The Samsung Wave is the first Bada-powered handset. It’s a high-end phone that goes head-to-head with the HTC Desire and Apple’s iPhone in the global conflict we like to call the smartphone war. Will it lop off an Android head or two? We nabbed a pre-production model to see for ourselves. Read our Samsung Wave preview to find out, and have your questions answered!
The HTC Smart ought to be something of an oxymoron: instead of running smartphone software like Android or Windows Mobile 6.5, the tiny little phone runs Brew OS, Qualcomm’s mobile platform you might have seen powering an INQ phone or three – hardly one of the leading smartphone platforms. But HTC’s pasted its HTC Sense software over the top of it, which promises all the easy to use social networking skills of the HTC Tattoo or HTC HD Mini, and make up for a lack of apps by putting all your friends just a prod away. Read our HTC Smart review to find out just how smart it really is.
The HTC Smart is the cheapest new phone HTC’s served up in a long time, but it’s by no means the smallest: it’s almost identical in size and weight to the Android HTC Tattoo and Windows Mobile HTC Touch2. Does it improve on their plasticky feel, and does Brew OS make for better battery life than either smartphone operating system? Read on and find out in this section of our HTC Smart review.
The HTC Smart may be aimed at those who want a cheap phone for staying in touch with their mates online, but there’s no reason they should be left without proper media support when even the most bare bones handsets can play MP3s these days. How does the HTC Smart cope with your digital media library? Find out in this part of our HTC Smart review.
The HTC Smart is the first HTC Sense handset from the Taiwanese cellphone cobbler not to use either Android or Windows Mobile. Instead, it’s fuelled by the low power Brew OS, but HTC’s instantly recognisable social networking skin has been ported over, promising to link your contacts with your Facebook mates and bring all their updates right onto your homescreen. How well has it made the jump? Read this part of our HTC Smart review and we’ll tell you.
We scooped the first LG Cookie Fresh GS290 photos back in February, and we’ve now nabbed a finished version of the touchscreen phone for a first UK review. Is this an affordable, finger friendly blower, or does it simply show its cheapness? Read on and find out in our full LG Cookie Fresh review.
The LG Cookie Fresh might be one of the most spritely touchscreen phones available on a budget, but it’s not the only one kicking it at under £100 on Pay As You Go. There are plenty of options at this low price point – even smartphones – so be sure to read up on them and how they compare in this section of our LG Cookie Fresh review.
The LG Cookie Fresh really is a fresh new take on the stale LG Cookie design. Gone is the square, bloated look of the first touchscreen Cookie: in its place is a curvaceous, sleek handset that might even attract the eye of iPhone 3GS owners opposite you on the train. Is there much more to it than that though? Read our LG Cookie Fresh review to find out if it boasts brains as well as beauty.
