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Number of Reviews collected

in Cell Phones

362

Total

1962

Source country

US

United States

Language: English

Source rating scale

1
5

Average source rating

70

Highest rating

100

Lowest rating

20

Cell Phones

Samsung Propel SGH-A767

Samsung Propel

By Lisa Gade

If the 2008 US mobile phone market belongs to touch screen giants like the iPhone 3G, HTC Diamond, Samsung Instinct and Samsung Omnia, the 2008 holiday shopping season belongs to full QWERTY phones. With Verizon offering the Blitz, Sprint offering the ...

Good keyboard with effective backlight. Phone has lots of internal memory to store music and messages and the microSD card slot plays nicely with high capacity cards. Video Share support is a plus for users who enjoy the service

GPS needs a little tweaking. CV doesn't have good quality

November, 2008

Rating

70

alaSCORE 85

73 reviews

HTC Fuze

HTC Fuze

By Lisa Gade

Love the HTC Touch Diamond but want a keyboard? Looked at the Sprint HTC Touch Pro with longing but feel loyal to AT&T? Your time has come: AT&T has launched their version of the Touch Pro, dubbed the HTC Fuze. The Fuze and its near cousins in the ...

Wonderful display, TouchFLO 3D does a good job of making WinMo more fun, attractive and easy to use. Good multimedia support, the usual excellent WinMo business-oriented features (Exchange, push email, syncing with desktops or Exchange over the air), ...

GPS cold starts are mind-numbingly slow. Way too much bloatware. That AT&T gray theme is drab. Streaming video on YouTube sometimes proves too taxing for the phone (is this why AT&T removed the icon, or was that simply a bandwidth reduction measure?). ...

Some of us have been waiting months for this phone to hit the US, and it's a formidable successor to the HTC Tilt. In terms of looks and size, it's a flat out winner. Though thicker than QWERTY bar phones, its relatively small width and height mean it ...

November, 2008

Rating

70

alaSCORE 86

112 reviews

HTC Hermes & HTC TyTN P4500 / Qtek 9600 / i-Mate JasJam / Dopod 838 Pro & Dopod CHT 9000 / O2 XDA Trion / T-Mobile MDA Vario II / Orange SPV M3100 / C

Mess with a good thing, go ahead. The Cingular 8125 which we praised highly in our February 2006 review, was loved not just by us but by our readers. That review has been one of our most popular in 2006 and the 8125 has sold incredibly well. In the US ...

An excellent device for power users who need to do email, view and edit Word and Excel documents, view PowerPoint presentations and PDFs on the go and surf the web. Not just a business device, the Cingular 8525 and TyTN are great multimedia playmates ...

November, 2008

Rating

90

alaSCORE 84

1594 reviews

BlackBerry Bold 9000

Those of us in the US have impatiently waited for the BlackBerry Bold to arrive on AT&T. Released a few months earlier in various overseas markets, the AT&T-branded version, tuned for AT&T's 3G network, is finally here. What's so special about the ...

Fantastic display! Very good keyboard. Responsive and stable. Video player performance is likewise good. Great call quality, good GPS performance and reliable WiFi connections

Large, pricey. Web browser is just OK. Some reception issues in weak 3G areas and there's no way to turn off 3G

are it. Though for traditionalists, the Storm isn't necessarily attractive since it loses the usual strong BlackBerry hardware keyboard and adds a touch screen. Oddly given the likely greater expense of building the Storm, it looks like a relative ...

November, 2008

Rating

90

alaSCORE 93

915 reviews

Samsung Trace t519

It seems that we like our phones the same way Hollywood likes its actresses. When T-Mobile introduced the Samsung t509 candy bar phone back in May this year, we were wowed by how thin that phone was. Only half a year later, Samsung trimmed even more ...

Great screen that will wow you and your friends when you use it to show photos. The Samsung has very good reception and a good set of features such as a music player, camera and Bluetooth. The built-in camera is good and the memory slot is handy for ...

A bit too thin to feel comfortable in hand. The keyboard is unusable in the dark. You won't like the location of the SIM card if you switch your SIM card between phones frequently

If you are looking for a slim candybar phone, the Samsung Trace should be on top of your list. The phone will turn heads yet is functional, as a good feature phone should be. The price isn't bad at all for a phone with such a feature set.

November, 2008

Rating

80

no alaScore

2 reviews

BlackBerry Bold 9000

BlackBerry Bold

By Lisa Gade

Those of us in the US have impatiently waited for the BlackBerry Bold to arrive on AT&T. Released a few months earlier in various overseas markets, the AT&T-branded version, tuned for AT&T's 3G network, is finally here. What's so special about the ...

Fantastic display! Very good keyboard. Responsive and stable. Video player performance is likewise good. Great call quality, good GPS performance and reliable WiFi connections.

Large, pricey. Web browser is just OK. Some reception issues in weak 3G areas and there's no way to turn off 3G.

are it. Though for traditionalists, the Storm isn't necessarily attractive since it loses the usual strong BlackBerry hardware keyboard and adds a touch screen. Oddly given the likely greater expense of building the Storm, it looks like a relative ...

November, 2008

No rating

alaSCORE 93

915 reviews

Samsung Sway SCH-U650

Samsung Sway

By Tong Zhang

While Verizon has an ample selection of feature phones, it has not offered a slim silver slider phone like the LG Shine (the Decoy is a bit too thick and too plasticky to compete) until now. A glance at the features on the new Samsung Sway might make ...

Very stylish design and slim body. Bright and colorful screen and good audio quality. Phone has a healthy amount of internal memory and the microSD card slot is easy to access. GPS performance is very good. Gaming is enjoyable.

Doesn't have strong reception even in 1X. No wired headset or USB cable included. Side-loading music might turn away V CAST Music fans who are used to buying music over the air.

Can a pretty face sell a phone? If the LG Shine is any indication, the answer is yes. The Samsung Sway speaks thin and stylish to fashion-conscious cell phone users. And behind that pretty face it has a strong GPS and VZ Navigator performance, good ...

October, 2008

Rating

70

alaSCORE 81

128 reviews

Samsung Sway SCH-U650

While Verizon has an ample selection of feature phones, it has not offered a slim silver slider phone like the LG Shine (the Decoy is a bit too thick and too plasticky to compete) until now. A glance at the features on the new Samsung Sway might make ...

Very stylish design and slim body. Bright and colorful screen and good audio quality. Phone has a healthy amount of internal memory and the microSD card slot is easy to access. GPS performance is very good. Gaming is enjoyable

Doesn't have strong reception even in 1X. No wired headset or USB cable included. Side-loading music might turn away V CAST Music fans who are used to buying music over the air

Can a pretty face sell a phone? If the LG Shine is any indication, the answer is yes. The Samsung Sway speaks thin and stylish to fashion-conscious cell phone users. And behind that pretty face it has a strong GPS and VZ Navigator performance, good ...

October, 2008

No rating

alaSCORE 81

128 reviews

Sony Ericsson W350

Sony Ericsson W350a

By Tong Zhang

Sony Ericsson and AT&T have enjoyed a fruitful partnership over the years, and low to mid-priced Sony Ericsson phones have sold well here in the US on AT&T. And among these, the Walkman series phones are particularly popular. The new Sony Ericsson ...

Ultra thin and light. Very strong music offerings and good audio. Java games play well on the phone. Camera takes decent pictures. Good battery life

The phone feels very plasticky. Camera doesn't shoot video. No wired headset included, no 3.5mm stereo headphone jack for higher quality wired stereo music

Fans of thin and slim phones will marvel at the extreme thinness and ultra-light weight of the Sony Ericsson W350. There are few phones that can compete with the W350a. The Walkman features should please mobile music buffs with the hardware playback ...

October, 2008

Rating

70

alaSCORE 88

467 reviews

Sony Ericsson W350

Sony Ericsson and AT&T have enjoyed a fruitful partnership over the years, and low to mid-priced Sony Ericsson phones have sold well here in the US on AT&T. And among these, the Walkman series phones are particularly popular. The new Sony Ericsson ...

Ultra thin and light. Very strong music offerings and good audio. Java games play well on the phone. Camera takes decent pictures. Good battery life

The phone feels very plasticky. Camera doesn't shoot video. No wired headset included, no 3.5mm stereo headphone jack for higher quality wired stereo music

Fans of thin and slim phones will marvel at the extreme thinness and ultra-light weight of the Sony Ericsson W350. There are few phones that can compete with the W350a. The Walkman features should please mobile music buffs with the hardware playback ...

October, 2008

No rating

alaSCORE 88

467 reviews

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