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| Samsung Rogue |
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 If you just read the hardware specs on the Samsung Rogue and don't actually pick it up to use it, it's quite an impressive phone. That 3.1-inch AMOLED screen is really top notch, with a high resolution and gorgeous color. The phone also packs some nice features, like music and video playback, corporate and civilian e-mail access, a comfortable slide-out QWERTY keyboard and more. It does everything a feature phone can do, but it performed so poorly in our hands-on tests that we'd have trouble recommending the Samsung Rogue, a phone that is unresponsive and frustrating. Navigating the phone's interface is a sluggish, slapdash affair, as any errant press could land you in an unwanted feature. Some apps, like the music player and the e-mail client, were just poorly designed while others, like the Web browser and the phone's TouchWIZ interface, suffered from a touchscreen that had trouble distinguishing our flicks from our taps. This isn't surprising, considering the Samsung Glyde, which the Rogue replaces, had similar issues. The Samsung Impression, a near-identical phone on AT&T, performed a little better, but we're still waiting for Samsung to impress us with a touchscreen, full QWERTY phone. Release: September 2009. Price: $100.
Pros: AMOLED screen is crisp and colorful, packed with pixels. Great features, including 3-megapixel auto focus camera, corporate e-mail support.
Cons: Unresponsive screen hurts performance in most key apps. Unimpressive software design hurts the rest.
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| RIM BlackBerry Tour |
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 The BlackBerry Tour is a solid business smartphone with loads of messaging options. Thanks to diligent work by RIM building some very useful apps to connect to the major social networking and instant messaging services, the BlackBerry Tour isn't too buttoned up for business, and it makes a solid all-around choice. In fact, the phone has solid multimedia features with good music hardware and one of the best video players we've used on a smartphone. The screen is also fantastic, perhaps the best we've seen on a business device like this. Still, more and more the BlackBerry platform is showing its age. The Web browser is nearly useless compared to the desktop quality browsers you'll find on other advanced smartphones, even on new Windows Mobile devices. The calendar and messaging apps, while powerful enough, were downright ugly to use, and the phone still relies heavily on long, confusing, textual menus for settings and advanced features. Further, while Verizon Wireless fans have been clamoring for a new BlackBerry with a keyboard as an alternative to the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm, we'd have trouble recommending the BlackBerry Tour over AT&T's BlackBerry Bold, which can run all the same apps, but which also uses Wi-Fi. RIM has definitely polished the BlackBerry design to a glossy sheen, but there are better smartphones out there. Release: July 2009. Price: $200.
Pros: Sleek BlackBerry design with the best BlackBerry screen yet. Great selection of apps for social networking, instant messaging. Visual voicemail.
Cons: Call quality wasn't as good as other BlackBerry devices, like the BlackBerry Bold. Web browser falling farther behind the competition. We didn’t love the keyboard.
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| HTC Ozone |
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 The HTC Ozone on Verizon Wireless is a solid little messaging phone, especially considering the solid, low price. For a launch price of $50, buyers get a small, fast Windows Mobile smartphone, and if you've been turned off by WinMo in the past, the improved Web browsing and Interface design on this new Windows Mobile 6.1 device might win you back. BlackBerry fans will have to spend a lot more money to compete with this phone, which can keep up with the best of RIM's offerings in terms of battery life, Web browsing and productivity options. We weren't impressed by the selection of software onboard, and call quality lagged behind a bit, but for the price, the HTC Ozone is a great choice for buyers looking for a compact, capable device. Release: July 2009. Price: $50.
Pros: Great value. Very long battery life. Solid productivity features for business users. Improved Web browser, now with Flash Lite support.
Cons: Keyboard layout could be better. More shortcut keys would be nice. Lacks wide range of pre-loaded software.
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| RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip |
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 The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 is an impressive, compact smartphone. Though the form, along with the keyboard, has been condensed and folded for a clamshell, RIM hasn't skimped on the messaging and productivity options that make BlackBerry phones a hit with business users. With its slick interface, easy multimedia options and impressive Web browsers, we think this would make a great first smartphone for buyers stepping up from a lesser device. Still, experience users will lament the struggling performance, which slowed down every feature on the phone, and experienced BlackBerry users will long for the battery life of larger devices (to check out the best BlackBerry devices for battery life, click here). Even so, with a low starting point and a full complement of advanced smartphone features, the RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8230 on Verizon Wireless is a great choice for buyers looking for a small and light, yet capable device. Release: June 2009. Price: $10.
Pros: Top-notch messaging options. Clever, light design. Colorful screen and updated interface.
Cons: Feels a bit cheap and flimsy. Mediocre performance hurt usability. Lacked impressive battery life of larger BlackBerry devices.
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| LG enV Touch |
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 The LG enV Touch is certainly a superior device compared to the LG Voyager, even though the new phone lacks V Cast Mobile TV. Instead, the enV Touch gets 2 high-resolution displays (hint: one's still better than the other), a slew of multimedia and messaging features, and enough power to show off those big displays with fancy video playback and Web browsing with Flash Lite. We'd have liked to see some new ideas from Verizon Wireless for this phone to give it advanced access to the online social networking services that are most popular with this phone's potential audience. Still, if you're looking for something different, a solid phone all around with a great screen (or two), the LG enV Touch gets the job done nicely. Release: June 2009. Price: $100.
Pros: Great, hi-res, colorful internal display. Nice mix of multimedia, messaging and calling features. Great keyboard.
Cons: External screen doesn't compare to internal screen. Touch interface wasn't reliable or responsive. Menus were discombobulated, at times basic.
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