MUKOYAR

Status : Available October 19th, 2009 on T-Mobile and Orange UK Touchscreen : 3.1-inch/320 x 480 pixel Full Capacitive Touch Screen w/ QWERTY side Slider. Dimensions : 58 x 114 x 15.6 mm; 163 grams Camera : 5.0 Megapixels with AutoFocus Battery : 1420 mAh Li-ion Standby Time : 325 Hours Talk Time :6 Hours Processor : Qualcomm MSM7201A, 528MHz Internal/External Memory : 256MB/MicroSD (32GB Capacity) Extras : 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled Price: $199 ****

It’s raining smart phones. No, make that super-smart phones, the type of hand-held computer, like Apple’s iPhone or the models powered by Google’s Android software, that browse the Web well, have sophisticated communication functions and are made to run a wide variety of modern third-party apps. This holiday season, new super-smart phone models seem to be appearing weekly. So far, the king of this new field, in my view, remains its pioneer, the iPhone. Apple’s phone has its limitations, but its design, usability and versatility have kept it ahead. There’s a well-equipped iPhone model available for as little as $99, and the platform offers a staggering 85,000 downloadable apps. By comparison, there are around 10,000 apps for Android, 3,000 for the newer models of the Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry, a few hundred modern apps for phones running the latest versions of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile software, and even fewer than that for Palm’s (PALM) Pre and its soon-to-be release...