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Treo smartphone featuring Palm OS and support for push e-mail
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Palm Treo 680
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Score: 60% When: November 2006 Worth: $200 - $400 Carrier: AT&T
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No, it's not 3G, but this budget-priced Treo still comes with plenty of messaging and productivity bells and whistles. Does the 680 hold its own against the smartphone competition?
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Sprint's version of Motorola's slim business handset includes a bevy of multimedia features
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Motorola Q (Sprint)
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Score: 63% When: January 2007 Worth: $100 - $450 Carrier: Sprint
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With tethered modem support and a performance boost over the original, is the Sprint version of the Q the one to buy, or should you wait for the next model?
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T-Mobile phone can be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6
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T-Mobile Dash
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Score: 58% When: October 2006 Worth: $150 Carrier: T-Mobile
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Slim, light and a pleasure to hold, the just-announced Dash makes a play for the Moto Q's territory with its sleek design and Windows Mobile OS, while upping the ante with built-in Wi-Fi. Does it belong in your suit pocket?
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Sleek Motorola smartphone with comfortable QWERTY keypad
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Motorola Q
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Score: 60% When: May 2006 Worth: $150 - $300 Carrier: Verizon Wireless
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After almost a year, the sleek and slim Q – the thinnest smartphone on the market with a QWERTY thumbboard – has finally arrived. Was it worth the wait?
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Nokia phone flips open for a split-QWERTY thumbboard
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Nokia E70
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Score: 79% When: October 2006 Worth: $450
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With its unique, flip-out thumbboard and the powerful Symbian OS behind it, the E70 promises to be a happy marriage of form and function. Does it deliver?
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BlackJack supports HSDPA, and has instant messaging
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Samsung SGH-i607
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Score: 65% When: November 2006 Worth: $75 Carrier: AT&T
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Cingular serves up its second HSDPA smartphone, this time in a slim, compact shell that puts it squarely in competition with the Motorola Q and the T-Mobile Dash. Does the BlackJack hold its own?
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T-Mobile handset features QVGA display and phone as modem capabilities
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T-Mobile SDA
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Score: 78% When: February 2006 Worth: $150 - $300 Carrier: T-Mobile
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A higher resolution screen, Windows Mobile 2003 SE and Opera-based surfing signify T-Mobile's successor to its SDA smartphone - the SDA II. Jørgen Sundgot takes it for a spin.
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Windows Mobile clamshell includes push e-mail and instant messaging
BlackBerry with a SureType keyboard
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RIM BlackBerry 7130e
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Score: 55% When: November 2005 Worth: $100 - $300 Carrier: Verizon Wireless, Sprint
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This compact messaging dynamo promises instant e-mail delivery and EV-DO speeds to boot -- but how will your fingers deal with that pseudo-QUERTY thumbboard? We take the 7130e for a test drive.
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Sleek and shiny RIM handset with a trackball for easy menu navigation
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