWaP) Signature looks enticing. It fits on your wrist, yet packs in a touchscreen, music and video playback, a camera good for video and stills, Bluetooth with stereo audio, a Micro SD card slot, and a suite apps including an e-book reader. Telephony runs to tri-band GSM with GPRS, but not to 3G. But …
18 Feb 12:02

PsiXpda pocket computer

PsiXpda Pocket Computer
Review Psion of the times?
About 10 years ago, Psion's handheld computers were the ones to beat and the Psion Series 5 was at the top of the heap. The keyboard was tiny but so well designed that it was really possible to touchtype on it. Indeed, the Series 5 set the standard for others to emulate, and, quite simply, as far as usability is concerned no …
15 Jan 08:02

Sony Ericsson Aino

Sony Ericsson Aino
Review The must-have PS3 accessory?
Sony Ericsson's latest marketing wheeze is to release a slew of new handsets with seemingly meaningless names. Satio, Yari, Naite and the handset currently under scrutiny, Aino, are models the company has lined up to compete with Apple and Android. The Aino is meant to be a media fan’s handset first and foremost. It also has a …
14 Jan 13:02

Samsung H1 Vodafone 360

Samsung H1 on Vodafone 360
Review The Twitbook lover's delight?
Apparently, you are nobody today if you aren't connected to hundreds of other people through a web of social networks. If you aren’t poking, tweeting, linking, posting, chatting, emailing and texting, you're living in the past. Samsung H1 on Vodafone 360 Samsung's H1: built for Vodafone 360's social network centric UI No …
30 Nov 08:02

Bookeen Cybook Opus

Bookeen Cybook Opus
Review Kindle who?
While the Amazon Kindle’s appearance in the UK may help nudge the e-book reader closer to the mainstream, there are plenty of other devices to measure it against. Sony’s Reader variants are the best know, but Interead's oddly named Cool-er and iRex's DR1000S are also in the running. To that list we can now add Bookeen's latest, …
04 Nov 08:02

Sony Ericsson S312

Sony Ericsson S312
Review Cut-price Cyber-shot?
Sony Ericsson tends to get the most publicity from its Cyber-shot cameraphones and Walkman music phones. Not unusual, that, but the company also has a large array of mid-range and lower end mobiles. A case in point: the S312. At £100 Sim-free or £69 from T-Mobile on pay-as-you-go, it fits right into that lower price bracket. …
03 Nov 08:02

Nokia 6303 Classic

Nokia 6303 Classic
Review A no-frills phone just for talking on? Surely not?
While Nokia continues to push at the boundaries of mobile phone technology, it also has its eye on the voice-as-primary-function mainstream. This is where its bread and butter lies, and a market well served by the stalwart and very popular 6300. Now meet its successor, the 6303 Classic. Nokia 6303 Classic Nokia's 6303 Classic: …
30 Oct 09:02

HTC Touch 2 Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone

HTC Touch 2
Review Going too far back to basics?
Windows Mobile 6.5 is now with us but its reception has been far from ecstatic. The general view is that Microsoft is playing catch-up and will have to do something spectacular with Windows Mobile 7, due to debut next year, if it's to really challenge its rivals. HTC Touch 2 HTC's Touch 2: aspiring to touchphone greatness …
21 Oct 12:02

Samsung GT-C6625

Samsung C6625
Review Basic business wannabee?
Windows Mobile smartphones with miniature Qwerty keyboards are rarely extremely exciting to look at, and the Samsung GT-C6625 is a case in point. Blocky hardware and a somewhat old-fashioned design, makes it look a couple of years out of sync with the latest smartphone trends. Samsung C6625 Samsung's GT-C6625: no Wi-Fi, but …
14 Oct 12:02

Samsung GT-M8910 Pixon 12 cameraphone

Samsung Pixon12
Review The world's first 12Mp phonecam, apparently
As digital camera manufacturers start to concentrate on quality rather than megapixels – reducing the count of the latter while enhancing the former – mobile phone makers still appear caught in the vortex of more-means-better. A case in point is the Samsung GT-M8910 Pixon 12, the first handset with a 12Mp camera – should we be …
02 Oct 12:02

LG GD910 Watch Phone

LG GD910
Review Worth the wrist?
Smartphones we are familiar with. Watches too. But combining the two is quite rare. Sure, there are sports watches that can collect information about training sessions and share it with a computer. Those with longer memories will recall things like Casio’s data bank watches with their weeny keyboards, and there was the Palm OS …
22 Sep 12:02

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic
Review Budget touchscreen phone, anyone?
Nokia’s touchscreen user interface has not had many outings. We’ve seen it before in the original Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and in the much more highbrow, Qwerty keyboard toting N97. Now we have a third appearance in the shape of another XpressMusic handset, the 5530, currently an exclusive offering from Carphone Warehouse from £ …
10 Sep 12:02