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Nokia N8 : An Impressive Phone

Nokia has come out with their newest version of their Smartphone, the Nokia N8. Its dimensions are pretty typical for a smartphone and it weighs less than 140 grams. Incredibly, the Nokia 8′s battery can give you up to 6 hours of talking time on any 3G network. It also features 16 standby days and it can also do up to 7 hours of media playback or 50 hours of digital music playback. You can get the Nokia N8 in a variety of colors including: green, blue, orange, silver white and dark gray. More than likely, Nokia will come out with limited editions colors at some point in the future.

The Nokia 8 features the most advanced smartphone software thanks to their operating system, the Symbian^3. There are also great gains in their multi-touch functions such as flick scrolling and pinch zoom in and zoom out. You can also tailor your Nokia N8 Smartphone more to your personality thanks to the many different software applications and add-ons that are now available.

The user interface is speedy thanks to the 3D and 2D graphics architecture that uses the N8′s hardware acceleration to its fullest. The Symbian^3 OS also allows multiple tasks to be running at once with no slow down thanks to the improved memory management system.

The Nokia N8 not only features great sound quality when it comes to talk time, but you are also looking at your very own personal entertainment center. It offers Hi-Definition video along with Dolby Digital Plus sound that can easily be plugged into your home entertainment system. From there, you can do all sorts of things, whether it is accessing the Internet and watching programs on websites like Hulu, or if it is accessing your music and using your Nokia N8 as your own personal DJ, you can definitely get the party started and keep it going all night long with your Nokia N8 smartphone.

No matter what services are important to you, it will know how best to connect to them. You can download apps from the Ovi Store, watch TV with the Web TV feature, and log onto social networking sites that you find important to you. You can even take fantastic pictures and video with the help of the 12 megapixel camera, which features a Xenon flash, a better sensor than most digital cameras have, and Carl Zeiss optics, and you can even take HD quality video and edit them from the phone itself.

When it comes to social networking sites, the Nokia N8 is your perfect gateway. You can tell people what you are up to and share your photos via Twitter and Facebook, also catching up with what other people are doing at the same time. You can synchronize your calendar with the phone’s calendar, so you are apprised of all manner of events. When you get the Nokia N8, you get the Ovi Maps GPS navigation, allowing you to get wherever you want quickly without getting lost.

Motorola Milestone XT720 : An Impressive Phone

The new Motorola Milestone XT720 is the company’s latest effort to revamp the Milestone model. One of the most noticeable features missing is the slide-out QWERTY keypad, which allowed the device to shave about 3mm off of its depth (though the other dimensions and weight remain about the same). While an addition of a QWERTY keyboard is a desired feature on some phones, it did not function all that well on the original Milestone, so it might actually be an improvement. The 1390 mAH battery will deliver an impressive thirteen days of standby time and an average 4.5 hours of talk time on a single charge.

If compared to the Google Nexus One or the HTC Desire, the Milestone XT720 pales in comparison in terms of power and processing time. However, it is hard to compare those devices, because the XT720 is simply in a separate price tier. The XT720 is much more affordable than those phones. All things considered, the device packs a punch in terms of processing power for the money – a 500 MHZ processor with 256 MB of RAM.

Motorola did keep the original Milestone’s 3.7″ 854 x 480 pixel display, so the XT720 does come with one of the best displays around. Its TFT panel is slightly less bright than the OLED display featured on the HTC Desire, but the XT720 does have a higher resolution. There is also a distinct advantage over the OLED screen when you are outside, since the TFT screen of the XT720 is easier to see in natural light.

The Motorola Milestone XT720‘s camera functions also saw major advancements over the earlier version. In fact, so much attention went into this aspect of the smartphone that the device resembles a digital camera more than it does a phone. The Xenon flash and auto-focus will help the user snap great images on the new 8 megapixel camera, which is located on the camera’s back. Users can also use the camera to capture 720 x 480 pixel videos. Motorola included a handy DVI port to easily play back videos and other media on a high definition TV.

Motorola supplied the Milestone XT720 with the Android 2.1 OS. This means you can have complete access to all the Android applications and any other apps, such as Google, to download to your phone to make your life easier. There is a significant improvement to the internet function which makes checking email and social media sites a lot easier. It can support the following formats such as, MP3 or your music, WMA or music and video files, AMR, MPEG4, AAC and ACC. Your Milestone can also be used as an FM radio which makes it a complete multipurpose tool. For the price and the specifications, the Motorola Milestone XT720 is the perfect buy!

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 : An Impressive Phone

When you get this new phone from Sony Ericsson, you will find that it runs extremely quickly, thanks to the 1GHz Snapdragon processor and the Android 1.6 OS from Google. With the help of the innovative new “Timescape” feature, you can look up every single bit of information you need to know about your friends, including their contact information, status updates on social networking sites, as well as emails, texts and messages you have had with them, all in one handy place. Accessing the data you want on a cell phone has never been easier.

The large 4″ screen is sure to excite anyone who loves the touchscreen features inherent in most smart phones today. The 854×480 resolution and 256k colors make any words on the screen readable, even if the font is small. You also have the ability to handle the phone however you like, as it will automatically flip between landscape and portrait modes. No longer will you have to fear dropping the phone, thanks to the scratch resistant surface.

If you love taking pictures, you will absolutely adore the 8 megapixel phone that comes with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. What’s more, the incredible LED flash and autofocus features will make your pictures turn out better than ever, and you can enhance them with image stabilization. Those of you who love media will also find a lot to like about the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.

With the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, you get the ability to play just about every music and video format you can think of, from WMV to AAC, and even MP3 and MP4 files. The 1GB of internal memory may not seem like much, but when you expand it with the 16GB microSD card slot, you can just about fit all the media you could ever possess on this small, amazing device.

The UX platform, known as User Experience, is a brand new user interface that comes with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. It makes full use of the hardware features of the phone in order to bring everything together into an intuitive, easy to use operating system that gives you access to everything this phone has to offer at a glance. The Android OS powers this UX interface, and you will find a lot of powerful Google apps, such as Maps and YouTube, already installed with the phone.

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