Cingular's 2125 replaces the Audiovox SMT6500 and upgrades Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. But the small, QWERTY-free bar form factor is polarizing; most U.S. smartphone buyers will prefer alternatives, and the ...

The Kyocera KX16 is just another VGA flip phone being offered at ALLTEL, but still provides a decent phone for a price that is hard to argue with: free after ...

The Sony Ericsson W600i is a nice swivel phone that offers a fair amount of convergence goodness for its $199 price point at Cingular. But the Walkman brand may have ...

Motorola's i875 is large and ludicrously expensive, but it's the only music-capable megapixel cameraphone available for Boost prepaid subscribers. This is not only a bad deal for consumers, but could ...

The XV6700 Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone is not perfect, and it looks larger than it is. However, the combination of voice, QWERTY, WiFi, EV-DO, push e-mail, and productivity applets ...

The Motorola V557 is an update on the company's V551 and suffers from a critical flaw; it is not inexpensive, and it is not a RAZR. While it offers ...

It is still a bit of a shock to see Windows Mobile on a Palm device. The Verizon Wireless exclusive Treo 700w has just enough innovation to differentiate it and ...

The LG AX4270 is a nice basic voice clamshell phone that is fairly priced at $29.99 with two-year contract at ALLTEL. Unfortunately, it is overwhelmed by several cameraphones at the ...

Motorola's anti-RAZR, the PEBL, is now available at T-Mobile. The rounded handset is all about style, as its feature list does not come close to justifying its $299 price. ...

First there were cameraphones. Then musicphones. Now, LG and Verizon Wireless have introduced the ShrekPhone! It's green, it's for kids, but unlike ogres and onions, it has ...

Motorola's i855 is large and overpriced, but it's the only cameraphone available for Boost prepaid subscribers that doesn't cost $400. Still, the delta between the i855 and camera-less i835 ...

The Motorola v360 is a likeable convergence product that is not likeable or converged enough. At $200, the v360 will struggle at T-Mobile against the RAZR/PEBL/t809 on style, and against ...

The Sanyo RL-4930 is a big, ugly PTT bar phone with Sprint's less popular ReadyLink system, not Nextel Walkie-Talkie. However, with its long talk time and rugged design, it's perfect ...

Samsung's t809 is the slim, black, angled slider Motorola should have built after the RAZR. The T-Mobile exclusive has an MP camera and plays MP3s, and the design is so ...

With the Motorola i870, Sprint's Nextel division finally has a phone that is somewhat competitive on features with highly converged gadgets available on other networks. Of course, it is ...

RIM does not introduce truly new products all that often, so when it does, the industry takes notice. The BlackBerry 8700c for Cingular is a noble compromise between voice ...

The PPC-6700 Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone looks larger than it is, but it packs a powerful punch for ALLTEL. It's not perfect, but the combination of voice, QWERTY, WiFi, ...

Motorola is calling the pink RAZR "magenta" to broaden appeal beyond women to the metrosexual crowd; T-Mobile is calling it a "special edition" to justify an extra $50 in margin; ...

RIM dials up some speed with its first EV-DO device, the 7130E BlackBerry for Verizon Wireless, which can be used for dial-up networking to add EV-DO to a PC. ...

ALLTEL adds to its business lineup with the enormously popular Treo 650 smartphone from Palm. The Treo 650 is under fire from various competitors, but still offers the best ...