GSM Cell Phone

GSM Quad Band Mobile Phones

Executive Summary About Best Cell Phone by John Dulaney

To this day, there are more than more than 690 GSM mobile networks across 213 countries and consists of 82.4% of all global mobile connections. A mobile phone can be a bewildering affair for a traveler. Originally GSM operated at a frequency of 900 MHz, which is being continuously upgraded and now works on 1,800 MHz service. With a GSM phone, you can access service in 212 different countries. Some of the mobile phones available in the United States and Canada operate on GSM, but most of them are of a different frequency band. Not all countries in the world use the standard 900/1,800 MHz GSM. Today, mobile phones have become a part of daily living. Whether you are traveling on business or on a holiday, mobile phones offer incredible services during your journey. Today, quad band mobile phones take away the fear in you, relieving you from that worry, if your mobile phone will work in UK.

Now you have a mobile phone, a partner to your daily life. In India, for example, service providers have started to offer life time incoming calls on pre-paid sim cards of your mobile. Let us look at why all mobile phones are not compatible.

The first one being that all service providers in this world do not operate on the same radio frequency band and encoding services. To enable a mobile phone from the United States to work in UK, the service providers in UK, or vice-versa, must have a cross-billing arrangement with one or more service providers in the other country. This cross-billing arrangement is a commercial deal between the service providers of the two countries, which results in allowing roaming in your mobile phone. In some cases the roaming facility in your phone, needs to be activated by your service provider in US. This arrangement falls under International Roaming. Let us look at some of the problems with mobile phones in the United States. To have your way, you will have to maintain two mobile phones, one with a major established network in US and a second; having the GSM service with roaming features.

GSM is a state-of-art technology, offering fax capability and Short Messaging Service (SMS). We have discussed the limitation of GSM services available in US vis-à-vis roaming. Instead of maintaining a second phone, mobile phone rental service is also available. GSM is considered to be a second generation (2G) mobile phone system.

Top 10 GSM Phones that "Really" Matter
Executive Summary About Best Cell Phone by Saquib Hussain

#10: Nokia 6310i: Switch back to the days when people used to buy phones to use it as a phone; and still today there are plenty of people among us, who rely on solid performance of cell phones; and that’s why Nokia still manufactures this 4 year old gem. The phone is very rare and uncommon, but sold widely abroad. It is a middle-class phone with a brilliant equipment and attractive design – can be considered as the best charm-shell phone ever produced by Nokia. This moderately priced phone provides all the basic features of a color phone with a touch of a nice VGA camera and executive looks. The phone has Nokia’s renowned standards for good battery life, reception quality and excellent built quality. The lack of Bluetooth is indeed shocking for this phone. Of course, the phone has a very formal outlook, and a fresh and clean design that’s rarely seen in phone these days, and could be more attractive to people who wants a nice built phone with a modest amount of extra features.

Equipped with 1.3 mega pixel camera, mini-SD card support, GPRS, Bluetooth, IrDA, USB and 65k colors screen – this phone can be considered the best feature rich, and nice looking charm-shell phone. The phone also features MS Pocket Outlook, Windows Media Player, Internet, E-Mail and 25 MB built-in memory. The phone also features a good battery life and reception quality. The quad-band world phone priced around $300 is a perfect tool for fashion conscious business class people.

#07: Nokia N70: The best Symbian and multimedia combined phone ever created. Since Nokia is charging so much for the phone, they should have made it more perfect to justify the phone. Still in respect of overall quality, this should be the best made feature rich Nokia phone to date.

Priced around $80-$90 the Samsung X150 is a justified entry level phone. The phone features a nice color screen, monophonic ring-tones, SMS, calendar, voice memo, calculator support, and a simple yet nice looking design. It’s a quality phone and it doesn’t look low-priced. #05: Sony Ericsson K700: This phone is the best bargain for its price. The phone has the finest VGA camera, and a very top class display. It’s a small sized, fashionable phone with good features.

The phone is still rare in our crowd which gives a pride in carrying this phone. The phone uses same receiver performance as found in the Nokia 6310i. Don’t be deceived by looks, the phone has the best reception among all GSM phones in the world. The limited edition versions of these phones (which are not quite limited anymore anyway) also feature ability to record videos. The RAZR lacks in features, but boasts in call quality. Can be said to be the best camera phone in the world (until their K800 comes out); its 2MP camera beats the quality of any other camera phone with auto focus, excellent lens, and flash. The phone’s MP3 player’s sound quality no less if not better than any MP3 player, and can be compared to the quality of iPod. K750i also features display superior than any other phone on market and a solid build quality. The phones fast in response, good in call quality and justified in current price. Users looking for good camera, video recording, MP3 should absolutely go for this remarkable phone. This phone is also enormously parallel to W800i and D750i.

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