The New AT&T 8525

The AT&T 8525 is a feature-rich Windows Mobile Pocket PC providing access to your personal or corporate email, Internet, and your critical personal or business applications—all at broadband speeds. And with simultaneous voice and data functionality, you won’t miss a call when surfing the web or responding to email.

Music, messaging and a camera, of course, but also Windows Mobile 5 so you can cook up Word, Excel or PowerPoint files while on the go. With a large, high resolution touch screen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard, viewing work documents or playing games is a no-brainer. Use it to show presentations at a client meeting, and then to catch a movie on the plane home. Go ahead, create your own possibilities.

These features are available via a software upgrade free to all customers with Cingular 8525 / 8500 phones. Most AT&T 8525 phones will have this software when you purchase it. (Check the label behind the battery, If you do not see PTT on the top right, you will want to upgrade your software.

The good: The AT&T 8525 is the first UMTS/HSDPA smart phone to be offered in the United States. It has integrated Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, and supports AT&T's new music, video, and location-based services. The Windows Mobile device also has push e-mail capabilities, a 2-megapixel camera, a spacious QWERTY keyboard, and good call quality.

The bad: The AT&T 8525 is on the heavier side and the navigation array is a bit cramped. The smart phone is also pricey.

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HTC Touch Diamond Carphone

HTC Touch Diamond The Carphone Warehouse

The HTC Touch Diamond mobile phone is a superstar amongst handsets. It's devastatingly good-looking, it's incredibly powerful and it's delightfully easy to use.Re-defining the perception of advanced mobile phones the HTC Touch Diamond signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess with intuitive usability and exhilarating design. Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed steel and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use.

The HTC Touch Diamond has a touch controlled display with an intuitive interface which is controlled by simply moving the finger across its screen. Everything it there at your fingertips from surfing to watching videos, from photos to your music collection.

The HTC Touch Diamond mobile phone is known as a superstar among mobile handsets with its sleek diamond-esque styling and brushed steel highlights. And now the HTC Touch Diamond is available in the UK via the Carphone Warehouse.

Key Features:
• 2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the pixels of most phones
  
• 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera
• 2.8-inch touch screen

The HTC Touch Diamond features a 2.8 inch touch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus, tri-band, 3G HSDPA, FM radio, music player, WAP, Bluetooth, weighs 110 grams and measures 102 x 51 x 11.5mm.

The Carphone Warehouse has the HTC Touch Diamond on the Orange Network with a tariff of Dolphin - £35 – 18 months, 600 minutes and unlimited texts per month, magic number, Orange Wednesdays, and a FREE HTC Touch Diamond handset .

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