Welcome to AT&T Phones, a part of infoSync Reviews. Here you'll find in-depth reviews of AT&T phones by RIM, HTC, Apple, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Palm and Pantech. If you don't find the AT&T phone you're looking for here, please check out the following resources: Resource Center for Cell Phones, Ask The Editors and Expert Guides.
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| RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 |
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 The BlackBerry Bold 9700, especially the T-Mobile version we reviewed, is the quintessential modern BlackBerry. It does everything right that BlackBerry fans love, but it doesn't improve on the formula one bit. Calling, messaging and business features are top notch. Besides the superlative battery life for which BlackBerry devices are known, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is T-Mobile's first 3G smartphone with UMA calling, which means you'll always have good reception if you have a Wi-Fi network nearby. If you don't mind digging through the BlackBerry App World (and digging FOR the App World), you'll find great social networking apps for keeping up with Facebook, uploading photos to your favorite sites and more. But if RIM wants the BlackBerry to stay competitive, it's time to get serious about the Web browser, a feature that has lagged behind for years now. Plus, when you're using the BlackBerry Bold 9700's aging, menu-heavy interface, it's too easy to be reminded of the phone's pager heritage. Worst of all, RIM's flagship BlackBerry Bold 9700 doesn't bring anything new to the party. It does everything well that we've already seen a BlackBerry do, and now we'd like the phone to learn some new tricks. Release: November 2009. Price: $200.
Pros: Great battery life. Well organized inbox aggregates all incoming messages. UMA calling is very convenient.
Cons: Interface still bland, poorly organized. Web browser lags behind competition.
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| HTC Tilt 2 |
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 Like the other phones we've seen based on the HTC Touch Pro2 design, the HTC Tilt 2 on AT&T is Windows Mobile at its best. For business users, the phone packs calling features that put it leagues beyond the competition, with conference calls that sound great and innovative in-call screens that put relevant info about your contacts at your fingertips. All around, the phone does a very nice job, and HTC's TouchFLO 3D interface is an improvement in every way over the standard Windows Mobile 6.5 design. Unfortunately, we encountered some serious problems and bugs while using the HTC Tilt 2. The interface lagged behind better versions of this same phone, and some annoying bugs caused notifications to fire endlessly, or caused applications to crash frequently. The Web browsers had response issues that made them tedious and almost unusable. Though we usually like TouchFLO 3D, on AT&T's Tilt 2, it seems that some of our favorite features, like GPS navigation or video playback, were hidden while the tabbed menus were overloaded with redundant choices. Plus, compared to other new WinMo 6.5 smartphones, the HTC Tilt 2 lacks important features, and you'll have to do a lot of digging and downloading to add, for instance, an IM client or the Microsoft MyPhone service we liked on the Samsung Intrepid. On its own, the HTC Tilt 2 is an impressive phone, and it's our favorite full-QWERTY phone on AT&T's lineup, but compared to the versions you'll find on other carriers, it doesn't measure up. Release: October 2009. Price: $300.
Pros: Excellent keyboard. Great calling features, especially for business users. Windows Mobile 6.5 adds Mobile Marketplace (app store) support.
Cons: Device was buggy and unreliable in our tests. Some features buried, some menus redundant. No IM client or MyPhone service on board.
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| Samsung Solstice |
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 The Samsung Solstice, like the Samsung Highlight on T-Mobile, skips out on some advanced smartphone features like Wi-Fi and a high-megapixel camera and tries to keep things simple. In some ways, this works nicely. The phone did a great job making calls, with some cool address book and in-call interface designs. It's also the first AT&T phone we've tried that can use the new AT&T Social Net app, which let us keep tabs on our Facebook, MySpace and Twitter updates all at once, albeit rather slowly. For the most part we liked the hardware. The screen was colorful and bright, and streaming videos from AT&T's Cellular Video service looked surprisingly good. We were disappointed that so many features were just plain mediocre, like the Web browser, the 2-megapixel camera and the rest of the messaging apps. Regardless, buyers looking for a simpler, smaller device will find a healthy, though not very exciting, feature phone in the Solstice. Release: July 2009. Price: $100.
Pros: Top-notch call management. Great-looking screen, even with streaming vids. Slim and light design.
Cons: TouchWiz is a clunky interface. Besides Social Net, messaging features are way behind the competition. Lacks good multimedia hardware ports and accessories.
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| Sony Ericsson C905 |
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 The Sony Ericsson C905 is a phone that takes pictures that look fantastic, perhaps better than any other cameraphone we've seen so far. Unfortunately, that's about the only thing it does very well. For people who want to take print-worthy shots without carrying an extra camera, the Sony Ericsson C905 is a perfect fit. In terms of other features, it does an adequate job, especially in text messaging and GPS Navigation. But for a high-end phone, we were let down by the lack of a decent Web browser, and we were frustrated by the video playback that made our videos look foggy and poor. It's too bad AT&T is selling this phone without the included headphones and memory stick micro, as these proprietary formats are expensive, and a few features rely on these accessories to work properly. Still, cameraphone fans have found their king shooter at the top of the carrier pile, and AT&T has fired its latest shot in the burgeoning megapixel phone wars. Release: July 2009. Price: $180.
Pros: Great 8-megapixel camera with nice features and shortcuts. Solid interface design with a sleek look and convenient app switcher.
Cons: Doesn't excel much beyond the camera. AT&T has stripped package of necessary accessories. Big device with a mediocre keypad.
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| Nokia Surge |
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 The Nokia Surge is something of an ugly duckling among the inexpensive, full-QWERTY messaging phone set. Actually, it's not even that ugly, and with its Symbian S60 smartphone OS, it's definitely more swan than duck. If you skip the junk that AT&T has piled onto this phone, you're left with a powerful device with business-class e-mail, contacts and calendar sync, a respectable, full-HTML Web browser and suite of multimedia options that were capable of handling our basic music and video needs. We loved the keyboard. It's our new favorite among compact messaging phones, and even though the aging Symbian interface doesn't compare to new-fangled, top-of-the-line smartphones, it still outclasses other, simpler messaging devices by a mile. We wish the phone had more built-in options for our favorite messaging addictions, like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, but that Symbian S60 OS means an intrepid user will find third-party options available. In the end, some messaging fans might prefer a friendlier QWERTY feature phone like the LG enV3 on Verizon Wireless or the LG Lotus on Sprint, but the Nokia Surge is the best compact messaging phone on AT&T's lineup, and a solid choice all around. Release: July 2009. Price: $80.
Pros: Great keyboard. Full smartphone OS in a small package. Nice Web browser, especially for a compact device.
Cons: Aging Symbian OS not as friendly as other smartphones, or simpler feature phones. Lacks advanced IM and SMS options.
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