VARIOUS TYPE OF PHONE

The Smartphone
All the activities mentioned above can now be performed on one single device, and this device has replaced MP3 music players, digital cameras, PDAs and several other devices, and has merged them all together. The smartphone has been around for many years, but the Apple iPhone can be considered to be the true pioneer in this domain. Since then, various new models have arisen that have blatantly copied the hardware and the software of the iPhone, and even surpassed it in some cases. A smartphone is basically a cell phone that does everything well and you can have no complaints with it. You can also connect it to an HDTV through an HDMI port and view high quality content on the TV set and you can also use the GPS on the phone to get accurate navigational details. The best smartphones in the market today are as follows.

    Apple iPhone 4
    Samsung Galaxy S
    Motorola Atrix
    HTC Desire HD
    Sony Ericsson Play (coming soon)

The Camera Phone
A camera phone is similar to a smartphone in many aspects, but the difference is that the camera on the device is better than most point and shoot digital cameras around. The Nokia N8 is a shining example of the perfect camera phone, since it has a 12 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a Xenon flash. The quality of the images that are shot with this phone are very impressive. Regular smartphones have an average camera that gives satisfactory images for regular people, but professionals can use the camera on a camera phone and get extremely clear and crisp pictures. Since the camera lens is better, the size of it will be bigger too. As a result, camera phones are generally bulkier than regular phones, especially at the back of the device.

The MP3/Music Phone
This is one of the types of cell phones that are designed specifically for listening to music and enjoying it immensely. Music phones are generally cheaper than regular phones, and they do not perform half the functions that a full fledged smartphone can. Nevertheless they are great for music lovers because they have specific music control buttons on the face of the device, they have high quality audio output which is optimized even further with the help of high quality earphones, and they also have large storage space so that one can store a greater number of songs and audio files on them. The best music phones that are available today are as follows.

    Apple iPhone 4
    Sony Ericsson Aino
    Motorola Droid X
    Samsung Focus
    HTC EVO 4G

The Basic Phone
There are plenty of choices for people who believe that a phone is supposed to be used only for telephony purposes. These are basic phones that are strong, durable and give a far greater battery life than a smartphone user can ever imagine. Some believe that features of telephony, an alarm, a calendar and a flashlight are all a phone should have, and all the major manufacturers service this market segment as well. These phones are priced much lower than other phones too, and they are also good backup phones for people who own complex smartphones that do suffer from defects every now and then. Some popular basic phone models are as follows.

    Samsung Haven
    Nokia 6350
    Motorola Entice
    Sony Ericsson W518a

Apart from these types of cell phones, you will also need to make a decision about the form factor of the mobile phone that you buy. You can pick one from amongst the following.

    A full touchscreen phone.
    A touchscreen phone with a side-sliding or front-sliding full QWERTY keyboard.
    A phone with a full QWERTY keyboard.
    A clamshell design phone.
    A flip phone.
    A phone with a basic T9 keyboard.