Consumer Product Reviews

Are you a busy person who would like to reply to your emails even while you are on the move? If so, there is a device for you. iLane!

iLane is a portable device that can control your smart phone with your voice commands. iLane can read out the emails that arrive in your inbox. For example you would hear “Good evening Sam, you have 9 emails in your inbox!”. It can read out individual emails for you and you just listen to them while you drive your car. Simply say “Reply” and start dictating the reply you want to send to that person. It’s so simple!

Some of the key features you can look for in iLane are:

• Listen and manage your email and sms messages
• Switch between email and phone functionality with voice command
• Make calls by calling the names of the contacts
• Check the Calendar events while they are read aloud for you
• Weather and News on demand
• Secure data exchange between iLane and smart phone
• Can be used in any vehicle

At a price tag of around $600, it is a useful device for people who are always on the move.

Every mobile phone user are forced to buy some of the accessories needed for their mobile phone. Without these accessories your purchase of mobile will not be complete. As such the users of Sony Ericsson Z520 series also need some of the accesssories like the Sony Ericsson Z520 car charger, data cable, and face plates.

A sony ericsson Z520 car charger can be found cheap in the internet through online stores like cellphoneshop.com. Here you can find the chargers for as low as $3 on clearance sales. These sony ericsson car chargers can also be used for other models like the Z520a, Z520i, Z525, Z525a, Z530, and Z550a. It is compatible with 12 V and 24 V DC systems. It comes with short circuit and over charge protection and can easily fit in the cigarette lighter socket in your car. You can also talk while charging using this charger. There is an LED indicator to indicate the charging process.

A small variation in the car charger model is a retractable sony ericsson car charger. This charger retracts the cable and you find a compact one for carrying. The retractable sony ericsson Z520 car chargers can be got for around $7 in clearance sales.

The other important accessory for any mobile is the USB data cable. Without this accessory a mobile user is found to be handicapped. A sony ericsson Z520 data cable is very useful to synchronize your mobile with your PC. Upon synchronization, you can transfer data from your mobile to your PC for storage or any modifications. High data transfer speed is possible with the sony ericsson Z520 data cable. You can edit the details found in your mobile phone with the help of the software that comes with your mobile CD and by using the data cable. The data cable is compatible with models like D750i, K750, K750c, K750i, Z520, Z520a, Z520i, Z525, Z525a, Z550a, W550, W550i, W600, W600i, W800, and W800i. In clearance sale you can get this product for around $12.

Changing the look of your sony ericsson Z520 is often done by the users of the mobile. Like the way you change your dress, you can change the faceplate of your mobile. Sony ericsson Z520 faceplates are available in different colors like Blue, Light Blue, Green, Red, White, Purple, Pink, etc to suit the taste of the users. You can find sony ericsson Z520 faceplates for around $5 in clearance sales.

It is no wonder if you are mesmerized by the look of the Nokia N85 with its sleek and classy finish. It is very compact in size for the features that it comes bundled with. The OLED display gives you brilliant and natural color to the images and the interface. With the 5 MP camera you can take very good pictures in natural colors. It comes with preloaded games and assisted GPS. A trial of voice guided navigation is also availabe in this device. In short it is a multimedia computer in your palm. Two way sliding is possible with the device.
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Touch screen in mobile is getting popular among the users of the mobile phones. Gone are the days when we used a stylus to tap the screen to get your applications up and running. Now, with just a touch you can see them come alive!

One of the popular touch screen mobile phone is the HTC Touch Diamond with a good look and feel. The HTC Touch Diamond comes with the Windows 6.1 operating system. Has a 3.2 megapixel camera in it, for those camera lovers. Other technologies that are bundled are Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. It comes with an 192MB RAM installed with 4GB of memory packed in it.
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Samsung Omnia, the new kid on the block from the house of Samsung, is definitely going to give the iPhone a run for its money. The design of Samsung Omnia must have been influenced by the iPhone and it goes the same way and might be far better for the money you spend on it.

It’s 3.2 inch touchscreen makes it easy to tap the icons on you screen with your finger. It uses TouchWiz technology which is widget based. There are different modes in which you can make the screen interactive. In one of the mode you can make use of a conventional mouse pointer to point to the pixels that you want to click. This makes it easy to click the areas of the screen the has the close buttons and so on. There is an accelerometer sensor for auto rotation of the screen. Handwriting recognition is also there.
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