Of phones and fashion

We guys have a soft spot for gadgets, and when u put it together with fashion, its going to be hard to ignore. Lucky thing is, they dont normally give the best of 2 worlds. You either get a good-looker or a powerful player.

So here i am, trying to find the best excuse to change my mobile phone.


LG

No doubt my fashion statement of the season, esp the Shine series (oh yes, the Prada LG or LG prada, as u like). Personally like all things black (besides cars which is a nightmare to maintain) so this one fits in nicely into my inventory. (cept the touch-screening)


Not feature packed phones from the koreans, but that's what its all about. They are all based on looks looks and looks. The kind which pple will dish out of their pockets onto the coffee/wine/pub/office table at the slightest chance. Why not, since it will most definitely induce interest in pple 'can i take a look at that for a while?'

Prada LG


LG Chocolate


Shine series

NOKIA

Still the best selling phone in the world, and a good reason at that. A recent report states that the Finnish company sold more than 346 million nokia handset in 2006, almost an average of 1 million set a day.

The King got the N95 once its launched, and all the hyde about the navigator built-within tried to cover the problems that comes with it. Has a powerful 5.0mp camera, but i tried taking a picture last week in KL and it resets automatically. Worse, its harder to reach His Majesty these days cos he has difficulties answering the phone without the N95 hanging itself.

'You gotta have the software upgraded' says all the gurus around me. We shall see.

Oh yes, about the E90. First mini computer phone to feature a powerful 5.0mp camera. Wouldnt be cheap though. Can use it as a self-defence tool when entering Msia too.

E90

HTC

I'm not the biggest fan of touch phones (as quoted by Hardware mag, true man uses a keypad :P) after a horrid experience with my O2 atom. But the recent aggressive advertisement runs by the Taiwan phonemaker's Touch series makes it hard not to sit up and notice.

Touch™

SONY ERICSSON

Ahh, one of my personal favs at the moment after the recent swirls of complaints about the symbian system by nokia around me on the N-series.

The P1 is currently top of my list with 3.2mp, qwerty keyboard and bulky-not structure. Not the best looker around, but what can you expect from a biz phone right. I've been checking out the M600 and M850 a while back, and this phone more or less filled up the shortcomings of the two.

The K850i is a sequel to my current K800i, cept the folks at Sony upgraded the Cyber-shot to 5.0mp this time round. So its like upgrading my compact digital cam rather than my phone. Looks wise nothing to shout about too.

SE-P1

K850i

APPLE

Another fashion statement to flash on the table top. Apple is trying to recapitulate its iPod success by entering the mobile phone sector. As said, i hate touch screens, so this doesnt goes down well with me. Steve Jobs claims a revolution to handphones - a triple player, call phone, iPod media player and a wireless Web device, but i seriously wonder if the battery life will be able to shoulder all that burden.

All things said, its going to be a bang when officially launched this week 29th June, 6pm, all around the world, based on local time zone. The iPhone is destinated to be an icon, much like its mp3 siblings, top of most wishlists around the world. Thus, its cool to have one. In addition, it will most probably have the highest value on the second hand market in yrs to come.... esp when Apple decides to cut its production in future.

iPhone