After resisting the persistent trend of touch screen smartphones, David Gilson reports on his experience of living with some S60 5th Edition touch screen phones , namely the Nokia 5230 and N97. Could it be that, like me, he finds the biggest strength of touch screens isn’t that they respond to touch?

Continuing from our previous Sony Ericsson Vivaz videos we look at some of the key design charcteristics of the Vivaz and Vivaz Pro (human curvature, light reflection effects and material choices), compare the Vivaz and Vivaz Pro on video, take a brief look at some of the different colours that will be available and get a demo of the handset shooting video and uploading to YouTube. Taken together these videos help you get a clearer picture of Sony Ericsson’s new Symbian^1 handsets.

Luxury phones are having a tough time being unique nowadays. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness is having a hard time being. luxurious. But that’s no way to start a proper review now, is it? There we go again then…

We are more than happy to present you a little something our lab has been working on lately. As of today, the individual specs page of each phone in our database has got a new sub-page. It’s called…

Shocking news this past week about the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Series. Not only will it not run current apps, but also current phones such as the forthcoming HTC HD2 from T-Mobile may not be upgradeable. This week, I’ll point you to more information about this, as well as additional detail about Windows Phone 7 and videos of this software in action. read more

Verizon Wireless is offering free PDA and smartphone workshops throughout the country. The classes are designed to help customers get the most from their advanced devices. In the class, you’ll learn about touchscreens, Internet browsing, email, pairing Bluetooth devices, and more. To see if there’s an upcoming class in your area and to register, visit Verizon Workshops. Follow me on Twitter. Free PDA Workshops Near You originally appeared on About.com PDAs on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 15:02:38. Permalink | Comment | Email this

Found under: Windows Phone , Freeware , GPS , Compass , Tools , GPS Dashboard is just released application by Leaf International Communications which main purpose is to view the status of the GPS on your phone. Along with with it has very cool features including Compass and shows Speed Altitude Longitude and Latitude all the packed in great interface. Download GPS Dashboard Read More Read more in mobile format

Found under: Android , Freeware , 3D , Shortcuts , Carousel , UltimateFaves is just released free app for Android phones that purpose is to let you browse your favorite items in 3D environment. It lets you organize your most frequently used items apps bookmarks contact cards phone numbers etc. in beautiful 3D carousels. Create home-screen shortcuts to specific carousels Highly customizable user-interface Tap item to launch long-press for more options Download UltimateFaves Read

As noted in Rafe’s Maps interview thread , Nokia isn’t keen to put resources behind creating a version of Ovi Maps 3.3 with free voice navigation for older S60 3rd Edition FP2 and FP1 (and vanilla 3rd Edition) phones. A good question is why Nokia doesn’t then just make existing navigation licenses free, thus having much the same effect. It seems that they’ve gone much of the way to ‘free’ for older devices, with even a full ‘Drive Europe’ license now only costing 10 Euros for a year – this presumably to help cover admin and server costs. Photo proof and more below.

Found under: Android , Cheap , Tablet , Google , China , Want Android on the cheap Well look no further but to the boys in China a few Android Tablets are coming over and the lowest price point so far hits the all time low of 95 yes you are not blind This particular 95 Android Tablet sports a 10.1 inch resistive touch display and Android 1.6 the manufacturer acknowledge that Android 2.1 will follow up in a later update somewhere down the road I wouldnt count on it that much.The device itself looks pretty good resembles the Apple iPa Read More

In this interview, recorded in Barcelona at MWC 2010, we talk to Christof Hellmis, Director Navigation & Routing Solutions at Nokia, about Ovi Maps and Nokia’s location strategy. It is clear that location has an enormously important role to play as a key enabler in the future of mobile – and this piece will give you an insight to Nokia’s viewpoints and attitudes. We

AT T is taking the plunge – they’ve started selling their first Android device. The Motorola BACKFLIP is a full-QWERTY phone running Android with MOTOBLUR UI and a pretty interesting keyboard…

LG GS290 is the third Cookie following the announcement of its bigger brother – the GS500 Cookie Plus. The new sweetie lowers the camera resolution and lacks 3G, but retains the cartoon UI and standard audio jack…

LG Panther is the codename for the company’s first Windows Phone 7 smartphone. It hits the second category devices defined by Microsoft, because of its sliding QWERTY keyboard and it’s rumored to …

In Insight 108 , (with Rafe away) Steve, Ewan and guest