'The original iPhone's flat slab design wasn't terribly comfy to hold while the curved back on the new model fits in the palm more naturally.'
'We chose white, since it was less likely to pick up fingerprints, though black looked quite sleek.'
'we were down at our local O2 store before opening this morning to pick up ours, thanks to the nice chaps at O2 - the UK’s exclusive iPhone carrier.'
'The iPhone's back side is a textured silver, rather than the polished stainless steel of the full-sized iPod models, so my guess is that both the front and back of the iPhone will be more resistant to scratches than either the full-sized iPod or the original iPod nano.'
'Even in a noisy environment, I could listen to audio from arm's length'
'Call quality was the worst we've heard on a high-end device in years'
'The device can get warm with constant use, and you'll need to wipe smudges from the glass screen frequently with the included cloth.'
'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.'
