The first one i.e the Turtle resembles the Palm Pre to some extent. It comes loaded with a slide out keyboard and a nice vibrant looking screen. The other one i.e. Pure will remind of possibly every other smartphone available in the market these days. Reportedly both the phones have been targeted towards the youth.

Well, by the looks of it this one doesn’t look even a bit of the iPhone killer it was being touted to be. And anyways it doesn’t  look like Microsoft really cares about being the iPhone’s challenger. So any kind of clash between the Pink phones and the iPhone looks unlikely in the near future atleast. PEACE!

Vodafone 360 can be seen as a brand new range of internet services for mobiles and PC’s which can put together all the friends, communities, entertainment  of the user and can be easily synced with the PC.

This offering from Vodafone comes along with a ‘Vodafone People’ which can easily sync the user’s contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger And Google Talk. The all new 360 app store will provide its users with new apps, games, music and mapping services. Also Samsung will be launching two new handsets which will include the unique 3D display which runs on the proximity algorithm and brings the most frequently contacted people closer in the front of the screen.

The release date for the 360 would most probably be somewhere during the Christmas season.

It comes loaded with a 5.7 inch touchscreen display much like the iPod with the help of which the user can search over a whole load of around 12000 radio and internet stations. It also has an application with the help of which the user can access his facebook and twitter accounts.

Pure aims to make listening to the radio a totally refreshing experience. Users could also connect this to an iPod dock and its also got a rechargeable battery pack with the help of which users could use it on the go and going by the claims of Pure, this pack should atleast last for twenty four hours.

This one is basically a Linux based machine and keeping that in mind this one could easily be opened to do anything that the developer wants. It wont be a surprise to see a Spotify app on this one in the near future.

This one could be yours at a price of £250, with the twitter and the facebook apps loaded.

Sum  n substance:

This one was probably the one, most of the web designers were actually waiting for. But for all that they know, this one surely wasn’t worth the wait.

This could be viewed as being too confining by most of the users and also the editing of HTML in this one is pretty much knotty and complex. The templates that are being offered are rigid as well.

Amateur users will surely not welcome this one because the interface is certainly not amateur friendly as many of the tools are pretty much difficult to locate in the first place, leave alone use them. The professional version brings along with it three months of hosting and also a free subdomain, though the platinum version would be a better choice because it offers a proper domain along with hosting for a year.

It lets you add photos, music, video and change backgrounds and layouts and also an option to choose from around 85,000 graphics. Also it lets you add a few Web Widgets here and there like twitter and google links.  It also has iPhone and SmartPhone optimised templates to let the user access the site from anywhere. It is also compatible with some of the latest web browsers including the Google Chrome and Firefox 3.5.

Nitty-gritty: I would say that this one tries to put both it legs on different boats and then reaches the shore on none, infact it doesn’t reach the shore in the first place. This one tries hard to satisfy the professional web designers as well as the novices just to be rejected from both the camps and ultimately being of almost no use to both. I wouldn’t say that it’s extremely bad but then it fails to make any kind of an impact.

Though the HTC hero was loaded with the brilliant Sense UI it did face some lags during functioning which was one of the major glitches because of which it was almost written off by most critics in comparision to the iPhone.

The upgrades have already been launched in Denmark, Sweden and Norway and have received some really good reviews, with most of the users being content with the speed upgrades and the camera software upgrades.

HTC has also confirmed the UK launch will take place sometime in the near future, however it hasn’t provided us with any exact date as such.  Also the people at HTC refused to let us have a peep at what other tid bits the upgrade has to offer.

Thumbs up: Pocket friendly price, excellent battery life, good call quality, decent touch screen performance.

Thumbs down: No 3.5 mm headphone jack, poor image quality, absence of 3G and Wi-Fi.

Inside the trunk:

• Price at launch £140.00
• Connectivity USB 2.0
• Dimensions 106 x 53.5 x 11.9
• Weight (g) 93.50
• Battery Type Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh
• Camera Resolution 3.15

THE WHIZ-KID SPEAKS: This one is the youngest one from the Tocco family. After the Samsung Tocco F480 and the Tocco Ultra Edition S8300 comes in the Samsung Tocco Lite S5230. This latest one is peeled off a few features that its older siblings had to offer, but I guess this was done to make the price more pocket friendly as this one claims to give the user an affordable touchscreen experience.

Razzle- dazzle: This one doesn’t stand out to be any different from the basic design of the other members of the Tocco family. Its got the basic black glossy look with a bare to the bones classy design which almost of the touchscreens after the iPhone have been adhering to. For all those who are bored of the black, this one is being offered in flashy pink and pure white versions too. It’s got curved edges to add to its swish looks and at 92g this one is quite lightweight plus its got some texturing on the back which allows for some good grip. Also at 106(h) x 53.5(w) x 11.9(d) mm this one fits quite conveniently into the pocket or in any clutch.

With this one Samsung has surely gone minimal, on the front side it has the touchscreen display and below it there is the navigation toggle along with the talk and end buttons. The display is quite bright and clear though it faces a few problems when directly under the sun, but then again most of the touchscreens have this glitch. It works absolutely fine otherwise.

The right side houses the camera button and the lock/unlock key and the other side houses the volume/zoom rocker control, multi-connector socket for USB cable, charger and the earphones jacks. The lock/unlock facility functioned properly most of the times but on a few occasions got unlocked on its own in the pocket and also a few widgets were activated though no calls were made.

Inside dope: Though Samsung has compromised on quite a few features with this one it has retained the TouchWiz UI like in the others from the Tocco family and the Jet. The interface can easily be managed by swiping the finger over the screen. This one being more of a resistive display, doesnot have the smart multi-touch feature.

The 3 buttons on the standby screen are for stimulating the numberpad, the contact book and the main menu. The numbers on the numberpad have been comfortably placed to avoid any mispresses and it well quite succeeds in achieving this. The phonebook can be used to find a number in three ways. Either swiping down through the whole list or directly typing the name on the search bar. The other option that it offers is searching through sections letter by letter. It also has an option of photo contacts, using which all your recent contacts photos will pop up on the screen in a grid like fashion and all you have to do is click on the photo to make a call.

Coming to messaging… with the roomy virtual pad that this one has to offer, messaging is made a bit less harrowing an experience than most of the touchscreen phones. Though, most heavy texters might find this touchscreen a bit of a hassle compared to the conventional phones I guess this is the most Samsung could do to help them. The T9 option offered with this one does take some time to get used to. It also has a handwriting recognition mode which works just fine. One complain that I have with the Samsung phones is that when you are typing the text you do not come to know if you have crosses the on page limit, its only when you go ahead with sending the message do you come to know if you have crosses the limit. This offers an email service too, using the regular POP3/IMAP4/SMTP accounts.

The call quality that this one has to offer is pretty much impressive with hardly any static or interference. The sound quality was pretty much audible and clear with no echo effects. Even the callers on the other end had no complains with most of them not even coming to know that I was using a celllphone.

This one offers a nice comfortably big screen for browsing the web and using the internet but then again it does not support 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity for faster speeds. Using the GPRS or the EDGE services takes up a lot of time. The Samsung browser is also hassle free as compared to most of the competition that it faces.

This one comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera but by the looks of it, it looks like this one is surely not an imaging device. It lacks even the basic LED flash. The images appear to be a bit oversaturated at times and also with close ups, the quality of the photographs isn’t crisp enough. It’s got the fun frames and the smile detection feature along with a colourisation and timer effect. Its kind of shoot-and- wish kind of a scenario with this kind of a camera. I wish Samsung had come up with something better in this department.

The music player though not as high end as the  one offered by the iPhone is decent enough. The audio quality through the speakers is quite decent just with some added bass which could be avoided by using the earphone( yeah this one doesn’t have a 3.5mm  headphone jack). Video streaming can get grainy and discontinuity may occur because of the low speeds.

The Tocco lite battery life has been estimated to be around 10 hours of talktime and about 600 hours in standby mode which brilliant enough and this iss possible because of the absence of the 3G and Wi-Fi services.

Nitty- gritty: I would recommend this one to anyone to wants to be in touch control at a budget price. Though this one doesn’t have a lot of features, the price it is being offered for makes up for it.

Thumbs up: comfortable holster make, fine finishing, comfortable placing of the on/off button.

Thumbs down: Kind of clunky, takes long to charge.

THE WHIZ-KID SPEAKS: Imagine… you have an urgent meeting to attend but are stuck in the traffic and you iPhone conks off because of low battery. Well I guess most of us are quite familiar with this kind of a helpless scenario. And now for all those people who ve been harrowed with such experiences and for the few who want to avoid such situations totally the Case-Mate brings in some much needed relief. You can charge your iPhone while on the move using this snug charger.

This one has a soft pleasant plasticky feel too it which doesn’t make it feel cheap or tacky in anyway. It’s basically combines the conventional holster along with a chargeable battery. This one measures 4.4 x 2.0 x 0.5 and slides in with much ease into the pocket. Also it could be easily hooked onto the belt with the help of a 180 degree rotating swivel ratchet. It weighs around 3.2 ounces making it a bit clunky and along with the iPhone it weighs around 7.9 ounces. That’s pretty much bulky, but then that’s just some price you have to pay for anywhere charging.

Also the iPhone could be charged using USB and to support this there is a USB port on the right of the holster. There are also three LED’s on the face of the charger which help you monitor how the charging is progressing. It hardly took me around 2 hours too fully recharge my phone. If the LED is red then it means that the device is still charging, if its orange it means that the charge of the battery is below the 50 percent mark and the green light indicates that the phone has been fully charged.

Well this one quite doesn’t live upto the expectations when it comes to reviving a dead iPhone. It almost took like 15 mins to revive my iPhone whereas the Case- Mate’s other competitors like the RichardSolo 1800 could do this job in like a minute and a half. But here again the RichardSolo takes around 4 hours 45 minutes to totally charge itself and the Case-Mate hardly took like 2  hours 30 minutes to be precise to charge itself.

Nitty- Gritty: This one is quite slow when it comes to reviving dead iPhones and I genuinely wish the manufacturers could do something about it. However, the solid build of the Case-Mate and snug designing makes it quite comfortable to carry around. If all you want is to just keep your cell  charged when your travellling then this one could be your pick.