BuyMobilePhones have some great new deals on Orange with the LG KC910 Renoir. It’s free on Dolphin 40 (12m) with 7 months half price, or free on Canary 30 (18m) with 5 months free.

The LG KC910 Renoir is an 8 megapixel cameraphone with a 3 inch touchscreen and an impressive specification. The camera promises excellent photos with a Schneider Kreuznach lens, xenon flash plus face, smile and blink detection. It can record video at up to 120 frames per second and has a TV out socket and slow motion playback.

The LG KC910 renoir is a 3G phone with videocalling. It also has HSDPA, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth and GPS for geo-tagging your photos with their exact location. There’s a decent organiser with a document viewer supporting PDF, Microsoft Word and Excel files. The advanced media player features Dolby sound, Xvid and DivX video playback. Fabulous!

Now how about a bit of trivia? Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was instrumental in the development of the Impressionist style of painting. Because of its advanced imaging capabilities, the LG KC910 Renoir was named after the French artist.

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Virgin Mobile have added a new £10 tariff to their Liberty SIM. It’s a pay monthly contract with no commitment, giving you all the groovy stuff from a contract, but with more freedom. Virgin Mobile say that the Liberty SIM is the best of both worlds.

For only £10 per month you’ll be given 200 minutes and 200 texts. These can be used to call and text mates and family on any UK network. There’s a choice of several tariffs, such as 150 minutes and 1000 texts for £15 per month.

Put the SIM card in your existing phone and you’ll be ready to go. You might need to have your phone unlocked first, if it’s been locked for use only on a specific network.

If you’ve come to the end of your contract, or if you’re a PAYG user spending more than £10 per month then this could be for you. With no obligation you can cancel at any time, just give 30 days notice.

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The Nokia 3600 Slide is a neat and compact, mid-range slider. It has a nice oval shape with a 2 inch screen. Classed as all-round entertainment phone, the Nokia 3600 Slide has a stereo FM radio and Nokia’s renowned music player, which is controlled using the large D-pad on the front of the phone. It has a 2.5mm audio jack so you’ll need a 3.5mm adapter (get on one eBay) if you want to use your own headphones. A 512MB memory card is included. This can be expanded to 8GB.

The 3 megapixel camera can take photos at a resolution up to 2048×1536 pixels, which is more than enough for most people. It has autofocus and produces reasonable photographs for a mid-range cameraphone. Basic VGA video recording is also offered at 15 frames per second. A nice feature is the TV out port, which allows photos and videos to be shown on your big screen TV.

Running on the latest version of Nokia’s S40 operating system, the Nokia 3600 Slide includes a handful of games and plenty of useful applications. For example, there’s an all-embracing organiser, Opera Mini web browser and Nokia Maps applications. Nokia Maps is a route planner with easy-to-follow directions. When connected up to a Bluetooth GPS receiver, the Nokia 3600 Slide can become a complete sat nav device.

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Out now and free on Flext 40 with FREE Web’n'Walk. Plus get an extra 10% off only when you buy online.

The T-Mobile G1 (or Google Phone) brings you everything you love about the Internet in a mobile phone. With a 3.2 inch touchscreen and trackball, it’s made for browsing the web. Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Calendar and much more are just a touch away. With GPS you can use Google Maps to shows detailed street, traffic and satellite views.

It has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and video record. The G1 is the first phone to run on the Android platform, which is an open source operating system. This means there are plenty of third party applications to download and install on the phone. Other features include HSDPA, Wi-Fi and GPS.

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I was asked to pop along to see the new BlackBerry Storm yesterday which is Vodafone’s answer to the iPhone on 02. The guys from Vodafone and BlackBerry were there to answer any questions and of course to let me get my grubby mitts on the next potential iPhone Killer so here is what I made of it…

The BlackBerry Storm (previously known as BlackBerry 9500) needs to be directly compared to the iPhone as both are now aimed squarely at the same lucrative audience of both business users and the everyday phone users with their rich featuresets and enterprise level functionality.

The BlackBerry Storm is slightly beefier than the iPhone at 112.5 x 62.2 x 14mm compared to the iPhone’s 115 x 61 x 11.6 mm but it’s hardly noticeable in your hand. The extra 20g weight (155g) compared to the 135g of the iPhone might be a bit more noticeable though.

Where does this extra bulk go then?

Well first off it didn’t go on a WiFi chip which is the most striking omission to the BlackBerry Storm’s specifications in my opinion. No built in WiFi means you will have to rely on the all you can use Vodafone mobile Internet data policy which is bundled with all BlackBerry Storm contracts. Obviously this isn’t really an issue if you are within Vodafone’s super fast HDSPA (3.5 G) areas, which are among the UK’s fastest data networks but browsing / emailing where there is a FREE, faster WiFi connection and only GPRS network coverage would seriously annoy me!

The large 3.25″ high-resolution screen (480 X 360 pixels) screen is very clear and crisp and will definitely make journeys fly when coupled with a few movies stored on a microSD™ memory card. The screen also makes viewing the images captured from the 3.2 mega pixel camera great as you can see the extra fine details this camera picks up compared to the 2 mega pixel camera found in the iPhone. This camera has auto flash, auto focus and 2x digital zoom and coupled with the in built Flickr™ and Facebook™ applications you will be able to upload your snaps quickly and easily to share on the web.

Browsing the web using this large screen and the built in BlackBerry browser is a good experience but is maybe a shade less pleasurable compared to the iPhone’s browser and even the bundled Opera browser on the latest HTC Touch handsets which are both top notch. However one advantage the BlackBerry Storm does have over its rivals is a feature called Cursor Mode which enables you to have an on screen mouse pointer and by moving your finger around the screen and clicking on any point on the screen gives you get left click, mouse like precision for web links and editing documents etc.

Music wise the inbuilt music player is good and is tightly integrated with Vodafone’s Music Store service where you can download new tracks, albums and listen to 30 second previews of the latest songs. Also for the majority of people who use Apple’s iTunes to organise their play-lists and music collections you will be pleased to know the BlackBerry Storm can sync with iTunes however this will only be with your own ripped content not Apple DRM protected music!

The inbuilt GPS in the BlackBerry Storm uses Vodafone’s Find & Go service which is much like other GPS technologies however it does come with a nifty search and share service built in to allow you to share and view places of interest people have uploaded via their GPS phones. The downside to this native Find & Go GPS service though is you only get 6 months Find & Go Sat Nav subscription with your new contract compared to the unlimited usage of the iPhone’s Google Maps software which seems a little stingy on Vodafone’s part.

In the short time I had hands on with the BlackBerry Storm I couldn’t say I like the new “tactile-touch” on screen keyboard compared to the old faithful physical QWERTY keyboards found on other BlackBerry phones.

The “easy and precise touch screen typing that is claimed via this new on screen QWERTY keyboard (full QWERTY in landscape mode only) felt a little more like clunky and cumbersome compared to say the iPhone and HTC’s Touch Diamond on screen keyboard efforts.

The primary reason for the difficulties I had getting along with the new keyboard is the fact the BlackBerry Storm’s screen is built using a unique new technology where the screen is actually spring-loaded so the whole screen effectively acts as one big button. So rather than the keys sensing my fingers like other touch screen keyboards I had to physically press the screen down down to press the keys. I suspect you would get used to this new style on screen keyboard but losing the brilliant physical QWERTY keyboard in place of this radically different, push down, on screen version might put a lot of people off within their initial contract cooling off period.

All the standard enterprise level BlackBerry email functionality and remote administration features that Research In Motion’s (RIM) success has been founded on are still present and do set the BlackBerry Storm apart from its competitors in the corporate environment. However the other large target audience of ‘normal’ end users who Vodafone and BlackBerry are going after with this handset won’t really be interested in locking down certain features and applications so I can’t see these features selling extra handsets to these ‘normal’ users.

So in summary the BlackBerry Storm is the most consumer friendly handset that RIM have released to date and a lot of new ‘normal’ end users will buy it.

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The following summary table should give a good overview of the pros and cons of the BlackBerry Storm compared to the iPhone:

HTC’s Touch HD (previously known in development as HTC Blackstone) is now available to pre-order on both Orange and O2 networks. The HTC Touch HD is the top of the range Windows Mobile handset (alongside the Touch Pro) with a large 3.8” wide, WVGA (480×800 pixels) screen that hints at it’s superior mutlimedia capabilities.

This amazingly large, clear and crisp screen alongside a 5 megapixel camera, standard 3.5mm headphone jack, integrated GPS, microSD™ memory card slot, RDS FM Radio and HSDPA internet capabilities gives the Touch HD a compelling list of multimedia specifications.

The Touch HD’s superior screen coupled with the intuitive TouchFLO™ 3D interface makes browsing the web using the pre-loaded with the Opera a joy. Double tap the screen and the browser zooms in smoothly to your chosen web page. Then simply swipe across the screen with your finger to scroll around web pages quickly and effortlessly.

Listening to music using HTC’s music player is a breeze. The intuitive touch screen controls work equally as well when scrolling around the inbuilt, GPS powered Google Maps. Size wise the dimensions of the Touch HD are 115 mm x 62.8 mm x 12 mm, with the handset feeling particularly thin due to the omission of a slide out QWERTY keyboard when compared to the Touch Pro. The Touch HD also feels quite light at 147 grams (with battery).

With its large screen and advanced multimedia capabilities the Touch HD will no doubt become a best-selling web browsing, email, office, movie and music device.

Orange are claiming exclusivity until 2009 and will be charging £80 for the Touch HD on an 18 month contract. But the CPW group will be selling it on O2 and Orange and it will be free on an 18 month contract at £35 per month. It can be pre-ordered now and first stock is due on 7th November.

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Now only £35 per month on an 18 month contract with a choice of network. Up to 750 xnet mins per month and unlimited texts.

When you first pick up the Nokia N96 you know it’s something special. The 2.8 inch screen dominates the front of the phone and is great for browsing the web or using the Nokia maps application. Beneath the screen are the usual navigation and menu keys and on the back is a useful kick stand, allowing the N96 to be placed on a desk for viewing videos or movies. The Nokia N96 has 16GB of internal memory which can be expanded to a huge 24GB using an 8GB memory card.

The Nokia N96 supports most video formats and using a Wi-Fi connection it also supports the BBC iPlayer. You can watch all the top BBC programmes on your mobile for free. Your N96 can sit on your desk while you catch up with the latest EastEnders or Holby City. You’ll never miss an episode again and you can watch them any time.

The 5 megapixel camera has a top spec and takes brilliant photos. It has a Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus, digital zoom, LED flash, macro mode for close-ups, light exposure adjustment and a range of timers. Don’t be bedazzled by the marketing hype surrounding the 8 megapixel war. The camera on the N96 is absolutely brilliant, you won’t be disappointed.

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Free on a 12 month contract with 8 months half price line rental.

The LG KC780 has an 8 megapixel camera with red eye reduction and face recognition. It has a high quality lens and promises excellent photographs. It can also record DVD-like quality video at up to 30 frames per second. There’s 140MB of internal memory, which can be upgraded using a memory card, up to a maximum of 4GB.

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Some great new deals this week with the Samsung i900 Omnia on T-Mobile. It’s now free on a 12 month contract for just £30 per month line rental.

The Samsung i900 Omnia is the latest touchscreen smartphone from Samsung. It can be used for all your mobile, sat nav, internet, email and photography needs. Or, in techy terms it has 3G, HSDPA, Wi-fi, a GPS receiver and a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, face detection and smile detection! Photographs can be geotagged, this means that every photo you take is not only stamped with the date and time but also with it’s exact location.

The Samsung i900 Omnia targets two types people in a single device. It’s suitable for the business user who is constantly on the move and need access to the web, emails and Windows Mobile applications. The Samsung i900 can be plugged into a laptop and used as a USB modem. It’s also suitable for busy bodies who are anxious to access their social networks 24/7 and like to have the latest multimedia technology in their pocket.

As a media device, the Samsung i900 is among the best. The 3.2 inch touchscreen display has a 16:9 widescreen aspect and thanks to a built-in accelerometer the screen automatically rotates when the phone is turned on its side. It has TV output too, movies and photos can easilly be viewed on a big screen. There’s 8GB of internal memory for storing music, video, photos or presentations.

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Out now and free on a 12 month contract.

The Nokia N85 has a dual slide design similar to the N96. It’s slimmer and lighter than Nokia’s flagship and it has a 2.6 inch OLED display, which uses less power than a normal LCD.

Classed as a multimedia phone, the Nokia N85 has dedicated multimedia keys and a touch sensitive navi wheel. It has automatic screen rotation for viewing movies plus stereo Bluetooth, a standard 3.5mm audio jack, TV out and an FM transmitter. An 8GB memory card is included for storing music and video files.

The Nokia N85 is also a gaming phone with 15 N-gage titles pre-loaded. An unlock code is provided only for one game though so you’ll have to choose carefully.

The camera has 5 megapixels with autofocus and it can record video at 30 frames per second. With GPS, photos can be geotagged with their exact location. Nokia Maps is pre-installed and a 3 month free navigation license is included.

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Samsung’s latest touchscreen, 8 megapixel cameraphone is free on a 12 month contract for just £30 per month.

Plus you can choose a free gift such as an ab trainer, a stepper, hair devils or £25 automatic cash back. Great value deals with no nonsense.

The Samsung M8800 Pixon is a full touchscreen cameraphone with a built-in GPS receiver. The 8 megapixel autofocus camera can take photos with a resolution of 3264×2448 pixels. It can capture high resolution video at 30 frames per second and it has auto-panarama, image stalisation, smile detection and blink detection. There’s also a video call camera.

The Samsung Pixon is a 3G phone with HSDPA support. It has a GPS receiver for geotagging photos but unfortunately there is no Wi-Fi. The 3.2 inch touchscreen uses Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, sensitivity is good and the screen provides haptic feedback.

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12 month contract on T-Mobile. £30 per month line rental on Combi 30. You can claim £180 cash back, which is effectively 12 months half price line rental. 300 anytime minutes and 200 texts per month.

The Samsung F480 Tocco is a 3G touchscreen phone with HSDPA 7.2Mbps for high speed data access. It has a 5 megapixel camera and a large 2.8 inch display with a haptic touchscreen interface. Built from high quality materials, the Samsung F480 has a flat face with a glossy black surround and comes with a wallet-style leather case.to protect the screen. There are just three keys on the front of the phone. On the side of the F480 you’ll find a camera shortcut key, a volume rocker control and a hold key which locks the keys and screen.

The Samsung F480 uses the colourful, award-winning Croix touchscreen interface and provides haptic vibration feedback. The built-in music player is reminiscent of the iPod touch. Music can be played in the background while other applications are being used. A widget allows you to pause and skip tracks from the home screen as well as providing quick access to the full music player application. With about 230MB of internal memory there’s enough space to store a decent selection of music. Memory can be expanded up to 8GB using a microSD card.

Other features of the Samsung F480 include an FM radio with RDS, stereo Bluetooth, a brilliant organiser, a good web browser and course a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, face detection and video stabilisation. The Samsung F480 is a good all-round device with plenty of features that will keep you entertained for a very long time.

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The new all-you-can-eat music service from Nokia has been launched in the UK this week.

So how does it work? You buy a Nokia 5310 music phone on PAYG for £130 and you’re given a 12 month subscription to Nokia’s Comes With Music service. You can browse the Nokia music library on the Internet and download as many tracks as you want to your PC. You can then transfer tracks to your phone using the supplied data cable. The music is DRM protected, which means it can only be played on your computer or on your Comes With Music phone. You can’t copy them to your iPod or burn them to a CD.

If your computer breaks then whatever you already downloaded can be downloaded again to a different computer. If you accidentally delete or lose your music you can download it again for up to two years after your 12 month subscription has ended.

For £130 it’s very good value for money. There are millions of tracks available, mostly mainstream chart music from past to present. The Nokia 5310 is a decent phone too. Available now with a range of seven different colour combinations.

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Free on O2 pay monthly contract with cash back or a range of free gifts.

The Nokia 6600 Slide is a high quality, mid-range mobile phone with smooth surfaces and a well-proportioned design. The slide out keypad fills the entire surface, good for people with big thumbs while still keeping overall phone dimensions to a minimum. The Nokia 6600 Slide has Nokia Maps pre-installed.

The 3.2 megapixel camera has flash, zoom and video record, 3G video calling is also supported through the second camera mounted above the screen. Memory can be expanded up to 4GB.

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Red Letter Days is the UK’s No.1 experience company and you can now get a free £250 voucher when you buy your next pay monthly mobile phone.

You can choose from a wide range of activities and you can split your voucher and book several different experiences. For example, Mum can have a pamper spa day at a top UK spa with a light lunch included, Dad can have a PGA Golf Pro lesson followed by 18 holes and the kids can go indoor karting. All three events can be booked using a single £250 voucher.

Or if you want to give a gift this Christmas, other Junior experiences include driving a Ferrari or an Aston Martin! Or if you’re treating someone a little less junior they can choose to be Bond for a day playing Spy Games, learn the art of Sushi Making on a gourmet day or aim high above the clouds with Aerobatic Stunt Flying!

The Aura is a luxurious new mobile phone from Motorola. It’s the first phone ever to feature a circular display and it will be available from December 2008.

Motorola have been out of the limelight for a while but the new Aura is bound to be on few Christmas lists this year. It’s constructed from top quality materials and it has a Swiss-crafted rotational opening mechanism. Features are basic with a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and 2GB internal memory. The 1.5 inch screen is small but has a high resolution, an impressive 480×480 pixels.

With a price tag of more than £1,000 the Motorola Aura will be very exclusive.

We’ve got an exclusive new Nokia N96 deal for you, which is only available through this web site. Supplied by OneStopPhoneShop, you can have a free Nokia N96 on the 3 network with £20 automatic cash back. Line rental is £35 per month and includes 750 anytime minutes per month to any network, plus unlimited texts.

When you first pick up the Nokia N96 you know it’s something special. The 2.8 inch screen dominates the front of the phone and is great for browsing the web or using the Nokia maps application. Beneath the screen are the usual navigation and menu keys and on the back is a useful kick stand, allowing the N96 to be placed on a desk for viewing videos or movies. The Nokia N96 has 16GB of internal memory which can be expanded to a huge 24GB using an 8GB memory card.

The Nokia N96 supports most video formats and using a Wi-Fi connection it also supports the BBC iPlayer. You can watch all the top BBC programmes on your mobile for free. Your N96 can sit on your desk while you catch up with the latest EastEnders or Holby City. You’ll never miss an episode again and you can watch them any time.

The 5 megapixel camera has a top spec and takes brilliant photos. It has a Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus, digital zoom, LED flash, macro mode for close-ups, light exposure adjustment and a range of timers. Don’t be bedazzled by the marketing hype surrounding the 8 megapixel war. The camera on the N96 is absolutely brilliant, you won’t be disappointed.

£45 per month line rental with 900 xnet minutes and 500 texts. The Nokia N96 is due on 1st October and is now available to order online direct from Vodafone. Don’t forget to enter voucher code vodablue1 at the checkout to receive a free Bluetooth headset with your order (for online orders only).

The Nokia N96 has the same dual slide design as the N95. It’s a similar phone with a 5 megapixel camera, 2.8 inch screen, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and excellent multimedia functions. It has 3G, HSPDA and GPS with Nokia Maps and Geo-tagging. It has the Nokia web browser with Mini Map and an RSS reader. The N96 is slightly longer and wider than the N95 8GB but 3mm thinner, so pretty much the same size.

The Nokia N96 has 16GB internal memory which can be expanded to a huge 24GB using an 8GB memory card. This is the N96’s main advantage over the N95 8GB and the biggest reason why people might choose the N96. It also has a new N-Gage gaming engine and a newer version of the Symbian S60 OS. The Nokia N96 also has a DVB-H TV receiver but this is of no use in the UK as we don’t have any DVB-H TV broadcasts.

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Available now SIM free and coming soon on pay monthly contract, the new Nokia 7610 Supernova is a sliderphone with a 3.2 megapixel camera and TV-out port.

It’s the flagship of the Supernova series and it has the ability to record high quality video at 30 frames per second. A smart feature of the Nokia 7610 Supernova is it’s keypad illumination colour, which along with the onscreen theme, automatically changes depending on the current environment.

Only £169.99 SIM free with free delivery. The Nokia 7610 Supernova is in stock now at Play.com.

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Now free and only £25 per month on a 12 month contract. Plus, receive £85 cash back.

The Sony Ericsson W980i Walkman phone is designed to allow you to listen to music as it should be heard. When closed, the clamshell looks like a portable music player with large touch-sensitive music keys, which offer haptic feedback. A great audio experience requires great quality speakers or headphones. The W980i has built-in stereo speaker but for best performance use the new Stereo HPM-77 headset, which is included with the phone.

The W980i also has a built-in FM transmitter, which allows you to send whatever’s playing on your phone to other devices with a built-in FM radio receiver. You can store up to 8,000 songs on the W980i. With the recent evolution of PlayNow arena, you can access up to 5 million tracks to maximise your music collection. The W980i’s TrackID feature, which can identify any track that you just can’t put a name to, will be fully integrated into PlayNow arena.

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