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The Sygic AURA is everywhere these days and is hitting just about every smartphone platform around. The major emphasis by the Sygic AURA is on 3D maps - it boasts a long list of cities with over 4000 3D landmarks in Europe and North America and there are cities in the Asia Pacific with over 900 landmarks. Sygic AURA works has amazing features that improve the experience of both in-car and as pedestrian navigation.

Windows didn’t have Opera and it was about time they got one for themselves. Now Windows Mobile has got its very own Opera UI. Due to this latest development, the WinMo users do not need any Java support for the running of a UI, anymore. Skype has ditched support and development for their WinMo native app, and so it seems that Opera will save the day. The Opera Mobile 10 beta was released a while back and it has been getting huge support by all and sundry; basically people who use WinMo.

What will we ever do without internet and the photos that are leaked on it! The first clear images of the BlackBerry's pioneer slider have just been leaked online and it looks good indeed. It sports touchscreen, optical trackpad, sliding full QWERTY keyboard and runs on BlackBerry OS 6. Not much is known about specs in detail right now as nothing has been made official by the company as yet. So we will just have to speculate for the moment.

This is one extremely popular Samsung set. Why? Because Samsung S7070 Diva is furniture-inspired with an extremely popular quilted back. What’s more, it’s found its way in the UK stores now. The phone offers luxury in shape of the diamond-shaped center key on the front. The social networking integration and the Wish List application have been introduced to attract a female audience as it has often proven to be a wonderful incentive.

Price is one thing the LG GD910 wristwatch phone was extremely unrealistic about, among other things! And now they are going to be launching its successor or so it seems from the pictures that have just been leaked over the internet. These shots were taken during the LG Digital Experience in Brazil where the phone was showcased. These photos suggest that the new phone quite amazingly resembles the old one so much so that even the thickness is quite the same.

Almost all of the major companies these days are now out with the mini versions of their popular phones for example Nokia N97, etc. But regardless of everything else, it’s Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini which definitely steals the show. There is no other mini set half as good as this one. The X10 mini shows what a mini phone should be all about. It should be as good as a complete smartphone in a half-size package.

The Samsung S8500 Wave is the first mobile phone to carry Bada; and from the looks of it, it will be one interesting phone to invest in. The phone is blessed with a slim profile and an absolutely gorgeous screen. But we need to be sure of the fact that Samsung S 8500 Wave has something extraordinary in it to give us our money’s worth. There are touchscreens popping up left, right and centre these days and every big name is doing it.

There has been a rumor, reliable or not we cannot say right now but a new webOS phone is in the works for later this year. This should in no way be confused with the 2 models that Palm has said it would make for AT&T. Those phones are expected to be GSM variants of the current Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for the operator. Palm's not selling and we all are well aware of the fact. It has to do something or the phone will die a fast death very soon.

We all want to be able to make music somehow with our voice and those of us who are really talented and know what it’s like; the new Voice Band app is one cool app that they must have. But yes, this app is only available for those who have iPhone. The procedure is simple; you just have to sing to your iPhone and the application will itself turn your voice into the sounds of actual instruments like the drums or bass.

The native home screen User Interface on BlackBerry smartphones has lost its touch unfortunately. Compared to some of the more eye catching visuals featured on other platforms, blackberry user interface now looks quite old-fashioned. We are not very sure about whether or not this is true but from what we have heard, the BlackBerry Super App is now aiming to uplift the usual ordinary looking interface to something more interesting now.

Just as Sprint promised sometime back, it reduced the Palm Pixi’s original price by half! Now in today’s day and age; this is a phenomenal cut; no matter how you look at it. now this was not the only cut in the set’s price; as before this one even Verizon reduced the price of its Palm Pixi Plus smartphone to $79.99 and that too with some major improvements. CL King analyst, Lawrence Harris, said that “Inevitably this will hurt Palm's profits. If it's not in the February quarter, it'll be in May.”

Nexus One and Motorola DROID have had a few pictures leaked and from what we see the two handsets were very clearly seen running Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser! Mozilla is one browser which makes the browsing game oh so much fun for its users. Everything is perfect for this browser, we all love it; but Mozilla on an Android platform is a phenomena that has not been heard of a lot and we still will take some time to come to terms with it.

The Nokia Nuron, or the Nokia 5230 is bringing free voice-guided navigation along with itand will be available from T-Mobile in a matter of weeks now. This is a 3G-enabled handset and is the first carrier-supported device to come with the new and free Ovi Maps preinstalled. People who have seen the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will automatically see the connection in design. Though there are some differences like it does not have Wi-Fi and is equipped with a 2MP camera.

LG Cookie and Viewty families have long been in need of good mid-range sets. The LG GS290 Cookie Fresh and the LG GT400 Viewty have recently been spotted at the CeBIT 2010 and we have full faith in the fact that these will be the expected mid-range featurephones with 3" touchscreens! The LG GS290 Cookie Fresh, as opposed to the Cookie Plus, comes with no 3G support; is aimed at teenagers and features a 3 inch display of WQVGA resolution and a 2 megapixel camera.

This year’s MWC has been long gone but the devices that have been announced there will hit UK stores in a few weeks time or so. I’ll give here some of the current market details about HTC Desire, HTC Legend, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini etc. If we start with the recent stuff, Motorola Milestone has been around the UK market for a few months now, but is only available at Expansys. Now you can get it without any problem from Carphone Warehouse as well now, that too with your choice of contract.