World`s 8 Most Expensive Mobiles

1. Goldvish Le million Price: $1,000,000 This is the most expensive mobile phone in the world according the Guiness Books of Records. The phone features a blinding 120 carats worth of VVS-1 grade diamonds. If $1 million is too much for you, the Geneva-based Goldvish also offer several other diamond-encrusted 18k gold models in a choice of rose, yellow, or white, starting at a more reasonable $25,600. Image: Goldvish Le million

2. Vertu Signature Cobra Price: $310,000 Vertu is now taking orders for the Signature Cobra, designed by French jeweller Boucheron, but you better be quick as only eight are being made. The Cobra will feature one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies. Vertu will also be offering a 'cheaper' version, ruby free, at $115,000. Image: Vertu Signature Cobra



3. Sony Ericsson Black Diamond Price: $300,000 The mobile has Quad-band with Wi-Fi, an Intel 400Mhz processor and a touch sensitive 2? screen. It has 128mb memory and comes with a 2Gb SD card for external storage and a 4 megapixel camera.




4. Vertu Diamond Price: $88,000 The Diamond is Vertu's premium range of high-end mobile phones. As the name suggests, the handsets features diamonds encrusted in a platinum base. Only 200 of the handsets are being produced. Image: Vertu Diamon




5. Motorola V220 Special Edition Price: $51,800 Austrian designer Peter Aloisson has taken a standard Motorola, studded it with 1,200 diamonds and added a keyboard inlaid with 18 carat gold. The outcome is simply spectacular. Image: Motorola V220 Special Edition





6. Gold Edition Nokia 8800 Phone Price: $2,700 If you have $2,700 to spare, you can now buy the Nokia 8800 in 24K gold. The handset includes a 0.5 mega pixel SVGA camera, 64 MB of internal memory, 64 voice polyphonic rigntones, FM Radio, Mp3 Player, video recording and 180 minutes' talktime. The Gold Edition includes a special edition box and charging dock!





7. Mobiado Professional EM (wood) Price: $1,900 The Mobiado Professional EM, is a wood-clad upgrade of an earlier Nokia-based phone that includes a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, FM radio, Bluetooth. According to Mobiado, it's the first production phone with titanium buttons. Only 200 are being made and each one has its number engraved on the back.



7. Mobiado Professional EM (wood) Price: $1,900 The Mobiado Professional EM, is a wood-clad upgrade of an earlier Nokia-based phone that includes a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, FM radio, Bluetooth. According to Mobiado, it's the first production phone with titanium buttons. Only 200 are being made and each one has its number engraved on the back.
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8. Bang & Olufsen (Samsung) Serene Price: $1,250 Bang & Olufsen hooked up with Samsung to design the sleek but unconventional Serene. The phone has a built-in motor to assist you in opening and closing the phone. It's not very practical, however, as it requires a special screwdriver to access the battery and the SIM card. Its circular keypad will take some getting used to. Also, for some strange reason the maker has positioned the camera lens on one side of the device, which will make it difficult to align snapshots via the viewfinder on the display.

Nokia N80 review

The much-delayed Nokia N80 is finally coming close to being released, and Sogi.com have managed to get their hands on one for a full-featured review. The N80 is a stunning technological show-stopper from Nokia, cramming in an extraordinary array of features. WiFi, Bluetooth, UPnP, 3 megapixel camera, 3G, VGA video camera, MP3 player and support for up to 2GB of storage are just some of the features of this amazing phone.

Read more on the Nokia N80 review after the jump.

Nokia N80 review

Of all the features the Nokia N80 supports, UPnP may be the most exciting. With UPnP, the N80 can be used to stream music and video directly between hi-fis and TVs, making the N80 the ultimate remote control.

At the click of a button, you can stream your music files through your hifi (as long as it too supports UPnP), or display your pictures and videos on your TV.

Nokia N80's camera

As can be seen from the photo above, the N80's 3 megapixel camera gives superb results, and even manages to take good photos at night (a feat unheard of with current camera-phones). It also sports a useful macro mode, taking shots as close as 15cm, whilst the video capabilities of the N80 are unusually smooth.

Connectivity

The Nokia N80 is a 3G phone, enabling users to browse the web, transfer files and use email using a high speed mobile connection. More impressively, though, is the N80's support for WiFi, enabling the user to do the same over a high speed WLAN connection when within range of a hot spot.

Web browser

The Nokia N80's web browser is pretty special to. Rendering web pages on a mobile phone has always been tricky, but Nokia's latest browser sports Mini-Map, a neat feature which renders the whole web page on the mobile phone, and lets the user scroll around and zoom in to whichever area of the site they like the look of. This enables the user to see the whole screen at once, as they would on a desktop, so they can get a feel for which part of the site seems interesting. Once the user's found the part they want to read, they simply press '8', and the site zooms in to the area of interest.

And so much more!

If all this doesn't whet your appetite for the N80, then how does Microsoft Office support sound, or a GPS add-on with full sat-nav functionality. The Nokia N80 is one amazing mobile phone, and may just be my next mobile phone!

Nokia N81 the most attractive Nokia yet

True to their word, Nokia have made a raft of announcements today, the most eagerly awaited of which is the new Nokia N81.

The N81 is a great-looking slider that doubles as both a music phone with a whopping 8GB of storage, as well as a games phone, with support for Nokia's new N-Gage gaming service.

In addition to 8GB of storage, the Nokia N81 also comes with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, 3.mm headphone jack, and full integration with the new Nokia Music Store and N-Gage gaming service.

What this means is that you can browse, buy and download music and games over the air without the need for a PC.

More details and pictures of the Nokia N81 after the jump.

Better still, the new service can sync your tunes between your phone and PC, copying both tunes and playlists to both devices, so you don't need to worry about having two disparate collections scattered between your home and your mobile.

More on Nokia's new music service later, though. Let's get back to the phone!

The N81 is a great looking device - EngadgetMobile rate it as one of the most attractive Nokia's they've ever seen. It's a slider device with a D-Pad in the middle of the controls, which not only offers the usual up/down/left/right combos, it also doubles as a touch sensitive ring (similar to the iPod).

It also comes with a new 3D user interface, which is obviously designed to counter the iPhone's new interface. Although not touchscreen (though touchscreen Nokia's are due to come out next year), it still marks a great departure from Nokia's existing interface, and is yet more evidence of the disruption the iPhone is causing to the mobile phone market.

Even if the iPhone were to fall flat on its face, its legacy will be reflected in every new mobile phone on the market from now onwards!

LG Chocolate Phone KG800 Review

LG Chocolate Phone KG800 Review

The LG Chocolate is a range of designer phones developed by LG, who recognized the trend towards phones with more style but less features, and thought they'd jump on board. The result is a series of phones that really do look the biz - minimalist looks, some cool designer features, and phones that can be willingly shown off to anyone in view.

The LG KG800 Chocolate phone, reviewed here, was first announced back in March 2006. As befits a designer phone, it's low on features - for example, you only get a 1.3 megapixel camera - but where it does shine is with the technology used to enhance its looks.

Multimedia Features

The LG KG800 is a designer phone, and so isn't designed to come with a whole host of features. As such, you get a standard 1.3 megapixel camera, video camera and MP3 player, and not a lot else. Well, apart from the usual plethora of mobile phone goodies, such as WAP2.0, SMS/EMS/MMS, Email, polyphonic ringtones and Java, but they're as expected on any mobile phone as wheels are on a car!

That said, the MP3 player is a bit above average, as LG throw in a remote control to access and play your tunes, as well as equalizer and decent sound quality. The only downside is that the KG800 only comes with 128MB of RAM, and there's no way to expand this.

The LG KG800 is a slider phone, and sliding the phone open reveals both a mobile phone keypad and the camera, complete with portrait mirror. The camera settings let you choose white balance, timer, and the flash, but not a lot else.

LG Chocolate Style

Despite having minimal technical features, it's the style aspect of the KG800 where it will be chiefly judged, and here it really execls. Even its packaging is super-stylish. According to LG, it's designed to look like a box of chocolates (a bit like life then...or is that another metaphor?!). According to CNet UK, "it is, without reservation, the best-looking box that has ever graced a mobile phone reviewer's table. Like a Japanese paint box, this black rectangular packaging looks like it was made to hold fine badger-hair brushes, not a mobile phone."

Which is a good start for a designer phone, but what about the phone itself?.

Fortunately, LG have that covered, too. Reviews across the web unanimously describe the KG800 as superb-looking, and it's won two design awards (the iF Design Award and the Red Dot Design Award). It's excellent design has also carried through to commerical success: when tested in Korea, LG shipped 300,000 KG800s in just three months - that's 7% of the entire Korean market!

Key to the KG800's style succes lies with its heat-sensitive red touchpad on its outer surface. When not in use, the outer case of the KG800 is entirely black, with no buttons to be seen, and the screen blending in with the black case.

This, incidentally, is what distinguishes a Chocolate phone from it's non-edible counterparts - Chocolate phones are designed to look like bars of dark chocolate (i.e. dark, bar-like, and without obvious mobile phone elements such as buttons and screens).

It's only when a call or text is received, or the user presses their fingers over the phone's touchpad beneath the screen, that the buttons become apparent. Glorious red glowing icons at that, which really make the phone stand out from all of its rivals. The touchpad is heat and touch sensitive, so it's only enabled when a human finger (or some other part of a human anatomy) touches it.

Other Features

The LG KG800 Chocolate phone comes with tri-band GSM connectivity and GPRS support. As befits a style phone, the KG800 Chocolate phone is super-thin - just 15mm thin, and weighing only 16g. There's also a white version of the KG800 on sale as well, which presumablty reflects white chocolate. No sign of the caramel or chocolate truffle versions yet, though (more's the pity....mmmmm, chocolate truffle!)

LG Chocolate Phone KG800 Reviews across the web

The LG Chcolate Phone KG800 reviews across the web all state what a good looking phone this is. However, there are caveats, as it's let down in certain areas where a bit more attention to detail would have made it close to perfect.

CNet UK, for example, in their LG Chocolate KG800 review, say that "we're in love with the look of it, but the touchpad can be awkward to use and it's a shame about the lack of expandable memory." They also go on to criticize the T9 text input system, which is fiddly, the lack of a speakerphone, and the buggy PC software. Like I said, all minor niggles, but evidence of LG focusing overly on the design at the expense of the details.

GSMArena, in their comprehensive LG Chocolate KG800 review, report that "as far as our opinion goes, we have rarely seen so beautifully designed mobile phone," but add the caveat that "Generally speaking, the phone has claims of being capable of a whole lot of stuff and indeed, we proved that it is capable of them but pitifully, it manages to perform them on the level of a poor student working on a mid-term paper." Ouch!

Mobile-Review have another comprehensive LG Chocolate KG800 review, and they too love its looks, but feel it's let down by some niggles. They state that "even though we won't guarantee you amazements or admiring gazes from other people in the street, we assure you of receiving enough covert glances...", and conclude that "while the KG800 looks marvelous and will appeal to those, seeking for fresh ideas in design and not paying much of attention to the manufacturer's size or image. And this phone fits all these criteria."

Conclusion

The LG KG800 Chocolate Phone is one of those phones you'll buy based solely on its looks. It has annoying niggles that mean its other features, such as MP3 player, camera, and even its touchpad, can't be used without causing you some ergonomic annoyance. If it was a standard phone, this would be kill the KG800 stone dead in the market, as a phone that doesn't work too well, doesn't sell too well!

But it's not a normal phone - it's one of the best looking mobile phone on the market today, and people will buy it purely for its looks. And be honest - unless you bought a dedicated music phone or smartphone, how often do you actually use your phone's MP3 player, or do anything else on it other than text or use voice? For those of you who want a phone as a phone, and better still, a phone that will really turn heads wherever you go, the LG KG800 Chocolate phone is for you.

LG KU990 Viewty Review

After spending the last year or so focusing on designer phones, such as the LG Chocolate and LG Shine, LG are repositioning themselves in the high-tech arena once more, and the new 5 megapixel LG Viewty camera phone is the first phone to be released as part of their new strategy.

Of course, LG have released a 5 megapixel camera phone before in the shape of the LG KG920, but that had no autofocus and was pants. The LG Viewty, on the other hand, looks to be glorious.

Read more on the LG Viewty review after the jump.

First, the big news. The LG Viewty does indeed come with a 5 megapixel camera, but thanks to autofocus, xenon flash and the ability to adjust ISO levels and white balance, it's actually an extremely usable 5 megapixel camera capable of taking some really good photos.

The pictures aren't as good in low light conditions as the Sony Ericsson K850i, as the flash isn't as good, but then the K850i's flash is the best on the market at the moment. Apparently the Viewty's flash is as good as the Nokia N95's, so we're still talking pretty decent, and the phone's great for outdoor shots.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the Viewty, though, is its video recording abilities. It can take video at a whopping 120 frames per second, which means you can take slow motion shots, like in the video below. As you can see, the quality is superb, and you won't find a phone capable of taking slow-mo shots like this anywhere else on the market at the moment.

There's also a YouTube button, which lets you upload your video to YouTube with one click. Of course, uploading video is a slow old process given the size of video files, particularly those taken at 120 fps, but luckily the LG Viewty comes with HSDPA, letting you upload your pics at a rapid 3.6Mbps.

In keeping with the latest vogue, the LG Viewty comes with a touschreen, with just three hardware buttons (send, end and cancel). The Viewty's is apparently very responsive, though naturally prone to fingerprints, and the interface is extremely easy to use.

It also means the phone looks superb, with a cool touchscreen on one side and a professional looking camera on the other.

The Viewty also comes with its own proprietary browser, which apparently is better than many browsers out there, including those from dedicated browser companies such as Opera. Like the iPhone, you can browse a web page, then zoom inot and out of it using the touchscreen.

As well as a touchscreen, the Viewty shares other features of the iPhone including the ability to browse your photos by flicking through them with your finger. Seems the iPhone really has forced other manufacturers to consider their user interfaces and LG have risen to the challenge impressively.

Indeed, everything about the LG Viewty is impressive. It looks great, has a tonne of features, a genuinely usable 5 megapixel camera and a superb video recorder. It'll also let you play DivX movies on a microSD card, comes with an MP3 player, 3D shoot em game, and battery life lasts for two days.

CNet conclude by saying that "The LG KU990 Viewty is an impressive phone, particularly when you consider that LG hasn't made that many high-end camera phones. It's doesn't beat the Canon Digital IXUS 70 but it is comparable with a three-year old average standalone camera.

If you want to take relatively high-quality photos and videos then the KU990 is definitely worth checking out. Alongside the good camera, easy-to-use touchscreen interface and HSDPA (3.5G), we think LG has made one of its best phones yet."

This Christmas really is set for the battle of the 5 megapixel cameras, and with the LG KU990 Viewty, LG have a strong contender on their hands.

n70..Pics..

Here are some Nokia N70 pictures, showing the N70 off in its best light. As you can see, not only does the N70 look good, it's extremely versatile too - just check our its keyboard add on!

Nokia 6500 and 6500 Slide - mid-range phones with N-Series features

Nokia have announced the new Nokia 6500 Classic and 6500 Slide mobile phones.

Both phones offer similar features, but with different form factors.

The 6500 classic is a standard candybar design, while the 6500 Slide is, er, a slider!

Pitched at the mid-range, this pair of phones actually have some pretty nifty features that you'd expect to find on a Nokia N-Series phone.

Quad band GSM and dual band 3G come as standard, while the 6500 Slide even features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens.

More details and pictures of the Nokia 6500 mobile phones after the jump.

Nokia 6500 Classic overview

The Nokia 6500 Classic is a standard candybar phone with the traditional Nokia look and feel. Nokia reckon it's a thing of superb craftmanship, though, with a case crafted from 360 degrees of anodized aluminium, and diamond polishing being used on the bevelled display aperture. Just looks like a normal Nokia to me! For thin-phone lovers, it's only 9.5mm thin.

More impressively, the 6500 Classic comes with 1GB of internal memory as standard, which should help the phone hold more pictures, music and video clips than its competitors.

The 6500 Classic is also equipped with a USB cable that not only syncs the phone with your PC's applications (email, contacts, playlists etc.), it also enables the 6500 Classic to be used as a high capacity flash drive, as you can transfer files of any type between phone and PC.

Nokia 6500 Classic Specifications

Main features

• Sleek, seamless case crafted from 360 degrees of anodized aluminum
• 2 Megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and dual LED flash
• Extra-large 1 GB internal memory for music, images and more
• Unified MicroUSB port for charging, data and audio
• Music player supporting MP3, AAC, eAAC+
• Video player
• Hands-free speaker
• Bluetooth
• Dual-band 3G technology

Technical Profile:

• System: WCDMA 850/2100, GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900
• User Interface:Series 40 platform
• Dimensions:109.8 × 45 × 9.5mm
• Weight:94g
• Volume:47 cc
• Standby time:Up to 12,5 days
• Talk time:Up to 5,5 hours
• Display :QVGA 320×240, up to 16.7 million true colors.
• Battery:BL-6P Battery (830 mAh, Lion)

Connectivity

• Data Services:WCDMA
• Max download 384 kbits;
• upload 128 kbits
• GPRS multislot class 32, up to 53.6 kbps
• EGPRS multislot class 32, up to 296 kbps

Camera

• Resolution of images: 1600 × 1200 pixels
• Resolution of videos:QCIF (176 × 144 Pixel)
• Image capture:JPEG
• Video capture:MP4

Nokia 6500 Slide Overview

The Nokia 6500 Slide is the better phone of the two. Although thicker than the 6500 Classic (16.5mm compared with the 6500 Classic's 9.5m), the 6500 Slide features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, VGA-quality video recording (640 × 480), TV-Out for viewing your pics and videos on the telly, and built-in apps such as Flickr and Adobe Photoshop.

The 6500 Slide also supports microSD cards up to 4GB in capacity.

Summary

What's really impressive about these two phones is the quality of their features, despite their mid-range price. For example, both phones come with QVGA screens capable of showing 16 million colours, as well as supporting quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G.

If these phones were released last year, they'd come with N-Series branding for sure. What we're seeing, then, is Nokia's advanced technology used in its high-end N-Series phones trickling down to its lower range phones over time, which for the consumer, is excellent news.