Review: Sony Ericsson S312 mobile phone- A true Gadget

With a cheap phone, people often assume that it is probably put together with Blu-tack and sticky tape. Sony Ericsson has other ideas with a full-featured champagne phone for lemonade money.

The S312 comes with not a lot of accessories. In fact, the small box only contains the handset, a battery, a charger and the manual. It is a quite attractive device and feels light enough, measuring 100 by 46 by 12.5mm. It weighs 80.1g so light in the trouser department. The phone's battery gives eight hours talk time and 400 hours on standby.

The 2-inch display has a resolution of 176 by 220 pixels. It is quite shiny, in fact shiny enough to use as a mirror should you so wish. Underneath the keypad looks like not a a millimetre has been wasted. The navigational key is rather nifty and the call control and quick launch buttons are easy to use.

As usual on the side of the phone is the proprietary connector. Personally we can't wait for this to be phased out when USB becomes the norm. It really takes away from the look of the phone.

This quad-band phone also sports a 2-megapixel camera that can record video as well. This can be controlled by buttons on the right-hand side of the phone. There is also an LED flash.

Add to that a music player that can play a variety of formats including, MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA, and you start to realise that this cheap phone packs a little more punch than you would expect. The music functions are a little bit more difficult to use than on specialist Walkman phones. You would have to go out and buy headphones as an extra. This would also be needed should you want to use the FM radio. IT also sports TrackID and can support up to 4GB using the M2 memory stick.

Overall, the S312 is a good, reliable phone with a lot more features than your normal budget phone and quite attractive as well.

Rating: 8/10

Nokia Test Labs Offers Text Braille Reader for Blind and Visually-Impaired

Nokia, Tampere University and the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired have created the Nokia Braille Reader. The Nokia Braille Reader offers the visually-impaired and blind a way to read SMS text messages via Braille.

The app captures received SMS messages and brings them to the foreground for reading using Braille and tactile feedback.
The app beeps when an SMS message is received. The software opens up. The message is displayed in Braille one letter a time.  The Braille is felt via haptic feedback. There is pause button if the reader needs to stop.
It works on Nokia touchscreen phones. Nokia would like feedback from users.
The comments are interesting, suggesting that mobile phone could also be used as a Braille writer. Others request voice reading. A video follows with a demonstration.

Nokia 6110 Navigator: Get Hold of the Navigator

Mobile phones these days come enhanced with such high-end technologies that they can easily serve the role of a pathfinder. This is really an interesting aspect which has stirred the mobile phone users right from the time this technology of GPS navigation feature has been introduced. Almost all the high-end handsets from all the top-notch brands these days come enhanced with this high-end feature. Therefore, what would be the position of Nokia in this race. To lead the race or just to follow the track of other ace players. The twist or the known fact is that Nokia is just the ultimate brand which has the potential to beat any brand and that too without any hassles. In this regard of high-tech GPS navigational feature quite interestingly almost all its high end handsets come enriched with this option. Of late Nokia came up with a model known as Nokia 6110 Navigator, which would offer the users more than one reasons to smile. This handset comes with coquettish body and has been enhanced with numerous high-end specifications. Most importantly this mobile phone comes boosted with enriched options to enhance flawless communication and total mobile entertainment.

Now, if you travel frequently, do you face some sort of problem somewhere sometimes. Perhaps yes would be the instant answer and that too without any hesitation. Problems such as finding the exact track, monitoring the speed and distance and time etc., require to be encountered. In most of the cases, we seek the refuge of external assistance i.e., guide or something else. But, now with the introduction of the Nokia 6110 Navigator handset these types of problems can be tackled at ease. This is particularly because this handset comes equipped with the GPS receiver. Moreover, the built-in maps in this handset would offer you the appropriate solution for each and every track tension or problem. This gadget has also been stamped as the stand-alone satnav system due to its high-end functionalities. Quite interestingly its enhanced navigation hardware and software would permit you to explore the new dimension of exploring unknown tracks. Furthermore, this high-end handset comes boosted with a reasonable price tag to ensure people from every class can avail them without any second thoughts.

Moreover, as the display of this Nokia 6110 Navigator handset comes boosted with 2.2 inches, you can easily view the images and displayed items without any hassles. Actually, to enhance the quality of your viewing, the spacious TFT screen comes with the potential of displaying images with the support of 16 million colours. In terms of storage capacity, this handset can beat any model at ease. This handset boasts of 40 MB user memory, which can be comfortably expanded up to 8 GB with the support of a microSD(TransFlash) card. However, the connectivity options of this gadget such as GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB.

These high-end connectivity options would agreeably allow you to send and receive contents to other compatible gadgets at ease. With these high-end options your mobile entertainment would also reach to the next level and that too without any hassles. With the 2 mega pixels camera, with which this Nokia 6110 Navigator comes boosted with, you can comfortably enhance your photography skills. Furthermore, this camera phone has been enhanced with options such as flash. This high-end option would further permit you to shoot images even in dark and murky surroundings and that too without any tension. Furthermore, with the support of an additional QVGA video call camera, you can comfortably become a part of live interaction. Apart from these high-end functions, you can even tune into the media player and FM radio options to get some dose of musical entertainment. The music player of this widget efficiently supports music file formats such as MP3, AAC and MPEG4. Quite interestingly the FM radio option would further groove your mundane hours and that too without any tension. Just tune into your favourite radio station and get the feeds from various arenas such as news, films and sports etc.

LG GW620- Coming pretty soon.

LG GW620 - LG's first Android-powered smartphones
The new LG GW620 features a 3-inch full touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad to meet the growing needs of consumers who rely on their mobile phones for more than just making calls. The LG GW620 benefits from an operating system that was created from the ground up to take advantage of the many mobile applications and services developed by search leader Google. In anticipation of strong demand for smartphones that support social networking functions right out-of-the-box, the LG GW620 also lives up to LGs consumer-friendly design philosophy by making the smartphone experience more accessible for typical users. At the same time, LGs messaging phones have traditionally been very popular with young professionals who demand a full QWERTY keypad for a fast mobile computing experience. The LG GW620 manages to meet the needs of both types of users simultaneously.
The LG GW620 will be available in the fourth quarter of this year in select European markets