The latest phones and gadgets tested and reviewed in our labs
The folks from MobileFun UK sent us a Desktop Battery Charger for Nokia Phones. If you are the kind of person who likes to carry a spare battery along with your phone, this device makes charging the battery a lot easier. Continue reading “Review : Desktop Battery Charger For Nokia phones”
We had received the Dark Chocolate iPad leather case from the folks over at a Aligata – a great name for a company selling leather accessories. Here is a short review of the iPad case after using it on our iPad for a while.
Continue reading “Review : Aligata Dark Chocolate Leather iPad Case”
Presenting a review of a the Micromax Bling (Model Q55) which is a entry level Dual SIM phone aimed at the ladies
Presenting a Review of the World’s smallest Android Phone the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini.
We had played with the OtterBox Defender Case of the Nokia E72 and here is a short review of the case. Just to give you an overview , OtterBox makes cases and accessories for several gadgets. Their Defender Series of cases is their ultimate offering which provides protection against shock , bump and dust . Here we have the Defender Case of the E72 Continue reading “Review : OtterBox Defender Case for Nokia E72”
Samsung Wave is the Samsung’s first phone with its own operating system called Bada. Now i am here to talk about its ubercool Music Player. Samsung have used Touch Wiz 3.0 in the Bada. The touch wiz 3.0 adds more eye candy to the Bada operating system. The music player of Samsung Wave is awesome when the display is rotated horizontally. The songs and albums are arranged in CD-like format. Continue reading “Samsung Wave Music Player Review”
Motorola was a successful company that enjoyed peak sales with their RAZR series of phones. But the sales went downhill as they were not able to bring out anything new other than phones that were quite similar to the RAZR phones in design and functionality but in different form-factors.
Motorola desperately needed a new device to revive the company by boosting sales. The answer to their problems was the Motorola MILESTONE/ DROID. It was Motorola’s attempt to recreate the success they had with the RAZR phones and it did work. The Motorla DROID which was first introduced in the US and the Motorola MILESTONE which is the GSM Version of the same phone was released worldwide. Motorola has enjoyed record breaking sales of the DROID in USA and MILESTONE also has received great feedback. So the question remains is whether the Milestone with worth the money ? Lets find out Continue reading “Motorola Milestone Review”
The first thing that makes Apple products stand out of the crowd, is it’s aesthetic design and elementary looks and that what makes Apple fan boys like us to show off our latest purchase. But the simple problem that lies with all the shiny gadgets in the world that it easily get scratched and smudges seems to swim all over it in no time and Apple products are no exceptions here. Exactly same thing happened, I got my shiny new iPad and within hours it’s oleophobic screen was full of smudges, I found a lint free cloth on old spectacle box and used it to clean the screen and with little force I had my first scratch on my iPad. Not only me, we have received hundreds and hundreds of mails from many early adopters asking us to suggest them a iPad case cover and even those who don’t have iPad and feels this post is not for you, I must warn you are missing something. Continue reading “Review: iPad cases from Speck”
The BlackBerry 9520 aka Storm2 has been tested on various parameters and we have told you what we think of the device. Now in this last part of the review, we try to wrap up all the loose ends and give you our final verdict on the Storm2. Let’s start by looking at the BlackBerry Messenger, a feature unique to the BlackBerry devices. The BBM as it is referred to be a unique chat feature built into the BlackBerry, there is no need to elaborate how it works so I’ll skip that bit. Though I will tell you in brief what is does allow you to do. You can chat, share pictures and other things for free with another BlackBerry user or a group, even a voice IM can be sent. Continue reading “BlackBerry Storm2 Review Part 3: BlackBerry Messenger, Music, Camera and Accessories”
With the first part of the review we looked at how the Storm2 looked and felt. This time we are going in a bit deeper with the OS, mail and the online experience.
Continue reading “BlackBerry Storm2 Review: OS, Mail and the Online Experience”
At FoneArena’s Mumbai office, we have had a chance to play with the BlackBerry Storm2 and put it through its paces. We break down our analysis in parts, the first being – Design.
With the review of the Design and the Software aspect done, we are left with only one part of the review covering the internet experience, emailing, music and accessories, camera and of course the phone as a feature itself.
Continue reading “LG BL40 Review Part-3:Internet, Messaging, Music & Accessories and Camera”
I’ve been spending some Time with the Nokia X6 recently, in Fact a lot of Time. I got ahold of the X6 thanks to Nokia Austria and was rather skeptic, as it seems to be a rather plasticky Device, but then again, it has Capacitive.. capacitive.. *drool*. First, I didn’t expect much, as the N97mini was the Device I was aiming for, but to spoil some of the Conclusion, I spent more Time with the X6, than the N97mini. Why?
The Indian mobile phone industry has seen unprecedented growth and emergence of new players in the market. Players like Micromax, Maxx, Karbonn have come from nowhere and started selling handsets in the lakhs.
Amongst them is a company called Olive. Olive Mobiles is a new entrant just like the ones above and many more. So what makes them unique you might ask, they all are the same after all! One look and you might say so. But a closer look reveals that it is not the same.
Olive phones have made quite a splash with their handsets. Engadget even covered one of their models. A feat, no Indian manufacturer I know has managed till date.
Olive has been very kind in providing us at Fonearena, three devices to review. We’ve put each of the handset through its paces and pushed it to the hilt. Continue reading “Review of 3 Olive phones”
The LG BL40 has a proprietary OS – with S class UI running. Due to this, it is easy to dismiss the BL40 as just another device. But that is exactly where most of us get it wrong. The BL40 is by no means an ‘under featured’ phone. It has a plethora of unique additions which cannot be found on many other devices. Let’s look into them in some detail –
