Red phones

Nokia may have been going through a lean time of late, but they still know how to steal a headline or two, and they managed just that at the recent Mobile World Congress with the announcement of the Nokia 808 PureView. Boasting an amazing 41 Megapixel camera, the Nokia PureView delivers never before seen imaging capabilities on a cameraphone, with some pretty impressive technology. Using a new technology called oversampling, the PureView handset has a high resolution 41 Megapixel sensor, with a Carl Zeiss lens, that together combine to allow the 808 capture images never before seen on a mobile phone. When...

To a regular by-stander, it could seem that these days smartphone is all about Android. The Operating system has shot up from nowhere just a few short years ago to being the OS that is most commonly found on new devices. A quick glance over the new handsets announced at the recent Mobile World Congress can only serve to reinforce such a view. One of the manufacturers who have benefited greatly from the emergence of Android has been Sony Ericsson. Not so long ago times were tough for Sony Ericsson, and many new devices failed to capture the imagination of...

Nokia have announced the forthcoming release of the Nokia 5250, a budget range handset with a focus on music and social media. The Nokia 5250 runs on the Symbian Operating System, so although technically it could be classed as a smartphone, the lack of many top end features means it hardly fits the bill for such a description. The handset offers a large 2.8 inch resistive TFT touchscreen, supporting up to 16 million colours and with a pixel resolution of 360 x 640. As the device has a resistive touchscreen, it will operate with a stylus, and support handwriting recognition,...