You may be thinking that any touch screen mobile that is available for £40 must be cheap and tacky! And to be honest that’s exactly what I thought before I got my hands on one. Once I did I quickly realised that Vodafone have got not just a cheaply priced touch screen handset, but also one with features that aren’t usually available on handsets at this price.

Currently available in pink and black the “541 Touch “or VF541 which it is also known as, has a remarkably responsive 2.4-inch QVGA colour touch screen, making navigation and general usage of the handset extremely easy. However, apart from the basic features that you would expect on 90% of handsets these days the 541 has built in radio with RDS, Bluetooth and usb connectivity for which both make sharing your favourite images and music with your friends a synch.

Before I purchase a handset I like to play around with it and explore the menu system, which with the 541 isn’t over complicated but I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered a little gem of a feature called home screen widgets. This truly thought full feature allows you to at the touch of a finger access your favourite content and swap and change it as you see fit, this feature I liked a lot it gives the handset character.

Again for the price usually you would expect the 541 to be rather a standard looking model but Vodafone seem to have put some real effort into producing an handset that not only has features to compete with handsets at near twice the price but also one that has the looks to compete at any level.

A quick round up of some of the features that make this handset remarkable for the price include, MicroSD memory card slot maximum 4GB supported, embedded images and animations, Accelerometer, Home screen Widgets and a 2.4” Touch screen.

To find out more about the Vodafone 541 and its features visit Vodafone PayG Mobiles

Author: Tracy Higgins 

You are probably wondering what have ice and mobile phones got to do with one another, well in short, not a lot really! That is until you realise I.C.E is an acronym
which is short for ‘In case of an emergency’ I know your still thinking ok what’s the connection to your mobile, please read on!

If you are out somewhere and are unfortunate to have an accident, it is useful for a third party who may find you to see that your Mobile Phone has an I.C.E number on its list of contacts.

You may of course be thinking that you are never going to have an accident or incident that you would need to have an I.C.E number for. Well let me shatter the illusion for you, no one is ever in control and no one can ever legislate for any ‘Random, Incident’, we can risk manage but things in life can happen above and beyond our control.

The I.C.E number should be placed on your Mobile Phones contacts list so that anyone who has read this article and the Emergency services know whom your first point of contact should be. This is especially useful if you suffer from a complaint or Illness that may need specific treatment or information.

It maybe sounds unusual to have this kind of number on your handset but if you think about it from this perspective then hopefully you will understand the importance.

Stay Safe!

Author: Phil Chesters

Back in 2003, the camera phone was still a relatively new concept and for the majority of handsets the camera was something you had to attach via a cable.

These cameras where basically of the same specification as the camera’s built into handsets at the time, which was 640X480 which is just 0.3 megapixels.

Now in 2009 the Vga camera phone still exists even though it is rumored that Samsung are due to release a 12-megapixel camera phone later this year.

Last week I was reading a thread on a forum I frequent and someone asked the question, why do manufacturers still bother to release phones with a Vga camera? At the time, I did not give it much thought.

Since then I’ve been updating pre-pay-as-you-go with new handsets and it struck me that a large part of current manufactures handsets are still sold with Vga cameras built in. This then reminded me of the question I read on the forum last week.

So why do manufacturers bother doing this? I suppose the answer is a simple one and is that there must be a market for them. However, I do not really understand why as mobiles containing a Vga camera are the most basic of handsets available.

For example, the LG KP130 is currently available on T-Mobile and is priced at £14.67, whilst this is a great price for a mobile phone if someone is willing to spend £10.33 pence more Vodafone have the 533, which has a 1.3 megapixel camera available. In laymen’s terms the camera is able to take pictures at 4 times the quality of the LG KP130 for little extra expense.
So I remain pondering the question, why bother with a Vga camera phone.