The Samsung Alias 2 –recently launched by Verizon Wireless — doesn’t look all that remarkable at first glance. It’s a flip phone with a full physical keyboard, a two megapixel camera, GPS navigation, and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.
Look a little closer though, and you’ll find an innovative e-ink keyboard that changes to suit your needs, all contained in a small, lightweight package that won’t weigh you down.
The HTC Touch Diamond2 will be the replacement for a high-end Windows phone thatwas released around the world last year.
Iam just starting afull review of this consumer-oriented smartphone, but I’m going to go ahead and share my first impressions.
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At $149.99 with a two-year contract, the Nokia E71x is AT&T’s best smartphone deal right now. A variant on the Editors’ Choicewinning unlocked E71, this handset is strikingly slim, classy-looking phone with excellent e-mail and Web supportall at half the price of competing handsets. AT&T subscribers looking for a phone that can act as a mobile office can’t go wrong with this Nokia.
The talented and attractive E71 is one of the phones I carry with me most often. It’s super-slim (only 0.4 inch thick) and incredibly slick, with a stainless-steel back and small, domed keys. The phone’s voice performance is superb; it feels fast; and it runs thousands of Symbian programs. It also syncs easily with your PC. AT&T’s version uses the same hardware (except that it’s black, whereas the E71 is silver), but makes some firmware and software changes, which I’ll focus on in this review. For more details, check out the E71 review.
TheNokia 5800 XpressMusic hasquickly becomea very popular Symbian S60-based mobile device for the Finnish company. In its first few months on the market, there have been over 2 million of these devices sold.
And while one can point to the similarity of the 5800XM to other famous touchscreen models such as the iPhone, Instinct, and Prada; none of these devices have demonstrated the sheer capability, or market friendliness that Nokia’s offering has. Maybe that is why, despite some glaring weaknesses, that its found a solid place in this reviewer’s pocket.
Build and Design
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a simple tablet-based touchscreen mobile. Composed completely of plastic, it doesn’t have the feel of a very expensive device, but it takes a beating and keeps going better than most.
TheHTC Magic will be the second smartphone running Google’s Android to be released by a major carrier. This model will strongly resemble its predecessor, but lack theT-Mobile G1′s hardware keyboard.
First Impressions
I’ll confess, theMagic surprised me with how slim it is. It looks so much like theT-Mobile G1 (AKA HTC Dream) that I subconsciously expected it to be thicker. As soon as I picked it up I turned it sideways to see where the missing quarter of an inch had gone.
I’m pleased with the new design, but I hopeHTC left room for a big enough battery. The G1 can barely get me through a day without a recharge, and I’m hoping the Dream will be an improvement in this area.