$149 is a fair - maybe even good - price for a prepaid clamshell cameraphone like the Audiovox Snapper from Virgin Mobile. But there are better choices in Virgin's ...

With the 6101 at T-Mobile, Nokia has finally shipped a clamshell design to a national U.S. carrier. As much as there is to like about the phone's user interface, ...

The 6682 is the best smartphone Nokia has ever built, and Nokia sells more smartphones worldwide than any other vendor. However, the 6682 will only sell if Cingular can ...

The LG C1500 is a bare bones clamshell with a fixed beach background that gives Cingular a phone to offer free in BOGOs and family plans, but for most subscribers ...

The Motorola i450 boasts all the classic capabilities offered by any other Boost Mobile phone such as PTT and Java, but marks a first for the carrier as it is ...

The Motorola i415 adds a color screen, MMS, and GPS support over its predecessor, the i215, for a $20 premium. The $20 premium is going straight to the color screen, ...

Boasting an internal antenna and speakerphone, Sprint's Samsung SPH-A560 is one of the most stylish low-end clamshell phones to hit shelves. If it had an external caller ID screen, it ...

Will Sprint customers pay $10 to get away from boring silver clamshells? Samsung hopes so with its PM-A840. It competes with a pair of slightly less expensive silver ...

LG has scored a home run with its new VX5200, which is poised to be Verizon's next mainstream camera phone. The phone offers a speakerphone, camera, and voice recognition ...

Samsung's SGH-E635 offers all the bells and whistles in a slider form factor that is one of the smallest on the market. If Samsung stopped ignoring Bluetooth and lowered the ...

ALLTEL is now offering its third camera phone with video recording (camcorder functionality), providing a reasonably priced model for consumers who want a video phone without the bells and whistles ...

The C2000 fills in the gap LG had at Cingular following the removal of the L1400 camera phone. The compact phone is equipped with a camera, speakerphone, and IM; however, ...

Samsung's SGH-x497 updates the SGH-x427 at Cingular. The x497 is a stylish basic voice phone that offers a nice form factor and reasonable price, but has an external antenna ...

The Motorola v276 goes up against Verizon's volume leader - the LG VX6100 - with virtually identical features, but a lower price, $49, now that the LG is back up ...

Samsung likes the SGH-x475 tapered clamshell form factor enough to reuse it in the SGH-x495. This is a basic voice clamshell; at $49, it's affordable, but doesn't do enough ...

Boasting a rugged but compact clamshell design, the Motorola i560 offers users basic Nextel functionality - PTT, GPS, and Java. The compact design, however, adversely impacts several buying factors, ...

We are taking a neutral stance on Motorola's i760 phone. The i760 includes several unique features - preloaded GPS navigation and non-network walkie talkie. However, the $149 price tag is ...

Sanyo's MM-8300 is Sprint's least expensive multimedia cameraphone and offers ReadyLink for PTT. At $135 when bought online, it is affordable, but consumers who don't need PTT can still ...

LG's VX8100 updates the VX8000, the phone that launched Verizon's V CAST service. It is better in most respects, but without a music service to differentiate it, the VX8100 will ...

RAZRs, RAZRs, everywhere (except at CDMA carriers): T-Mobile slashes Cingular's RAZR exclusive by offering the phone at the same thin $199 price tag, only for a sharper one year contract ...