'The phone is plastic all round, but that doesn’t stop it feeling robust in the hand.'
'most highly animated smart phone'
'intuitive phone'
'The bright 2.6-inch QVGA (320x240) display is large enough to make good use of the touchscreen functionality, and a stylus, tucked away on the top-left corner of the phone, is on hand to help with some of the smaller, larger-than-finger selections, of which there are plenty.'
'The V640i comes complete with pre-loaded Google Maps and eBay clients and also supports RSS Feeds to keep you up-to-date with the latest news, weather and entertainment.'
'Today in London, Sony Ericsson announced their new W660 handset, a member of the company's Walkman model lineup that focuses a bit more on design than some of its siblings.'
'The phone and headset managed a range of 20 feet which is average among phones.'
'While the BlackBerry "Pearl" 8100 -- available from T-Mobile for $349.99 or Cingular for $399.99 ($199.99, with the usual contract stipulations from both) -- makes a noble effort to implement the BlackBerry service including a QWERTY keypad, camera, and music and video playback into a device about the size of a business card holder, finding, programming, and operating both simple and advanced functions can be headache- inducing.'
'Unfortunately, the Cingular 8100 series is clunky and heavy,'
'We were able to download the complex PC Magazine home page and see most elements--no mean feat--but the wait time of about a minute (with four bars of signal strength) was too long.'
'I had it for three days even in NYC the battery life was not great and calls dropped'