Nokia's 3G take three

Nokia is upping the ante in the 3G phone market once again. With LG selling huge quantities of its 8110 in the UK and Motorola and Samsung with new phones on the horizon Nokia has responded by unveiling its third 3G handset the 6630.

Billed as the world's smallest 3G mega pixel camera phone, the 6630 boasts a form factor not unlike Nokia's 3660 - the key difference that it is slightly smaller than that rather bulky handset.

The 6630 is also Nokia's first 3G handset to feature the video calling facility so beloved of both Three and Vodafone. Other facilities include a 1.3 mega pixel camera, Symbian OS with Series 60 smartphone interface including e-mail, 74Mb storage, MP3 player, Realone video player and Bluetooth.

Annoyingly the phone features an MMC, rather than SD card slot.

Nokia's new 9300 smartphone review

Nokia has taken its Communicator brick 9500 smart phone shed a bit of weight and size, and re-packaged it as the 9300 - a smartphone for busy professionals. It keeps some of the 9500's core features such as its excellent QWERTY keyboard and its high contrast wide screen.

What's good? It is arguably the first pocketable smartphone (it'll just about squeeze in) with a decent-ish QWERTY keyboard. Slap it flat on a desk and you can not only thumb type you can also speed things up by using a finger too. The phone also boasts a huge number of features including Blackberry push-mail, Opera's superb web browser and a Real player for replaying video and MP3 audio. It is also compatible with many Microsoft Office files formats (Word etc) and is compatible with VPNs.

What's bad? There's no camera, which although might not be top of the busy execs wants lists would still have been a decent touch.

Offers on top-ups and handsets

Vodafone customers can win a weekend break in Gozo when paying a visit to the Vodafone Stand in Hall G at the IT & T fair currently on until Sunday.

Vodafone customers are being offered free credit upon first top-up when switching to Vodafone as well as Lm10 free credit with a Lm10 top-up voucher, Lm5 free with a Lm5 top-up plus 200 free text messages.

It also has offers on selected handsets starting from Lm35. Lm5 free credit is being given with the purchase of a Simply VS3. The Sharp GX29 is at Lm65, the Sharp GX40 at Lm99 and the Sharp 550 3G is at Lm89. This offer is valid until October 31.

Thirty free video calling minutes and free Vodafone live! browsing are on offer on all Vodafone 3G handsets including the Sharp 770 at Lm119, the Motorola V3x at Lm149 and the Samsung ZV40 at Lm129.

CeBIT; LG's 3G clamshell gets an update

At CeBIT LG was also parading the latest versions of its hugely popular (in the UK at least) clamshell 3G phones. Likely to arrive in the UK first is the U8180, another new clamshell which features a multimedia player with MP3, AAC and MPEG4 and video telephony with a dual TFT display. It will be available via the 3 network shortly.

Also on the cards is the U8200, the first LG 3G handset to sport a 1.3 mega pixel camera phone. Other features include Video Telephony, Video/Audio streaming and Bluetooth.

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