The Motorola CLIQ is the company's first Android-powered smartphone. It's also a stellar device for the socially inclined. It aggregates updates from social networking sites, photo sharing sites, and Web-based e-mail. It could easily serve as the ...

Excellent call quality and speakerphone. Near-perfect keyboard. Ground-breaking social networking integration. Cloud-based MotoBlur backs up PIM data. Syncs with Microsoft Exchange

Heavy. Screen could be a little larger. A little buggy

Motorola's first Android phone is a coherent, powerful communications device that brilliantly integrates social networking systems. Oh, and the CLIQ is a great smartphone, too.

The BlackBerry Storm2 9550 finally delivers on the original Storm 9530's promise. It's a powerful device with an innovative click screen that really worksand it feels finished instead of like an engineering prototype. Having said that, the Storm 9550 ...

Vastly improved touch screen. Wi-Fi. True world phone. Powerful messaging and multimedia support

Browser doesn't live up to the screen's potential. Touch still feels grafted on at times. Still a bit buggy (though nowhere near as bad as the first Storm)

The second time's the charm for RIM's innovative click-screen smartphone; the Storm2 cures almost all of the original's ills.

The new HTC Pure is the latest in touch screen Windows phones, a business-centric crowd pleaser for folks who feel the iPhone's visceral appeal, but want to stay within the cozy embrace of the Microsoft ecosystem. It makes some major missteps with ...

Sharp looks. Stunning LCD display. Great Web browser. Good voice quality

Squished control keys and on-screen keyboards. Poor speakerphone. Horrendous dongle required for headphone use

The HTC Pure is a stylish option for business customers looking for a Microsoft-powered smartphone with top-notch Web browsing.

Many cell phones offer optional GPS navigation services. Even standalone GPS vendors like TomTom and Navigon now offer iPhone apps. But the Garmin nuvifone G60 is a first: a Linux-powered cell phone and bonafide Garmin GPS device in one. That means ...

Stellar GPS navigation. Good call quality and reception

No video player, video recorder, third-party app support, MMS, or instant messaging. Poor camera. Tinny speaker hobbles voice prompts. Expensive

The Garmin nuvifone G60 offers superb GPS navigation and decent call quality, but it's a one-trick pony that falls short in nearly every other way.

Phones with slide-down QWERTY keyboards are finally starting to become popular, as shown by squat but solid handsets like the Samsung Reclaim over on Sprint and the new Motorola Karma QA1 on AT&T. The Karma is just three and a half inches tall, and ...

Excellent reception. Good build quality. Satisfying keyboard. Quality music and video players

A little thick and heavy. Poor camera

The Motorola Karma is a solidly built handset with good audio quality and a very usable QWERTY keyboard, despite its small size and unusual form factor.

The Samsung Instinct HD is the first truly high-def video phone in the U.S., but you pay a heavy price for that in several ways. The Instinct HD gets its name from its capable built-in HD camcorder, plus its HD output for displaying video on a large ...

Sharp camera and HD camcorder. HD playback over HDMI really works. Capacitive touch screen. Plenty of media features. Wi-Fi

Very poor battery life. Takes a long time to boot up. Proprietary HD cable not in the box. Buggy media players. Expensive

The Samsung Instinct HD has a novel feature set and can record and display HD video (at least on an external screen), but several issues combine to make it a bit frustrating to use.

Verizon lacks a compelling smartphone lineup in comparison with other carriers, but it has some excellent feature phones. For example, the LG enV Touch VX11000, our current Editors' Choice, contains two 3-inch LCD screens and a solid QWERTY keyboard. ...

Great voice quality. High-resolution touch screen. Excellent camera and video recorder

A bit large and heavy. Required Verizon data plans are a trap for the consumer

The Samsung Rogue is an excellent feature phone, but beware of Verizon's costly required data plans.

The miniaturization of cell phone tech is enabling some truly unique designs lately. The Samsung Alias 2 was one, with its morphing e-ink keyboard. The Nokia 7705 Twist is another; it literally swivels open. It's far from the first handset to do this; ...

Slick swivel design. Roomy QWERTY keyboard. Good voice quality

Subpar reception. Poor music player performance. Disappointing camera. Non-standard headphone jack

The Nokia 7705 Twist isn't a great performer, but it offers Verizon subscribers looking for a messaging device a way to stand out from the crowdand you can even see through it.

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Excellent build. Capacitive touch screen. Lots of new, useful applications. Inexpensive

Some bugs. Slow Internet speeds. Lousy camera

The HTC Hero is the best Google Android phone so far, but it falls just short of the other leaders in the smartphone field.

Palm released details on its second WebOS smartphone in early September, and it's a slim, candybar-style phone called the Pixi. The Pixi runs the same OS and apps as the Palm Pre and will run on the same carrierSprint. But Palm says the Pixi is more ...

Solidly built. Sharp screen. Keyboard feels better than Pre's

Touch screen is rather small. Processor is slower than Palm Pre

The Pixi looks like a great inexpensive, messaging-focused smartphone for Sprint.