Samsung M8800 Pixon Review by Smape

Smape has reviewed the Samsung M8800 Pixon in an extensive review with lots of pics.

The outward appearance of M8800 is very reminiscent of a common miniature-sized handheld Samsung camera, resemblance found even in the materials. Metal finds an active use, just like in i8510. The camera lens sticks out above the surface but slightly, a second protruding piece added a bit lower to balance the handset and make it easier to hold. The quality of assembly and materials is pleasingly high. Just like any other touchscreen handset, M8800 is exposed to unwanted fingerprints and soiling (to a tolerable extent). The screen diagonal, weight and size are all balanced, you don’t feel any discomfort holding the device in the hand. A thickness of 14.5 isn’t amazing, yet very pleasing for a 8 Mp cameraphone. The KC910 model is thinner, but is more exposed to soiling, and doesn’t have an equally good design.

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Sony Ericsson W902 Review by Smape

Smape has reviewed the Sony Ericsson W902 in a very long & detailed review with lots of pics.

For a long time, Sony Ericsson have been following the policy of an accurate segmentation of their products. The majority of music-oriented solutions normally have below-than-average camera capabilities, the cameraphones almost never get a decent headset in the bundling and come around with a very plain player interface. The W980i music phone flagship equipped with a 8 Gb onboard flash storage unit is a good illustration to this policy. The camera is pretty plain, and so is the camera-controlling application. At that, the model utilizes the integrated accelerometer to the full, the ShakeControl feature greatly improving the usability of the music player.

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Samsung Pixon M8800 leaks, has 8 Mega Pixel Cam

A new 8 Mega Pixel Cameraphone after the i8510 Innov8 from Samsung called the Pixon M8800 has leaked. The M8800 is the successor of the Samsung F480. The Pixon along with the 8 Mega Pixel Cam, has other goodies like GPS, Touch Screen, WVGA Video Recording, Accelerometer & DivX playback support. The only thing which can hurt the Pixon is the lack of the Wi-fi support in it which models like LG KC 910 have.The Samsung M8800 is set to start shipping as early as 10 November 2008 at a starting price of 550 euro (800 US dollars).

Smape has published a hands on of the Samsung Pixon M8800 with pics.


Detailed Specs of Samsung Pixon M8800 :

• 8 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash
• 720 x 480 & 640 x 480 30 FPS Video Capture
• Face recognition with smile detection and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction), GPS geotagging, ISO 1600
• 3.2 inch WQVGA Touch Screen with resolution of 240 x 400 pixels
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
• DivX playback
• 3G, HSDPA, & GPS
• Quad Band GSM
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Video & Audio Player
• FM Radio with RDS
• Document Viewer
• Micro SD card slot
• ShoZu integration - direct image and video upload
• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
• Handwriting recognition
• 107.9x54.6x14.9mm dimensions & 110 gm weight

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Samsung Pixon M8800 Front



Samsung Pixon M8800 Back



Samsung Pixon M8800 Top



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Samsung Pixon M8800 Left Side



Samsung Pixon M8800 Right Side


Comparison shots of Samsung Pixon M8800 & Samsung i900 Omnia

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HTC Touch Pro Review by Smape

Smape has reviewed the HTC Touch Pro in a very extensive review with more than 350 pics.

The HTC company pioneered the touch functionality by giving their latest PDAs a TouchFLO trademark interface. While the competitors are toiling at decent imitation, the company went on to announcing an updated version of the interface in their recent Diamond PDA. The ceremony took place in London, this summer. The model retains the status of the most popular WM product and one of the most advanced WM gadgets of all currently available from the market. This is largely due to the massive shift to an updated hardware platform, bringing on such powers as a 528 MHz CPU, an VGA screen, a 192 Mb of RAM and so on.

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Nokia N96 Review by Smape

Smape has reviewed the Nokia N96 in a very long & detailed review with lots of pics.

Nokia N96 is the company’s video flagship. That means that all the optimizations introduced into the model support solely that cause, the accent on mobile TV and video. N85 is more versatile and thus is going to win more popularity, but it can’t beat N96 in terms of video recording and playback, as well as in the musical department. Next comes a DVB-H digital TV module, so we get the best multimedia handset on the whole market which is going to stay so for quite a while on.

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Nokia N85 Review by Smape

Smape has reviewed the Nokia N85 in a very long & detailed review with lots of pics.

Let’s have a closer look at the positioning of N85. First of all, it’s meant to be a sequel to the musical N81 handset, claiming the throne of an ultimate gaming / music phone. The price bracket and target segment are all the same, as well as the starting amount of memory; on the other hand, every other aspect of functionality has been improved. Nokia N85 can also pass for a very good replacement to N95 8GB sporting almost the same functionality, yet implemented on a remarkably higher level. The same saying can be applied to the model’s positioning. The company are counting on N85 as the most likely candidate for becoming a mass market bestseller, massive investments being made into the promotional campaign.

Nokia N85 has no direct competitors save for N95 8Gb, but in all senses the former is preferable. The price gap between N85 and N96 is going to constitute 100 euros, that’s basically how much you’ll be charged for the extra memory and the DVB-H unit. N96 doesn’t offer any other practical advantages, and N85 is obviously preferable for better materials, size, screen quality, design and battery life. A comparison article pitting N96 against N85 is already available on the site, we hope you’ve already had a chance to skim through it and come up with a pretty clear idea of how things go for these two models.

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Moto Rokr EM30 & Sony Ericcson W302 compared by Smape

Smape has compared the Motorola Rokr EM30 & Sony Ericcson W302 in a detailed article.

An important point is that Motorola and Sony Ericsson took different paths on their chase of Nokia 5310. W890 was simplified to a huge extent, dropping its A200 platform in favor of a Sagem ODM-developed platform which is now used in W302. The materials, assembly, audio and misc things – everything was curbed and is distinctly different from the senior model. The continuity is just nominal, which is a very ambiguous step, given that the predecessor model was far from perfection itself, though much better than W880, which didn't even have a FM tuner.

The Americans took a smarter step by keeping EM30 pretty close to E8, which actually is little than a new version of the older handset, coming in different colors. The functional simplifications (memory, navigation wheel) help to drop down the price, so by the beginning of the sales the solutions will sell for roughly the same money. It's extremely important that Motorola preserved the fashion impact and even kept the same materials. This makes the solution the best offer in its class in that aspect.

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Moto Rokr EM30 reviewed by Smape

Smape has reviewed the Motorola Rokr EM30 in a detailed review.

RORK EM30 is quite a different story. That’s the top model in the line, but its actual positioning is that of a mid-end phone. In fact, it’s a simplified version of Motorola ROKR E8 with almost no differences between the two other than a few costly features taken out from the former. These points of difference are to be thoroughly described in the later sections of the article, and now let’s have a general view on the phone’s market positioning.


The luring combination of a relatively low price ($250 in September) and the expensive materials and design which were inherited from the E8 model, an unmatched audio quality, touch buttons serving as player controls – here are the principal selling points of this handset. The E8 model remains a rather expensive offer, that’s a fashion phone which will never be subject to serious price reduction, so the price gap between it and EM30 is going to always keep above $100. On the other hand, by paying an extra $100 the user gets a lot of extra memory, a FastScroll wheel and a more pronounced fashion impact. At that point, the principal differences between the two models come to an end.

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Nokia N85 & Nokia N96 comparison by Smape

Smape has compared N85 & N96 in detail.

The model index of N96 suggests its official status of a continuation of N95, the former having been announced back in spring at the mobile congress in Spain. Indeed, the device goes on with the evolution of the once successful idea by adding a digital TV unit, even more memory and such like extras. Amazingly, Nokia themselves officially pronounced N85 to be their vision of what will come next after N95 to pick up the torch. The former was presented in Moscow a few days ago, - being the most compact of all the double sliders known to exist on the market up to date. In this article we are going to track the development of the legendary cameraphone and air our recommendations on picking a replacement for N95.

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Nokia N79 & Nokia N85 First Impressions by Smape

Smape has published a first impressions article on N79 & N85.

N85 and N79 turned out to have a rather ambiguous nature, making it hard to tell for sure which niche either of the two was meant to occupy. The junior N79 model can be mistakenly attributed with being a replacement or a sequel of N78. It's simply another minor portfolio expansion with a handful of parameters tweaked to differ from the original handset. N78 isn't phasing out yet, the handset is to stay as one of the most affordable and balanced business smartphones (sporting also some fashion phone traits, let alone the rich functionality) for quite a long while from now on.

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