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MOBILE PHONES
You Would Love to Have!
Want a mobile phone that makes you stand out in a crowd? Here we’ve put
together some top models in fashion phones, music phones, smartphones and
luxury phones. Check them out and take your pick!
UMA BANSAL
M
ake and receive calls
is what all the mo-
bile phones do. But we
all have different
tastes, different priori-
ties and different requirements, and
hence the different models that we
yearn for. For instance, while music
aficionados amongst us will be bowled
Fashion phones
Echo your style!
Nokia 5610 XpressMusic phone Mobile phones today are fashion
accessories too. After all, you carry
Dimensions 99.8×50.6×13.7 mm/ — 103×53×11.9 mm 112×45×11 mm 109×43.9×14.4 12.9mm thick 10.6mm thick 102×47.8×14.9 mm 104×46×12.5 mm
105×46×9.9 mm mm
Style/ Cool slider/barphone, World’s first LCD With precision Sleek liquorice- Diamond-cut Slim slider phone Claimed to be Metallic finish Inspired by the
cool factor sporting a titanium- full touch-screen craftsmanship, black face with a design. Slick with artistically world’s slider phone that nature, T650i
finish metal body with phone with a stainless steel cool anodised black exterior designed metal slimmest combines design, features custom
2-megapixel auto- 5-megapixel frame and large aluminium spliced with lining body slide-up photography effects that come
focus camera camera external display, reverse-side, a playful offering loads metallic phone and multimedia alive with technology
certified by RAZR2 V8 is which is intricately burst of bright of high-end desktop animations
Schneider Kreuznach strong and sleek coin-stamped and accentcolour multimedia linked to light effects
laser-etched in features on the keypad
Nokia Prism’s
signature
diamond-cut
design
Camera 2-megapixel 5-megapixel 2-megapixel 2-megapixel 2-megapixel 3-megapixel 2-megapixel 5-megapixel 3.2-megapixel
auto-focus camera camera with camera, multishot camera with flash camera with camera with camera camera with camera with 3x
certified by manual focus capabilities and and 8x digital high-quality dynamic user auto focus digital zoom and
Schneider Kreuznach and 120fps approximately zoom movies interfaces auto focus, video
video recording 120 minutes of recording recording
function video capability
Music — — Windows Stereo music FM stereo radio FM radio FM radio and MP3/AAC/AAC+/ MP3/AAC media
capabilities Media Player 11 player for MP3, and can play MP3 player e-AAC+/WMA player
AAC, eAAC+ music for 8.5 player, stereo
and WMA hours and hold FM radio,
up to 1500 songs music library
on an optional
2GB microSD card
Memory Expandable up to — Available in 1GB internal 30MB internal — 70MB internal 55MB internal —
1 GB (Micro SD card) internal memory memory user memory memory with memory/
of 512 MB or and supports expandable expandable
2 GB up to 2GB microSD T flash memory: micro SD
microSD external memory Flash (512 MB)
memory card (up to 2 GB)
Screen/ 5.6cm (2.2-inch) 7.6cm (3-inch) 5.6cm 320x240 Organic LED 16.7 million true Vivid 262k Full mirror 16-million colour 262,144-colour TFT,
display wide mirror LCD full LCD 262k colours, light display that colours, colour screen LCD/5.6cm QVGA TFT LCD 240×320-pixel,
touch screen 5cm 320×240 supports up to 240×320-pixel wide TFT LCD (2560×1920 4.8cm (1.9-inch),
with 262k colours 16 million colours display screen pixels), scratch-proof
handwriting and displays light- 5.6 cm screen
editing function focused
screensaver
graphics. Living
wallpaper that
subtly alters
throughout the day
according to time
as well as battery
and signal strength,
so that each
display is unique
System GPRS and EDGE HSDPA 3.6 high- GSM Quad, Dual-band 3G and Tri-band — — Quad-band (850/ Bluetooth and
and network compatibility, speed Internet EDGE Class 12, quad-band GSM EGSM 900, 900/1800/1900 triband technology
connectivity Bluetooth (with A2DP) capability to GPRS Class 12, system, GPRS GSM 1800/1900, MHz)/EDGE, with UMTS 2100,
and USB connectivity YouTube MicroUSB 2.0 multislot class GPRS multislot bluetooth USB support
high speed for 32 and EGPRS class 10 and
fast data transfer multislot class 32, EGPRS multislot
and class 2, and Bluetooth, class 10,
version 2.0 MicroUSB OTG Bluetooth,
Bluetooth and uPnP USB, uPnP
wireless connectivity
technology
Others Unique applications A jog wheel Over-the-air Push e-mail with Push email, Bluetooth stereo Mobile printing, Mobile tracker, E-mail, MMS,
like Yogasanas for placed on the synchronisation attachments, MMS, voice headset, document Emergency SMS 3D games,
health-conscious back of the of e-mail, personalisation of messages, etc enhanced viewer, mobile Alert, Privacy lock illumination
people, E2E dictionary, handset allows phonebook and light effects with battery life and tracker, privacy TV-output/Offline effects
E-mail and Document for quick scrolling calendar, Linux 49 colours to speedy shutter, lock Mode
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Price Rs 12,490 for slider/ Rs 22,000 Rs 16,239 for Rs 20,000 Rs 11,389 Rs 14,899 Rs 11,499 Rs 18,999 Rs 19,365
Rs 8290 for bar 2GB model, and approx.
Rs 14,559 for
512MB model
Note: While every precaution has been taken to ensure accuracy and adequate information in this table, EFY assumes no responsibility and disclaims all liability for damages resulting from use of this information or for
any errors or omissions. Also, prices may vary from dealer to dealer and change with time.
your phone around everywhere, mak- number of ‘world first features.’ With mest slider phone with high-end mul-
ing it your style statement. More and a manual option, the camera focus can timedia features. For a sophisticated
more handset manufacturers are be set on any point at your conve- look, the SGH E840 uses premium ma-
partnering with designers to gain the nience giving a perfect picture every terials like tempered glass and metal.
fashion edge. time. When taking photos in poor light Check out the table for phones that
The Nokia Prism collection is a case or shaking moment, you can also ben- make unique style statements.
in point. These sophisticated phones efit from ISO800, SmartLight and one-
with unconventional designs are de- touch image stabiliser for bright and Music phones
signed to appeal to the independent clear pictures. Rock your world!
woman. Sharp-angled lines, geometric Once a picture has been taken, you Having a music player in your mo-
pattern and graphic light-refracting can instantly view and edit the image bile phone is really comfortable. With
colours make these handsets stand out. on the 7.6cm (3-inch) full LCD touch just one device you can make calls,
And just because you are getting screen with its handwriting editing send messages and most importantly
more fashion for your money doesn’t function before it’s sent to the others listen to your music.
mean you are sacrificing performance. to share that special moment. The full Mobile phone makers are going
Combining sensational style with high screen of Viewty will enable you to that extra mile to make music on the
functionality, LG’s Viewty with 5- enjoy high-quality DivX video files in go a lot more exciting. For instance,
megapixel camera claims to boast a wide-screen format. Sony Ericsson has come up with W580i
Samsung is in no way be- Walkman phone with shake control.
hind. It claims to have That means you can change the song
launched the world’s slim- by just shaking the phone.
The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic uses
an iconic slider key to make music easy
to access with a flick of the thumb.
What’s more, it can play music for up
to 22 hours and store up to 3000 songs
on an optional 4GB microSD card.
The checklist for a perfect MP3
phone is:
1. Memory cards extension slot,
type, maximum capacity
2. Synchronisation with PC, music
upload, additional software. Files can
be transferred from the PC to the
LG 5-megapixel Viewty fashion phone
phone either through USB port or in-
Music player Integrated MP3 Windows Integrated music Music playback Music playback MP3 player and FM radio with Music playback up to
and FM radio player with up to Media Player 10 player and FM radio up to 22 hours and up to 18 hours and auto-tune auto tuning and 20 hours. By shaking
14 hours of play FM radio FM radio FM radio music wheel key the phone, you
time and built-in change the song.
FM radio receiver FM radio
Memory Removable memory 64 MB of on-board 20MB on-board user Capacity for Capacity for 128MB flash — Store up to
card slot for up to user memory and memory, plus external 3000 songs on an up to 3000 songs on memory and 900 songs with
2GB; dynamic user a removable microSD memory card optional 4GB an optional 4GB 1GB MicroSD 1GB memory card
memory of 8 MB MicroSD memory slot for up to 2 GB of microSD card microSD card external in eAAC+ format,
card slot for up to music, pictures and memory and 12MB user free
2 GB of music, other media (memory memory
pictures and card optional in
other media some markets)
Screen/display 6cm (2.4-inch) 320×240 176×220 5.6cm (2.2-inch), 5cm (2-inch) QVGA Internal 3.5cm, 262,144-colour 5cm (2.0-inch)
240×320 262k-colour resolution 262k 5cm (2-inch) 16 million colour screen with up to 176×65 resolution, TFT main screen QVGA 262K
TFT with touch colour TFT 262k-colour TFT display 16 million colours 65,536-colour TFT (176×220 pixels) TFT screen
window display LCD and external
5.6cm, 176×220-
resolution, 262,
144-colour TFT LCD
System, GSM triband and High Speed Quad-band (GSM/ Quadband GSM and Tri-band EGSM, PC Studio 3.0 to Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.0, Java
connectivity GPRS Class 10 band, USB 2.0 and GPRS Class dualband WCDMA, Bluetooth 2.0 and sync with your technologyand MIDP 2.0, Full HTML
HTML browser, stereo Bluetooth 10/EDGE Class 10), and Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 computer, USB 2.0 GPRS Class 10 Browser with RSS,
Bluetooth wireless Mini-USB, A2DP local/remote over- for high-speed data (4+1/3+2 slots) Instant messaging,
technology, hi-speed Stereo Class 2 the-air (OTA) transmission, USB mass storage,
USB 2.0 EMU, 3.5mm Bluetooth wireless synchronisation with Bluetooth for POP3/IMAP4 e-mail,
stereo jack technology, USB 1.1, SyncML, local effortless and quick enabled for Java
PC sync, Motosynch, synchronisation with connections to push mail
mobile phone tools, PC using Nokia PC networks and useful
PTT/PTV Suite, Micro USB peripheral devices
connector with USB including A2DP/
2.0 Full Speed, and AVRCP headsets
2.5mm AV connector
Camera 2-megapixel CMOS 2-megapixel 2.0-megapixel fixed- 3.2-megapixel 2-megapixel 2MP built-in 2-megapixel 2-megapixel camera
camera with macro camera focus camera with camera with camera with camera with camera with high-speed
mode, 8x digital 8x digital zoom, autofocus, dual LED 4x digital zoom 4x digital zoom (5x digital zoom) UMTS support for
zoom and PC landscape and flash and up to picture blogging
webcam portrait viewfinder 8x digital zoom
modes
Note: While every precaution has been taken to ensure accuracy and adequate information in this table, EFY assumes no responsibility and disclaims all liability for damages resulting from use of this information or for
any errors or omissions. Also, prices may vary from dealer to dealer and change with time.
frared/Bluetooth. The latter takes 5. Supported music file formats. away with the wires altogether.
much longer than using a cable. Most phones can read MP3, AAC and 9. FM-radio and its quality
3. Media player features. The me- WAV files. Other formats could in- 10. Handset’s life time with net-
dia players support creation of clude OGG and MP4 (usually a little work part turned off under conditions
playlists and display of tracks’ info, on the expensive side). of constant music playback
taken from file tags. While working in 6. Comfortable earphones and
background mode, they may show in- 3.5mm jack for them. The 3.5mm Luxury phones
formation on the current playing song socket is universal to most media play- Exude elegance!
and its position in playlist. Also, on ers. So in case you have a problem with Complete with precious stones and
incoming call, playback is paused and the earphone pair bundled with the titanium and liquid metal components,
continued from the moment it was phone, you can use your own. luxury phones are a status symbol and
paused at when conversation is over. 7. External control keys and remote part of fashion accessories for the rich.
4. Additional media player fea- control The USP of these handsets are:
tures—expansion of stereo-base, 8. Support for Bluetooth v2.0 with 1. Craftsmanship
equalisers, original technologies for A2DP compatibility, so you can use a 2. Casing constructed of finest ma-
making sound quality better. wireless Bluetooth headset and do terials like titanium or premium gold
Weight 140 gm with 128 gm with 120 gm with 115 gm 115 gm 134 gm 210 gm 145 gm — 96 gm 124 gm
battery battery battery
Battery Rechargeable 1200 mAh 1120 mAh 1130 mAh 1170 mAh 1100 mAh BP-4L — — Li-ion 1120 mAh
Li-ion polymer
battery, capacity
1050 mAh
Talktime/ Up to 7 hours/ 5 hours/ GSM: 5 hours/ 4 hours/ 5 hours/8 days — 5 hours/14 days — — 5 hours/ —
standby 175 hours 200 hours 180 hours; 200 hours 200 hours
UMTS: 3 hours/
250 hours
Processor/ TI’s OMAP 850, TI OMAP 850 Qualcomm — — — — 624MHz Intel NVIDIA — —
CPU 201MHz MSM 7200, Xscale GoForce
400 MHz PXA 270 5500
processor graphics
processing
unit (GPU)
and Intel
CPU
Platform/OS Microsoft Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Windows S60 platform 3.1 Microsoft — Windows Symbian
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile 6 Windows Mobile 6.0 Mobile 6 edition Symbian Windows Mobile 6 operating
6 Standard Mobile 6 Professional Mobile 5.0 Standard OS V9.2, Java Mobile 6 system V9.1
Edition MIDP 2.0
Memory ROM: 128MB ROM 128MB/ ROM 256MB/ Mini-SD 128MB Flash/ External 2GB 128MB free 1GB of onboard 2GB ROM 128MB 512 MB memory
RAM: 64 MB RAM 64MB RAM 128MB removable 64 MB RAM, MicroSD card memory for user Flash ROM and and 128MB internal stick Micro (M2)
SDRAM SDRAM memory card MiniSD data and 64MB RAM for RAM of memory, exapndable
slot applications enhanced onboard 2GB external memory and
expandable up to performance memory memory, 1 160MB user
2GB with micro memory slot, memory
SD memory card Micro SD (internal)
storage types
Screen/display 6cm (2.4-inch) 7cm (2.8-inch), 6.6cm 6cm 6cm (2.4-inch) 6cm (2.4-inch), Inner: Active 262k-colour 9cm 65,536- 6.6cm
transmissive LCD QVGA (2.6-inch), (2.4-inch), 240×320 TFT, 240×320 pixels, matrix colour 7cm (3.6-inch) colour, (2.6-inch) touch
with white LED resolution, TFT-LCD with 320×240 65k colours 65k TFT display (800×352 (2.7-inch) TFT TFT VGA 240×320- screen with a
back light 240×320 pixels, backlight LED, 65k TFT pixels), 16 million QVGA LCD LCD pixel TFT transflective
65K colours touch-sensitive true colours; screen, display
screen Outer: Active 262K
matrix colour colours
display (240×320 at 480×640
pixels), 16 million dots
true colours resolution
Network GSM/GPRS/ — Dual mode CDMA Quad-band GSM quad- GSM quad-band — — EDGE, —
EDGE Quad-band HSDPA/UMTS: network GSM/GPRS/ band, (850/900/1800/ GPRS,
module (850/900/ 2100MHz GSM/ EDGE UMTS 2100 1900) MHz GSM,
1800/1900MHz) GPRS/EDGE: (Europe), UMTS HSDPA (3G),
Tri-band 900, 850/1900 (NA), Service 900,
1800 and HSDPA, 3.6 1800, 1900
1900MHz Mbps, EDGE/
GPRS class
Connectivity Bluetooth 2.0, Bluetooth v2.0 Bluetooth V2.0, Bluetooth Bluetooth 1.2 MicroUSB 2.0 Integrated WLAN, HSDPA and 3G, wireless Bluetooth UMTS and
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 w/A2DP and HTC ExtUSB wireless including A2DP, full speed, WLAN: 802.11b, 3.5G-enabled, LAN, V2.0 with wireless LAN
b/g, HTC ExtUSB AVRCP, USB, (11-pin mini- technology USB 1.1 full Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11g*, WLAN built-in Bluetooth A2DP, Wi-Fi (WiFi), Bluetooth
(11-pin mini-USB WiFi 802.11g USB and audio which takes speed Exchange security: WPA2- Bluetooth and V2.0, USB (WLAN) 2.0 infrared
and audio jack in jack in one) advantage of Server Active Enterprise, wireless LAN OTG USB 1.1 modem USB
one) Motorola’s Sync WPA2-Personal, (on-the-go) support
line of WPA-enterprise, technology
Bluetooth WPA-Personal;
accessories, WLAN quality of
USB and service: WMM, U-
IrDA APSD, Mini USB,
USB 2.0 full-
speed, Bluetooth
wireless
technology 2.0,
2.5mm Nokia A/V
connector with
ECI, Infrared
(up to 115 kbps)
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Camera 2-megapixel — Primary: 2.0- 1.3-megapixel 1.3MP fixed Video and still 3.2-megapixel 2.0-megapixel 2.0- 2MP camera 3.2-megapixel
CMOS imaging megapixel camera with focus/flash image capture camera with flash camera with megapixel with 4x camera with
sensor CMOS colour photo lighting LED with 2.0 MP and autofocus macro flash for camera digital zoom auto focus,
camera; camera and QCIF camera for on-the-go photo and video 3x digital zoom
Secondary: LED flash video calling taking, a recording. and video
CIF CMOS secondary VGA Also second recording/
colour camera camera for camera streaming/
video calls viewing
Music Player/ Built-in — — Audio formats MP3, WMA, Windows FM radio, music FM radio tuner — FM radio, Bluetooth stereo
FM radio microphone and supported: AAC, WAV, Media Player player (MP3, with RDS Audio player (A2DP) media
3-in-1 speaker; iMelody, MIDI, Windows AAC), Realplayer function AAC, eAAC, player, FM radio
Headphone: MP3, AAC, media player (streaming audio, MP3 RDS
AMR/AAC/WAV/ WAV, WMA, video and MP4
WMA/MP3 codec WAX, QCELP video files)
Bundled — Outlook Mobile, Microsoft Office Optimised for Compatible Opera/IE QuickOffice tools More than 25 Microsoft Calculator, Business card
Applications Office Mobile Outlook Mobile, Microsoft with multiple mobile, with editors, software Office calendar, scanning, push
(Word, Excel, Microsoft Office Exchange corporate push SMS, MMS, maps application applications Programs for reminders, e-mail support,
Powerpoint), Mobile 2003 email e-mail options, Outlook, Good for location-based bundled, Windows currency VoIP support,
Adobe (Microsoft solutions that including Mobile services, Nokia including O2 Mobile, converter, POP3, IMAP4,
Reader (PDF), Office Excel enable a Windows Messaging, Office Tools 1.1 Connect, O2 Microsoft voice including IMAP
IE Mobile, Mobile, broad set of Mobile direct Qwerty keypad, (including Active SMS Plus and Office recording, IDLE Opera web
Windows PowerPoint corporate push preloaded notes), VoIP 2.1, O2 Phone Plus, Outlook document browser 8.0
Media Player Mobile, Word e-mail technology, applications to Download! Microsoft Office Mobile with viewer, VPN client from
10 Mobile, Mobile), capabilities Document protect your Application to Outlook Mobile, Direct Push uTrack, etc Certicom, Mobile
PocketMSN, Windows Media viewer/Editor, files get more ActiveSync, Technology, TV-H.264
Activesync, Player 10 SMS, MMS, applications, Direct Push Adobe playback
Comm Mobile, IM, Outlook Support for Nokia Technology for Reader and
Manager, Windows Intellisync Mobile e-mail popular
Internet Live, Adobe Suite, WorldMate, stalwart
Sharing, Reader LE, Wireless applications
Sprite Backup, SIM Manager, Presenter and like O2 SMS
Audio Comm Global Race Plus, O2
Manager, FM Manager, Audio Menu, O2
Radio, Manager, Audio MediaPlus,
CE-Star (via Booster, Worldmate
web Network and
download), Wizard, Codewallet
MapKing R12 Cyberon Voice Pro
application Commander,
software and TouchFlo,
maps, Camera Album,
network HTC Home,
wizard Large Start
Menu, Task
Manager, Zip,
Flash Lite
Player, RSS
Hub (CD),
Sprite Backup
(CD), GPRS
Monitor (CD)
Price (Rs) 14,900 23,000 29,900 19,999 17,359 20,720 40,499 34,990 39,990 — 23,395
Note: While every precaution has been taken to ensure accuracy and adequate information in this table, EFY assumes no responsibility and disclaims all liability for damages resulting from use of this information or for
any errors or omissions. Also, prices may vary from dealer to dealer and change with time.