Rediff.com« Back to articlePrint this article

7 of the world's most beautiful mobile phones

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 14:11 IST
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an image of an iPhone 4S at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California

Mobile phones have taken the world by a storm. Currently, India is the fastest growing market for mobile phones. As their popularity increases by the day, manufacturers are trying to lure the customers by offering best designs, functions and so on. Here's we have listed the world best-looking mobile phones, ever. Let us know if you agree with us, or if we have missed out any spectacular design.

iPhone 4/4S
Price: iPhone 4 @ Rs 35,000 for the basic version/ 4S is yet to launch officially in India

Any list on best of looking phones will be incomplete without the iPhone. So, let's just start with it. iPhones have revolutionised the whole touch-screen experience. And, its latest design only gets better.

Also seen as a fashion accessory, both iphone 4/4S come with a stainless steel band wrap, flat back panel complete with a sleek design. They are both available in classic colours – black and white.

In terms of technology, the iPhone 4S uses Apple's dual-core A5 chip, the same one found in the iPad 2, while iPhone 4 comes with a single-core A4 processor. There are other differences like battery life, camera resolution and so on.

Otherwise, both phones look and feel very chic.

Click NEXT to read more...

7 of the world's most beautiful mobile phones

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 14:11 IST
Nokia Lumia 800

Nokia Lumia 800
Price: Rs 28,000 (approx)

The latest handset from Nokia is the colourful Lumia 800, and it promises to grab your attention almost immediately. Loaded with Windows Phone and made from the single piece of injection-moulded polycarbonate to the 8MP camera which sports a f/2.2 Carl Zeiss lens, while taking elements from the N9, Nokia clearly has a winner.

Here, Nokia attempts to keep to its traditions and what the company is best known for - hardware, design and production.

The matte finish saves you the hassle of wiping off fingerprints from your phone, so that you won't be forever polishing it. Also, it is light, but reassuringly heavy.

The Nokia Lumia 800 is expect to be available across key cities and towns in India by mid-December.

Click NEXT to read more...

7 of the world's most beautiful mobile phones

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 14:11 IST

Samsung X830
Price: Rs 10,200 (At the time of launch)

The Samsung SGH-X830 looks more like a portable music player than a phone. It is tall, thin and undersized for a mobile – the dimensions are 84 x 30 x 19.9mm.

It's not just the design that separates Samsung X830 from others. It weighs 72g, which is less than any mobile that supports MP3, ACC, ACC+, e-AAC+, WMA file formats.

The drawn out shape and variety of colours offered by Samsung, makes this phone a stylistic success.

Click NEXT to read more...

7 of the world's most beautiful mobile phones

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 14:11 IST

LG Chocolate BL40
Price: Rs 18,000 (approx at the time of launch)

LG Chocolate (LG BL40) with 4-inch display touchscreen mobile featuring dual screen UI and a 5 Mega Pixel Camera, is quite a stunner.

It has a 4.0-inch wide HD LCD screen with 800 345 pixel resolution to maximize visual experience.

Other LG Chocolate Features are wide HD LCD "Real VGA" screen presents a vibrant range of natural colours, allowing photos to appear sharper, videos more true-to-life, games naturally vivid and documents more readable.

Click NEXT to read more...

7 of the world's most beautiful mobile phones

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 14:11 IST

HTC Legend
Price: Rs 25,990 (At the time of launch)

The HTC Legend looks significantly like the improved version of HTC Hero. It comes in a sleek aluminum unibody design and AMOLED display.

This new type of display has much better contrast than a regular LCD, and provides really bright, vivid colours.

Apart from the attractive looks, HTC Legend appears completely solid and comes with great build quality. It also happens to be quite light-weighted (only 126 grams).

The chin at the bottom that is characteristic of the European version of the Hero has been retained as well, but the handset comes with rounded shapes and is almost 3 mm than HTC Hero.

Click NEXT to read more...

7 of the world's most beautiful mobile phones

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 14:11 IST

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S
Price: Rs 26,900

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S is an upgraded version of the Xperia Arc with a more powerful processor.

It comes with 4.2 inch capacitive touch screen with LED backlight, along with scratch-resistant surface and utilises Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine which is Sony's display technology.

The phone comes with Timescape user interface which is Sony's proprietary user interface with deeper Social network integration. The phone is based on Android v2.3.4 (Gingerbread) OS and 1.4 GHz Scorpion processor.

Its features like the silver band around the rim, the sculpted curve makes this phone very smart indeed. And, the bow in the middle makes it seem thinner and lighter than it actually is.

Click NEXT to read more...

7 of the world's most beautiful mobile phones

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 14:11 IST

Samsung Galaxy R i9103
Price: Rs 25,000

Samsung has lunched the little brother of Samsung Galaxy SII which is known as the Samsung Galaxy R. Samsung Galaxy R is the budget version alternative of Samsung Galaxy SII.

That shouldn almost compel you to buy this impressive looking phone. It uses a brushed metal back that makes it slightly thicker (9.6 (R) Vs 8.8mm) in return for more solid feel.

Along with the processing power also been compromised only slightly mind. In terms of feature, the Samsung I903 Galaxy R offers plenty of feature scene modes, face/smile detection effects, Geo-tagging and manual contact for ISO, metering mode and so on.

The Samsung Galaxy R runs Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread with TouchWiz 4.0 customisation virtually identical to the software on the Galaxy SII. It comes with a screen size of 4.2" with Android 2.3 version.