'The Touch Dual's 400-MHz Qualcomm MSM7200 CPU is powerful enough to run Windows Mobile at a decent clip, though on occasion I still had to wait several seconds with frozen dialog boxes on the screen.'
'well-designed slider'
'color saturation is quite poor, lacking vibrancy, and when in direct sunlight the screen is barely legible.'
'large attachments could take a great deal of time even if you were on the fastest wireless G connection possible.'
'The 320-by-240 display is gorgeous, and navigating the device via the small--but very usable--QWERTY keyboard and BlackBerry Pearl -like trackball is quite comfortable.'
'the EDGE speeds of the BlackBerry 8800 seemed pokey'
'Text editing also benefits greatly from the ability to zoom around with one quick motion of the thumb on the trackball, rather than having to click a dozen times on a d-pad or nudge a joystick around for a minute.'
'The level of serious multimedia support is woefully inadequate, bringing to mind the audio/video "support" seen on the Palm devices of two or three years ago.'
'the camera is way below average when lighting conditions are not optimal'
'In our underground test SPL presented itself extremely unsatisfactorily'
'Display is dull in sunlight.'
'wide aspect, 320x240 (QVGA) screen, a full QWERTY keypad, handwriting recognition, 128MB of ROM and 64MB of usable RAM along with a miniSD memory card slot.'
'The SIM card slot is also a point worth mentioning, consisting of a thin metallic tray that slides out from below the memory card slot - while it isn't an altogether bad design, it will prove a little hard to use for those with larger fingers.'
'The i-mate SPL is a new, slim Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone'
'fairly chunky battery'
'In our underground test SPL presented itself extremely unsatisfactorily'
'you should be able to get a good indication from the HK$5,290 (US$679.51) list price announced during its launch in Hong Kong in late July/early August.'
