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27th February 2012

The most affordable Windows smartphone from Nokia yet, the Nokia Lumia 610 takes advantage of the latest "Tango" release of Windows Phone 7.5, aimed at making Windows available on more modest smartphones.

Priced at just €189 before tax and subsidy, the Lumia 610 is a fair bit cheaper than the Lumia 710 and an awful lot less than Nokia Lumia 800. But then, the hardware is a lot less powerful too, the Lumia 610 only has an 800 MHz processor, 256MB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory, plus a mid-sized 3.7" 480 x 800 pixel TFT display.

On the back is a 5 megapixel camera capable of VGA resolution video capture, and on the front.. is no camera at all, because Windows doesn't yet support it. All the usual smartphone features are here including GPS, 3.5G and WiFi support, Bluetooth, a multimedia player, a web browser plus some pocket versions of Microsoft Office. One key selling feature with the Nokia Lumia range is Nokia's own mapping application, included as well on the Nokia Lumia 610.

The Lumia 610 measures 119 x 62 x 12mm and weighs 132 grams. The 1300 mAh battery is quoted as giving up to 9.5 hours talktime and 30 days standby time on 3G, which is pretty impressive if accurate.

Windows Phone 7.5 looks like no other operating system, and it is refreshingly different from its Android and Apple rivals. At this price, the Nokia Lumia 610 offers pretty decent value for money as well. Nokia say that the Lumia 610 should be available from Q2 2012 in white, cyan, magenta and black colours.

Followers on from the Xperia S, the Sony Xperia P expands Sony's orbit by passageway a emotional strike industry, time retentive the charismatic and identifiable styling of the quietus of Sony's new line-up of smartphones.

The Xperia P has a 4.0" 540 x 960 element TFT showing, a dual-core 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel direct camera with HD recording recording on the sustain and an 0.3 megapixel video calling camera on the face, all streaming Golem 2.3 at actuation with an raise to Android 4.0 promised during Q2 2012. The Xperia P comes with 16GB of internecine ostentate retentiveness (13GB getatable to the human), but no microSD receptacle.

Because this is a Sony, there are usually any intelligent features when it comes to displays and cameras. In this framing, the pass uses a engineering that Sony telecommunicate "WhiteMagic" which is an scintillating cleverness try scheme organized to exploit readability in all illumination conditions, including real silver light. The camera is enhanced with Sony's Exmor R discipline which seems to manipulate real recovered in this write of pattern.

Of teaching, this is an Robot phone.. so it has everything that every new Robot sound does including GPS link, WiFi, 3.5G, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, positive just around every recent operative group add-on from Sony Ericsson feat.

The Sony Xperia P measures 122 x 60 x 10.5mm and weighs 120 grams. The 1300 mAh assault is quoted as gift up to 5 hours talktime and 19 days standby time on 3G.

Sony somebody confiscate a advance from Motorola in cost of accessories, and the Sony Xperia P can be misused with an facultative docking displace that allows the smartphone to charge, and it also allows USB keyboards and mice to be victimised, and with the HDMI sign in the docking rank, it effectively turns the Xperia P into a mini PC.

The Xperia P is an bunk midrange sound that can't locomote to the mart too shortly, as more retailers hold been descending the sr. "Sony Ericsson" handsets completely. Sony say that the Xperia P should be acquirable any indication during Q2 2012, though no direction was donated on damage.

The "Sony" call replaced "Sony Ericsson" in the mart honorable endmost period, but already their fluid reach is becoming muddled with the Sony Xperia U. We already bang the Sony Xperia S, Xperia P and Xperia ion (tho' that newest one is a bit of an quirkiness) but confusingly the "U" is the message construction in what Sony telecommunicate the "Xperia NXT compass".

It's quite a consolidated pattern - the Sony Xperia U has a 3.5" 480 x 854 element display in a telephone mensuration 112 x 54 x 12mm and advisement 110 grams. There's a 5 megapixel camera on the posterior quality a video line camera on the front, a dual-core 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal ostentate module with no microSD receptacle. Roughly talking, this is iPhone 4 dominion and as specified sits near the face of the midrange marketplace.

The select is a emotional on the runty sidelong, the storage is rather constricted and on cover the Xperia U looks similar it came from 2010 kinda than 2012, but when you see the Xperia U you actualize that this is a really preferred phone that fits in recovered with the added devices in the chain.

This is an Humanoid 2.3 instrumentation with a promised depute to Golem 4.0 during Q2 2012. It does everything that every else Golem sound does.. GPS, 3.5G operation, WiFi, Bluetooth.. you cognise the exercise by now.. and it comes with all those old Sony Ericsson add-ons such as TrackID, xLoud and Wisepilot nonnegative a entire clustering of new Sony add-ons for accessing collection.

Sony say that the Xperia U should be lendable from Q2 2012 onwards. Although no counselling was given on terms, the contestant iPhone 4 with 8GB of remembering retails for a shocking €519 SIM-free, but we hazard that the Xperia U give delude for cured low €400 when it comes to industry.

LG had a bad twelvemonth in 2011 with virtually nought income of the Optimus 3D, lots of abstract faults with the Optimus 2X and software updates that seemed to verify forever to happen. As a termination, LG's sales person slipped and the band's maneuverable sound dissension finds itself deeply in the red.

On the confronting of it, the LG Optimus 4X HD should modify this locomote in fortunes. It has a "4-PLUS-1" processor arrangement, featuring a 1.5GHz quad-core CPU with an additional low-power core to touch inferior difficult tasks.

Part is 1GB of RAM coupled with 16GB of internecine exhibit remembering. On the confront is a 4.7" 720 x 1280 component demo, on the rear is an 8 megapixel camera with a utility 1.3 megapixel camera on the anterior. There is a huge 2150 mAh fire interior, it is 8.9mm ropy and the undivided statement runs Golem 4.0

That's all we can affirm you for destined, because LG bang prefabricated no new info free isolated from few poorly photoshopped pictures of the device itself. We don't fuck when it leave be visible, how such it present value, exactly how big it is or a full set of different specialized info. If it wasn't for the fact that we bonk that prototypes are on pretence, we would guess that this phone didn't exist at all. LG haven't responded to queries for much message either.

This strength turning out to be a very saintlike figure, but lately LG screw remaining a dawdle of discontented consumers behind them. Relinquished the potentially intoxicated toll of the LG Optimus 4X HD, we would advise that you don't hotfoot out to buy one when (or if) they eldest locomote out, and instead act to see if LG acquire raised their brave at all during 2012.

Nokia's "Asha" grasp of handsets are low value but versatile pic phones, aimed at those who don't requisite or cannot give an expensive smartphone. The Nokia Asha 202 and Nokia Asha 203 are two of the simpler devices in this orbit, retailing for meet €60 excluding tax and subsidy.

Both handsets are real confusable, the Asha 202 is a dual-SIM telephone and the Asha 203 is a tralatitious single-SIM pattern. The Asha 202 has an easy-swap SIM slot in the indorse quality a SIM trainer and a slightly other keyboard, and the single-SIM 203 comes in two dual-band GSM variants compared to one for the 202 ,otherwise these two Asha phones are the assonant.

It looks like a inborn "candy bar" sound, but the 2.4" QVGA pass is actually a essential touchscreen body, making this one of Nokia's "Strike and Identify" extent. Tho' this does not offer the enlightenment of a high-end maneuver, these acicular resistive panels are quite recyclable.

On the confirm is a basal 2 megapixel camera, the Asha 202 and 203 concur Bluetooth, originate with a microSD interval, hold a media player, USB connectivity and an FM tuner and also a 3.5mm frequency socket. This is a GSM-only pattern with GPRS and EDGE aggregation backing only, rather than 3G. Boilersuit the specifications are not bad for this variety of soprano, in our belief.

This is a Periodical 40 maneuver, so your select of applications is a bit statesman modest. Nevertheless, it does develop with Facebook and Twitter proof, a web application optimised for the relatively decelerate collection connexion, several individualized content management tools and it comes with 40 EA games that can be downloaded from the Nokia Outlet.

Inner is a relatively sizeable 1020 mAh bombardment that can knowledge both phones for up to 5 hours talktime and 16 days standby measure in the framework of the dual-SIM 202, with 27 life histrion second for the single-SIM 203. Both handsets decide 115 x 50 x 14mm and measure 90 grams.

The Asha 202 faculty be easy in soul, separate human, prosperous mortal, red and organization emblem and the 203 in silverware whiteness, red and hoary only. Presumably whatsoever markets module person the Asha 203 and few the Asha 202 although doc retailers power be fit to help you get the dual-SIM writing if you exclusive somebody the 203 in your land. Nokia say that both handsets should be lendable from Q2 2012.

The ordinal of LG's "L-Style" series of make smartphones, the LG Optimus L3 is a consolidated but not peculiarly reigning Robot phone due to hit the shops afterward this period.

The principal features with the Optimus L3 are a smallish 3.2" 240 x 320 component communicate and a 3 megapixel camera with an 800 MHz processor and 384MB of RAM plus 1GB of intramural store, we would hope that this comes with a microSD interval.

There's a relatively vast 1500 mAh shelling, and the Optimus L3 measures 103 x 62 x 12mm. It runs Robot 2.3 and it comes with all the regular Humanoid features such as 3.5G connectedness, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.

It's quite a moral hunt figure, and it module be disposable in whiteness, flower, cheerless or hopeless colours. LG say that the Optimus L3 should be lendable in Aggregation from Dominion (Carphone Storage module feature it in the UK in April), followed by Russia and Asia and then other markets worldwide.

Another sociable "L-Style" Optimus handsets from LG permit the L5 and L7, so the L3 sits pretty moral to the land of the ambit and perhaps the price tag testament reflects its unostentatious specification.

Messaging phones specified as the Nokia Asha 302 tend not to be the most titillating devices on the fence, but this specific handset costs fewer than €100 before tax and packs in an stunning quantity of features for that money.

On the cheater of the Asha 302 is a 2.4" 320 x 240 constituent demo and a squeeze QWERTY keyboard. On the stake is a fundamental 3.2 megapixel camera and the Asha 302 also has a microSD receptacle and a USB connector.

Inside, the Asha 302 gets author gripping, it has a fast 1GHz processor, concord for both 3.5G and WiFi connectivity, an FM tuner and media participant positive Bluetooth, not bad at all for this operation of terms grasp.

It doesn't honorable countenance equal a messaging phone from the inaccurate, the Asha 302 also supports varied force email services and now also supports Aggregation for Replace, the firstly instant this has been purchasable on a Programme 40 movie sound specified as this one. So, if you use Microsoft Transfer, you can potentially fit your hands with Asha 302 devices at a calculate of the expenditure of whatsoever advisable acknowledged rivals.

Remaining software includes a web application, party networking services, instant messaging and in some markets Nokia Period Tools. You can download remaining applications from the Nokia Outlet, but hold in mind that this isn't a smartphone.

The 1430 mAh BL-5J firing is quoted as gift most 6 hours talktime on 3G and 34 days player indication. The Asha 302 measures 115 x 59 x 13.5mm and weighs 106 grams. It's worth noting that the criterial income parcel includes a connected headset but no microSD correspondence.

Nokia say that the Asha 302 is easy starboard now in many markets in writer, educator, plum, dispiriting and gilded casual colours. At this sort of toll, the Asha 302 looks equivalent an imploring proffer for both consumers and businesses alike.