Nokia 6720 Classic mobile Review:

Nokia has just announced a new phone at the start of Mobile World Congress they have introduced the Nokia 6720 Classic Phone. This phone makes sure that people also get the best voice experience with the curved design fitting perfectly to the users face and new active noise cancellation, a feature appearing for the first time in the Nokia 6720 classic, which significantly improves the quality of voice by cutting down on external ambient sounds. Of course, all other features one requires are easily accessible with up to 20 days of standby time, high speed uplink and downlink Internet access and a TV-out connection for sharing images and video.

The Nokia 6720 classic is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2009 at an estimated retail price of 245 EUR before taxes and subsidies.

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Sony Ericsson S302 Mobile Review:

Sony Ericsson just launched its new S302 Snapshot mobile phone. The Sony Ericsson S302 Snapshot has been designed - good looks, must-have features and a pocket-sized slim design. “The Sony Ericsson C302 Cyber-shot has been developed to make us all better digital photographers! That means making it easier to take great shots and never missing that magic moment.” said Sven Totté, Head of Imaging Marketing at Sony Ericsson.. Well, this is no surprise after all, as Sony Ericsson made the S302 to be a mid-end device that should bring users mobile photography at a reasonable price.

Part of Sony Ericsson's new Snapshot series, S302 is a slim candybar which comes with a design that resembles several other candybars released by the Swedish-Japanese company in the last few years. The highlights of S302 are its 2 Megapixel camera with fixed focus, flash and video, and the fact that it allows users to quickly share photos, via MMS, Buetooth or upload to blogs or other websites.

* Good for your image
* Slick and slimline with a stylish design and a premium, high-gloss finish
* 2.0 megapixel camera with an easy-to-learn camera menu.
* Use the S302 just like you would a digital camera
* Photo light and Photo fix - useful photo functions to help you get the shots you want
* Capture the action - video recording and playback
* Room for your entire photo album
* Up to 20 MB internal memory and Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
* Transfer photos easily via USB, Bluetooth or Memory Stick Micro

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Oregon Scientific ATC5K Waterproof Action Camera review

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We like:

Colour LCD screen makes it easy to use in the field; useful webcam and live monitor functions; waterproof, shockproof design
We don't like:

Front-heavy design makes the unit difficult to mount in a stable fashion; abysmal low-light performance
CNET UK judgement:

The Oregon Scientific ATC5K Waterproof Action Camera is easy to pick up and start using, and can take bumps and splashes in its stride. Unfortunately, it falls flat when it comes to video and photo quality
Full review:

Usually, extreme-sports camcorders are ruggedly simple affairs that forgo complications such as LCD viewfinders in favour of compact and durable designs. The £150 Oregon Scientific ATC5K Waterproof Action Camera, however, squeezes a small, full-colour LCD screen into its smallish body, while still preserving its waterproof and shockproof design. Contin

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Text first, think later: Predictive text makes teens even more impulsive Review:

Scientists -- what would we do without them? -- reckon that predictive texting teaches children to act first and think later. New research suggests that increased use of mobile phones such as the Nokia 5530 is making kids more impulsive and less thoughtful.

Researchers at Monash University, Melbourne tested a selection of kids aged between 11 and 14, with a quarter of the group making more than 15 calls a week and a quarter sending more than 20 texts a week. Only 20? Strictly amateur. The kids then took IQ-related tests.

Those teens with busier thumbs completed the tests more quickly, but less accurately. Professor Michael Abramson suspects predictive texting is to blame, suggesting that repeated use of this quick-fix technology is making the yoot more impulsive: "If you're used to operating in that environment and entering a couple of letters and getting the word you want, you expect everything to be like that."

While we probably wouldn't have needed an academic research budget (although we wouldn't say no) to point out that teenagers are impulsive and often act without thinking of consequences, we can't help but resist this kind of kids-are-getting-thicker-A-levels-are-getting-easier-it-were-all-fields-round-here-when-I-were-a-lad media coverage. Texting may be changing the way kids develop, but we grew up with pocket calculators and spellcheck and that never harmed our impulse control and our spelling is just fne thankz.

The research appears in a paper entitled 'Mobile telephone use is associated with changes in cognitive function in young adolescents' in science journal Bioelectromagnetics. We warn you, it's slightly longer than 160 characters.

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Nokia's XpressMusic 5530 Review:

Nokia has announced that its XpressMusic 5530 handset will be arriving in the UK on 11 August. Billing it as a rival to LG's "Cookie" handset, Nokia's new phone is a low-end touchscreen aimed at teenagers.

It's going to cost £130, or it'll be free on a £15 per month contract. Which networks will be carrying It hasn't been announced yet, but we'd guess it'll be showing up as widely as possible. It'll be available in black/red and blue/white colour combos and Nokia says the phone offers "superb value for money".

As previously reported, it's a 2G handset, but it does pack Wi-Fi alongside its 2.9-inch resistive touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera and 3.5mm headphone jack. It runs at the same resolution as the N97, but the screen is smaller, so expect crisp images compared to Nokia's flagship handset.

Keep an eye on Pocket-lint for a full hands-on video and review.

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Nokia to install Microsoft Office on mobile phones Review:

Software giant Microsoft is working with phone manufacturer Nokia to install a version of its Office suite of applications on mobile phone handsets.

The pair will begin working together immediately to design, develop and sell the applications, which be marketed under the 'Microsoft Office Mobile' brand

The new partnership is the latest salvo in the already hectic war for the corporate mobile phone market.

From Microsoft's perspective, the aim of the deal is to give some leverage against Google and others who are providing free web-based applications on a number of different mobile handsets.

For Nokia, it marks a fight-back against the likes of Apple and Research in Motion whose iPhones and BlackBerrys are particularly popular among the business market.

The pair will begin working together immediately to design, develop and sell the applications, which be marketed under the "Microsoft Office Mobile" brand.

The suite of applications will first be launched on Nokia's range of Eseries phones, which are aimed at business users.

The two companies said that people will be able to read, create and edit Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote programmes via their Nokia phones, through its advanced Symbian operating system.

Nokia phones will also link to Microsoft's existing Unified Communications platform, which unites phones, email, instant messaging and online conferencing for corporate users.

The deal represents a fight-back by Microsoft against the likes of Google, whose range of similar, free internet and mobile applications has begun to dent part of the software providers most profitable business.

Next year, Microsoft is expected to launch a web-based version of the Office suite of products called Office Web Apps as part of its fight-back, at the same time as it releases Office 2010.

Shares in Microsoft rose 2.4pc on the news.

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Mysterious GeForce Go 7300 Debuts In Asus Laptop Review:

Two treats for the price of one here folks, we’ve got the latest laptop from style gurus Asus and titbits on a new mobile nVidia 7 series graphics card before its official launch.

Funnily enough, this happens more than companies would like to admit: one launches a product not realising it has unannounced peripherals inside. That said, nVidia doesn’t seem to be on the warpath so something must have been agreed beforehand. Let’s start with the laptop and work our way down.

As always, it’s a bit of a looker – dubbed the A6Vm – it has a 15.4in WXGA screen yet weights only 2.8Kg. This can be backed up with an AMD Turion 64 or Pentium M 700 sequence processor, a maximum of 2GB of DDR2 533MHz RAM and a 100GB HDD. A swanky extra is the integrated 1.3 megapixel camera, with more standard stuff like Bluetooth, wireless g, and SPDIF output making up the numbers.

Standing out a mile, however, is the installed nVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics card, a previously unknown mobile option from the 3D specialist. Little is revealed about this mysterious offspring but Asus does let slip that it comes in either 128 or 256MB configurations, is DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 3.0 compatible and uses nVidia’s PureVideo technology for smoother playback. Performance is ambiguously described as “increased by 41 per cent over previous graphic solutions” but compared to what exactly? I very much doubt it is going to outrun a Go 7800GTX.

In addition, the fact that it uses TurboCache suggests it will be more of a midrange offering but we’ll have to grab one by the throat and benchmark it within an inch of its life to know for sure. No pricing or release dates have been made available yet, but we’re curious to say the least…

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