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The HTC Radar is the younger brother of the HTC Titan, a truly mammoth Windows Phone smart phone that rocks a 4.7-inch display. The HTC Radar isn't quite so gigantic, but it's no less exciting, and could be a good deal cheaper.

HTC Radar: Design & Build

The Radar feels quite chunky, and it's definitely substantial too, feeling rather hefty in the hand. That's typical of HTC mobiles, and indeed it's fair to say HTC hasn't strayed from its established design formula -- the rear is a curved patchwork of metallic and rubberised textures, lending the HTC Radar an industrial feel.

Measuring 120 x 61.5 x 10.8mm it’s not the thinnest phone, the flatest phone, or even the most sexiest phone out there. Coated in white and silver the design mirrors the company’s tablet, the HTC Flyer, and we are surprised that we haven’t yet seen this design on an Android handset, so as to complete the set if you have both.

At the launch of its latest phones, HTC claimed to the biggest Windows Phone handset vendor. This in itself is not much of a claim considering the minimal amount of the smartphone market Microsoft has managed to garner. However, despite this, HTC has obviously hitched itself to the WP7 wagon for the foreseeable future by launching two new Windows Phone handsets.

HTC Titan: Design & Build

The Titan is a monster of a smartphone measuring 131.5 x 70.7 x 9.9mm but it’s size is not reflected in its weight, which comes in at just 160g, though it feels rather lighter in the hand. The back of the phone features a two-tone carbon-grey metal case, which also features the Windows Phone logo.

Samsung announced the new Samsung Galaxy Note, their new flagship android smartphone. The device is quite a make and I really fall for it on the first look itself. Honestly, when Galaxy S2 released in the market i told myself that one day I am gonna buy that device. But, yesterday i got the Google Alerts about Samsung and when I checked the mail it was about the new release of the Samsung Galaxy Note. It was Galaxy S2 on my mind till that moment but, after seeing the Samsung Galaxy Note I decided this is going to be my dream phone. Samsung Galaxy Note can be considered as Galaxy S3 specs wise. Hope Samsung wont release anything bigger than Note this year ‘cos the Galaxy S2 owners already started regretting their purchase after seeing the Samsung Galaxy Note.       

Samsung Galaxy Note: Design & Build

Samsung Galaxy Note is a great device which blows the line of separation between Tablets and Smartphones. It has the all the features that both tablet and a smartphone have. The main attraction of the device is the extremely large 5.3” inch HD Super AMOLED 800 x 1280 pixels display which makes the device so special between other Smartphones. Of course we have the Dell Streak but, seems it is not released on the right time of technology. These days people are really getting more closer with the tablets and they are ready to accept a Smartphone come Tablet device like Samsung Galaxy Note.

HTC has decided to get all hippity-hop happy with its latest smart phone, the HTC Sensation XE. It's a refreshed version of the brilliant HTC Sensation that packs Beats audio tech, as well as a faster processor and improved battery life.

HTC Sensation XE: Beats by Dr. Dre

The HTC Sensation XE comes with a set of in-ear Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Plug these boisterous bad-boys in, and the phone switches to a different audio profile, doing some clever processing trickery to tune your music specifically to the earphones.

We suspect that will boil down to making your tunes sound a bit bassier, but we're ready to be impressed -- some existing Beats audio products have delivered better audio quality than their garish colour schemes would suggest, so maybe this mobile can give your tunes a little extra punch.

LG announced its new 3G GSM cell phone named LG Optimus Hub. It works in 2G (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G (HSDPA 900 / 2100) networks. Its dimension is 113.4 x 60.8 x 11.9 mm and weighted 123 g.

LG Optimus Hub: OS & Memory

Operating System is powered by Android OS v2.3.4 Gingerbread along with 800 MHz ARM v6 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227T chipset with 512 RAM memory.

The HTC Rhyme was announced and it looks like a great mid-range phone for fashion-conscious users. 

HTC Rhyme: Design

The Rhyme doesn't feel small, per se; it's just not as gargantuan as all the 4-, 4.3- and 4.5-inch handsets we've been manhandling lately. It does feel positively featherweight, though because there's really not much to this device. HTC's playing up the minimalist design but, as is the case with so many gadgets aimed at women, it skimps in the ports department. You've got a 3.5mm headphone jack, lock button, volume rocker, USB port and... that's it.

Another smart phone from Sony Ericsson promising high performance and reliability is Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V. It is nothing but a heavily loaded Android smartphone.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V: Build & OS

The phone is having stylish looks with its sleek and super cool thin design. The dimension is a 116 X 57 X 13 mm and it weighs just a 126 grams. The new phone will have the advantage of a powerful 1GHz Scorpion processor with an Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255 snapdragon .The operating system is an Android v2.3 Gingerbread.

The HTC Explorer is so named not because it's a phone for Bear Grylls-style adventurers, but because it's for people exploring the world of smart phones for the first time. It's the cheapest smart phone in the HTC range, sitting below the Wildfire S, and it's been purposefully designed to be easy to use. We tried the phone out to see how easy it is to go exploring. 

HTC Explorer: Design

The phone has a rugged-feeling rubberised texture on the back. It's also very small, slotting neatly into a pocket. That does mean the screen is pretty small though, measuring 3.2-inches across, about the size of a credit card; such a diminutive display isn't great for surfing the Internet.

The HTC Explorer will be available in black or dark blue, but you can swap covers and make it purple, orange or white.

The Nokia 603 comes with Symbian Belle, the latest update to Symbian bringing improved visuals, six home screens, enhanced browsing and a lot more, but at its core you’re still dealing with Symbian.

Nokia 603: Hardware

But first let’s see what we have in terms of pure hardware on the Nokia 603: a 3.5-inch ClearBlack display with toughened glass and a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels, a 1GHz processor powering the richer visuals of Belle, and a 5 megapixel camera recording 720p videos at 30fps.

Samsung S8600 Wave 3 is a new Bada OS v2.0 based phone from Samsung. The new Samsung S8600 Wave 3 is the first phone based on Bada OS version 2.0. In the past, Samsung had released a smartphone based on Bada OS earlier but Samsung for the first time has introduced three phones at the same time with the same Bada OS version 2.0.

Samsung S8600 Wave 3: Display

Dominating the Samsung S8600 Wave 3 is the huge, 4.0 inch display, which uses an Super AMOLED screen that presents well, rendering images in sharp contrast, and providing decent legibility even in direct sunlight. The WVGA capacitive touchscreen display supports up to 16 million colours, and is protected by a Gorilla Glass covering, adding a level of strength and durability to one of the weakest parts of a modern phone.