Mobile phones today aren't just communication devices -- they are radios, cameras, torches... anything you want them to be. And manufacturers are feeding the trend with new launches that focus on "user experience". Here's a pick of some new and soon-to-be-launched phones.
The Xperia X1i, from Sony Ericsson's swank new Xperia line, has a unique arc slider with a wide pitch QWERTY keyboard in a metal-finish body. The display panel is large and finger-friendly, making it easy to access applications.
It has a ridiculously high-resolution screen and an amazing list of multimedia features -- modem, 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, video recording and streaming function, FM radio, support of Bluetooth stereo (A2SP), Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer coupled with RSS feeds, GPS and wireless LAN connection.
A fairgoer walks past an ad for Sony Ericsson's Xperia mobile device at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover on March 4, 2008.
Text: Priyanka Joshi
Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images
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