Good news girls! You no longer need to brave the snobby assistants in Bond Street or the tempting food hall in Harrods to get your hands on Prada.

In fact all you have to do is downgrade to upgrade because the LG Prada phone is now available across high street mobile phone shops such as Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U.

Yep that’s right, designer at uh, highstreet stores.

But before you get excited there is of course a catch, because like any designer trinket worth having there is a waiting list - if you still don't know why this phone is the sparkle of everyones eye we suggest you read up sharpish.

We can’t currently tell you how long it is but for a phone such as this we can imagine you might be waiting for a while, oh well you know what they say about good things coming to those who wait….. Well it’s always kept us calm in the MacDonald’s drive through queues. 

April 11, 2007 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

As if footballers don’t get already get enough money for kicking balls around a pitch it also seems they get even more for playing badly too.

Yes we know we sound harsh and we’ll get all the comments about how girls don’t understand football - blah blah blah, but this announcement from LG really got us going today.

Now don’t get us wrong we have nothing against LG, in fact we are big fans of its products. But we can’t help getting angry when we get news like this coming through:

“LG has helped put some shine back into the lives of the Arsenal footballers, after a tough fortnight for the club. On Friday the company presented every member of the first team squad and management with a personalised, engraved LG Shine handset.”

Oh please, the team are going to need a lot more than a phone to make them Shine (more like a double miracle).

You can’t give a bad team a phone and expect it to help and the quicker that is accepted the quicker they will be made to pull up their socks and get back on the pitch instead of being rewarded or “consoled”.

We are also pleased to see that our views about the Arsenal team being crying diving babies who are better off in the playground than on the pitch have also been proved right.

The announcement also informs us that “each player’s phone is engraved with their name, ensuring there will be no confusion in the changing room over whose Shine is whose.”

Uh hello- how old did you all say you were?

March 13, 2007 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

It’s the worst thing in the whole wide world – you leave the house after listening to the radio with a tune that you like stuck in your head, but don’t know the name of.

And to top it off when you sing it your friends they haven’t got the foggiest- no not because we can’t sing – they haven’t heard the song before, well that’s what we like to think anyway.

So why are we whinging about this we hear you ask? No don’t worry the site isn’t changing to TRISHA Boutique - we have found a phone from T-Mobile that can help.

The Sony Ericsson W880i is an MP3 phone which comes with a shortcut key to T-Mobile’s Mobile Jukebox and can help those of us who are tone deaf  and don’t know the song title or the name of the artist by letting us record a snippet of the song.

This is then identified by the programme and sent back in a text message. The full track can then be downloaded to a mobile for £1.

The phone also has a 2 Megapixel camera and 16MB of internal memory and is apparently the ‘size zero’ of phones, coming in at 9.4 mm thin.

However we’re not going to give it the satisfaction of going on about it- get any thinner Mrs phone and you’ll be banned from the Tech Boutique site. 

March 2, 2007 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Contrary to many men’s beliefs’ we gadget girls are as trendy and fashionable as the next girl. We don’t dress like Ugly Betty, and we most certainly don’t have thick metal rimmed glasses (sorry to ruin the fantasy).
So imagine our excitement when we were told about the Lily, a new phone by Samsung that has been co designed by Miss Sixty. 

The phone is as skinny as its human namesake – Lily Cole, and as small as a pair of Miss Sixty jeans - and believe us they are small. If you haven’t ever had the pleasure of trying to get them on - think Ross and the leather trousers incident in Friends.

Anyway where were we? oh yes, The Lily is a white clamshell phone which is set against a purple background and has a delicate floral motif which lights up when the phone rings – perfect if you need to keep it on silent at work.

And yet again, this phone has brains as well as looks – seriously are there no Paris Hiltons of the phone world?

Not only does it have a VGA camera equipped with a double zoom feature it also comes with 2MB of internal memory and a built-in clock on the facia so that you'll always know exactly how fashionably late you are.

It also comes with a free bottle of Miss Sixty’s Elixir perfume – well at least we can say we are wearing something Miss Sixty, eh.   

February 14, 2007 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Ok so we know we were a bit naughty and gave you a sneak preview of LG’s shine phone back in December, but we were so excited we couldn’t wait.

So imagine what we were like when we actually got to go to the official launch this afternoon – oh it’s a hard life we lead at Tech Boutique.

We have already told you about the aesthetic qualities of this phone but in case you have forgotten, or want to hear from the uh, horses mouth, the Shine is basically a stylish silver, phone which has been blessed with better than genes and looks than its Chocolate sibling.

Yep, that’s right; you read correctly, it is better than the LG Chocolate.

The Shine, is a full metal slider phone that when on standby, has a reflective mirror 2.2” LCD screen which is perfect for checking your make- up in, or in our case to see if we have any of our lunch stuck in our teeth – don’t laugh, it happens to the best of us.
In addition it also features a 2 mega pixel camera, 50MB internal memory which can be extended to 2Gig with an external memory Micro SD, perfect for playing  the MP3, iTunes and WAV music formats which it supports.

The 2G version of the Shine is available from today on all networks apart from Vodafone. The 3G version is expected to be available later on this year.

February 7, 2007 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

‘Twas the night before Christmas when the USB battery port on my Motorola Razar decided to pack up- not a very welcome present.   
From previous experience I knew that calling up my service provider to explain the problem and get the phone fixed would be enough to turn me into the Grinch over the festive period. I therefore decided to spend the money I would have to shell out in the Priory after my call with them on a new phone instead.

Always one for girly pretty things I set my sights on the limited edition Nokia 6111 which has been designed especially for girls by Cath Kidston and if I am honest I have never fallen in love with anything so quickly (sorry husband.)

Not only does the phone look good but it’s extremely easy to use and has lots of good features including a 1 megapixel camera with a flash or you record up to an hour of non-stop video. The phone also comes with four games, a media player and a stereo FM radio that's compatible with Nokia's 'visual radio' service all of which saved my queue rage during the sales.

January 2, 2007 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

You might not believe it but we have found something better than Chocolate- well the phone kind anyway.

Not content with feeding our addictions with the chocolate range, LG are moving on to bigger shin(er) things, with their new shine range.

Due out in February, the LG KV4200 will be the first of the range to grace our hands and has been built around a similar slide design as its chocolate cousin. However, the big difference here is that the phone is made from full stainless steel metal.

"What?" We hear you cry- "metal! Surely that’s a design more suited to the men?"

Well, usually we would agree but this phone is definitely one for the ladies, once the screen fades the whole surface turns into a mirror- perfect for those of us who need reassurance that we don’t have bits in our teeth and an excellent way to stop us from bumping into people because we have been too busy admiring ourselves in the shop window. Don’t deny it we have all done it.

Although the phone can’t tell us that we are ‘the fairest in the land’ or tell us where to find prince charming it does come with a two megapixel camera and flash and a funky scrolling wheel for navigation.

December 21, 2006 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Picture the scene, you excitedly unwrap the beautifully packaged present from your loved one on Christmas day to be greeted with underwear that is guaranteed to give you the worlds worst VPL and is at least sizes too small. Yes it will get your blood racing, but not in the way he hopes. 

Fed up with feigning excitement over underwear that makes us look more granny than sex kitten, girls have decided to take matters into their own hands, using our mobile phone cameras to snap ourselves in the lingerie we want for Christmas before sending it to the man in our lives.
 
"Knick-pics" a term invented by Virgin Mobile has grown through women going into the sexy lingerie shops such as Ann Summers, trying on the underwear we like, and then texting it across with essential measurements and preferred colour.

We are sure you won’t be hearing any complaints when he gets this in his inbox but be careful that in your rush to get the picture across you don’t overshoot the mark and press "boss" instead of "baby" in your phone address book.

December 15, 2006 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

With the season of over-indulgence well on its way, we can at least be reassured that this new chocolate will not be contributing to our already bulging waistlines.   

The U830 is the new handset in LG’s Chocolate range and at just 14.8mm, it sets the trend for the "size zero" in the phone market.

Yet this little phone does more than look pretty, it actually comes with 185MB of on-board memory, a 2 megapixel camera and a fully featured MP3/AAC music player including stereo Bluetooth for wireless music.

If this wasn’t enough it also has HSDPA capabilities and a host of 3G features including access to Yahoo Mail, Gmail and MSN.

The U830 comes in a presentation box with a pair of high quality stereo headphones (3.5mm), two batteries and a USB lead as standard. It is available exclusively to 3 and prices start from free depending on the contract chosen.

Pretty, skinny and clever… Let’s be thankful that it’s just a phone.  

December 8, 2006 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Let’s be honest, we’ve all had those nights when all we want to do is go home and curl up in front of the television rather than party with Fred from finance at the office Christmas party.

For those of us who don’t have the courage, or right shoes on, to do a runner, Westminster council’s free text excuse service is the lifesaver we’ve been waiting for.

The service, which is part of the council's “some things you only do when you're drunk" campaign, uses excuses such as "Neighbours have just turned up with bottle of wine expecting dinner. WHY??? Awaiting your urgent arrival" and "Power cut. No candles". 

The excuse service can be found at Westminsteronline.org, which also gives you the option of getting London’s cab numbers sent to your phone and also the latest travel information in case the "Locked out. 999 emergency. Waiting for you in my fireman's uniform. Race home with everything flashing" excuse doesn’t quite convince the boss.   

December 8, 2006 in Mobile Phones | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)