With the introduction of the mobile phone (a gradual process that began with unwieldy, unviable handsets in the 70’s) came speculation that the days of the landline were numbered. Surely, with this clever new mobile technology, the home phone line would be rendered obsolete? This, as it turned out, was not the case…

Perhaps the most important advantage that a home phone line has over a mobile handset, is in case of emergency. The government recommend keeping an analogue phone (which is powered solely by the power in the phone jack), so that you can contact emergency services even if your mobile has run out of battery. It’s certainly smart to keep both types of phone in the house, to cover yourself in as many ways possible.

Landlines also save money. If you are running a business from home, or even if you just have teenage daughters, you will know how expensive phone bills can be. Mobile phone bills, regardless of the network provider, are always considerably more expensive than landlines. When you factor in long distances between callers, the costs can become astronomical – phoning abroad using a mobile may cost 30 times what it would on a landline.

The quality of the connection will also be considerably better with a home phone line. The problem of calls being suddenly disconnected, not to mention static interference, simply doesn’t exist with a landline.

Home phone lines are affordable, convenient and may well connect you to life-saving assistance in an emergency. They cost a fraction of mobile costs, and are already installed in homes and offices throughout the world.

If you don’t have a phone line installed, you can get one as part of most internet packages. Sky offer a particularly good value-for-money deal, with Unlimited Broadband usage and a phone line thrown in, for less than £20 per month. Visit the Sky website by clicking the ‘phone line’ link for more details.

The price and availability of all products mentioned in the above article is subject to change.

Nokia has released the X5 smartphone, with a unique sliding feature called square slider. When you close the handset it displays like a square shaped gadget and after opening it becomes like a BlackBerry with QWERTY keyboard. All social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other major Instant Messaging services are inbuilt into this new design phone from Nokia.

Feature wise, it runs on Symbian S60 3rd Generation OS with 2.36-inch screen, 5 MP camera with flash, media playing tools, 3.5mm jack. The phone has connectivity options like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and this phone comes with a 2GB microSD card.

Nokia C3, low cost smart phone with impressive features from Nokia will be available from Vodafone network. Vodafone will start selling deals of Nokia C3 from Jun 22 2010. A phone that boasts Wi-Fi, one-click access to social networking sites and a QWERTY keyboard, Nokia C3 will be around £109 on Sim free deals. Other features include a 2MP  camera, GPRS, and Nokia’s Messaging service.

Users will also be able to choose the Nokia C3 from three colours; hot pink, slate grey and golden white.

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Finally iPhone 4G or just iPhone 4 has been announced toay by Apple.  Built with stainless steel and glass body, apple has tried to make it eye candy phone for everyone. The phone comes with 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, 3G to name a few. It has Face Time calling features to make video-calling possible with it.

The iPhone 4 will be available in UK soon. O2, Orange and Vodafone will be selling it in UK and speculated release date is set to 24 June.

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Nokia N900 is now available on Vodafone and T-Mobile Deals. One of the most awaited Internet ready touchscreen communication device from Nokia, It has all the features one can imagine.

Some features of Nokia N900 are:

• N900 has total 48GB memory ( internal and external) with faster CPU.
• Latest Maemo broswer from Nokia to browse Internet. It uses Mozilla technology.
• Ovi Maps to navigate in your city.
• 5MP camera for superb photos and video quality.
• Email software that allows video, formatting, audio and images as attachment.
• You can personalise 4 desktops for different tasks like different desktops for Business and Home use.
• It has Slider full keyboard for fast typing emails etc.
• You can make VoIP calls as well.
• Share your content easily using Wi-Fi, Broadband and HSDPA connections
• WVGA Screen for viewing high quality videos.

Here is Video Review of the Nokia N900.

Much awaited watch phone from LG, is now available on SIM Free from Pixmania in UK.  LG Watch Phone GD910 is completely handsfree phone with 3G+. You can watch films, listen to music, make calls to all over the globe using this wearable mobile phone from LG. It’s a little costly phone at around 1000 Pounds range for most of the users.

It will make a style statement for sure as a high tech device as wrist watch and mobile phone in a single device.

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Samsung has released latest Window mobile phone named B7610 Omnia Pro. The handset has features for both play and work. It has hybrid Touch and QWERTY keyboard, offering ease of use for both serious and fun moments. Samsung B7610 Omnia Pro offers push email for multiple accounts for different email solutions, corporates use nowadays. It also has Microsoft Office Suite also called as Pocket Office with Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF file viewer.

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3.5” AMOLED screen with high quality video support and 5MP camera, makes Samsung Omnia Pro good for your fun moments. There are picture editor as well as video editor to make you creative with your personal recordings. This phone also has GPS receiver to find your directions in new places or exploring your city for new restaurants, pubs and more.

This phone supports upto 32GB external memory and comes with 1GB internal memory with 800 MHz processor. These specifications makes it fast and good for your business use as well. The phone has Windows 6.1 Professional Operating System. All this comes within 159g of weight.

Much awaited Nokia X6 Blue is now comes with Orange. Currently, Phones4u has deals for the Nokia handset.  Full of music capabilities and touch screen, Nokia X6 is the first in the X series from Nokia. The handset comes with massive 32GB of memory to download music, photos, podcasts, videos and other applications. The seamless downloads for these media files can be done from Nokia’s Ovi store.

Nokia X6 Comes with Music edition provides unlimited free music downloads from Nokia music store. The sound is superb with built-in loudspeakers with the phone. Apart from music, features it has 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lenses. You can take pictures with it and edit and share with your friends online.

Browsing with Nokia X6 can be fun as it has 3.2” touchscreen with scratch-proof glass. You can see your friends activities in Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other sites,  directly on home screen of the phone.

BlackBerry has always manufactured best smartphones for the business users. Now, in the Storm series, after the BlackBerry Storm, latest new smartphone BlackBerry Storm2 is here. There were few drawbacks in Storm which were addressed in latest gadget like lack of Wi-Fi, touchsreen and virtual keyboard problem. It has SurePress typing technology to address typing problem. This technology provides more natural typing experience to the user than the feature in original Storm.

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Other features of the phone are:-

* Wi-Fi® Enabled
* 2 GB embedded Multimedia Card (BlackBerry® Storm™ 9500 smartphone: 1 GB eMMC)
* 3.2 MP Digital Camera
* Video Camera Capabilities
* 256 MB Flash Memory (BlackBerry Storm 9500: 128 MB Flash Memory)
* Supports BlackBerry App World™
* Bluetooth® Enabled
* Multimedia Player
* SMS/MMS
* Wireless Email
* Organiser
* Browser
* Phone
* Corporate Data Access

Nokia must be having some kind of urgency that it introduced Nokia N97 Mini within three months of the launch of original N97. Look wise also; mini appears as the smaller version of N97. The left portion that is existent in the N97 is no longer continued in the Mini. The screen size is also reduced by .3 inches. If you are looking for the D pad in N97 mini, then you might feel let down as Mini replaced the D pad with the arrow keys. There is a price difference of around hundred pounds between Nokia N97 and N97 mini. Hence, it is a good move by Nokia to provide the users with something as sophisticated as N97 with economical price.

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How the display of the phone appears? Well it is quite attractive. The overall measurement of the phone is 113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm and it weights 138 grams. Thus, it is lighter than the original N97 and it is stronger also. There is no doubt that N97 mini is much more comfortable to handle compared to its predecessor. It boasts TFT resistive touch screen, which is quite big (3.2 inches). The handset is available in two attractive colours- Cherry Black and Garnet. Apart from highly interactive touch screen, the handset features a full QWERTY keypad when it is slid open. You will find that the keys are a bit raised and aligned, other than that there is not much of a major difference as far as the keys are concerned. Handwriting recognition is also featured in the mobile phone.

The combination of 3G and Wi-Fi assures that the connectivity and network are fast and accurate.  The N97 Mini is supportive to GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100. With the internal memory storage of 8 GB and expandable option up to 16 GB, N97 mini can store quite a huge number of music, videos and other files.