Samsung's latest touch screen handset, the Samsung Highlight SGH-t749, offers a responsive user interface and a pleasant, rubbery form factor. It's intended to sit below the excellent Samsung Behold SGH-T919 in T-Mobile's lineup, since the Highlight ...

Responsive touch screen. TouchWiz interface works well. Excellent battery life

microSD card slot is underneath the battery. Both color choices are garish

The entry-level Samsung Highlight is a good choice for T-Mobile subscribers looking for a touch screen handset that's easy to use.

Samsung's latest touch screen handset, the Samsung Highlight SGH-t749, offers a responsive user interface and a pleasant, rubbery form factor. It's intended to sit below the excellent Samsung Behold SGH-T919 in T-Mobile's lineup, since the Highlight ...

Responsive touch screen. TouchWiz interface works well. Excellent battery life

microSD card slot is underneath the battery. Both color choices are garish

The entry-level Samsung Highlight is a good choice for T-Mobile subscribers looking for a touch screen handset that's easy to use.

The Samsung Mondi is a full-featured handheld computer in a form factor nobody wants. Samsung has done some good work here creating a fun, usable gadget that doubles as an in-car GPS, a somewhat awkward VoIP phone, or even (in the future) a mobile Wi ...

Only WiMAX handheld on the market. Fast. Great for playing video

Awkward form factor is a proven loser. GPS won't lock in. Inconsistent UI

The Samsung Mondi has intriguing VoIP, media, and Web surfing power, but nobody wants a device with this shape and size.

Cricket's only touch-screen phone, the Motorola Evoke, does some very cool things for a non-smartphone, like integrating MySpace into its home screen and syncing your contacts with Google. But it lacks basic features like picture messaging and IM, and ...

Only touch-screen phone for Cricket. Very good voice quality. Cool Internet-based widget screens. Google contact integration and easy photo uploading

No MMS or IM. Web browser has some issues. Interface can be sluggish. $15/month extra service fee

The Motorola Evoke QA4 is the flashiest phone available on Cricket Wireless, but its Web browser doesn't live up to the hype and added cost.

The world's number-one mobile phone maker, Nokia, mostly sells low-end phones here in the U.S. That could change with smartphones like the excellent Nokia E71x and the new Nokia Surge, two subsidized handsets for AT&T that bring Symbian smartphone ...

Great reception. Good music and video playback. Built-in document editing and Exchange support. Powerful Web browser

Awful camera. Difficult-to-use keyboard. Have to open the handset sideways to dial numbers. Requires expensive smartphone data plan

The Nokia Surge offers a good keyboard and plenty of smartphone power, but it's not as powerful or easy to use as other AT&T smartphones.

More than 60 percent of mobile phone buyers cite size, shape and color as their most important criteria when picking a phone, according to online retailer Simplexity. That's why the awkwardly-named T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google will succeed. While ...

Attractive design, including case and accessories. More than 6,000 apps available. Microsoft Exchange e-mail support

Not much of an improvement over the G1, except cosmetically. Requires awkward dongle to attach most headphones. Mediocre camera

The T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google is the closest thing T-Mobile has to an iPhone, which will win it a lot of fans.

The Sony Ericsson C905a is a true Cyber-shot camera phone. In addition to its 8.1-megapixel sensor, it features face detection, auto-focus, a Xenon flash, PictBridge printer support, and GPS taggingall great for snapping off important shots whenever ...

Powerful camera. Solid voice quality and reception. Plenty of media features

Bulky. Battery life is on the short side

Sony Ericsson scores with an excellent high-end camera phone for AT&T subscribers; it's also a solid media device and even sounds good with voice calls.

The HTC Snap is an example of Microsoft's new position in the smartphone market: selling business-oriented, low-cost, Windows Mobile smartphones, while conceding the cutting edge to RIM, Apple, Palm, and Google. Like the Samsung Jack on AT&T, it's a ...

Fast performance. Good voice quality. Slim

Tired OS. No Wi-Fi. Lacks a standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack

The HTC Snap is a solid, capable Windows Mobile business device, but at $149, there's not much about it that will steer Sprint customers away from the cutting-edge Palm Pre or the upcoming BlackBerry Tour.

It's no secret that Windows Mobile isn't getting a lot of love lately. But the HTC Ozone makes a great case for its aging OS. For just $49, it offers 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS radios. The Ozone syncs with PCs, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Exchange ...

True world phone at a bargain price. Includes 3G and Wi-Fi radios. Classier look and better keyboard than the Sprint version. Excellent battery life. Snappy performance

Creaky OS. No standard-size headphone jack. Weak software bundle

Verizon one-ups Sprint with its superior version of the HTC Snap (called the Ozone), adding world phone capability, better battery life, and classier styling, all for $100 less than Sprint's price.

Sometimes your name can be your destiny. The Motorola Rival A455 for Verizon Wireless (ironically) rivals no one: the less-expensive LG enV3, the more powerful LG enV Touch, and the more innovative Samsung Alias 2. Although this touch-screen texting ...

Nice touch-screen dialer. Comfortable keyboard. 3.5mm headphone jack

So-so RF reception. Poor camera. Some balky buttons

The Motorola Rival A455 is a texting phone with some nice touches, but it doesn't match up to its competition on Verizon Wireless.