Nokia 6208 Classic Touch Screen Mobile In India

Nokia seems to be increasing its presence in Indian touch screen mobiles market. There buzz is that the company is going to release four-five such mobile phones in the country this year. The launch of Nokia 6208 Classic seems to be one more step in the direction after Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

The touchscreen cellphone was released in China some times ago. 6208 Classic has got a 2.4-inch QVGA display with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels capable of displaying up to 16.7 million colours, multimedia player, FM Radio, handwriting recognition support and a 5-way navi-key. The handset also has a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 8x digital zoom. The phone comes with 64MB of internal memory, which can of course be expanded upto 8GB with microSD cards. There is a 3.5mm jack for earphones. Strangely enough, Wi-Fi or 3G support is missing although EDGE is there.

The one thing that sets Nokia 6208 Classic apart from other phones in the category is that the device is based on S40 platform. The phone will be priced at Rs. 13,259 in India.

Beside trying to cash on the current popularity of these devices, the Finnish cellphone maker is aiming to generate revenue from applications specific to these devices. It is note worthy that recently the company launched its much hyped Ovi app store in some countries and intends to expand these online stores to further countries too. What is more Nokia is planning to release sub 10K touch screen models soon.

Samsung Launches 3 Touch Screen Mobiles Star, Star3G And Beat DJ In India

Samsung India has launched three touchscreen cell phones in the country. Samsung Star, Star 3G and Beat DJ are now a part of an array of 7 touch screen phones offered by the company in Indian market. Let us look at the features of each phone in detail.

Samsung Star (S5233) is a 11.9 mm compact phone sporting a 7.63 cm WQVGA full-touch screen. There is a feature called Photo Contact using which one can call a contact by simply touching an image. A stylus is added too. The phone has an impressive 3.2 mega-pixel feature-rich camera with smile recognition. Gesture Control is another feature that the company has started to equip its latest cellphones with. Using Gesture Control one can unlock the Touch Screen or run an application by giving a gesture command.

This phone supports 50MB internal memory which is expandable up to 8GB through memory card. Samsung’s TouchWiz User Interface is another feather in its cap. The phone has music recognition capability utilizing Shazam’s "Find Music" service. There is virtual QWERTY keyboard for messaging and handwriting features. All these features come at an affordable price tag of 11,100/-.

Samsung Star 3G also shares some nifty features of Star S5233 like Gesture control and camera. On internal memory front, this phone has slightly more (80 MB) of internal memory that is again expandable to 8 GB. This device offers full Internet browsing support with an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotation. The phone is 3G compatible. This handset is priced at slightly higher at Rs. 14,499/-.

Samsung BEAT DJ handset to comes with touch screen and sports intuitive and easy to use DISC User Interface. The cell phone has 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (240 x 400 pixels with 16 million colors). Beat DJ has 50MB internal memory expandable up to up to 16GB. This 3G compatible handset is priced at Rs 18,990/-.

Samsung is eying the big and growing touch screen mobiles market both in high-end and mid size segments. That is why over the past few months the company has released a wide array of cellphones in different markets including Asia, Europe and Latin America. So far as India is concerned, Samsung seems to be in a mood to invest heavily in the country. Economic Times reports that in this calendar the company plans to invest a whopping $5 million at its manufacturing facility in the country. Moreover, Samsung has plans to launch 2 dozen new models in early 2009 and has made it clear that it is taking up 3G and touch screen segment in a big way.

Microsoft Pink Touch Screen Cellphone Will Compete With iPhone ?

Microsoft the software giant is coming up with a touch screen phone Ppink modeled after its music player Zune just like iPhone was crafted on the lines of iPod. After the wild success of iPhone, many companies have tried and still trying to come up with a touch screen phone that could rival iPhone. Some notable products are HTC Pro, Nokia N96, Blackberry Storm and many more. Some of the cellphones have features that even surpass those in iPhone.

Microsoft Pink project mat well be an attempt in that direction. Although Zune comes nowhere near iPod in terms of sales and popularity, nobody can say for sure how things will turn out when this new touch screen mobile phone is launched early next year (2010).

The company is reportedly in talks with Verizon wireless for the purpose. With Pink Microsoft aims to extend its Windows Mobile operating system by adding new software capabilities. WSJ.com reports that Microsoft may come up with Windows Marketplace for Mobile, an online store for mobile downloads, to rival Apple's App Store. There are also reports that the company will only be involved in design of the device and manufacturing will be in hands of a third party.

Since not many details are available yet, it remains to be seen how Microsoft Pink mobile will be able to compete with the product that has a cult following.

Samsung Launches Two More Touchscreen Cellphones Star S5230 and Preston S5600

These days more and more cellphones with touchscreen are coming up. Every mobile company is bringing up with its own model sporting touchscreen. The stress these days is to enhance the responsiveness and ease of this user interface. Samsung in past has come up with some touchscreen models like S8300 UltraTouch, Sch-W740 Haptic and Pixon M8800 . But it seems like the company sees a huge market for these devices and thus is releasing ever new models. Latest offering by Samsung has two touchscreen phones, Star S5230 and Preston S5600.

Star S5230 and Preston S5600 share some similarities in terms of features like both mobile phones have Samsung’s TouchWiz GUI, accelerometer to flip between portrait and landscape orientations, 3.2 megapixel camera and PMP functionality. But both phone have some unique features of their own so that they are appealing to different customers in global markets.

JK Shin, executive vice president and head of Mobile Communications division at Samsung Electronics says, "Samsung Star and Samsung Preston are significant additions to our full-touch screen mobile portfolio, featuring all the essential functions in one single device."

Samsung Star S5230 supports 2.5G networks. This cellphone boasts of a 3-inch WQVGA display and measures 11.9mm in thickness. The phone has internal storage of 50Mb expandable to 8GB via a memory card slot. Moreover the phone had on-screen QWERTY keyboard. The phone had capability to recognize handwriting. The “Photo Contact” option allows users to call a contact by simply touching an appointed image. The mobile phone comes Soft pink, Snow white and more colors. Company has launched Star S5230 in Europe, Middle East Africa, South East Asia, South West Asia and Latin America. This phone was released in UK with the name of Tocco Lite.

Samsung Preston S5600 supports 3G networks and has 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity. The cellphone comes with 80MB of standard memory expandable to 8GB through memory card. This device has 2.8 inch QVGA screen. Samsung Preston is available in Sweet pink, Snow white, and Charcoal Grey colors. The phone is available in Europe and Asia.

There is no word on pricing yet but the popularity can be gauged by the fact that Samsung has already pre-orders for two million handsets.

Nokia XpressMusic Star Trek Edition Hits UK

Come May 8 and Star Trek fans will flock to see their favourite movie. But this will not the only reason for their excitement. Nokia is all set to release its wildly popular XpressMusic mobile phone Star Trek edition. The phone will have all of the features of the original cellphone plus it will have some custom items that make it irresistible for Star Trak fans.

Nokia XpressMusic Star Trek edition will come with four screensavers, three wallpapers and eight brand new ringtones. What is more, the cellphone will also integrate a Phaser application. The users can choose from blue, red, and black/silver color handsets.

The mobile phone will be exclusively available at Phones 4U from 1 May 2009. The device will also be available through Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile and Orange with the equivalent of a $32.87/month contract.

Nokia XpressMusic comes equipped with a touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and Carl Zeiss Optics. It will also include GPS capabilities and upto 16GB storage space. (Nokia XpressMusic specifications) Source

LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) Cellphone Officially Announced, Specs And Video

The most awaited cellphone from LG, Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) has finally been officially announced and going by specs you can say that it is the smartest mobile phone ever from the company. LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) comes packed with high end features that will leave you gasping for breath.


Most of the mobile companies today are working to put as many high end features as possible in their latest products. And camera is one of the feature the companies are working most on. But still a mobile phone camera has not been able to come at par with a digital camera. Many cellphones have tried to bridge the gap like increasing megapixel muscle like Samsung S8300 UltraTouch, Samsung Pixon M8800. LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) too is a commendable effort from LG in this arena. The handset has a 8 megapixel camera. The camera features an Intelligent Shot Mode that makes it easy to take great pictures by automatically analyzing scenes and adjusting camera settings accordingly. Multi-Face Detection, multiple shooting modes and more features bring it parallel to a standalone digital camera.

LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) has a 3" WVGA touchscreen with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels and DVD quality video recorder. The phone supports A-GPS based geotagging so that your friends can see the exact location where a photo was taken. The new baby from LG boasts of 7.2 Mbps HSDPA network, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. So far as storage goes, the cellphone has a lot of room for all your media files. Viewty Smart has 1.5 GB of on-board memory and also supports MicroSD cards up to 32 GB.

LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) comes with the spectacular 3D S-Class UI that makes maneuvering many controls on the phone a breeze. For instance, an on-screen dial instantly switches shot modes and a thumbnail viewer that shows recently taken photos without having to switch to the photo gallery. There is a very nifty way to zoom in and out. To zoom in, simply move your finger in a clockwise circle on the touchscreen and to zoom out, move the finger in the opposite direction. The same is also possible with multi-touch pinching and stretching. Its 12.4mm thin body make it hard to believe that the cellphone has so many features.

LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) is all ready to hit store shelves in Europe in May and the expectations are that it will leave its predecessor (original Viewty, which has sold 6.5 million units) far behind.

Watch a video of LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900)

BlackBerry Storm 2 Smartphone To Be Released, WiFi Included

There is a buzz that Verizon has given its nod to release the sequel of popular BlackBerry storm touted as iPhone rival. According to SlashGear the BlackBerry Storm 2 will be released sometime in September this year. Being the later version of Storm, the mobile phone have to fulfill exceeding expectations. And if rumors are true, the successor of Storm surely live up to promise.


The new BlackBerry phone will address many shortcomings of previous version. For one, the smartphone is said to be equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity support. Then there are improvements in touchscreen too. BlackBerry Storm 2 will feature a revamped screen and will use the technology called TruePress instead of SurePress. These two major changes makes the new device more Pro-consumer and make it attractive to both both consumers and business users.

Although the full specs and pricing details are still unavailable, one thing is sure that the new BlackBerry Storm will pose a serious competition to the likes of iPhone, HTC and Palm Pre.

BlackBerry Storm Mobile Phone To Be Released In Hong Kong

There is a good news for BlackBerry users in Hong Kong. BlackBerry Storm the wildly popular mobile phone by RIM is all set to be released in Hong Kong. Although no pricing details are available yet, the handset will be released in second quarter sometime. There will be multiple carriers offering the cellphone including 1O1O, 3 Hong Kong, China Mobile , one2free and SmarTone-Vodafone.



The BlackBerry Storm smartphone brings a whole lot of features with it. This phone has a 3.25-inch high resolution (480×360 at 184 ppi) touchscreen display which makes watching videos and pictures on the phone a really good experience. The phone has a built-in media player that is versatile enough to play a wide variety of video and music formats. Being 3G enabled phone BlackBerry Storm supports video streaming, high internet surfing speed, checking emails on the go and more. This handset can be synchronised with iTunes for music content or wirelessly connected (via Bluetooth) to a home stereo using the BlackBerry Music Gateway.

BlackBerry Storm boasts of a very good HTML browser that, combined with the built-in orientation sensor, lets you surf websites in both portrait and landscape modes.

For social networking and chat addicts there are applications for Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, and Flickr.

Samsung S8300 UltraTouch Mobile Phone With 8 MP Camera Released In India

Touchscreen, Camera and 3G capability are three things that have become the essential part of every high end cellphone. Mobile phone companies are constantly innovating these features to woo more customers. Mobile manufacturers are either improving touchscreen or they are honing camera or equipping their handsets with more and more applications that can take advantage of 3G. Samsung has relased a new cellphone in India which has many such innovative features. Samsung S8300 UltraTouch is just out of stable and features world's first Active matrix OLED (AMOLED) display touchscreen phone. AMOLED ensures that the display on the phone is more crisp and fluid.


The 7.1 inch scratch free screen is the most visible feature of the cellphone. This 12.7 mm phone comes with 3X4 slider keypad. One more very powerful feature of S8300 UltraTouch like its cousin Samsung Pixon M8800 is its 8 megapixel (you got it right EIGHT MP) camera which can put some of the digicams to rest forever. The camera boasts of 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, smile shot mode and dual power LED flash support.

Samsung S8300 UltraTouch comes with all goodies that are integral part of 3G like video streaming, video telephony, fast internet surfing. The run of the mill features are also there like music player, FM, games, calendar and support for DivX video player.

Needless to say, the phone with so many advanced features is likely to cost you a bomb. This Samsung mobile phone carries a price tag of Rs 27,500 in India.

LG Arena Smartphone Specifications, Info, Picture

LG Smartphone Arena will be exclusively launched by T-Mobile, UK. The company will be shipping the smartphone in titan black finish. Arena will come with company's Mobile Jukebox application which is a prominent portal for music downloads, news and more. The mobile phone comes with on-board Dolby Mobile 2.0 technology which lets you experience music in virtual surround sound. The phone has a unique cube-based layout which provides four home screens to directly and quickly access all features.

LG Arena (KM900) sports 3-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 480x800 pixels which is ideal for watching video clips on Youtube and other multimedia applications. The phone has innovative 3D S-Class user interface by LG with fingertip control.

The power packed LG Arena comes with a 5-megapixel camera with flash, 8GB inbuilt memory capacity, a FM transmitter, WiFi, a microSDHC card reader, assisted GPS, a 3.5mm audio jack. The cellphone supports are GSM Tri-band, EDGE / UTMS.

Samsung SCH-W740 Haptic Touchscreen Phone With 8 Megapixal Camera Released

Samsung has a released its new Haptic (SCH-W740) mobile phone in Korea. The Haptic, Greek word for 'touch', boasts some of the most advanced camera functoins.

The Samsung Haptic sports of an 8 megapixel camera with functions like xenon flash, autofocus, smile shot, face tagging and different scene modes. The display is a big 3.3 inch touchscreen 480 x 800 resolution. The cellphone is equipped with Samsung's Haptic UI. The device also English recognition function that automatically translates the documents.

The Samsung phone has support for HSPA based 3G network, T-DMB digital TV tuning and has a business card scanner. Other features include a TouchWiz interface, Bluetooth connectivity and support for microSD card slot.

Lenovo X1 Touchscreen Mobile Phone Released In China

Lenovo recently released a new touchscreen cellphone in China. Called Lenovo X1, the latest device from the company sports a slider form factor.

The phone features a 3.2 inch WQVGA display screen with 240 x 432 resolution and a slide out keypad and measures 115mm in length, 12.5mm in thickness and 55mm in width. X1 has got a powerful 3.2 megapixel camera for those amateur photographic moments. Lenovo has equipped this mobile phone with its Touch Dream UI.

As for storage Lenovo X1 sports a microSD card slot which allows users to expand memory up to 8GB and is powered by 800 mAh battery. This phone also features a built-in GPS receiver and supports supports Tri-band GSM EDGE networks.

Reportedly, the phone is priced at 3280 Chinese Yuan.

LG Cookie Touchscreen Mobile Phone Info And Picture

LG Cookie mobile phone can be best described as a touchscreen phone with entertainment and multimedia features packed at an affordable price. This LG baby is great for watching movies, taking pictures, browsing the Internet, playing games, and creating and editing drawings and documents. In other words ensuring the ultimate multimedia experience.

The display of the phone consists of a large 3.0" diagonal touchscreen which is terrific for watching and interacting with all the multimedia content. In Cookie, all the features are accesible at the touch of a screen and features like Drag & Drop, Shaking and Flicking bring even more realism to the experience.

The display is auto rotating which means the image on the screen automatically shifts from narrow to wide mode and vice versa according to the contents. This was the feature much appreciated in iPhone. Handwriting recognition feature make it very easy to send text messages or take necessary notes.

Motion Sensor technology may be the next wave in mobile gaming as it makes the experience of playing game more immersive. This mobile phone from LG utilizes this technology to the hilt with a built-in sensor that recognizes the player's hand movements and reflects them in the game itself. All this stuff comes at unbelievable price. LG cookie costs around 13,000/- in India.

Samsung Pixon M8800 Touchscreen Phone With 8 Megapixel Camera

Samsung has launched its 8 MP touchscreen mobile phone Pixon M8800, the first of its kind in India. The main attraction of the phone is its camera which offers image resolution of 3264x2448 with auto-focus, face-recognition, Wide Dynamic Range, Advance Shake Reduction, GPS geo-tagging support, and WSVGA and VGA video recording at 30fps.

The display consists of the 3.2-inch WQVGA large full touchscreen. M8800 has onscreen QWERTY keyboard. What is more, onscreen handwriting recognition for emailing and messaging make it a breeze to use this phone. This Samsung cellphone supports a wide range of video player formats including DivX, Xvid and mp4. It also sports an advanced Music Player with SRS 3D surround sound.

And now the saddest part, its price. This new born baby comes with a price tag of 28,750/-. Conidering the features, the hefty price is justified.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Smartphone

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 smartphone is the first of the Xperia series by the company. Sony Ericsson mobile phones are known for their stylish convergence of entertainment and functionality. Xperia takes to a new level. This phone runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional as OS and also has support for Java Virtual Machine, thus making it truly open to new games and other applications written for J2ME platform. This is basically an arc slider phone with touchscreen functionality. Slide the screen up and keyboard emerges.

A 3 inch 16-bit color TFT touchscreen with 800x400 resolution forms the display. A 3.2 megapixel digital camera lets you record videos at 30 frames per second in VGA (640x480) quality. A second front camera lets you do video conferencing. Connectivity is provided with wireless LAN 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.1. This 158 grams device has 512 mb internal storage which can be expanded to 32 gigabytes using microSD cards.

With the Xperia series Sony Ericsson has made foray into the arena of Windows Mobile enabled phones which makes it more open to customization a feature that is very crucial so fat longevity of a brand is concerned. This phone is good on both functionality and entertainment fronts.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Touchscreen Mobile Phone

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic marked Nokia's entry into the arena of touchscreen mobile phones. As the name suggests this cellphone emphasizes on music and entertainment features. The popularity of this phone can be estimated by the fact that Nokia one million units of 5800 XpressMusic from October 2008 till late January 2009.

The phone runs on Symbian OS 9.4 with S60 5th edition platform and has 3.2 inch 16:9 widescreen with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels and can display 16 million colors. 5800 XpressMusic sports a powerful 3.2 Megapixels camera with Carl Zeiss AG optics with autofocus and dual-LED flash. The phone has one more camera on the front side to support video calls.

This 109 gram mobile phone supports GSM, EGPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA, A-GPS networks. For connectivity there is Bluetooth 2.0 and WLAN 802.11 b/g. Moreover, this device has ARM 11 369 MHz CPU and 128 MB of SDRAM memory. The phone comes with 8 GB memory card in the box which can be upgraded to 32 GB. The phone offers 400 hours of standby and almost 9 hours of talk time.

The phone offers VGA recording at 30 fps. The touchscreen is of very high quality. Although the Carl Zeizz lens is there, there remains to be a scope for improvement on image quality front. Overall, a terrific mobile phone with lots of features.

Nokia N97 Mobile Phone

Nokia N97 is a very sleek and feature packed touchscreen phone. This is a slider phone running on Symbian OS and S60 platform. The phone supports the cutting edge technologies like 3G and EDGE. N97 sports 3.5 inches TFT Touchscreen with 16 million colours at a resolution of 360x640 pixels. This Nokia baby boasts of a full QWERTY keyboard which makes input very easy.

The phone has all the desired multimedia features like video recording, multimedia messaging, video calls (at front 0.3 megapixels camera is there), radio, music player and more. What is more, this cellphone has 5.0 megapixels camera with f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Tessar lens. The phone has a built in browser which lets you surf the world wide web and also email software to let you write mails from your phone itself.

The 150 grams phone has talk time of upto 400 minutes and standby time of upto 430 hours. Nokia N97 has maximum memory of 32 GB and you can also add a Micro SD card which can go upto 16GB. Moreover, this phone has Bluetooth 2.0 and Java support built in. Surely, it is one of the most advanced cellphone from Nokia stable. The phone will cost $499.

Update June 4, 2009 : Nokia N97 release date has been announced. The touch screen phone from Finnish cellphone maker will be officially available by Friday 19 June, 2009. We got a video that shows the new mobile phone being assembled at the factory.