Best Cell Phones - EVDO Network Type, 5-Way Navigation Pad Input Method

'poor battery life'

'• Short TV-viewing time.'

'We were able to browse through news clips and movie trailers with ease, although the relatively blocky image quality was about average.'

'Unfortunately, there's no standard headphone jack on the A990, so to attach headphones users need to use a dongle with a 2.5mm jack on the end.'

'Unfortunately, the device automatically reduces the size of your photos when you send them via e-mail or text message.'

'The pricey Samsung SCH-A990 is occasionally sluggish when using the multimedia features,'

'The LG VX8300's Bluetooth feature does not support file transfers.'

'The video quality was smooth and reasonably sharp overall, but we noticed some banding, and in a few videos the subject was slightly off focus.'

'While we have already cited the lack of a high-quality screen, which obviously affects the video playback, we were also disappointed with the buffering of streaming video when attempting to replay a clip, as well as the mismatched sound and video, which never quite seemed in sync'

'The camcorder mode takes 15- to 30-second, 176-by-144 videos of the usual poor camera-phone quality.'

'somewhat poor 240x240-pixel resolution'

'You can't select multiple messages (for deletion or transfer to other folders), and you can't choose whether to delete downloaded mail from the server.'

'small overall screen size'

'The Samsung MM-A920 isn't that flashy as far as multimedia phones go; in fact, its all-black shell looks decidedly nondescript,'

'Cell connections were crisp and clear through both the headset and the phone's earpiece with no noticeable Sprint echo, but we did hear some warble on cell-to-cell calls.'