Best Cell Phones - 2 to 5 Hours Talk Time, Joystick Input Method

'the phone does not stay steady in the hand.'

'It's slow, it has just a VGA camera, MP3s sound like they're being played back from a sarcophagus under a pyramid, and, well, just about everyone in a second class train compartment can now be segregated into Nokia 6600 users and some Reliance users.'

'you'll notice the Portege R300 is a really small laptop'

'applications commonly seen in previous S60 phones are absent in the 3250.'

'ordinary candy bar phone'

'colors look washed-out, spaces between the pixels are clearly visible, and the overall image quality looks soft.'

'The device can be awkward to hold, especially during lengthy calls.'

'The resolution on the internal and external displays is disappointing, and at $299, the price tag is a bit over the top.'

'10 MB free memory'

'The keypad is made of hard plastic and is very small, given the size of the phone.'

'The keypad is flush with the body, which can make tapping on it a little difficult.'

'The controls are nasty, with the joystick feeling cheap and wobbly.'

'Dialing by feel is difficult, and we misdialed more than once.'

'Lacks EDGE.'

'with the lack of a built-in digital camera, users will not have the ability to capture impromptu moments with their phone.'

'There's no e-mail, and most perplexingly, you can't use the keyboard with MMS, the WAP browser, or Cingular's multiuser chat system.'

'the interface is rather average.'