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Apple
iPhone Review
Phone rating: 
Ah! The iPhone. Never in seven years of reviewing mobile phones have we encountered a phone that has been
so controversial. The thing is that the iPhone is in some ways so good, and in other ways
so bad. Let's be generous and start with the good.
The iPhone is the first of a new generation of phones: it's a touchscreen smartphone running Apple's
OS X operating system. Instead of using buttons, joysticks, etc, the iPhone has icons that appear on the huge touch-sensitive
screen. The screen is enormous, and the user interface is simply breathtaking. Apple claim that the iPhone is five years ahead
of the competition, and playing with the user interface you can begin to believe the hype. Touch the Phone icon on the screen
and the address book appears; tap on a name and the iPhone makes a call. Touch the Photos icon and your photo album glides
onto the screen. The responsiveness of the user interface and the wealth of effects makes using the phone an absolute joy.
SmartPhones have a reputation for being slow, bug-ridden and difficult to use, but the iPhone is the absolute opposite. Using
the iPhone is simply an amazing experience, and once you've owned an iPhone it's hard to imagine ever going back to a normal
phone.
The iPhone is an iPod too of course. It plays music and with
a built-in 8 Gbyte of flash memory and also has 16 GB variant, you can throw away your iPod. The iPhone plays music and video
(on that stunningly big screen) and can download songs from iTunes on the move. 8 Gbytes is enough to store 2,000 songs.
Other great features include the Safari web browser (which provides
one of the best implementations of the mobile web that we've come across), Google Maps (which is fabulous on the iPhone) and
built-in Wi-Fi support.
Features of the Apple iPhone include:
- OS X Operating System
- 2 megapixel camera
- Display: 480 x 320 pixels (3.5 inch) touchscreen
- Music player (AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and
WAV formats)
- Memory: 4 Gbyte or 8 Gbyte flash drive
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
- WAP, EDGE
- Size: 115 x 61 x 11.6 mm
- Weight: 135g
- Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
- Talktime: 8 hours
- Battery standby: 250 hours
- Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
- Available in India Through Airtel and Vodafone
- Price 8 Gb Rs. 31000
- Price 16GB Rs. 36100
- 500 Mb data free PM
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Motorola V3i Review
Phone
rating: 
The
Motorola V3i is the updated version of the super-slim RAZR V3. The V3i is a superb mobile: it has everything that was good
about the V3 with none of the bad bits!
Physically, the V3i is virtually the same as the original RAZR
phone, with the same super-slim 14mm case and chemically-etched keypad with cool back-lighting. The colour
is different, but the rest is virtually unchanged. Even a year after the release of the V3, this is still a design that will
turn heads. The display is the same as on the original - a very high quality 262k colour TFT screen with a high resolution
of 176 x 200 pixels. The external display is full colour but small. It displays useful information like incoming calls, battery
life and signal strength.
Inside the phone everything has changed. The V3's low resolution still camera has been replaced with a 1.23
megapixel camera that is also capable of video recording. A music player has been added and there is now an expandable memory
card, with storage for up to 150 tracks. Airplane mode lets you use the music player
whilst on an aircraft. You may have read that the V3i comes with Apple iTunes® software, but sadly this is not available in the UK version.
The V3i also supports full Bluetooth™ wireless connectivity, MP3 ringtones, Java games, an integrated
speakerphone and quad-band capability for global roaming. The battery life is reasonably good.
The V3i is a fantastic phone. It doesn't have quite as many bells and whistles as top-of-the-range phones
like the Samsung D600 or the Sony Ericsson K750i, but it does have a high specification and bags of style. We say buy it!
The V3i m is the same as the V3i but with the addition of iTunes®.
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Features
of the Motorola V3i include:
- 1.23 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
- Video camera
- Internal display: TFT, 262,000 colours, 176 x 220 pixels
- External display: 65,000 colours, 96 x 80 pixels
- MP3 player
- MP3 ringtones
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Speaker independent speech recognition
- Messaging: SMS, EMS 5.0, MMS, Instant Messaging, Email (Pop3, SMTP, IMAP4)
- iTAP™ predictive text
- Java games (embedded and downloadable)
- Downloadable Themes (Ringtones, Wallpaper & Screensavers)
- Personal organiser functions (Calculator and Currency Converter, Date and Clock, Calendar with alarm settings)
- Picture phonebook (up to 1,000 entries)
- Airplane mode
- Memory: 12 Mbytes plus removable memory card (expandable to 512 Mbytes)
- Connectivity: Bluetooth, mini-USB
- WAP 2.0, GPRS class 10
- Vibration alert
- Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900)
- Talktime: 200 - 400 minutes
- Battery standby: 200 - 310 hours
- Size: 98 x 53 x 14 mm
- Weight: 100g
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Nokia N96 Review
Full specs of Nokia N96 include:
- WCDMA2100/900 (HSDPA) / EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz (EGPRS) connectivity
- DVB-H Class C, 470-750 MHz
- S60 3rd edition, FP2 UI
- 2.8" QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) LCD TFT display with up to 16 million colors
- 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and auto-exposure
- Dual-LED camera flash, video light, recording indicator, auto-focus assist light
- Secondary VGA (640 x 480 px) camera for video calls
- Video capture in MPEG-4 up to VGA at 30 fps
- Digital Video Stabilization
- Built-in GPS/A-GPS
- WLAN - IEEE802.11 g/b
- Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz, 76-90MHz) with RDS
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0 with Micro USB type B interface
- 3.5mm stereo headset plug , TV-out support (PAL/NTSC)
- Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP stereo/EDR
- 950 mAh battery with up to 220 min talk, 220 hrs standby time, 5 hrs video, 14 hrs music or 4 hrs TV playback
- Dimensions: 103×55x18 mm
- Weight: 125 g
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