Best For Cinema Goers
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| Samsung Galaxy Beam |
While we’re grateful to physics for keeping our feet on the ground and our internal organs tucked safely inside our bodies, it’s easy to curse it for not allowing us to carry a home cinema in our pockets. Samsung’s Galaxy Beam, however, bends physics’ draconian rules. Its 4in 800x480
LCD slips into your trousers easily, but thanks to a built-in 15 lumen projector it also contains the equivalent of a 50in TV. A 5MP cam even allows you to shoot your own 720p footage to blast on to a nearby wall, stationary lorry or large farm animal.
Best For 3D
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| LG Optimus 3D Max |
Like curry toothpaste or Marmite ice cream, 3D might not be to everybody’s taste - but there’s undeniable gadget joy to be had from adding an extra dimension to your own pics and vids. Sadly, LG’s first 3D phone also added some extra timber in order to make room for the requisite second camera, but with a waistline of 9.6mm and a weight of 148g. the Max avoids that chunky fate. Underneath its 4.3in. glasses-free screen you’ll find a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus there’s a microHDMI socket to hook it up to your 3D TV. Now stop hogging all the ice cream.
Best For Style Icons
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| Nokia Lumia 800 |
with another, glowing oblong inside it, It’s no surprise things can get a bit samey. Despite that, Nokia’s crayon pushers have managed to make the Windows-running Lumia 800 stand out, especially in its glossy white, space-age guise. The 8MP camera round the back is one of the best on any smartphone, so It’s perfect for confirming how good you look. At 3.7in it’s not the biggest, but that’s all the better for fitting into your badger-skin bumbag — or whatever it is the hipsters are wearing these days.
Best For App
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| Apple iPhone 4S |
The Phone might be under constant attack from Android’s army of big-screened, quad-core powerhouses, but Apple can rest easy knowing that its app arsenal is fully stocked. Over half a million line the App Store’s shelves, from Twitter clients to touchscreen turntables via TV streamers, AR translators and the brilliantly named Roland Kickinger’s Sexy Nutrition (don’t ask). It’s much more than just a well-stocked toyshop, though: with an 8MP snapper and a crisper-than-the- aftermath-of-a-fire-at-the Walkers-factory screen, the 4S is also the best iPhone ever.
Best For Pure Power
Best For Pure Power
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| HTC One X |
If Pirelli is right and power is nothing without control, it’s probably a good idea to grip the HTC One X firmly with both hands. In fact, it’s also a good Job that its 4.7in 720p HD screen is made of tough Gorilla Glass, because underneath it there’s a 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor that makes the ICS-toting One X as powerful as Asus’ Transformer Prime tablet. To help maximise all that oomph it has a Battery Saver Core, which controls how much power is being used at any given time. Just as well or you’ll have splurged it all by lunchtime.
Best For Silicon Purists
You know something’s new when it’s still going under a codename and the first Intel-powered smartphone still hasn’t been officially christened. But it doesn’t matter what the Santa Clara answers to, because the real story lies beneath its 4in screen. It runs on a single-core 1.66Hz Intel Atom processor — as made famous by almost every netbook ever-giving it enough power for parlour tricks such as l0fps stills shooting. no quad-core required. Orange says it won’t break the bank and it shod get ICS before long. The future’s bright for Intel
Best For Silicon Purists
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| Orange santa clara |
Best For Tablet Envy
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| ASUS Padfone |
Best For Design Geeks
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| Lumington T2 |
If Samsung’s Galaxy S II is the BMW 3 Series of the smart phone world (premium, powerful but on the common side), Lumigon’s T2 Is the Maserati’s Quattroporte-stylish, upmarket and rare as diamond socks. Forged on the same Danish shores that gave us Bang & Olufsen, the 3.8in Lumigon T2 doesn’t just share a passport with the Scandinavian design kings: B&O’s ICEpower audio tech also lies insideThe T2 can be used as a handy infra-red universal remote, while a rear- mounted 8MP camera, NFC and ICS make this phone so much more than just a pretty face.
Best For NFC Fans
Until you can use NFC to buy your weekly shopping or a house, rather than just a packet of crisps and a Mars bar at the local newsagent, you’re going to have to find something else to do with that chip. Handily, Sony’s dual-core, 12MP, 720p-screened Xperia S comes with four customisable SmartTags.
Stick one in your car to trigger connection to your handsfree kit, another to set your alarm when you tap it against your bedside table and another on your desk at work to remind you to buy a packet of crisps and a Mars bar on the way home.
Best for Iron-men
Personal trainers might keep you fit, but they’re expensive and they shout at you when you’d rather be eating Jaffa Cakes. Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Active will never do that-but it will help you fend off the flab with a built-in pedometer and a suite (mmm, sweets) of health and fitness apps. Its water-shrugging chassis means that a little rain is no reason to postpone your run, and the 3m touchscreen is even meant to remain responsive in the drizzle. It’s unlikely that the meal planner will recommend any more Jaffa Cakes, though. Shame.
Best For Skinny Jeans
With smartphone screens getting bigger and pocket real estate at a premium, you can’t afford to sacrifice vital millimetres to unnecessary mobile girth. Thinnest of the lot (for now) is newcomer Huawei’s
4,3in Ascend P1S, with a waistline that’s just 6.68mm at its skinniest. Its waif—like figure means it Isn’t as powerful as the quad-core crowd, but its 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM should have ICS skipping along, and It has an 8MP camera capable of shooting 1080p video. Not bad for a phone that looks as if it could slice tomatoes.
Best For Multi Taskers
ViewSonic’s new Android phone has a dual-identity problem. Not only is it called ‘4s’ (now where have we seen that before?) but its 3.5in screen has a resolution of 960x640 at 326ppi, the same as the iPhone 4S (ah yes. that’s where). But then duality is rather fitting for a phone with two SIM slots. Rather than switching between the two, the ViewPhone will multitask-so you can make a call with one while downloading an app with the other. A 5MP rear/VGA front cam setup allows you to take pics of yourself, so you don’t get all Jekyll and Hyde.
Best For Big Hands
Are you a person who struggles to make decisions, like what to have for lunch or which of your children you would save from a bear attack? Then Samsung’s Galaxy Note could be the answer to your ‘should i buy a tablet?’ dilemma, its 5.3in display brings slate-style functionality to your smartphone. Its S Pen stylus allowing you to sketch and annotate at your whim. A 1280x800 resolution and AMOLED tech makes it ideal for movies, although it’ll have to downscale the 1080p videos you shoot on Its 8MP camera. As for the bears.
Best For NFC Fans
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| Sony Xperia S |
Stick one in your car to trigger connection to your handsfree kit, another to set your alarm when you tap it against your bedside table and another on your desk at work to remind you to buy a packet of crisps and a Mars bar on the way home.
Best for Iron-men
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| Sony Ericsson Xperia Active |
Best For Skinny Jeans
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| Huawei Ascend P1S |
4,3in Ascend P1S, with a waistline that’s just 6.68mm at its skinniest. Its waif—like figure means it Isn’t as powerful as the quad-core crowd, but its 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM should have ICS skipping along, and It has an 8MP camera capable of shooting 1080p video. Not bad for a phone that looks as if it could slice tomatoes.
Best For Multi Taskers
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| ViewSonic ViewPhone 4s |
Best For Big Hands
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| Samsung Galaxy Note |