The Samsung i8510 moves camera phones closer to the kind of user interface that dedicated camera have. A dedicated button activates the camera, opening the lens cover, and toggles between camera, video and the gallery. There are plenty of settings for advanced users to play with, such as panorama, smile-detection autofocus and blink detection. The basics include a 9x digital zoom (no optical zoom sadly – see the Samsung G800 for that) and a dual power LED flash. This flash is good enough at close range, but cannot match the brightness of the xenon flash used in the Sony Ericsson K850i (although the K850i comes with a host of problems as discussed in our K850i review!) It’s debatable which camera phone is truly the best, but the Samsung i8510 must surely rank in the top 5 currently. The video camera is also noteworthy, as it records in high resolution and at up to 120 frames per second, which means that you can play back in slow motion if you like.
The other most interesting thing about the Samsung i8510 is the fact that it runs Symbian 9.3 with the Nokia Series 60 user interface. This makes the phone’s UI remarkably similar to the Nokia N95 (although the Samsung i8510 runs the latest version 3.2 instead of the buggy 3.1 version used by the N95.) Samsung have tweaked some options of course, but this is essentially a phone that any Nokia Nseries user could pick up and use without a second thought.
In BlackBerry Bold (9000) is RIM slickest, fast, the most powerful and most connected BlackBerry to date. Offering high-speed Internet access through mobile tripartite-band HSDPA networks, Wi-Fi and integrated GPS, Bold also has twice the screen resolution (480 x 320 pixels) of the current BlackBerry Curve model, a very sharp display. Powered by a 624 MHz mobile processor and support for tripartite Band HSDPA and enterprise-class Wi-Fi (802.11 A / B / G) networks, Bold makes short work of downloading email applications, streaming video or rendering Web pages. It also includes 128 MB flash memory plus 1 GB of storage on board memory. And it / SDHC memory card is available from the side door. In Bold Features 2.0-Megapixels camera with the possibility of video recording, built-in flash and 5-fold digital zoom. In the Media Player display photos and slideshow, play movies in full screen mode, and manage music collection.
The Sony Ericsson K750i it’s a fully featured phone with the best of everything – video camera, digital music player, FM radio, Bluetooth, memory stick, triband – you name it, it’s got it! Its screen is as good as anything going – much better than the Nokia 6230i, the same resolution as the Samsung D500, but not quite as high as the Sony Ericsson S700i.
It’s built on a dependable platform – the SE K series – and is a very easy phone to use, with a joystick, menu shortcuts and camera button to aid navigation. It’s a good-looking, well-built phone that’s a good size and offers everything that’s available in phone technology (except 3G and SmartPhone functionality). Now replaced by the Sony Ericsson K800i, which offers 3G and an improved camera.
