The end of October draws nigh, so it’s time for our mobile review roundup, pulling together all the phones we’ve checked out during the last lunar rotation. What have we seen? Plenty of mammoth touchscreen blowers, some Top 5 award winners, and some seriously promising cheap smartphones too. Read on for them all.
We’ve rounded up every mobile review we’ve published this month, so you can make your pick of all the new phones that much easier. Let’s break things down by platform – remember, you can check out the latest at any time over on our Mobile phone reviews page.
Windows Phone 7
Hey, guess what? Microsoft is totally back in the game, after the running joke that was Windows Mobile, otherwise known as the operating-system-that-must-not-be-named by the more superstitious. Windows Phone 7 is actually good, and we’ve got an in depth review of it. Bing bing!
HTC appears to have cottoned on to the fact that everyone likes its massive 4.3-inch mobiles, and served up another iteration of it with Windows Phone 7 onboard. And a kickstand. Would you use one of them? We’re not sure, but boy do we like Xbox Live games on the HTC HD7.
Not to be outdone by HTC, Samsung has taken its own popular hardware last seen in the Samsung Galaxy S, and slapped Windows Phone 7 on top of it. The result? Well, hit up our Samsung Omnia 7 review and find out.
Android
Only the iPhone 4 has had bigger hype around it this year, so find out whether the HTC Desire HD really is everything we hoped for. Short answer: it’s amazing, but runs out of battery faster than you can say “Android fragmentation”.
It sounds like a 1980s band who might have had a song played in the background of an episode of Miami Vice once and then fizzled out. But actually, it’s a tiny little Android phone, with some of the features of the stellar Samsung Galaxy S. Not all of them work, mind you – read the full review to find out what’s what.
This £99 Android phone came completely out of left field, mixed our metaphors, and bowled us over. Find out why we’ve crowned it best Android phone: budget Top 5 champ in our review – just click the pic.
