Do you still remember the time of Nokia 7650, Nokia N93i, Nokia N95 and the likes? I remember that when these phones first came out, they cost around 40,000 Pesos during its first few weeks. Pretty steep. But I guess Nokia is really fighting hard these days to win back former Nokia owners after losing much of its customers to iPhone, Samsung and Android phones. They just had no choice but to make Nokia N8 cheaper even if it is a flagship, high-end phone.

If you ask me, the N8 is a great deal and its fairly low price is something we consumers could take advantage of. Here are some of its features:

• AMOLED 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch
• 16 GB internal memory. Expandable via microSD card slot
• 12 Megapixel camera with Xenon flash
• HD-quality video recording
• 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS-ready
• Integrated social networking
• Symbian^03 Operating System
• FM Radio and Music Player

Although its features are almost the same with my Samsung Wave, I have to be honest that the most important feature of Nokia N8 which my Samsung Wave lacks is the Xenon flash. Xenon is so important when taking photos in low-lighting conditions and if you have a camera phone with Xenon, you don’t need to bring your stand-alone camera on trips because your phone will surely suffice. In the future, I might buy the N8 just because of its Xenon flash!

Now let me ask you:  Will you buy the Nokia N8?


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1. It is my first non-Nokia purchased phone.

2. It is my first Samsung phone.

3. It is my first full touchscreen phone

4. It is the first phone I ever bought without doing some research and reading online reviews about it. What happened was, I saw it in the store, asked the sales clerk about its features and bought it in an instant.

So why did I fall in love with this phone? It is because of the looks and the features such as:

1. Super AMOLED Screen – it’s just super bright and brilliantly colorful. I feel like I’m holding a small Samsung TV. Surfing the web and viewing photos is such a pleasurable experience.

2. Multi-touch touchscreen – a feature similar to the iPhone wherein you use two fingers to zoom in and zoom out through pictures or web pages.

3. HD video recording – if you are like me who loves taking pictures and shooting videos of memorable events in your life, then this one is for you. The high-definition video (HD) is just awesome.

4.  Alphanumeric keypad – I am not really a fan of QWERTY touchscreens. It’s a bit annoying when you don’t feel the key presses while you are typing on such a keyboard layout. But with Samsung adding the alphanumeric keyboard layout, I have the option not to use QWERTY. Plus with the super sensitive screen, it makes me more sane when typing long texts.

Aside from the above, the Wave also has the specifications that I can’t live without: Internet, Music player, FM Radio, 5 MP camera with flash, expandable memory, Wi-Fi, video calling and GPS. And in terms of performance, the phone is super fast with Samsung’s new operating system Bada.

The cost for all those features? Less than 20,000 Pesos only. Now, who wouldn’t buy it in an instant?


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By doing a bit of research, here are some of the most notable features I found regarding the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10:

• Powered by Google’s Android Platform and a 1GHz processor
• 4-inch touchscreen display
• 8.1 Megapixel Camera
• HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G)
• GPS
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack
• Timescape & Mediascape UI – perfect for Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites addicts
• 1GB Internal Memory, upgradable by microSD memory card

Image credits: Sony Ericsson

However, as perfect as it may seem, there are just two potential drawbacks: no FM Radio and no video call camera in front! It may be a big deal for some (including me), but I think I can live with it if my phone is as powerful and as stylish as this one!

I hope to get this baby soon. I have already seen Sony Ericsson shops selling these for 32,700 Pesos and the lowest price I’ve canvassed around is 30,000 Pesos flat.


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I bet that a lot of guys out there never switch their home or car’s radio to the AM frequency band. Don’t worry, I’m one of them. Let’s face it. It’s boring. I’d rather listen to music than listen to radio news. But don’t get me wrong, I get news info from other sources – TV, newspapers and even the Internet. But just not on my music player or even my cellphone. It’s just not my thing.

However, Sony Ericsson seems to have revolutionized radio for our mobile phones especially for those who love news on the go.

So let’s meet the SE R300 – a cellphone unlike the ordinary. It has both AM/FM radio frequency band. So whether you’re a music lover or a news town crier, you’d surely love having both frequencies! If I’m not mistaken, it’s even the first mobile phone to have a built-in AM Radio and it’s very suitable for a lot of students who are always wishing for class suspensions during the rainy days.

Here is a list of other features of the R300. It’s really a minimalist yet unique phone!

-2G Network
-Polyphonic Tones
-1000 contacts
-8 MB internal memory – no memory card
-Bluetooth
-VGA Camera
-Music player
-FM/AM radio recorder

There’s also the SE R306, also a mobile phone with AM/FM radio but the only significant improvement to this is that it has a clearer, 1.3 Megapixel camera instead of a VGA one.

Question is, do you really need an AM radio in your phone?

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It appears to me that this is now the successor of the P-Series from Sony Ericsson. And guess what? This is the first-ever mobile phone from the company that uses Windows Mobile instead of Symbian Operating System. So what do we expect from SE’s new phone?

• Windows Mobile 6.1 – new OS means better features? Well we have yet to see because as far as I know, Symbian is the most dominant OS in the mobile phone world so it has more support and more applications. The drawback with Symbian is that it’s a little bit slow. Perhaps Windows Mobile can change this?
• Touchscreen – nothing really new about it since the P-Series used to have one. Remember the P900 phones? Nevertheless, touchscreens have become a standard these days.
• QWERTY Horizontal keypad – this one’s unique and it made the overall look of the phone an eyecandy. Take a look at the photos below
• 3.2 Megapixel Camera – I am surprised that Sony Ericsson included only 3.2 Megapixels for this phone when their competitors already have 5 megapixels. Think about N95 and Samsung’s Omnia.
• Expandable Memory
• Bluetooth
• GPS
• USB 2.0 – allows your phone to be a mass-storage device
• WiFi – for mobile Internet in the city’s hotspots
• Music Player and FM Radio – for audiophiles!

While there’s no doubt that this phone is beautiful, the features are comparable to common phones today. I think Sony Ericsson is still trying to get used to the new Windows OS. According to SE, this will be released end of September 2008.

How about you guys? What do you think about this new phone?

Image credit to GSMArena

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Luckily for those who are itching to buy a new touchscreen gadget, we have here a new one known as the Samsung i900 Omnia. It’s a touchscreen phone powered by Windows Mobile Operating System and promises to be a strong competitor to the 3G iPhone.

Its features are great. Though not as capable as the Nokia Nseries, I think its features are way good enough. It’s a music phone with a 1.3 Megapix Camera. So If you’re a guy who wants to set out from the rest and is looking for a phone or a gadget that would make lots of heads turn.. get the 5300… It costs around 12,000 pesos when I saw it yesterday.

Looks cool! Image courtesy of Nokia.com