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The LG Renoir was released at the end of October this year and is the replacement for the LG Viewty and is now available at Telecom 3. The Renoir, much like the Viewty, is a pioneering imaging device, nicknamed after the famous impressionist painter. It boasts an 8 mega-pixel camera, and it pushes the highly capable photographic abilities of its predecessor to a new level.

The Renoir looks similar to the Viewty. It’s a flat touch screen phone that’s a little larger in size (108 x 55 x 14.5mm) and weighing in at 110g, giving the phone some weight for the user to hold the handset steady whilst taking pictures. The handset uses Haptic (vibration) feedback to confirm that you’ve pressed a “button” on the virtual screen, whether it’s the virtual onscreen keypad or QWERTY.

The phone still comes with many more upgraded features such as the camera capabilities. Equipped on this are a high quality Schneider-Kreuznach lens, autofocus, powerful xenon flash and new features such as face tracking and beauty shot. Xenon flash is a more powerful feature compared to the LED, and gives substantially improved after-dark shots. Beauty shot is an innovated feature that automatically detects faces, brightens them and removes spots and other imperfections. The phone also uses TouchShot, which enables you to use the touch screen to focus on a particular area of the shot and the shutter fires when you remove your finger from the screen. Result of all these key features means that the Renoir can take pictures which can be passed as printable quality, even though it’s not a dedicated digital camera. The Renoir also features an outstanding video camera too, capturing upto 120 FPS (frames per second) and also allowing you to playback your videos in slow-motion. 3G video calling is also supported.

The phone doesn’t only excel in camera capabilities, but video and music playback. The Renoir is the first phone to feature Dolby Mobile which processes its sound to enhance music, in particular by boosting the bass output. The music player can play all popular music formats (MP3, AAC, AAC+, & WMA) and has an inbuilt FM radio. Video player supports DivX and XVid formats so you can watch your downloaded files from the internet on your phone. With all these media files, the Renoir has 100MB of in-built memory and comes supplied with an 8GB microSD memory card which enables the user to store approximately 2,000 MP3 tracks or 15 DivX/XVid video files.

But there’s much more to the KC910 than just its camera. This is the first mobile to feature Dolby Mobile. This brand new technology from Dolby processes sound to enhance music, in particular by boosting bass output. The music player can play virtually all popular digital music formats including MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC++ & WMA. It can also play back video in DivX and Xvid formats so that you can watch movies on your phone. An FM radio is built in too, so you have a very wide range of music and video options available.

Connectivity variety on the Renoir is impressive also. The 3G phone offers 7.2 Mbps HSDPA speeds, USB, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi enabled, so you can connect wirelessly to a home, office network or hotspots. All these connectivity options allows this device to formidably access the internet to browse the web, use the Assisted-GPS feature, check e-mail with it’s e-mail application which supports attachments. The document support allows you to view TXT, PDF, DOC, PPT & XLS.

The feature packed KC910 Renoir is a very impressive handset which does everything one could hope for. It’s also a strong candidate for phone of the year 2008.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff at 08714246012 for more information.

Sony Ericsson bring out yet another “Walkman” series phone in an attractive slide form factor, the W595. The phone resembles the W910i which was released a year ago. It looks the same on the outside and inside with identical list of features, except, with an upgraded camera and the wrinkles which made the W910i unstable ironed out. The firmware has been extensively upgraded to make the phone very reliable and a joy to use which is why we now have it in our Telecom 3 product catalogue.

The W595 has the “Shake Control” that lets you change to a new track just by shaking the handset slightly. The motion sensor also auto-rotates between portrait and landscape.

The walkman player has received plenty of praise in the past, and this is the latest version 3.0. You can create and update your playlists, shuffle songs, randomised, equalise, etc. and album art can be displayed when music is playing. Supplied software along with connectivity, allows your music to be transferred or ripped from music and can be transferred between phone to PC or vice versa easily. The music audio quality is excellent, whether it’s being played through the loud speaker, a conventional stereo headset or a Bluetooth stereo headset. The Mega Bass feature helps enhance the bass frequencies to give the user a stronger bass sound for a fuller music experience. In addition, the phone also comes with a FM radio with RDS.

The W595 is a great music phone, as you’d expect. The Walkman player has received plenty of praise before, and this is the latest version 3.0. You can create and manage playlists, shuffle songs, equalise, etc, and album art can be displayed when music is playing. The supplied software lets you transfer music from PC to phone, and rip music from CD’s. The W595 has excellent audio quality, either through the loud stereo speakers, or via a conventional stereo headset or a Bluetooth stereo headset. The Mega Bass feature helps to enhance bass frequencies for a fuller sound. In addition to the music player, there’s an FM radio with RDS.

With all these music features, you’ll want the space to store all your files. The built-in memory is only 4 mega-bytes but it comes with a 2 giga-bytes memory card which is enough for about roughly 500 MP3 tracks. If this however, is not enough, then the phone supports memory cards of up to 8 giga-bytes.

The camera has been upgraded to 3.2 and can also record video, and video calling is possible on a 3G network with the front mounted video camera.

The W595 is a brilliant phone. It’s what the W910i should have been and everyone that has picked up the phone hasn’t managed to put it down.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff for more information.

Long time no post. We’ve been very busy here at Telecom 3 and at long last, I can announce some of the newer products we have available for distribution.

Nokia N96	Samsung F480
Nokia E71	Sony Ericsson C905
Sony Ericsson W595

Our telesales team have been prompted on our new products. Reviews for each will follow shortly hopefully. Please contact our Telecom 3 sales team for more enquiries on our latest products.

Camera phone lovers, brace yourself! The Sony Ericsson C902 is here to stay at Telecom 3. The ‘C’ is the newer range of the Cyber-Shot series which replaced the ‘K’ series. As everyone knows, the Cyber-Shot range of phones have been very successful and this phone lives up to our expectations. The phone comes to us in candy bar form, at a very slim 10.5mm, keypad and navigation buttons have gone back to classic design of being blocky keys which make them easy to pressand the model comes in black or red metallic finish. The side of the screen contains buttons to activate between still and video, enable autofocus, flash and other camera settings. The screen however, due to all these included shortcuts, is 2 inches but still has the same resolution as most other mobiles (240×320 with 256k colours) with a bright and sharp display and the device weighs in at 107grams.

The main feature is of course, the camera. It is concealed beneath a mini sliding cover. When you slide the cover open, the phone enables camera mode. The camera is, as stated earlier with the side buttons has autofocus and flash. The autofocus function has face-detection software which automatically focuses on the face of a picture. Image stabaliser software to minimise blur in low lighting areas, BestPic feature which can automatically take 9 pictures in a second to allow the user to choose the best picture out of the 9, Accelerometer senses which way up the photo is being held and will automatically rotate your pictures into portrait or landscape mode.

3G connection enabled (HSDPA) network enabled for the phone to make video calls. A new ‘Storyteller’ application lets you create presentation from the pictures and dynamically upload them onto social networks such as Bebo/Facebook. The media player is fully featured, includes Sony’s MegaBass for spetacular sound quality, PlayNow feature lets you personalise your phone by downloading a MP3 ringtone and/or use MP3/AC ringtones you transfer onto your phone. TrackID recognition to identify a song by holding your phone near the source, FM radio, can use your own stereo headset or use an optional Bluetooth stereo headset, large 160mb of internal memory which can expand up to 4gb via Memory Stick Micro to store up to 1,000 music tracks, USB and Bluetooth connectivity to transfer music, images between phone and PC via the simplicity of Drag and Drop.

This phone as fantastic as camera phones go, for more information, contact our Telecom 3 sales team.

The latest model of the Sony Ericsson Cyber Shot camera phone range at Telecom 3 is the K850i. Following its success of its previous models, the K850i comes to you in candy bar form, slightly slimmer compared to its predecessor, the K800i.

Labelled as the ‘True Photographers phone’, Cyber shot range is packed with a 5 megapixel camera, together with an automatic lens cover, digital zoom (x15), auto focus (to keep your image nice and sharp) and Xenon flash (superior to the LED flashes on other phones) which is all the fine ingredients you will need to take the perfect picture whenever, wherever. Also features ‘BestPic’ which can take 9 pictures in a second so that the user can choose which picture they would like to keep, a picture stabiliser which assists in reducing camera shake and finally, a switch that’s positioned on the side of the phone allowing you to switch between camera modes, similar to a digital camera.

Other features that come with the Sony Ericsson K850i are 3G high speed connection (HSDPA) to easily share your quality taken pictures, video calling, mp3 music player, TrackID music recognition to allow your phone to detect what artist and song when holding your phone up to the music source, FM radio, Bluetooth and USB connectivity making it easy to transfer files between PC and phone, organiser and expandable memory to 4gb so that you could store more media files.

Full of features and is an excellent phone that comes free with many price plans. For more information, contact our Telecom 3 sales team.

The Sony Ericsson W910i is part of the Walkman music player 3.0 series which we sell at Telecom 3. The phone is a super slim slide phone equipped with a reasonably large screen (2.4 inches) with a silver disc navigation control. Feature’s the ‘Shake Control’ for when you fancy a quick change in music, physically shaking your mobile phone will pick at random a different song that’s on your mobile. The sound quality on this device and features Sony Ericssons MegaBass feature to enhance bass frequency, can even plug in your own conventional stereo headset or use a Bluetooth stereo headset if that’s your preference. The walkman music player 3.0 is very easy to use, and the software that is supplied with the phone gives you the capability of transferring music from your PC to phone and rip music from CD’s. Internal storage however is only 35mb but it can be expanded easily with a memory card since the phone supports up to 4gb, which you can also fill the storage by using it’s 3G (HSDPA) connection to download music…perfect for those tunes you hear and want to download right away, and if you don’t know what the tune is, you can make use of the TrackID recognition function by holding your phone near a music source and it’ll identify the artist – song for you.

Apart from its superior audio function and normal phone functions, it also has a 2 megapixel standard camera, FM Radio, able to make video calls with its 3G (HSDPA) connection.

For more information on this product, contact our Telecom 3 sales team.

Sony Ericsson K770i Cyber-shot capabilities snaps itself a promising sales position in Telecom 3’s ranks. The K770i Sony Ericsson is style shaped with smooth edges and curves, candy bar design phone and is part of the Cyber-shot phone product line which is known for their high quality pictures due to Carl Zeiss lenses and overall design, 3.2 megapixels at a resolution of 2048×1536 with an LED flash, a 3.2x digital zoom and BestPic technology to take 9 pictures in a second so that the user can pick which one they prefer. Some of the other features that go hand in hand with the picture taking is the picture editor to modify your pictures slightly or the picture blogging to dynamically upload the pictures from your phone to your blog site.

Along with its camera features, it also contains picture editing, comes with 16mb internal memory and included in the package, you’ll receive a 256mb memory stick but can be upgraded with memory sticks of up to 2gb to store many photos or if you wish, store your music on. With TrackID Recognition, it allows your mobile phone to listen to a source of music and identify the artist and song. K770i also offers video calling, music player (MP3), FM radio, organiser, sound recording, internet access via the 3G connection capabilities with USB and Bluetooth connectivity from PC to phone to allow you to transfer or share your music.

As you can tell, this is a very multimedia orientated mobile phone, our Telecom 3 sales team can answer any other enquiries you may have.