US admirers of the Motorola Ming device never got their chance to get up close and personal with the phone due to lack of interest from US carriers and only a few importers offered it in the US. The Motorola Krave ZN4 is as close as we can get to the ...

The phone has good RF and great audio for music playback. The screen is protected and the phone feels more rugged compared to other large screen touch screen phones. Great video playback quality and GPS has good performance

Battery life could be better. Some application control schemes and user interface could use some improvement, like the built-in browser ; Price: $179.99 with 2-year contract after discount

The Motorola Krave ZN4 came out of left field and managed to impress us with its strong multimedia features and good GPS performance. The phone has excellent audio, a nice music player with album art support and great mobile TV performance. It doesn't ...

As you might guess from the name, the Samsung Highnote is a music phone, and it's available on Sprint. The Highnote has a slide-out speaker, 3.5mm stereo headset jack and a touch-sensitive control wheel for music playback along with all the services ...

Effective double slider design and good music features such as the 3.5mm audio jack, slide-out stereo speakers and included music accessories such as wired stereo headset and 1GB microSD card for storing music

Weak performance on Sprint TV and GPS with Sprint Navigation. Battery life is a bit too short

A phone with huge potential to become a great music phone, the Samsung Highnote needs some work to get there. While most of the music, multimedia and GPS features are onboard, their performance left something to be desired. If you're just looking for ...

First impressions aren't always the best. When I first received the Pantech Duo, the small, plasticy device looked too. . . plasticy and I thought the worst. The lowly 1.3 megapixel camera, old-timey Bluetooth 1.2 and lack of GPS, a suddenly standard ...

A very small smartphone! Solid (durable, rigid plastics), fast processor and better than average speed, good display, great dual-slider design. Good HSDPA performance and reception with fast web page load times. CV performs well, as do other ...

Terrible camera, SD card slot doesn't support cards over 2 gigs in capacity, not classy looking

and SMT5800 (who share the QWERTY sideways slider design but not a keypad slider) look a tad big, and the Moto Q Global looks absolutely huge. The display is sharp and bright and all the Windows Mobile features are there and work well, making this a ...

Here's our video review of the HTC S740, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition smartphone with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. The S740 takes the design reigns from the HTC S710, with its lateral sliding keyboard and front number pad, making it easy ...

Samsung Mobile has been busy this holiday season with full QWERTY feature phones. The Samsung Gravity for T-Mobile joins the Samsung Propel for AT&T and the Samsung Rant for Sprint in the QWERTY phone line up and offers a candy bar phone with a side ...

Good amount of internal memory. Well built. Good audio and comes with a wired headset. Has good gaming experience.

Lacks GPS and streaming video features. Battery life could be better.

The Samsung Gravity is the only full QWERTY slider feature phone on T-Mobile outside of the T- Sidekick (we count the G1 as a smartphone), and that clearly gives it an edge for those who want the full keyboard but not a smartphone or a Sidekick. ...

Well folks, it's finally here: the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a. That's the US version with 3G HSDPA on the US AT&T bands. The Xperia is sold in the US at SonyStyle stores in silver and at Best Buy stores in black (Fry's, J&R and other retailers also ...

Fantastic, extremely high resolution display. Excellent touch enhancements, though you'll still need the stylus at times (this is Windows Mobile, after all). We love the panels and don't find the time it takes to load and unload them unreasonable. The ...

Expensive! Keyboard could have more travel and tactile feedback

on AT&T. The hardware is impeccable, the panels are both fascinating and useful, and of course there's no carrier bloatware! Though other phones offer many of the same features, somehow the Xperia X1 has that special sauce where the whole is greater ...

T-Mobile's feature phone line in the US was less than exciting. But the nation's 4th largest carrier has awakened and suddenly we're seeing some truly cool phones that lead the pack. First we had the first BlackBerry flip phone, then the Moto Zine ZN5 ...

Very good touch screen-- easy to use and control. The phone is fun and easy to use. Attractive, stylish design. Has 3G for fast data, simultaneous voice and data and higher quality voice calls. Very good voice quality for phone calls. High resolution ...

If you wish to have Internet access, the data plan is expensive and T-Mobile's coverage is still sparse since they just started rolling out 3G this year (mid-2008). Internet settings are locked down and the gateway/proxy can get in the way of ...

Certainly one of the coolest phones on T-Mobile, the Samsung Behold is a pleasure to use and look at. We love the responsive and large touch screen, and the phone is easy to understand and use. The Behold looks like an expensive phone; the metal back ...

With a whirlwind marketing campaign behind it, the RIM BlackBerry Storm 9530 for Verizon has been a highly anticipated smartphone. Why? This is the first touch screen BlackBerry. Gone is the hardware QWERTY keyboard synonymous with the 'Berry. Instead ...

Innovative Touch screen. Large and lovely display. Good web browser and the usual superb BlackBerry push email experience. Decent camera, good multimedia performance. Impressive speaker and good GPS

Innovative touch screen. Only available on Verizon (no offense to Verizon but like the iPhone, there's no carrier choice). Slow downs and lagging aren't a part of the usual BlackBerry experience. Large

If touch screens tickle your fancy or you've had a bad case of iPhone envy, but can't live without the BlackBerry push email experience and very complete smartphone feature set, the BlackBerry Storm might be for you. Since it's exclusive to Verizon, ...

With a whirlwind marketing campaign behind it, the RIM BlackBerry Storm 9530 for Verizon has been a highly anticipated smartphone. Why? This is the first touch screen BlackBerry. Gone is the hardware QWERTY keyboard synonymous with the 'Berry. Instead ...

Innovative Touch screen. Large and lovely display. Good web browser and the usual superb BlackBerry push email experience. Decent camera, good multimedia performance. Impressive speaker and good GPS

Innovative touch screen. Only available on Verizon (no offense to Verizon but like the iPhone, there's no carrier choice). Slow downs and lagging aren't a part of the usual BlackBerry experience. Large

If touch screens tickle your fancy or you've had a bad case of iPhone envy, but can't live without the BlackBerry push email experience and very complete smartphone feature set, the BlackBerry Storm might be for you. Since it's exclusive to Verizon, ...

The LG Incite came out of left field in a world current dominated by the likes of HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Samsung Omnia and BlackBerry Storm touch screen smartphones. It's interesting that ATT decided to do something a little different and offer ...

Very sharp screen with excellent colors and better than QVGA resolution. Love that proximity sensor. Very small and light. Good software bundle including NetFront, MS Voice Command, Sprite Backup and Picsel Viewer for PDFs. Can finger scroll anywhere ...

Phone looks plasticky. Requires a stylus more often than HTC's TouchFLO 3D phones, yet there's no stylus silo so you've got to hang it from the included tiny lanyard. The UI isn't very polished in terms of successfully overlaying Windows Mobile or in ...

in the feature phone camp.