Yes, the year has passed quite like a blue streak and has shoved off a heavy cosmos of mobile phones. From high on the hog to plain ones, almost every firm wittily managed to seize your nerve. Be it a wee-sized talking bug in you, an audiophile fly on your ear or some photography butterfly in your heart, the throne of phones had it all. We are sure as seasons that the groovy year brought every innovation that you wearily hunted for.
Just to act as a memory bumblebee, we take you on a wink-like ride of best phones that literally housed in everyone’s heart and left others praise to the skies.
Getting to first base, Nokia unfurled its full touchscreen handset entitled the 5800 XpressMusic with a beamy cluster of engaging aspects. Enriched with 3.2-inch widescreen display, the groovy handset packed in an on-screen alphanumeric keypad and a QWERTY keyboard in its goodie-bag. You can egg on that little music elf with its integrated 8GB memory and a 3.5mm jack. The year-beginning even saw LG KP500 Cookie flying over with a parachute of full touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard. Equipped with a 3-megapixel camera, the Cookie brings to you a stylus pen for handwriting recognition as well. Amigo of every stylish phone fiend, the HTC Touch HD phone was also rolled out with a large 3.8-inch widescreen VGA display, a 5-megapixel camera and in-built TouchFLO 3D user interface.
Then the footprints of Nokia N86 handset were spotted with signs of an 8-megapixel camera and a bright OLED 2.6-inch display screen on mud. Put a feather-like effort and you’ll remember LG G910 Touch Watch phone paving its way as well. The wearable device offers 7.2Mbps 3G HSDPA connectivity and a full touchscreen interface. From Motorola, an elegant and stylish Aura was unveiled with a big bag of entrancing features. Embraced with 16 million color, circular display with 300 dpi resolution, the Aura features a 2GB onboard memory, Stereo Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and AD2P alongside a 2MP camera with fixed focus.
We got to see a nice offering from Samsung too in the form of 8MP touchscreen phone dubbed the Samsung Pixon. In addition to an 8.1cm WQVGA full touchscreen, it sports an on-screen QWERTY keypad and handwriting recognition.
Moving on the sleigh of beguiling handsets, Sony Ericsson announced the new Cyber-Shot C510 phone with Smile Shutter technology in India. You can now capture all your smiling faces with its 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus, auto-rotation and face detection technology. The Samsung Ultra Touch 8MP camera phone with 7.1 cm Amoled anti-scratch full touchscreen was also glimpsed touching the ground of India. You can now blithesomely muffle your photography desire with an 8-megapixel camera that subsumes dual power LED flash and smile shot.
Three powerful bolts were thrown by Samsung when it unleashed Samsung Star S5233, Star 3G S5603 and Beat DJ touchscreen phones in India. While Nokia took wraps off its latest 6208 Classic to crack that grin. The 40 touch-input device incorporates a large 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen and an innovative stylus.
Further, Acer murmured with a new collection of smart handhelds in India, which had DX900, DX650, X960, M900 and F900. The smart collection ensures to bring an entirely different realm of high-speed and great accessibility to mobile internet. If paid heed, then there were some sweet bells from Apple’s iPhone 3G S as well. Opening a box of tempting features, the device throws a thwack with its 3-megapixel camera and trouble-free video recording capability. Concurrently, few steps were left by Samsung Pixon12 bringing a sunny smile for every camera savvy user. Yes, it has a 3.1-inch Amoled full touchscreen as well.
The mid of the year then witnessed the release of NTT DoCoMo Solar Hybrid phone. The solar powered handset is embodied with an 8-megapixel CCD camera. If you love flaunting your pocket or bag with luxurious collection, then the Diamond Rose Gold iPhone 3GS is truly meant for you. So, add an exquisite touch with 150 grams of 18 carat solid rose gold sparkling phone. You may rather be tight lipped to realize its 53 pink diamonds encrusted on Apple Logo. Well, another impressive phone was dropped in the apparel of Nokia N86 8MP which vaunts about a 2.6-inch OLED display. Also, the race saw Samsung Marine moving swiftly with walls of promises to protect your piece from any outside wreckage.
The month of August welcomed 8MP LG Viewty Smart for Indian phone fiends. Also confabbed as GC900, it brags about new 3D S-Class User Interface and the on-screen camera mode selector dial. Not to forget, we also got to know a myriad of things about T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G phone which intelligently operates on the Google Android platform. Yes, we can’t deny the dominating presence of Nokia when it comes to tugs of war with others. The company came up with Linux-based Maemo driven N900. Tall on scale of mesmerizing mien, it lets you enjoy internet browsing just like your desktop browsing.
Contrarily, the province of powerful social networking caught INQ Mini 3G phone from 3. Don’t blame anyone if you find yourself getting glued to your couch with its speedy access to social networking sites. Further, don’t be startled to hear yet another bang from Samsung in the form of Samsung 12MP Pixon12 camera featuring a full touchscreen 7.9cm Amoled screen. The same month heard the official announcement of LG Chocolate BL20. Engraved in classy black and red body, the handset comes equipped with touch-sensitive controls that are masked on the sides of the phone. In addition, you’ll discover a 2.4-inch QVGA 240 x 320 resolution TFT display.
Joining the flock of exquisite and glossy devices, the HTC Touch2 was unboxed on Reliance Communication’s GSM network in India. The snappy handset is driven by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 OS and boasts of a 7.11cm touchscreen and a 3.2-megapixel camera. Yes, Samsung Omnia II also grabbed the seat with its perfect blend of style, multimedia and business performance. And, if you were endlessly hunting for something that falls light on your pocket then you wouldn’t want to shun your look from Spark’s offering. Specifically designed to be emplaced under an affordable basket, the company unveiled the SP77 Dura and the SP 777 DuraCam handsets. On the other hand, after standing for long in the queue, the Nokia N97 Mini finally reached the counter of launch with a titling 3.2-inch touch display, QWERTY keyboard and fully customizable homescreen.
Further, as this year was skimping close to winter, LG GD900 Crystal transparent phone garbed wide attention from all. Uniquely crafted, the world’s first transparent phone features intuitive 3D S-Class UI alongside a 7.62cms WVGA full touchscreen display and an alphanumeric keypad. The HTC Hero with Spotify Premium was also made available on 3. For your photography passion, the handset brings a 5-meagapixel camera and a responsive touchscreen display.
Coming to our running month, the December gleefully accepted HTC HD2 Windows Phone in India. The ultra-thin device subsumes a high-resolution 4.3-inch ‘capacitive touch’ display and is powered by Qualcomm’s new 1GHz Snapdragon mobile processor. Whereas Samsung wrapped up the mobile bag with its Corby Plus B3410 and Corby Pro B5310 in India. Meant for heavy texters, both the phones come with Buddy List, Chat Style SMS, EasyEmail Set up wizard, Instant Chat Messenger and Popular SNS sites.
Well, that’s how an ocean of arresting phones showed waves on the shore of 2009. We hope the coming year sees driblets of feature-rich and stylish phones filling the ocean once again.