Samsung SHG-E800.

Fans of the beautiful Siemens SL55 will want to read Tech Digest’s review of the copycat Samsung SHG-E800.

The Samsung also has a sliding screen, but is larger and heavier than the SL55. It comes with a built in VGA digital camera, and there’s space for 1000 of your nearest and dearest in your address book (or, in our case, 10 friends – 6 of whom are related – 2 pizza delivery services, 1 curry house and the number of that beauty salon we’ve been meaning to book a bikini wax with for the past 6 months).

Samsung D500 Specification

Network GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Announced 2004, 4Q
Dimensions 93.5 x 45.7 x 23.5 mm
Weight 99 g
Display Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 176 x 220 pixels
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
Amount 45 preset
Customization Download, order now
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook 1000 x 12 fields, Photo call
Call records 20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls
Card slot No
- 96 MB shared memory for photos, video, MMS, MP3 files
- 4 MB for Java
- 200 short messages
- 400 calendar events
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Yes (in D500E version only)
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth Yes, v1.1
Infrared port Yes
USB Yes
Features Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
Games 3 + downloadable, order now
Colors Silver, Black
Camera 1.3 MP, 1280x1024 pixels, video, flash
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/MP4/AAC player
- T9
- SyncML
- Organizer
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 800 mAh
Stand-by Up to 300 h
Talk time Up to 6 h 30 min
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh
Stand-by Up to 380 h
Talk time Up to 8 h

Siemens SFG75

This is a 3G phone based on a BenQ's platform. It has a 1.3 MP camera and extra CIF camera for videocalls, also it supports miniSD memory cards.
o Class: fashion, 3G
o Position in the line: above Siemens SF65
o Rivals:
o Description based on official information

* General features
o Announced in 2005
o ЕGSM900/1800/1900/UMTS
o Battery type Li-Ion 840 mAh
o Battery life:
+ talk mode up to 4 hours
+ standby mode up to250 hours
o External screen is cSTN, has the resolution of 96x96 pixels, shows up to 65K colours
o Internal screen graphical, has the resolution of 176x220 pixels, shows up to 262000 colours (TFT)
o Camera 1.3 MP allows recording video and provides with digital zoom (the max resolution of 1280x960), and the second camera СIF, for videocalls
o Colours - black, silvery grey
o Java (MIDP 2.0), 3D
o Dimensions: 89,9x45,1x23,9 mm
o Weight: 97 gramms

* Memory
o In the phone memory you can save many contacts, for each name you can have own melody, MP3 or АСС file, a picture, photo
o Several numbers for one name in a phone book
o Users' groups changeable. To groups you can assign own icon, and also select a group signal
o Call lists
o Memory 32 MB for various applications and data (is distributed dynamically)
o Slot for memory cards miniSD

* Call management, ringing tones
o Vibracall
o As call melodies can be used MP3 or АСС file
o 40-tones polyphony
o Fast dial for 8 numbers
o Voice dial
o Minute minder
o Automatic redial
o Speakerphone

* SMS
o EMS/MMS
o E-MAIL SMTP/POP3/IMAP4
o Sending a message to various addresses simultaneously
o Predictive text input T9
o Concatenated messages

* Connectivity
o WAP 2.0
o GPRS/EDGE class 10 (4+2)
o Bluetooth
o IrDA
o Over the Air interface
o Synchronization with PC

* Organizer and extras
o Integrated player MP3 and AAC/АAС++ files (as an extra accessory you can have Bluetooth stereo-headset ННВ-750)
o Dictaphone (works in a talkmode)
o User's profiles
o Screen savers
o Date, time
o Organizer with support for events of various kinds. In a calendar you can save memos, set reminders for them, including and recurrent. Есть calendar view за daily, weekly or a month
o Alarm clock, timer, stop watch
o Calculator, unit converter
o Games

New Walkman Phone Offers 4GB, 3G

Sony Ericsson W950iSony Ericsson's line of Walkman phones has been a modest success, the company revealed on Tuesday, announcing that nearly 3 million units have been sold. The company also unveiled its latest addition to the line, the sleek W950i.

The dark purple-colored phone will run on the Symbian operating system and will be UMTS-capable for connectivity to high-speed networks. A touch screen provides easy access to music files and 4GB of flash memory storage would put it in line with Apple's iPod Nano.

While the focus of the W950i Walkman phone is entertainment, Sony Ericsson said its choice of the Symbian OS would also make it useful in business applications. A multitude of third party programs are available for the operating system, which has long been offered by rival Nokia.

The phone would be the manufacturer's third to be based on the popular smartphone OS this year.

As with most of the Walkman phones, no announcement of a U.S. model has been made. Two versions would be available initially: one for Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and another for China dependent on the availability of 3G services.

The W950i will come with Disc2Phone, a software application that would allow a user to transfer music from the PC, and supports the capability to be used with a cellular carrier's direct download services.

Sony Ericsson said the W950i would be released in the third quarter of this year at a price of 300 to 400 euros ($350 to $450 USD).