The new Nokia 808 PureView is set to bring about a revolution in camera and smartphone technology. The first phone to feature Nokia’s brand spanking new PureView camera technology, the Nokia 808 PureView is quite simply a ground-breaking piece of kit.

The Nokia 808 PureView is the most powerful cameraphone ever. Where most smartphones consider 8 megapixels plenty, the Nokia 808 PureView sports a gargantuan 41 megapixel camera which is capable of taking pictures with unbelievable detail and realism. 41 megapixels is unprecedented in a camera – as reviews giant CNET proclaims, “Even ‘proper’ cameras don’t have 41 megapixels, except the one that even the pros wish they could afford”. That gives the Nokia 808 PureView some real wallop in photography terms as well as blowing other smartphones out of the water. Cleverly, the Nokia 808 PureView takes these 41-megapixel pictures without blowing them up to the size of a house – your Nokia 808 PureView photos are a normal, usable size and, naturally, the Nokia 808 PureView has the capacity to share your photos and their incredible quality directly to social media websites like Facebook and Flickr. Or tap your Nokia 808 PureView to another NFC-enabled phone to share them instantly.

The Nokia 808 PureView’s 41-megapixel camera works on a surprisingly simple theory. Most smartphones have a sensor smaller than a pinkie fingernail, whilst the Nokia 808 PureView’s sensor is more the size of a postage stamp. The Nokia 808 PureView uses a technique called oversampling to combine up to seven pixels into one “pure” pixel. This enables you to zoom in by up to three times on any picture taken on the Nokia 808 PureView without losing any detail on your photo – and there are no artificially created pixels in your Nokia 808 PureView snap. Oversampling allows the Nokia 808 PureView to capture five times more light than a typical optical zoom camera used at full zoom, so the Nokia 808 PureView’s low-light performance is much better than that of any previous cameraphone. To further facilitate night-time snapping, the Nokia 808 PureView has a quality Carl Zeiss lens, a Xenon flash and LED video light.

Incredible photos aren’t the only trick the Nokia 808 PureView’s 41-megapixel camera has up its sleeve – it’s also breaking new ground in the field of smartphone video recording. The Nokia 808 PureView camera allows 1080p video recording at 30 frames per second – its powerful image processor handles over 1 billion pixels every second. And the Nokia 808 PureView is the first video recording device ever to be able to record distortion-free sound at audio levels outside the capability of human hearing, allowing sound to be captured in incredible quality. You can even hook up your Nokia 808 PureView to an HD TV via wireless streaming or HDMI, and really show off the mind-blowing detail in your Nokia 808 PureView photography and video. And to contain all the pictures and video you’ll be taking, there’s 16GB of internal user memory, which can be upped to 48GB with a MicroSD card.

With the Nokia 808 PureView’s astonishing camera capabilities, it’s easy to forget that the Nokia 808 PureView is not just a cameraphone, it’s a fantastic smartphone too! With the Nokia 808 PureView looking like a cross between a smartphone, with its classic hard plastic casing, and a camera, Nokia have packed an awful lot into the Nokia 808 PureView’s pocketable 169 grammes. Available in black, white or red, the Nokia 808 PureView has nifty dimensions – 123.9 x 60.2 x 13.9 mm – and even with all that camera on the back, Nokia have done a fab job of keeping the Nokia 808 PureView’s camera bump to a minimum. The Nokia 808 PureView rocks a responsive four-inch ClearBlack AMOLED capacitative touchscreen display with 360 x 640 pixels, capable of displaying 16.7 million colours and nestling below a sheet of the the super-hardy scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass.

The Nokia 808 PureView runs on Nokia’s Belle operating system with Feature Pack 1 enhancements, which gives it a simple-to-use interface with rounded square icons which allow you easily to customise your Nokia 808 PureView – choose up to six customisable home screens and customisable profiles, adding widgets at will. The Nokia 808 PureView’s PIM (Personal Management System) will help you keep track of your contacts, calendars, to-do lists and notes. There’s a new browser for the Nokia 808 PureView, the latest Nokia maps and an improved notifications bar. Use the Nokia 808 PureView’s Social client from the home screen to update Facebook and Twitter with your latest news, and use the Nokia 808 PureView’s RSS reader to keep up-to-date with your favourite blogs. With all the fun you can have on your new Nokia 808 PureView you’ll be glad of its outstanding battery life – 6.5 hours of talk time, and up to 540 hours standby power.

The Nokia 808 PureView isn’t just a smartphone, it’s an amazing camera – ideal for the budding photographers among you. The Nokia 808 PureView has no official UK release date as yet, but fingers are crossed for May.

The ASUS PadFone is a unique new concept which could help decide the minds of those who are hesitating whether to leap from their smartphone comfort zone into the dizzy heights of tablets. The ASUS PadFone is a startling piece of hybrid technology which brings together the versatility of a tablet and the simple functionality of a phone. The ASUS PadFone has been getting rave reviews from technology websites all over the world, including one from reviews giant Cnet who described the ASUS PadFone not only as “awesome” but as “the turducken of the mobile world”. Looking at the ASUS PadFone provides an explanation for this – the ASUS PadFone package features several pieces which work in harmony. Firstly, there’s the ASUS PadFone smartphone which, whenever you need something a little larger, slots neatly into its partner piece, the ASUS PadFone docking station, to create a high-powered tablet. And the ASUS PadFone also comes with an optional keyboard dock and an optional Bluetooth stylus – this last piece of ASUS PadFone accessory also doubles as a receiver for when you receive phone calls, which is particularly useful if your ASUS PadFone smartphone is slotted into the docking station when your mum calls. And another great advantage of the ASUS PadFone – the as the ASUS PadFone Station uses the PadFone’s 3G connection to access the internet, there’s no need for two SIM cards or two data plans to cover both a smartphone and a tablet. So the ASUS PadFone can save you money.

The ASUS PadFone smartphone looks great – it’s just 8.9mm thick, and is super-light to carry, without looking or feeling light in its build. Indeed, the ASUS PadFone smartphone feels solid and well-made, and the design excels in its attention to detail. The back of the ASUS PadFone smartphone has a classy looking spun metal coating, identical to what you’ll find on the Transformer Pad tablets. A closer look at the back of the ASUS PadFone smartphone (and the ASUS PadFone docking station) reveals that the Zen-inspired design ASUS first employed in the ZENBOOK continues with the PadFone. The concentric circle finish found on the back of the PadFone and the PadFone Station provides a comfortable grip and looks elegant and stylish. The attention to detail on the ASUS PadFone is extended to the accessories – the sleeve contains a SIM card slot, ideal if you travel a lot, and contains a hidden cleaning cloth. The ASUS PadFone sleeve’s brand tag doubles as a stylus headset combo holder – ASUS really have thought of everything when designing the ASUS PadFone.

The front of the ASUS PadFone smartphone boasts a 4.3 inch 960 x 450 pixel Super AMOLED Plus qHD display, and the ASUS PadFone’s DynamicDisplay – an ASUS exclusive technology – will automatically adjust the ASUS PadFone’s layout when you slot it into the ASUS PadFone’s station. It’ll even remember where you were when you left off to join the pieces together, so if you’re playing a game or using an app, you’ll be able to continue uninterrupted on the ASUS PadFone docking station’s 10.1-inch screen with 1,280×800-pixel resolution. The ASUS PadFone station’s screen features a layer of the incredibly hard-wearing and scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 2 to protect it from damage.

The ASUS PadFone runs on Google’s Android operating system, running its popular Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 operating system, so all ASUS PadFone users can take advantage of the thousands of free and low-cost Android apps available from Google’s new Google Play store. The ASUS PadFone has a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor – early reviewers of the ASUS PadFone remark on its responsive screen and easy, intuitive use. Inside the ASUS PadFone’s tablet docking station is a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, which works alongside an Adreno 225 GPU to provide super-fast performance and quality graphics for gaming, movies, photos, and all other applications. Listen to music, play games, surf the internet and chat online (using, if you like, the ASUS PadFone’s QWERTY chiclet keyboard mobile dock). If you like to take quick pics, the ASUS PadFone features a rear-facing 8MP camera with a back-illuminated CMOS sensor, LED flash, large f/2.2 aperture and a 5-element lens. Flip it over to use the ASUS PadFone’s front-facing HD1080p video camera, which records at VGA resolution even under low lighting conditions. Store your apps, videos, pictures and so on on the ASUS PadFone smartphone’s 16GB of internal storage, augmentable to 64GB by use of the microSD card slot.

ASUS PadFone’s manufacturers are confident that the ASUS PadFone will fulfil all your phone and tablet needs. You won’t be able to take your hands off it, in which case it is handy that the ASUS PadFone has astounding battery life. If your ASUS PadFone smartphone is running low, dock it to the PadFone’s station to extend its battery life by up to five times. Add in the bigger battery of the Station Dock and battery life is increased by up to 9 times. Together, the three devices can las for around 17 hours of use – and when you start playing with the ASUS PadFone, you’ll be glad, because you just won’t want to put it down.

The Sony Xperia S looks set to be hitting the UK shelves in March 2012. It’ll be the first pure “Sony” device to be released since Sony bought out its Scandinavian partners and ditched the “Ericsson”, and tablet enthusiasts are hoping that the Sony Xperia S will live up to the techy promise set by a Sony-only name. The Sony Xperia S is also the first Sony tablet to boast a dual-core processor – its 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 processor makes the Sony Xperia S nimble and smooth in its use, with 1GB of RAM. The Sony Xperia S will ship using the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, which will update to the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system soon after the Sony Xperia S goes on sale. An Android smartphone like the Sony Xperia S gives you access to the Android Market, where thousands of useful and fun apps await you.

The Sony Xperia S boasts unusual, space-age looks. On first glance the Sony Xperia S is a shiny black rectangle, much like other comparable smartphones. The Sony Xperia S has crisp, clean lines, with a gentle curve to the back smoothing off any harshness and making it fit snugly in the hand. But the Sony Xperia S’s stand-out distinguishing feature is a transparent acrylic ring along the bottom of the handset. When it’s lit from within, you’ll see three glowing Android button icons appear. Although it’s actually the small touch-sensitive buttons just above it that hold functionality, the translucent, backlit band does make the Sony Xperia S look unique. Don’t be fooled though – the Sony Xperia S’s design feature isn’t just a pretty face. The transparent band is actually part of the Sony Xperia S’s antenna system – smart and functional. The Sony Xperia S has a crystal clear high definition screen that’s a good size at 4.3” with 720p x 1280 resolution – early reports suggest that screen clarity remains strong on the Sony Xperia S at all angles.

Turn the Sony Xperia S over and you’ll find an excellent camera – in fact the Sony Xperia S boasts one of the best cameras ever found on a smartphone. The Sony Xperia S’s camera has a whopping 12 megapixels, autofocus and Sony’s excellent Exmor R image sensor technology, which provides brilliant detail and low-light performance. The Sony Xperia S’s camera has a shot-to-shot time of well under a second, and the activation time is just 1.5 seconds, even from standby mode, which makes the Sony Xperia S incredibly usable as a camera, and produces great quality photos. And of course the Sony Xperia S’s camera has 1080p HD video recording ability.

One of the Sony Xperia S’s most useful features is sure to be the NFC (near field communication) capability – the Sony Xperia S will be the first of Sony’s smartphone to have NFC, a nifty feature which can be used as a way of sharing information between devices. You can use your Sony Xperia S’s NFC features to share content – such as contact details, websites, YouTube videos and maps – between two NFC-enabled devices simply by tapping them together. NFC can also be used in some places to pay for goods and services (rather like an Oyster card on London Underground) so at some point in the future you could dispense with your wallet and simply use your Sony Xperia S to pay for your shopping. What’s more, Sony are doing something different by selling the Sony Xperia S with four SmartTags which can be customised and used with NFC for a number of different uses. For instant, stick a SmartTag to the dashboard of your car and you can program it so that when it makes contact with your Sony Xperia S, your Sony Xperia S will automatically go to the sat nav function and synch with a Bluetooth headset. Or place a SmartTag in your living room, programmed so that when your Sony Xperia S makes contact with it, the music app opens and streams music through a Sony speaker. Program another SmartTag for your bedtime routine and place your Sony Xperia S to your bedroom SmartTag to automatically switch on the alarm clock and dim the screen light. A brilliant tool that will make your Sony Xperia S work hard for you wherever you go.

Another innovation for the Sony Xperia S is its fast-charge capabilities. In just 30 minutes, you can charge the Sony Xperia S to 80% capacity, and just ten minutes will give the Sony Xperia S an hour’s worth of power. Fantastic when you’re pushed for time.

The Sony Xperia S is due to hit the UK in March 2012. As a hard-working Android powerhouse full of features to make your life easier and more fun, the Sony Xperia S looks set to take centre-stage in the smartphone market.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is coming soon, and it’s already gaining a reputation – well deserved, too, because it’s the world’s first tablet to feature the Super AMOLED Plus HD touchscreen – a brand-new state-of-the-art touchscreen technology which makes the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s TFT-LCD touchscreen brighter, thinner, less reflective and more energy efficient than any screen you’ve seen before. At 7.7 inches (195.58mm) across – hence the name! – the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s touchscreen is 0.7 inches bigger than that of its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Some experts are already saying the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7‘s display is the perfect size for a tablet screen and that it puts the iPad 2′s touchscreen display to shame – the WXGA display has the highest pixel density display among tablets in the market, with 1024×600 resolution, and it offers crystal-clear viewing no matter what angle you hold it at.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 looks amazing too, with a stunning design. Its crisp, clear touchscreen is set within a jet black surround, adorned with a single Samsung logo, and this is backed by a classy brushed metal rear panel.

The brilliant, vivid touchscreen is just one of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s many attractive qualities. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is designed to be comfortable to hold and use, even one-handed, and it has a super-portable design. The Samsung Galaxy Tab’s body is slimmer than a pencil at just 7.89mm, so it won’t take up much space in your bag, or even your coat pocket. And at just 340g, it won’t weigh you down – in fact, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a full 45g lighter than its predecessor the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and it’s not far off half the weight of the iPad 2.

You’ll be able to save your videos and pictures on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s internal memory, which will come in a choice of 16, 32 or 64 megabytes, and of course you’ll be able to expand the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s storage capacity by using the microSD slot and a memory card of up to 32 GB. It’s running on Honeycomb – an Android operating system designed by Google specifically for tablets, and it has a powerful 1.4GHz Dual Core Processor – that’s 400MHz quicker than the iPad 2. With 1GB of RAM, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a speedy performer, even when multitasking.

With the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, you’ll be able to access the internet in a variety of ways, no matter where you are – its connectivity options are second to none. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 benefits from WiFi Channel Bonding technology which will let you receive data-rates around twice as much as existing WiFi. Plus of course the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 has Bluetooth and 3G (HSDPA, HSUPA). The Adobe Flash Player support means you’ll be able to enjoy thousands of great websites in their fullest glory. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s Google links mean it’s fully compatible with Google and Android’s applications – download games and apps from the Android Market, and make the most out of Google Talk, Gmail, Google Calendar, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Latitude, Google Places, and Google Maps Navigation, all of which work seamlessly on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. And if you exhaust the internet for entertainment, relax and watch a film – the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 can play a variety of video formats.

On the back of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, you’ll find a 3.2 megapixel camera with an LED flash and a handy autofocus feature and several modes, including single shot, continuous, panorama and self-shot. Make your own photo-collages in a jiffy with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s auto image-stitching feature. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 even has geotagging facilities thanks to its internal GPS system. This means that you can set the camera up to automatically tag photos taken on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 with the place that they were taken! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s rear-facing camera is also capable of recording 720p high-definition video. And don’t forget that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 also has a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, to be used for face-to-face video-conferencing with your friends and family – brilliant for keeping in touch with loved ones from far away.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a fresh new tablet with great connectivity and features – a brilliant addition to the tablet market.

The Huawei Vision is aptly named – it really is a vision. A good-looking and well-priced mid-range smartphone with a host of features, it runs on Google’s Android 2.3.4 interface (otherwise known as Gingerbread), and it’s landing on UK shelves in time to be in your Christmas stocking.

The Huawei Vision’s super-responsive touchscreen is slightly curved, adding a real sense of quality and luxury, as well as reducing those pesky reflections. And with 252dpi (dots/pixels per inch) you get crisp, clear images – ideal for showing off the pictures you’ll be taking with the 5-megapixel camera with single-LED flash and fast-responding autofocus that’s housed on the back of the Huawei Vision. You can use the Huawei Vision for movies, too – budding film-makers will love using the Huawei Vision to record in 720p video.

With a strong and sturdy unibody aluminium design, the Huawei Vision weighs about 135g, and is just 9.9mm at its thinnest, with a width and height of 59.3mm and 116.8mm. The back of the Huawei Vision is a classy anodised metal, topped at each end with a matte black plastic. The Huawei Vision’s glossy black front piece has a 3.7-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and 256,000 colours. The Huawei Vision’s touchscreen has an accelerometer sensor, so it rotates automatically when you need it to, and a proximity sensor which locks the screen when it senses that you’re making a call. It’s the perfect size for a touchscreen, big enough to ensure accuracy when typing on the classic Android keyboard or on the Huawei’s default TouchPal keyboard, but not so big that smaller-handed people find it a stretch. This means that not only is the Huawei Vision’s touchscreen ideal for hands of all shapes and sizes, it’s the perfect size for all applications – typing text messages, tweets and Facebook posts, and also for playing the many games you can download from the Android Market. In fact, the Huawei Vision comes ready loaded with Angry Birds, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, Order & Chaos Online and Guerrilla Bob HD, so the second you get your hands on a Huawei Vision, you can start gaming right away.

The Huawei Vision’s specifications are enough to rival any other smartphone. Running on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, the OS designed by Google especially for smartphones, it has a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and an inbuilt 2GB (ROM) internal memory, with 1GB of storage for your pictures, videos and so on. If that’s not enough for you, the Huawei Vision’s microSD card slot can take memory cards of up to a whopping 32GB.

The Huawei Vision’s user interfaces will blow your mind – they are simple and intuitive to use yet fun, and they look very impressive indeed. In fact, the Huawei Vision gives you a choice of two experiences. Traditionally minded Huawei Vision owners can choose the classic Android launcher, which brings up the Google interface that Android fans know and love. If you fancy something a bit more fun, the Huawei Vision has the 3D Carousel interface, a 3D-style carousel that will allow you to view all your home screens at once in an interactive ring, even spinning them at high speed if you wish – a fun feature which looks great and makes accessing your Huawei Vision home screens more interesting. Adding and removing panels is a snap too – you can just drag and drop them in the 3D interface.

Online access on the Huawei Vision is easy – not surprisingly for a phone with an operating system built by Google. Connecting with WiFi and 3G (plus Bluetooth), it comes with the stock Android browser which supports multiple windows, bookmarks, sharing options, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash – cleverly, internet on your Huawei Vision looks a lot like what you might see on your laptop. The Huawei Vision features a host of apps to make life easier and more enjoyable. You can search Google, use Gmail and chat with your friends on Google Talk, and use the inbuilt GPS system with Google Maps to find your way around. Access your documents and work wherever you are with Documents To Go, or browse, download (for free!) and read thousands of books with your Aldiko book reader app. Plus the Android Market has thousands of apps for any purpose you could think of, accessible at a moments notice and often free of charge.

A smartphone that truly allows you to make the most of the internet wherever you are, the Huawei Vision is a mid-range phone that will tick all your boxes.

An exciting development in the much-loved BlackBerry Curve range, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first in the series to replace the traditional QWERTY keypad with a touchscreen. It’s a ground-breaking move for BlackBerry in a device that’s expected to hit the UK market by the end of 2011 – just in time for Santa’s little elves.

The QWERTY keypad is gone, replaced by a bright HVGA touchscreen with a crystal-clear screen resolution of 480mm by 360mm and 188ppi (pixels per inch). At 3.2” (81.28mm), the touchscreen covers almost the whole of the face of the BlackBerry Curve 9380, leaving space at the bottom for the five necessary push buttons: call, terminate, menu, back and optical track pad, all backlit – a nice touch. As the BlackBerry Curve 9380 runs on the reliable and speedy BlackBerry 7 operating system, the touchscreen, like the rest of the phone, responds swiftly to your requests. Its shape and size fit comfortably in the palm and makes navigating the screen, even with one hand, a snap – the drop-down notifications menus can be activated with a swipe without needing to readjust the phone’s position in your hand.

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is a handsome device, with its glossy black finish coming as a refreshing change to the matte finish seen on many smartphones such as the BlackBerry Bold 7970. With dimensions of 109mm by 60mm by 11.2mm, it’s thin, and its sturdy and strong body is hardy enough not to need further protection from a sleeve. Weighing just 98g, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is a very pocketable smartphone.

From the back, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 looks comparable to its older sister, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 – only true BlackBerry experts would notice that the microUSB port on the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is on the left, a little lower than on the BlackBerry Curve 9360.

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 comes pre-loaded with apps to make browsing the internet and keeping up to date with your mates easier than ever. Of course, there’s BBM – and lots of new BBM-connected applications which will let you chat to friends while you play a game or listen to BBM Music. Now the BlackBerry Curve 9380 also comes with the nifty Social Feeds application – a one-stop shop for all your social media needs, it allows you to update all your social media feeds at once, and see messages from your friends the second they arrive. And of course, you can browse the internet with ease on the BlackBerry Curve 9380 with the updated and improved web browser – it has a new state-of-the-art JavaScript compiler to improve the load time speed of web pages for a significantly faster, more fluid web browsing experience. Page loads are 40% quicker than on the Blackberry 6.0 OS. 3G connectivity and WiFi are standard on the BlackBerry Curve 9380, for internet on the move, and the new optimised HTML5 adds a new dimension to gaming and video. And if you really need information on the go, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 has a smart new update to BlackBerry’s popular Universal Search feature – just say your search terms out loud and its voice-activated search will find whatever you’re looking for.

Of course, a smartphone isn’t smart without a camera, and the BlackBerry Curve 9380 has an excellent built-in 5-megapixel camera with a bright LED flash, x4 zoom capabilities and a handy dedicated button – perfect for quick snaps. It’s a VGA video camera too. Save your pictures on the 512MB built-in memory, or augment the memory capability using the microSD slot – the BlackBerry Curve 9380 can support memory cards of up to 32GB.

And the BlackBerry Curve 9380 camera supports the amazing Augmented Reality technology. What’s that? Well, imagine you’re standing in front of a famous building. Using the Wikitude app, you can point your camera at the building, and the app will tell you all about it. Augmented Reality technology even links in with BlackBerry favourite BBM – hold it up in a crowd and it will recognise the faces of your BBM friends.

Packed with space-age features, fast and good looking, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 truly is a super-smart smartphone that you’re sure to love.

At its launch, Nokia’s CEO called the Nokia Lumia 800 “the first real Windows phone device – no small boast since its operating system, Windows Phone, has been on the market since late 2010 in other smartphones. But it’s easy to see why he made that claim – the Nokia Lumia 800 has got the whole tech world talking. Created by a crack team of industrial design and user experience experts from both Nokia and Microsoft, the Nokia Lumia 800 represents a renaissance for Nokia, who were so keen to produce a smartphone that they were proud of that they turned the new phone around in just six months. But a short production time has not compromised the product one bit.

At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Nokia Lumia 800’s design has a lot in common with the Nokia 9, but on closer inspection there are many differences. The most striking thing about the Nokia Lumia 800 is the sleek lines of the curved chassis, which measures 116.5mm long by 61.2mm and just 12.1mm thick. These curves which extend to the screen, where they encourage the natural sweep of the thumb as you use the phone. The Nokia Lumia 800’s slightly convex 93.9mm (3.7”) touchscreen also reaches all the way across the phone’s body, creating a “popping” effect that makes the screen graphics really stand out. Weighing in at a light 142g, it’s made from a tough polycarbonate that feels rock-solid, is hard to damage and, apparently, is coloured all the way through – a nice touch. Its attractive matte finish doesn’t attract fingerprints the way glossy shells do, so it stays looking clean and new. The Lumia 800’s snappy design further breaks away from traditional black and white smartphone colour combinations, and it’s available not only in black, but in hot pink and an eye-popping peacock blue. On the back you’ll find a high quality 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, HD video capability, a dedicated capture button and dual LED flash.

When you pick up the Nokia Lumia 800 and dive in, you’ll be up and running in no time, aided by the speedy 1.4Ghz processor and 3D graphics hardware accelerator. The Lumia 800 has some unexpected features – for instance, the lack of traditional address book, which is replaced by the nifty People application which pulls in contact details from Hotmail, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like, and incorporates email, chat and SMS too. There are, of course, also apps to import contacts from your old phone, smoothly and easily.

The Windows Phone operating system is easy to use – a speedy flick of the fingers transfers you between the handy Live Tiles interface (the colours matching your phone’s shell exactly – a stylish touch!) and your downloaded applications. You’ll pick it up in a trice and will soon be making the most of your Nokia Lumia 800’s internet and WiFi capabilities, enjoying Internet Explorer 9, Bing searches and the Facebook app anywhere and everywhere. The battery life will keep you going for ages – up to 335 hours standby time, 9.5 hours 3G talktime, 7 hours video playback time and a whopping 55 hours music playback time. When it finally runs out of steam, recharge is by micro-USB from the mains or from another USB device.

There are apps galore to enjoy, to be downloaded from the Windows Phone Marketplace, but the Nokia Lumia 800 comes with plenty to entertain you right out of the box. Included bundled in the Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia Drive, the first free satnav service on any Windows Phone device. Music lovers will enjoy Nokia Music, a free app which includes access to the exclusive MixRadio, with genre-dedicated radio stations – you can stream music from them or save for offline listening. Bluetooth connectivity allows you to listen wirelessly with Bluetooth-enabled devices. Plus the generous 16GB of internal memory (with a 512MB RAM) gives you plenty of space for hundreds of songs, which can be downloaded from Nokia’s 15m track collection and transferred from other devices. Still not enough memory for you? Nokia Lumia 800 owners can sign up for a SkyDrive account, a free online backup storage solution which gives you access to 25GB more of online storage.

A new smartphone that can stand up for itself amongst the big players, the Nokia Lumia 800 is something of which the Nokia and Microsoft teams can be proud.

Nokia Lumia 800 device will go on sale in the UK on November 16 in the color black.

A Nokia spokesperson confirmed to WinRumors on Tuesday that Nokia will initially offer the black Lumia 800 and that Cyan and Magneta variants will follow shortly afterwards. No reason was given for the delay but it’s likely due to manufacturing given that colored devices take longer to perfect on production lines. WinRumors spoke to various network operators on Tuesday and some are hoping to stock the popular Cyan color variant on November 28 but the majority will be offering the black version in large volumes initially.

Nokia Lumia 800 is expected to be priced at £399 on various Pay As You Go (PAYG) packages in the UK. Orange will offer the Lumia on a range of packages and according to one source familiar with Orange’s plans, the Lumia 800 will be offered at £36 per month with either 900 minutes and unlimited texts and 250MB of data or 600 minutes, unlimited texts and 1GB of data. The device will be offered free on this contract. Existing Orange customers will also be offered a free Xbox console if they upgrade their current contract.

source :Win Rumours

Galaxy Nexus processor
The new handset has a dual-core 1.2GHz Texus Instruments OMAP4460 processor, the same speed as the chip used in Samsung’s Galaxy S2. Indeed, several of the Nexus Prime’s core specs mirror that of Samsung’s existing top end Android handset.

Galaxy Nexus operating system
The Galaxy Nexus is the first handset to feature Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The OS will be coming to other high end Android handsets including the Nexus S. Ice Cream Sandwich is designed to bridge the gap between the user experience on Android 2.x phones and Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets – the same operating system will now run on both types of hardware.

Galaxy Nexus memory
Like the Galaxy S2, there will be 1GB of system memory on board the handset. That’s double the amount inside an iPhone 4S.

Galaxy Nexus display
The huge 4.65-inch Super AMOLED screen boasts 720p resolution. It’s bigger than the 4.27-inch display found on the Galaxy S2 (and the same as that found on the S2 HD LTE in the US) but thankfully smaller than the whacking great 5.3-inch display found on the Samsung Galaxy Note.

It’s also still dwarfed by the HTC Sensation XL by 0.05 inches.

Galaxy Nexus dimensions and weight
The device follows a similar form factor to its predecessor, the Samsung Nexus S, but is thinner at just 8.94mm thick and weighs in just a little heavier at 135g. The footprint? 36 x 68mm.

Galaxy Nexus Design
As you can see, the design language apes the previous Nexus S and Samsung Galaxy S2 with the lip at the bottom of the phone.

A button-less display may confuse some always looking to hit the Home key to get back to the main menu, but Google wanted to create a slick, edge-to-edge front to the phone.

While more rounded than the Galaxy S2, the Galaxy Nexus is almost the non-identical twin to the current darling of Android users.

Galaxy Nexus camera and video
The Galaxy Nexus shoots 1080p video, just like the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S2, and has a 5-megapixel rear camera with an LED flash. The front-facing snapper is a 1.3-megapixel unit. There’s also a panorama mode plus, according to Samsung, no shutter lag.

Galaxy Nexus mobile payments
As expected, NFC tech remains on board from the Nexus S – though the tech is still slow to roll-out across other handsets.

Galaxy Nexus connectivity and sensors
The handset also boasts Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11n Wi-Fi and HSPA+ (enabling download speeds of up to 21Mbps) over 4G networks, rolling out in the US at the moment. Unfortunately, we won’t see these in the UK quite yet. There’s also a proximity sensor as you’d expect and, strangely enough, a barometer. We could do with a few other phones featuring that.

Galaxy Nexus storage
The handset will be available in two versions featuring 16GB or 32GB of internal storage.

Galaxy Nexus storage
The handset features a 1,750 mAh battery – far better than the 1,420 mAh unit in the iPhone 4S.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus isn’t branded as being from Google
Although the handset still carries the name of the search giant on its rear, this is the first Nexus device not to have the word ‘Google’ as part of its name, following the Google Nexus One and Nexus S. It also isn’t called the Nexus Prime, as was rumoured.

source: techradar