Mmm. The HTC Touch HD is a pretty stylish phone, if a little bit pokey, but anyone expecting the high quality associated with, well, HD, will be greatly disappointed.
June 10th, 2009
With the BlackBerry Storm, RIM has pushed its iconic email phone head long into the touchscreen tea cup. Giving us the amusing – if slightly obvious – reference, the Storm in a teacup. Sorry. We’ll get on with the review now.
Introducing the BlackBerry 8110 Pearl, so called for the pearl-like trackball in the centre of the handset. Couple this with HTC’s Diamond and you’ve got the makings of an expensive smartphone necklace!
“BlackBerry” and “sexy”, like “Gordon Brown” and “affable” aren’t terms you’d normally put together. And, while we still hesitate to say that the BlackBerry Flip is sexy, it’s definitely re-writing the businessman’s smartphone rule book.
Ever owned a mobile so powerful it feels like you’re carrying an extra brain? The BlackBerry Bold is one such phone, combining Wi-Fi, 3G and a full QWERTY keyboard in a surprisingly slick, black case, whilst maintaining that which made BlackBerry so addictive: email.
Once in a while a real trophy gadget comes along. The Apple iPhone was one such, but how we quaked at Apple’s attempt to hide a lack of 3G beneath the gossamer thin facade of a sexy touchscreen and brain-dullingly simple user interface. It was a bit like putting lipstick and a nice hat on the Elephant Man. Apple, however, has kindly rectified that problem with the aptly named Apple iPhone 3G – the mobile the original iPhone should have been.