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The Nokia X2 is one of the latest mobile phones in Nokia’s range of cheap mobile phones. It features a sleek candy bar design with a 2.2 inch graphics display and comes in a choice of black/red or silver/blue combinations. The phone is lightweight and slim line, weighing only 81 grams and measuring 111 by 47 by 13 mm.

As far as Nokia mobile phones go, this one is tailored to the music crowd. It comes with an FM radio, 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, and two powerful speakers. One touch keys make accessing music easy and free songs are offered via the Nokia Music Store.

Also included on the Nokia X2 is a 5 megapixel camera (for 2592 x 1544 pixel resolution) with LED flash, digital zoom, and video recorder. Photos can be uploaded via Nokia Ovi Share and email.

Internal memory for the X2 is 48 MB, which is expandable to 16 GB via microSD. High speed USB 2.0 and stereo Bluetooth connectivity make for fast and easy transfer of data. The phone also supports SyncML. Web browsing is via EDGE-enhanced GPRS via the Opera Mini browser.

Other essential applications included with the X2 include a 1000 entry phonebook, calendar, calculator, currency converter, world clock, flight mode, note pad, speaker phone/voice recorder, timer, and vibrate mode. It doesn’t include a document/ PDF reader. Several pre-installed games are also included.

Currently available in India for $113, it is expected to hit the UK soon at a price of around £80.

The Sony Ericsson W705 is available through many internet mobile phone dealers. This is ideal for those wanting to compare mobile phone reviews before purchasing. The deals often include free handsets or even free gifts.

Before you start looking at mobile phone deals you need to work out your average usage and set a budget. Starting out on the wrong tariff can mean either large unnecessary bills if you regularly go over your included free talk time, or alternatively, starting on a higher tariff can mean paying out too much in line rental if you do not use all of your free entitlement.

The good news with the Sony Ericsson W705 is that it is available on all price plans from the lowest and most basic option, like the Virgin Mobile 18 month contract. For £10.00 per month you get a free handset, 100 minutes of free talk time and 100 free text messages.

O2 are currently offering the W702 as a free handset on their 18 month contract with the higher monthly price plan of £30.00 per month. Included in this option are 300 free minutes of voice calls and 3000 text messages. This is also available with the gift of an 8GB iPod Nano.

Some companies like to offer gifts as a way of enticing a sale, but if the rest of the plan is not suitable for you, then you may find you are spending money unnecessarily.

Mobile phone reviews really don’t seem to like this addition to the Nokia mobile phones family; so is the Nokia X6 really an awful piece of kit or is it just misunderstood and a lot better than it was first perceived? The mobile phone news desks were buzzing when this phone was first released, it is a touchscreen phone and it does look good. The screen has been given precedence and reaches right to the edges of the casing. The Nokia X6 does not offer up a stylus, so you have to be comfortable with using your fingertips or get yourself a separate one, but this is then a pain to carry around.

Menus are typical to the Nokia brand, so if you have seen one of their newer phones you will have seen the menu for the Nokia X6. We have to say we too have mixed feelings about this handset. Clearly a contender for contract mobile phone, what concerns us is that you are going to be sick of this phone well before the contract is up for renewal and then sadly be stuck with it until such time as your contract runs out. It does have all the key functionality, GPS, Bluetooth, a camera and video, but this isn’t really what causes the gripes. It is the functionality that is going to irritate people; it is just hard to use, a bit clunky and awkward. It is sad to say that this phone could have been a market leader, it was definitely pointing in the right direction, but sadly it falls just too far short of the mark.

The Nokia 5130 is an entry level XpressMusic mobile phone. This device provides users with the functionality that has made these mobile phones so popular, but without the large price tag.

If you were to compare mobile phones, the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic is fairly average in size. This mobile phone is 107.5 mm long by 46.7 mm wide and it is 14.8 mm thick. The overall weight of the Nokia 5130 is 88 grams. With a talk time of up to 6 hours, the battery power is impressive.

The Nokia 5130 XpressMusic includes a built in Stereo FM radio that includes support for RDS. This mobile phone supports a variety of popular music formats, including MP3, AAC+, and WMA. In order to easily access music on this mobile phone, the Nokia 5130 includes dedicated music keys.

Nokia has also included a basic 2 megapixel camera with the 5130 XpressMusic. This camera is capable of capturing video clips. Other useful features that can be found on this mobile phone include an organiser and voice memo.

For users who may want to store a large quantity of music and photos on their Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, there is a microSD expansion slot that supports cards up to 16 gigabytes in size. To get users started, Nokia has included a 1 gigabyte card in the box.

Certain networks are providing customers who purchase the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic with a variety of free gifts. These gifts range from cash back to Playstation 3 bundles. There are numerous Nokia 5130 deals available that vary in contract length and cost in order to accommodate the majority of users.

The Apple iPhone 3GS is a tweaked version of the iPhone 3G, with Apple engineering the internal workings rather than completely redesigning the handset. The result is a faster phone available with either an 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB hardrive. Its faster data speeds mean that the camera and video functions give excellent photo and video rendering.

Greater speed is the main improvement on the 32GB; this has been one of the main criticisms of all the smart phones and was particularly true of the iPhone. The system and applications now boot up more quickly and game players will certainly notice the difference when playing on the 3GS.

They have also increased the specification of the camera to three mega pixels. Though it is not top of the range it works well when used with its other features such as auto focus, macro shooting and an easily adjustable on-screen focusing system. The inbuilt video is also an excellent improvement, which is simple to use, with a built in editing facility making downloading to sites like YouTube fast and painless.

While things like the on board compass may seem a bit pointless, when used with the maps application its rotating direction finder will make getting lost difficult for even the most hard pressed of directionally challenged people.

Although they have included a better battery and power system, the Apple iPhone still uses a lot of battery power and heavy apps users may find this frustrating. You can close off 3G to save power, but that then defeats the point of having it in the first place. This is a good phone for first time iPhone users but it is debatable whether it is worth the upgrade quite yet.  If you are interested look for some Apple iPhone 3GS deals, they are around.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is Nokia’s first full touchscreen device and is one of the high-end phones in the XpressMusic range. This is a 3G smartphone made to compete with the iPhone. As you would expect from Nokia the handset is a sleek, stylish design with a clear, large, high-resolution 640 x 360 pixels screen. The screen makes using the interface a whole lot easier and is responsive to finger touch, stylus or plectrum. It also has a full virtual QWERTY keyboard and a handwriting recognition system to make communication simple.

Where the Nokia excels is with its camera and music system. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic uses proper camera technology and incorporates a Carl Zeiss lens, auto focus and LED flash. The video camera produces 30 frames per second and has full stereo sound, and the front mounted camera makes video conferencing possible.

It also includes an excellent music player with an easy to use interface, 8-band graphic EQ and headphone jack. Along with this comes an 8GB memory card, which can hold up to 2,000 mp3 tunes, with the option of upgrading to a 16GB if necessary.

Its superior download capacity means that using the browser you can easily watch clips from YouTube or MySpace without any jerky movements, and its Wi-Fi capacity makes logging on at the nearest hot spot simple.

Utilising all the positives from iPhone technology without being another hybrid clone, Nokia have included all the things you have come to expect from them and put them to good use with their latest model.

The newest Walkman phone in the range of Sony Ericsson mobile phones is, like its predecessor, the W580, intended as a music phone; that’s its whole reason for existing. It’s an improvement on the old model, adding 3.5G into the mix, making uploading and downloading decidedly faster.

In many ways, however, it’s not a great improvement on the W580. As before, the Walkman button transports the user to the music manager, which is a good, clean interface that’s easy to use. The screen itself is exceptionally bright and sharp, and the audio quality is everything that Sony Ericsson aims to deliver.

A 2GB M2 card comes with the phone for content, but, really, it needs to be much larger; anyone truly serious about music is going to want more storage than that. Also why, oh why, didn’t the company build in a 3.5mm headphone jack? Instead you need to use the proprietary jack that’s supplied, and even if it does allow two pairs of headphones to be plugged in to share music, it’s still not good enough.

The camera is adequate, but without autofocus or flash, it lacks two important items. That said, web browsing is very fast, given the HSDPA, and it’s very simple and quick to upload videos.

Ultimately, the Sony Ericsson just doesn’t quite cut the mustard as a fully-fledged music phone. There are better Sony Ericsson mobile phone offerings in this field. Really, this is a phone on which you can play a few tunes and take a few pictures – a mobile phone with some extras – and nothing more.