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The layout is nice and trim, but there are lots of ways of viewing content in the store. The XtraFlex 2 is nice and bright, but a bit heavier since it takes 3 AAA batteries. *

The bottom line: Mobile professionals who need a powerful but sleek messaging-centric smartphone will be well-served by the Nokia E71; just be prepared to pay a price.

Nokia's E-series devices are considered business-friendly when paired with solutions from Visto, Seven, or Nokia's own Intellisync unit. The IMAP client is smooth, although it doesn't feature push e-mail, as BlackBerry does. Reception is solid, and the earpiece sounds just plain beautiful. *

The full QWERTY keyboard on the E71 is pretty good, though I prefer the spaced out keys on the BlackJack II for the confidence they inspire. *

Rumors have pegged it possibly being made available through AT&T in time for the holidays, further making the E71 a compelling buy. Voice and speaker quality are solid, but can suffer from distortions if you accidentally put your hand over the antenna. The battery life is absolutely amazing. *

This candy-bar phone is remarkably slim at 0.4 inch thick and fits as easily in your hand as it does in your pocket. Nokia has made the sometimes confusing Symbian S60 platform more user-friendly by including customizable shortcut keys and a standby screen. The music players' audio quality is good, and it offers features such as an equalizer and balance control. Camera quality mediocre. *

The keyboard is simply amazing, and only the larger Moto Q9 beats it (our #1 pick for keyboards). This makes one-handed navigation that much easier, and games more fun. Business email support is extensive: Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email, Mail for Exchange (Microsoft ActiveSync), SEVEN and Visto Mobile. Google Maps runs fine on the E71 and you can use 3rd party navigation applications like Garmin XT Mobile in the US and abroad and TomTom and CoPilot (Europe but no US maps available). The... *

The Nokia E71 is a great slab-style QWERTY phone, better than almost any on the market. It has a slimmer, cooler design than the or the and it can handle almost all of the business tools that those Windows Mobile 6.1 phones use. It doesn't have all of the carrier amenities that we usually ignore anyway, like over-the-air music downloads and streaming video clips, and it could be more localized for U.S. users. Still, we had no problem setting up the phone for our Exchange ActiveSync business e...

The bottom line: The HTC Touch Diamond offers much in the way of sex appeal and flash, and it's certainly got a formidable feature set. However, we hope HTC resolves some of the performance issues we experienced before the smartphone is released in the States.

Both of those devices are more solid and reliable choices for Sprint subscribers. The Touch Diamond's 528-MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A CPU and 192MB of built-in RAM seem formidable on paper. I found the keyboard cramped and difficult to type on. It's beautiful, with crisp, colorful graphics, and a scrollable application bar across the bottom of the screen. The sides of the unit are mostly clean, save for two volume buttons on the left, a power button on the top, and a mini USB jack on the bottom. E... *

The front of the device is perfectly flat, consisting of two panels - one for the touchscreen, one for the controls. The rest of the device is quite simple. The VGA resolution display on the Touch Diamond is great. 480x640 resolution just makes everything look much sharper. *

But first-time smartphone users will appreciate the many small touches that have been added that make this device more intuitive to use. Each section has a large icon that displays a thumbnail of something appropriate. The touchscreen on this device is beautiful, and its VGA resolution makes everything look very crisp. The touchscreen is beautiful, and its VGA resolution makes everything look very crisp. The screen was responsive enough to write SMSs and web addresses. The 4 GB of internal m... *

The phone felt comfortable in my hand, and seemed well-constructed when I used it. *

It's beautiful, entertaining, intelligent and fun. The phone is surprisingly small, thin and light for a powerful Windows Mobile Pro device with a VGA display and 4 gigs of storage. The Touch Diamond comes with a charger that's designed to esthetically match the phone-- shiny and angular. VGA display is sharp and bright. Phone reception on T-Mobile's 1900MHz band was very good and data transfers on EDGE garnered an average 90kbit/sec according to DSL Reports mobile speed test. Call quality h... *

Ultra-sharp display. Attractive interface. Quality camera. *