Spring into Spring with 2008's hottest gadgets...

 Sony Ericsson Xperia, X1

Sony Ericsson has unveiled the first in its Xperia family of phones, the X1, which is also its first phone based on Windows Mobile.

The X1, following hot on the heels of the new Nokia N96, is meant to herald Sony Ericsson’s solution for the “converged mobile experience”, which means it has lots of features and won’t be cheap. It’s an ‘arc-slider’ phone concealing a full QWERTY keyboard and sports a 3in touchscreen display with a good 800 x 480 resolution. Some might grumble over the display’s ability to only support 65K colours and that the camera is only 3.2MP, especially with rivals now cramming 5MP cameras into their newer models.

Black is so last season...inject a bit of colour with the Pink Pearl ... 

The BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 smartphone is designed to help you do everything you want with your life. It comes complete with advanced phone features, multimedia, digital camera, video recording, built-in GPS* and expandable memory.

And it offers the full BlackBerry® experience—email, browser, text messaging (SMS and MMS), instant messaging, organizer applications and more. Small, smart and stylish.

In February 08 Nokia unveiled their upcoming replacement model to the succesfull Nokia N95. It is pretty much the same phone in a new package - but with some small additions like DVB-H television capabilities, 16GB internal memory (and an optional 8GB memory card giving you a total of 24 GB storage). The phone will be out in the 3rd quarter and the UK price will be around £300.

LG Electronics unveiled its new model earlier this year. The LG KF600 – winner of the 2008 iF Product Design Award -  is a new mobile phone that is as feature-rich and easy to use as it is stylish, thanks to its unique InteractPad™ handset.

 The LG KF600...

The InteractPad™ replaces physical navigation keys with context-specific virtual keys that change to fit the task at hand. This new interface comes in response to the need for a simple way to navigate through the numerous features on today’s mobile phones.The LG KF600’s InteractPad™ eliminates distractions with its luminous menu keys which displays the exact buttons a user needs to complete the task at hand. This is far more flexible than standard hardware features and eliminates the need to memorise exactly which key performs which function. These virtual keys are also larger and better spaced than physical keys, improving accuracy.The InteractPad™ is an ideal interface for controlling multimedia features like the LG KF600’s digital audio player, camera and video camera. As its controls are not tied to physical buttons, each of these functions has a custom interface that makes it incredibly intuitive.