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LG KC560 - dancing lights in the dark
A fashionable accessory can and in fact often does play a key role in establishing a person’s inimitable style. LG has set out on a mission to design a handset that would adapt itself to the incessantly changing heartbeat of its owner’s life. One of the exclusive features that the creators have imbued KC560 imbued with is a one-touch profile switch accompanied by a dynamic backlight that flows from color to color. The functionality is surprisingly high for a purely fashion choice – you get a 3 Mp auto-focusing cam, QVGA screen, microSD slot, Bluetooth, MP3 player, FM radio and a selection of miscellaneous goodies.  |
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Motorola ZN5: A dummy's guide to necromancy
Besides functionality, the quality of assembly and materials is the lodestone around which a phone’s success is built, playing a decisive role in the customer’s choice. Better materials and assembly allow a handset to live longer and sustain more damage. The progress pushing the edge of technology forward, a new model released just this morning will be called archaic before tomorrow’s lunch arrives. The more hectic this race grows, the more willing to simplify the production cycle the manufacturers become. Many models below the top-end bar, and even a quantity from above, suffer from poor chip quality employing blobs of glue where solder would be normally applied. In a world where people often switch their handsets once a smarter alternative pops up on the store shelf, the manufacturer companies seek to save as much money by making the conveyor belt run faster and faster all along the assembly line. As a natural outcome, tightening the time limits and cutting the expenses stands for less effort invested into each of the individual components that make up your phone.
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Travel notes from London: Symbian Expo '2008
This year, Symbian Expo didn’t attract any special attention. All the key product announcements preceded its opening, so by the most part the gadgets presented at the expo were familiar to the public from earlier encounters. Still there were a number of important events that gave a subject matter for this article. The most important news was revolving around the progress of the Symbian Foundation. |
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (Tube): Size Matters
The release of the first S60-based touchscreen smartphone gave rise to a global-scale fuss on the web, leading many people to dub Tune an iPhone killer and a long awaited messiah. We decided to refrain from drawing unripe conclusions and were right in our skepticism – the new product turned out to be no wonder, just a sound gadget sold for a fair price. A mere 280 euros will get you a touchscreen Nokia with lots of features, but don’t expect any gorgeous looks. A more detailed overview information is available in our comparison article. |
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Nokia Tube: an iPhone killer or a telecom revolution?
The first Nokia touchscreen smartphone built around the S60 platform had been igniting heated discussions long before it popped up on the horizon and official release date was announced. Commonly known under the codename Tube, the 5800 model is ranked as a mid-end music-profile handset. On the feature list you will find a 3.2 Mp cam, a microSD expansion slot and a 150 Mb of onboard storage, but the most important things, of course, are the full-fledged Wi-Fi and GPS units. All of this combined, the model makes a very viable offering. |
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