Nokia C5-03 has arrived on UK shores, but unlike Nokia’s recent touchscreen efforts, it’s running good ol’ Symbian S60, rather than the newer, more polished Symbian 3, now officially renamed as Symbian.

Nokia C5-03 is a delightfully sturdy, slim phone. It feels smaller than its 105.8×51x13.8mm dimensions, thanks in part to the smooth curve of its plastic backing – which somehow doesn’t feel remotely tacky. The front is all screen, while the sides are unsullied by ports, and the physical buttons below the screen sit so low as to be invisible when looked on from the side, but are still easy to press.

But! Just as we thought we’d laid that ghost to rest, we discover it’s resistive. Resistive touchscreens are typically cheaper to produce than capacitive ones found on most smartphones, and accurate to exact touches.

The problem is of course, that you don’t get exact touches with a fingertip, and since there’s no stylus included with the Nokia C5-03, you soon encounter problem number one. Never mind the lack of pinch to zoom gestures: it’s almost impossible to type.

Nokia C5-03 might be doomed before it even shipped courtesy of its operating system, Symbian S60 5th edition. It’s here complete with all the frustrations you had with on the Nokia 5800 more than two years ago. Obnoxious screen pop ups when you try and turn the Wi-Fi on, screen whiteouts that last seconds when you tilt the phone or leave an app – it’s all here, and it feels like Nokia has done nothing over the course of two years to correct it. One of our rants from last year can be read here, and still very much applies.

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AT&T F160 illustrates that point beautifully. Sure, as a simple midrange handset, it certainly isn't recommended for power texters or multimedia geeks and with its matte black appearance, it's far from showy.

What it does, however, is competently deliver on features and design with a light, slim, and comfortable body; a responsive keypad; good call quality; and useful usability touches. Best of all, the AT&T F160 is free with a two-year contract, making it an ever more valuable no-fuss phone for callers. The AT&T F160 costs $149.99 without a contract. For ZTE, which has produced several clunkers (like the maligned ZTE Agent), the F160 is a welcome step in the right direction.

ZTE's shadowy AT&T F160 is a nondescript, mostly matte black chassis with subtle design features--slightly rounded corners and a couple of silver accents. Like many ZTE phones, it's tall and lean--4.8 inches tall, 1.9 inches wide, and 0.4 inch thick. We can't think of many pockets or purses too shallow for its lanky profile. The F160 also is light, just a hair under 3 ounces, but without feeling wispy or fragile. Easy to grab up with a soft-touch backing, the F160 feels comfortable in the hand and on the ear.

The 2.4-inch screen seems a good size for the phone's thin face. Its 240x320-pixel QVGA resolution is standard, but with 262,000 colors, it also looks bright and colorful. Navigation is straightforward, with a grid menu that pops up when you press one soft key, and a very handy list of shortcuts for the camera, calling history, and so on that pops up with a press of the other soft key.

Settings let you change the wallpaper, backlight duration, and screen brightness, plus set a boot screen greeting. We just hope you're happy with the font style and size, because it doesn't appear that you can change them.

Below the screen are the two soft keys, the Send and End buttons, and the Clear and Shortcuts key. The latter makes it easy to toggle between screens, like your Menu and the Home screen. A four-directional navigation toggle also is present, along with its central select button. We had no complaints getting around.

The alphanumeric keypad buttons are wide and rather short; however, they're gratifyingly responsive and the domed centers make them easy to press and to dial by feel. Two multifunctional buttons preside over three tasks: locking the screen, turning the phone to vibrate mode, and changing the text mode. Sure, phones with full QWERTY keyboards are better for accomplished texters, but the F160's congenial keypad and easy automatic predictive texting make composition manageable.

As for the other external features, the spines hold the volume rocker, a camera shutter button and Micro-USB charging port, and a 3.5 millimeter headset jack. On the back is a 3-megapixel camera, and beneath the back cover is the microSD card slot that can take up to 8GB external memory. Unfortunately, it's only accessible once you've removed both the back cover and the battery.

Features
Despite the F160's unassuming look, it has more goodies than you'd anticipate, thanks in part to AT&T's bundled services. There's room in the F160's address book for 500 contacts, and each entry can host your contact's name, multiple phone numbers, multiple e-mail addresses, a street address, and a ringtone. Twelve ringtones come on the phone, but you can sub in your own via the microSD card, or buy ringtones in the AT&T store. Ringback tones, while a separate purchase through AT&T, are another option. Unfortunately, attaching a photo ID to your contact isn't--an odd omission for a camera phone.


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Internet Tablets is going to attract everyone. The company has readily admitted that it's for a certain audience--gadget lovers and early adopters--and we certainly agree with that statement. However, with every successive model, we also see more appeal in such a device. The latest model, the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, features some nice improvements, including a full QWERTY keyboard and integrated GPS. There's also a more robust Web browser and improved interface, courtesy of the latest Nokia Internet Tablet 2008 operating system. And while these are all welcome additions, we ended up slightly disappointed when we found the keyboard to be a bit cramped and that you had to pay an extra $130 for driving directions. As such, we don't think the N810 is necessarily worth upgrading to from Nokia N800 Internet Tablet (you can download a software update from Nokia to get the latest OS) but if you're making your first foray into the mobile Internet devices, the Nokia N810 is a sleek and Web 2.0-friendly choice. The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is available now for $479.99.

With each iteration of the Internet Tablet, Nokia has improved on the design, and the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is no exception. It carries a smaller footprint than the N800 at 2.8 inches tall by 5 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep but weighs the same at 7.2 ounces, which is admittedly on the heavier side. Still, it's compact enough to slip into your bag or purse, and the sleekness combined with brushed metal finish makes it one sexy device. The N810 is sure to garner a few stares from onlookers.

On front, there's a 4.1-inch QVGA touch screen that displays 65,000 colors at an 800x480 pixel resolution. It was a pleasurable experience checking out Web sites and viewing images, thanks to the sharp definition and vibrant colors. It's readable in various lighting conditions, and there's an ambient light sensor that will adjust the screen's brightness depending on your environment. The user interface is a bit different than the N800, and while it's still not completely intuitive, it's easier to navigate and the applications are neatly organized by category. You can also customize the home screen with various themes and background images, and you can conveniently drag items around the page to create a layout that suits you.

To the left of the display, you'll find the Webcam, a Home screen shortcut, a back button, and a status LED. The navigation control pad that was found on the N800 has been relocated (more on this in a bit), but we missed having this on the front of the device to more easily operate the device. You can use the included stylus to maneuver through the menus and select items. The touch screen is responsive, though there was a bit of lag but this was more of a performance issue rather than a problem with the touch screen.

The top of the unit has a key for minimizing/maximizing the screen, a zoom in and out/volume rocker, a power button, a lock switch, and the stylus. Along the right spine, you'll find a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack and power connector, and there are speakers on both sides of the device. On the bottom, there's the miniSD card expansion slot and the battery cover release. Like the N800, there's a kickstand so you can prop up the N810 on a flat surface, but we found that when we went to put it back, the kickstand would sometimes catch the edge of the expansion slot cover and pull it open.

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The Streak 7 looks like a giant Streak (the 5-inch version, that is), and that's not necessarily a bad thing considering we've always had a thing for those tapered sides and its fairly rigid, plastic build. Dell's obviously trying to maintain a similar design across all the Streak family members, although it's also brought in some cues from the Venue and Venue Pro relatives -- the rear cover has the same textured diamond pattern as the smartphones. We like how it feels in the hand, but unlike the original Streak, the back doesn't house a removable battery. That actually turns out to be an incredible bummer given what you're about to find out about the battery life farther down in this review.

While many slate makers are moving towards the 10-inch form factor, we're still appreciative of the portability of the 7-inch variety. (Yes, so much so that some of us are even dying for a 7-inch iPad.) Like the Galaxy Tab or Archos 7, the Streak 7 lends itself much better to one-handed use than the iPad or any of the other 10-inch tablets we've tested. We loved being able to comfortably hold the 0.48-inch Streak up when reading a book in bed or wrapping both our hands around the 0.9-pound tablet and being able to use our thumbs to type.

Apart from the three capacitive buttons (back, menu, and home), mic, and camera on the front of the tablet, Dell's kept the design very clean. A plastic latch on the right edge, which can be hard to open if you don't have long nails, hides the SD and SIM card slots. The top of the device has a power button and volume rocker, and the left edge a 3.5mm headphone jack. Disappointingly, there's no HDMI output on the device itself; Dell will offer a separate dock that will attach to the PDMI port on the bottom of the device. A quick word on the PDMI port -- it is the same as the one on the original Streak, and because there's no other USB port on the tablet, you've got to have the cord handy to either charge it or connect it to computer to sideload files. Also, our review unit hasn't been charging via USB -- you have to plug it into the wall via its AC adapter. Yeah, it's pretty annoying.

When powered off, the Streak 7 looks like it has virtually the same display as the Galaxy Tab. Both have highly glossy, 7-inch Gorilla Glass screens that feel incredibly smooth to the touch. However, that all changes when you turn them on. In comparison to the Galaxy's 1024 x 600 resolution display, the Streak's 800 x 480 panel just looks cheap, and the experience is definitely felt when browsing, reading, looking at photos, or watching a high-definition clip. In a side-by-side comparison of the same photo, the Streak 7 just looked low-rate in comparison to the Tab's crisp rendering. Yep, it's pretty much a Pixel Density Enthusiast's nightmare.

Even more noticeable is how much brighter the Galaxy Tab's display is. Hands down, Samsung went with a better quality panel than Dell, and it really makes a huge difference considering, you know, the entire tablet experience is centered around the screen. That quality also translates to mediocre viewing angles -- when held horizontally at about 45 degrees, colors start to fade to black. Vertical viewing is better, although in comparison to the Galaxy Tab's screen, which can be seen at virtually every angle, it's yet again just second rate. Beyond all the actual viewing quality issues, the capacitive screen is extremely responsive, and it, along with the Tegra 2 processor, keeps it responding to our taps and flicks quickly. The accelerometer was equally as snappy, though we wish there was a quicker way to disable it than having to go through the display settings menu.

The software experience is the exact same as that on the original Dell's Streak and Venue -- it consists of the Stage UI, which includes Dell's own full-screen widgets and launcher. The widgets are actually useful -- the Home pulls in the local weather and recently used apps, Social your Twitter or Facebook feed, Web a search bar and thumbnails of your bookmarks, and Gallery locally stored pictures. The good news here is that if they aren't your thing, you can easily delete them and customize the panes with regular Android widgets and apps. The launcher at the bottom provides easy access to the browser, app tray, and mail app. We've been trying to figure out how you can customize the launcher, but we haven't come up with a solution yet.

On the topic of that mail app, it nor any of the other native apps, like the calendar or messaging, have been revamped to take advantage of the extra screen real estate. Unlike Samsung, Dell's done no retooling here to take advantage of the larger screen, though considering the resolution is the same as the Streak, it may have just figured it didn't really need to. If we had to sum up the software package, we'd say that you're really just dealing with an oversized smartphone experience here, and while a few months ago that may have been enough for Android tablet seekers, that's about to change as soon as Google releases Honeycomb in the coming days or weeks.

Beyond promising fast performance, Tegra 2 promises full HD playback, and the Streak 7 certainly confirms that. A 1080p clip of Justin Bieber's Never Say Never played with no stuttering or lag, however, that's obviously pretty pointless considering the lower screen resolution. That aforementioned dock with HDMI-out will be the solution for those looking to take advantage of that HD video. Streaming 720p video on YouTube also worked quite well and general Flash performance was pretty decent -- we were able to get some of the New York Times' Flash videos playing within a few seconds of loading the site. The Streak 7 notched an average of 35 MFLOPS in Linpack -- that's considerably better than the Galaxy Tab's 14 MFLOPS.



T-Mobile offers its usual webConnect broadband plans for the Streak 7: 5GB a month for $50 for new customers and $40 for existing T-Mobile customers. There's also a 200MB plan for $30 a month. There are also prepaid plans which include $10 a week for 100MB, $30 a month for 300MB, and $50 a month for 1GB. As you may have guessed, you can't make phone calls over T-Mobile network with the Streak 7, but you can send text messages.

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Apple's battery of the iPhone 4 has credible the greatest activity for a new fizz anytime - and with HD video recording, a air-conditioned high-res covering and ridiculously abridge dimensions, it's not adamantine to see why.

But things are a little adapted now - not abandoned was the iPhone 3GS commodity of a non-update to the iPhone range, but there are actually adapted alternatives in the smartphone market, with the HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S accomplished the Android activity adapted to Apple's door.

At diminutive Apple has unleashed the big accoutrements for this adeptness - afore we get into the banderole specs, the architectonics itself is a massive talking point on its own.

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If you're an iPhone fan, there's a adequate adventitious you won't like the accessory of the iPhone the ancient time you aces it up - it's the above weight as the iPhone 3GS at 137g, but it's a lot smaller, with abuttals of 115.2mm x58.6 mm x 9.3mm, so it feels like a abounding best and bunched model.

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If you're the authentic type, afresh you can buy an official 'Bumper' for the iPhone 4, which encases it in a babyish amphitheatre of rubber, if you haven't bought the handset abandoned for its abridge lines



The right-hand accessory of the analysis is still bald - no camera button sadly, which would acquire been nice acclimatized the added adeptness Apple has acutely put into afterlight the photography system.

Still, burnished is acutely still 'in' at the Cupertino HQ, and we can't say we allegation the designers aback you accessory at the lines.

Actually, that's not authentic - the micro-SIM breach is hidden away here, rather than on the top. It's the above affair key thing/slot adjustment as before, but this time the SIM calendar is abounding allay - Apple says to achieve added allowance for actuality inside, we say it's above to beat things up a little bit. Either way, we bet micro-SIMs become the barometer afore absolute connected in all phones.

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The Black Phone comes preloaded with the entire Black Album on a Multimedia Card for MP3 playback. Also exclusive to the Black Phone are Jay-Z True Tones (ring tones that sound like real music) and wallpapers. Registered owners of the Black Phone will receive weekly text messages and monthly voice messages from Jay-Z for a limited time.

The Black Phone will be available for approximately $124 (after mail-in rebates) beginning Friday, December 19 at select Sam Goody and Media Play locations nationwide.

"Technology now provides us with the opportunity to deliver music in new ways. The Black Phone is at the forefront of the future which includes buying music instantly and taking it with you wherever you go," said Jay-Z. "Teaming with Nokia to develop the Black Phone provides me with a deeper connection to my fans through my music and mobile messaging."

An entrepreneur at heart, Jay-Z has risen to the top of the rap genre since starting his own record label, Roc-a-Fella Records, which was a risky strategy at a time when the practice simply wasn't done or on such an ambitious scale. His debut album, Reasonable Doubt, became a critical favorite and received gold single status. But it wasn't until his third album, Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life, that Jay-Z transcended critically acclaimed status and achieved mainstream success. By the end of the '90s, he was among
the world's most recognized rappers. With the much-anticipated recent release of the Black Album, Jay-Z has hovered in the number one spot on the Billboard charts for several weeks.

"The Black Phone represents Nokia's commitment to music and developing devices that match the lifestyles of consumers," said Nada Usina, general manager of Nokia's Entertainment and Media business unit. "This relationship pairs the leader in mobility with a leading artist to deliver music and the
full fan experience in a unique new way. Jay-Z has always been a trendsetter and he is continuing that by being the first artist to distribute his music and connect with fans in a mobile environment. This is a move to watch."

The Black Phone will be available exclusively in stores at Sam Goody and Media Play starting Friday. Sam Goody, the mall-based music retailer, and Media Play, the music, movies, books and games superstore, will carry the Black Phone in approximately 400 retail locations.

"The Black Phone bridges the music and lifestyle preferences of our trend-conscious customers. This is an innovative beginning to how Musicland will build relationships with our customers on the go," Musicland CEO Eric Weisman said.

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Then there's also the kickstand, which exhibits some lateral wiggling action we're not too fond of and does not sit flush with the phone when retracted. Beyond that, just to get all our bugbears off our chest, the pair of speaker recesses turned out to be absolute dust magnets and cleaning them out wasn't the easiest thing in the world either.

What we're more concerned about, however, is the Qualcomm QSD8250 chip that resides within the HD7's confines. This was a celebrated 1GHz part back when it graced HTC's own HD2 this time last year, but today... not so much. And speaking of the HD2, it's pretty outrageous that HTC has gone and matched its spec almost entirely. Sure, the externals have been tweaked, the physical buttons have been dismissed in favor of capacitive keys and you've now got a slightly different frame around your jumbo display, but as far as the internal hardware is concerned, it's nearly the same phone. We imagine this was probably out of HTC's hands since Microsoft insists on the particular trio of WP7 buttons and has also been the one to mandate the processor within, but it still leaves geeks like us feeling less than overjoyed. After all, if not for a bit of red tape, we could just as well be reviewing the HD2 right now.

Looking at the HD7 and its Windows Phone 7 OS in isolation, however, we have to commend the final product. Whether we like the route by which Microsoft has gotten here, what we're looking at with all these launch devices is one hell of a smooth user experience. So, in spite of its aged hardware, the HD7 is by no means a performance slouch. Basically, we'd have preferred something beefier inside, but that's just because we like numbers, and we like them to grow higher, but in actual use the HD7 is more than nippy enough.

The HD7's meat and potatoes, its reason for being, the meaning to its life, the beating heart of its entire operation. If we haven't made it abundantly clear yet, the display is this phone's defining feature and also the thing that will most likely determine its commercial success. That's aside from the key determinant, of course -- the Windows Phone 7 experience -- but given that the OS has been so tightly regimented by Microsoft, you'll be able to easily jump aboard abother WP7 ship should the HD7 not rock your boat quite how you'd like it to. The trouble with its 4.3-inch panel, however, is that it does indeed both make and break the appeal of the HD7. Allow us to explain.

On the one hand, the enlarged panel really makes your daily smartphone tasks so much easier. Yes, in terms of pixel density it's no better off than the more diminutive phones it's vying against, but the magnification of those pixels was a definitely improvement for us, allowing us to read webpages without necessarily having to zoom in on them every time, and also making navigation and text input appreciably easier. It's worth reiterating, perhaps, that this was simply our experience and others may find the large screen overwhelming and its contents unnecessarily inflated. What we're saying is that this just felt like the ideal size to us, not too large (hello, Streak!) and not too small (Motorola Flipout, anyone?).

In fact, on a couple of occasions we honestly got carried away reading on our commute and simply forgot we were using a phone. It felt more like browsing on our desktop with the added bonus of being able to scroll by flicking our fingers. It was a terrific sensation, even if it only lasted for brief moments, and of course it's not something we can confidently say you'll be able to experience on the smaller devices in the Windows Phone 7 stable. The Samsung Omnia 7 and Dell Venue Pro might come close to that, but the HD7 clearly sits at the top of the pile when it comes to taking your Windows experience on the move without resorting to a tablet or a laptop.

The camera on the HD7 was a weird one for us to get to grips with. On the one hand, focusing is pretty snappy and Windows Phone 7 does allow you to jump straight into the camera app from a locked screen (by holding down the shutter button). But our actual results were somewhat hit and miss. Sometimes, the HD7's camera would nail the white balance in situations where even a DSLR was struggling to guess correctly, but at other times it'd struggle to focus in relatively unchallenging circumstances. Aside from that, we have to take issue with WP7's inability to remember camera (or camcorder) settings. The HD7 defaults, weirdly enough, to shooting 480p video, which you have to switch up yourself... each and every time you use the video app. Maybe we're unenlightened on how to make our settings stick, but sure enough, each time we turned on the camera and wanted to shoot at 720p, we had to manually turn it on. Which was annoying. As to the video output itself, it's quite presentable stuff, although the sensor does tend to search for focus even when we're keeping it steady on an unmoving landscape. All in all, the HD7's camera and video recording seem par for the (somewhat mediocre) smartphone course.

The first thing to note is that HTC adorns the bootup sequence for its Hub with an outrageously extravagant and almost instantly annoying animation that pummels you with oncoming cloud and sun symbols to remind you that yes, there's a weather app coming up in there. Once you get inside, you're faced with a stock updater, that climate-monitoring utility we just mentioned, and some other tidbits like Notes and a Photo Enhancer. HTC promises it'll keep adding more functionality as things go along and we've got no reason to doubt that. For now, we couldn't care less about stocks or the weather, so we decided to play with the other two apps.

Notes is a quirky, stylized take on your usual note-recording app. It gives you a board that you can "pin" little post-its to, which in turn age relative to their, erm, age. We could frankly take it or leave it, there's a character limit on each note so if you're a wordy sort of missive writer, it'll immediately discourage use, while its stylized elements feel somewhat forced and unnecessary. It's cute, and maybe some weird demographic that appreciates animated transitions more than rapid and easy data input will appreciate it more, but it wasn't for us.

What can we say that we haven't expressed already? The HD7 is pretty much what you thought it would be. It's that same 4.3-inch blueprint that HTC has exploited to great success with the HD2 and EVO 4G, applied to the brand new Windows Phone 7 operating environment. The first question you'll truly have to answer for yourself is whether or not you want to be aboard the WP7 gravy train. We remain staunch believers that a smartphone is only as good (or as bad) as its software, so decide on your OS first and your particular handset second. If you're still with us, we'd recommend the HD7 as a solid WP7 device choice, but with a few caveats.

The build quality is a step below the finest we've seen, landing the HD7 in the "passable" category, while the display may achieve a high level of brightness, but it goes to waste thanks to its poor contrast and viewing angles. For a device aspiring to woo us with its multimedia features, this, along with middling sound output from its stereo speakers, renders the HD7 a failure if measured purely by the boasts of its promotional materials.

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Motorola Citrus measures 4.1 by 2.3 by 0.6 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.9 ounces. It's made of rough-feeling plastic that aligns poorly around the edges; Motorola's usual high construction quality is nowhere to be found. The 3-inch glass capacitive display has only 240-by-320-pixel resolution. That's fine for feature phones, but it's terrible for Android, as it makes screens feel cramped and renders some third-party apps unusable.

Citrus includes Backtrack, Motorola's ill-conceived, rear-mounted trackpad that is difficult to use accurately and scrolls the screen by accident all the time as you hold the phone. The first thing I do when I get a phone with Backtrack is test to see if it has improved—which it never does—and then disable it.

This is not a good texting phone. The on-screen keyboard has a QWERTY format in both portrait or landscape mode. But even in landscape mode, typing was pure frustration. There was a noticeable delay after each key tap, and the Citrus missed many taps entirely, even when I slowed my typing down to a near-crawl. I haven't made this many mistakes on a texting phone in recent memory.

The Motorola Citrus is a dual-band EV-DO Rev 0 (850/1900 MHz) device with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. The Citrus holds up Verizon's reputation for excellent voice quality. Voices sounded warm and full in the earpiece, with no background hiss. On the other side, callers said I sounded noticeably better on this handset than on an LG Octane and Pantech Crux I had on hand for comparison purposes. Calls sounded fine through an Aliph Jawbone Icon ($99, 4 stars) Bluetooth headset. The Nuance-powered voice dialing worked fine over Bluetooth; always a nice surprise on an Android phone. The speakerphone sounded tinny but went loud enough for outdoor use. Battery life was stellar at 7 hours and 36 minutes of talk time.

UI, Apps, and Messaging
Motorola seems to have signed off on a slew of budget Android devices like the Flipout, the Charm, and the Citrus without noticing or caring about how poorly Android gets along with QVGA screens. Android 2.1 is compatible with nearly all of the 100,000+ third-party apps in Android Market. But on the Citrus, large numbers of apps simply don't show up in Android Market (including our benchmark suite, for example). It's a problem throughout the device's UI, making common tasks like adding Bluetooth devices and changing settings more difficult than they need to be. Web page fonts look fuzzy. The time and length of recent calls in the call history both get chopped off. It all looks awful.

Even moving past the screen issues, there were bugs. Once, I picked up the handset and unlocked it, only to be greeted with a mostly black screen titled "Alert Messages." That's all; it was frozen. My first attempt at pairing a set of Motorola S9-HD ($129, 3.5 stars) Bluetooth headphones crashed the Citrus, requiring a reboot. Often, the main menu got stuck; scrolling became jerky and even impossible on numerous occasions for 10 to 15 seconds at a time. The photo and video gallery was a cluttered, unresponsive mess. The 528MHz processor is pretty basic, but it should have been OK given the screen's low number of pixels. The phone just seems badly programmed.

Just like on the Samsung Fascinate and similar phones, Verizon has completely removed the Citrus' default Google Search and replaced it with Bing Search—OK, but not as good as Google. If you're looking for Google Maps and Navigation, you can still download them from the Android market.

Somewhere buried in all this, the Citrus is a normal Android device with a good WebKit browser and powerful e-mail options. But by this point, who cares?

Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
The standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack makes finding good-sounding earbuds easy. My 32GB SanDisk card worked fine in the microSD slot underneath the battery cover. But pulling the cover off was an exercise in frustration and broken nails. Use doubleTwist (Free, 4 stars) and sync your media over USB with this one. There's also 170MB of free internal memory. MP3 and AAC tracks sounded clear and full over Motorola S9-HD Bluetooth headphones. Standalone MP4 and WMV video files played smoothly in full screen mode provided they were transcoded to the phone's 320-by-240-pixel landscape resolution. The music player displayed smaller album art than other Android phones, and the video player required some extra screen taps, but it all worked OK.

The 3-megapixel camera has no auto-focus or flash. I needed a tiny, flat screwdriver to get the plastic protective film off of the recessed camera lens; someone goofed in manufacturing. Test photos were clear, crisp, and colorful, with a moderate amount of grain in dimmer rooms. Recorded 352-by-288-pixel videos maxed out at 16 frames per second; they looked surprisingly clear and vibrant, if too small.

In case it's not clear yet, please don't buy the Citrus. The $49 LG Optimus S (4 stars) on Sprint and the free LG Optimus T (4 stars) on T-Mobile are far, far better budget Android devices. We're going to review Verizon's LG Vortex (which is basically the Optimus V) and MetroPCS's Optimus M pretty soon, and we're pretty sure they're going to be good, too. Finally, the LG Ally ($49, 3.5 stars) is bulkier, but its slide-out QWERTY keyboard is great for frequent texters and e-mailers, and its higher screen resolution makes it a better candidate for installing apps.


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With smartphones fast becoming a viable option at the low-end of the market. On the one hand, most users are expecting smartphone features such as touchscreens and WiFi from their feature phones. At the same time, some folks still want an affordable, solid device that focuses primarily on making calls and sending text messages, with the occasional foray into entertainment and data-based communication.

Nokia sells hundreds of different phone models. Some designs are memorable, some are generic, yet somehow each remains instantly recognizable as Nokia hardware. The X3-02 continues this trend, and manages to be simultaneously appealing and understated. It's a tiny phone in a world of massive slates and sliders, with a footprint barely larger than the legendary Sony Ericsson W800 while maintaining the same ultra-thin profile as the iPhone 4. At first glance, it looks like just another candybar Nokia dumbphone, but with a bigger display. And this is where the Touch-and-Type moniker comes from: the front is dominated by a 2.4-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen paired with a 16-key numeric keypad below. Here Nokia decided to put the star, pound and zero keys in a column to the right of the number keys, with the call, email, music, and end keys in a row above the number keys.



Despite lacking autofocus and a flash, the 5 megapixel camera performs rather well in most situations. The X3-02 uses an EDoF (Extended Depth of Field) lens. As a result, subjects or scenes beyond about two feet (60cm) are always perfectly in focus, but just like a fixed-focus lens, closeup shots are always blurry. Looking at our sample pictures, color balance is fine, but exposure is somewhat constrained by the sensor, which appears overwhelmed in bright light. Noise is under control, and low-light performance is decent considering the small lens and sensor. Since there's no accelerometer or GPS, shots lack any orientation or geolocation data. The camera interface is basic and portrait only, but Nokia provides a surprisingly capable picture editor. While the X3-02 handles stills with aplomb, it captures VGA video that is best described as mediocre. The sound quality is poor, and the framerate is capped to a jerky 15fps.

While it's all very clever, several areas still require improvements. First, you'll find weirdly abbreviated descriptions like "Rest. fact. sett." liberally sprinkled all over the interface. These are confusing and detract from the overall experience. Second, relying solely on a numeric keypad for text input is just painful. We're aware that real estate is at a premium on the 2.4-inch touchscreen, but it looks like there's just enough room for a landscape QWERTY keyboard on the display. Third, Series 40 remains a dumbphone OS at the core, with no consistent notifications and no real multitasking. Nokia bundles apps for email and social networking, but only the latter dispatches notifications. Multitasking is limited to music playback and only functions when the camera is not being used. Finally, no GPS means Ovi Maps is not available and Google Maps is all but useless without a separate Bluetooth receiver. We're amazed that the X3-02 lacks even simple cell-based positioning.



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Jawbone’s newest Jawbone Bluetooth headset has arrived, the Jawbone ERA, evolving the discrete styling of the ICON and taking its place at the top of the company’s range. There’s more than just good looks promised, though; Jawbone has also slotted in a bigger speaker for HD Audio, together with an accelerometer for more intuitive control.

The Era is small, but a bit taller than the Icon, measuring 2 inches long, 0.6 inches wide, and just under an inch thick. Like the Icon, the Era sports a single multi-function button for answering, ending, and switching between calls. Pressing and holding the button initiates voice dialing by default, but can instead trigger MyTalk apps—more on those later. Pressing and holding the button during a call or other audio playback will slowly cycle the volume up and down; you release the button when you’re happy with the volume. (You can also adjust the volume directly from your phone.) The only other visible hardware control is an On/Off slider switch.

If that was all the Era offered, it wouldn’t be much different from the Icon. But the Era actually provides an additional control mechanism courtesy a built-in accelerometer. Using a gesture that Jawbone dubs “TapTap”—a double-tap anywhere on the device’s exterior—mirrors the basic functionality of the hardware button: you can answer, end, and switch between calls with a quick tap-tap. You can also achieve the same results by shaking the headset—assuming the Era isn’t yet in your ear, of course. Two quick shakes—a gesture Jawbone has christened “ShakeShake”—followed, one presumes, by a quick insertion of the Era into your ear is equivalent to a TapTap or a button press.

You can also use the accelerometer to enter Bluetooth-pairing mode by performing a quadruple shake—a.k.a., a double-ShakeShake. (The first time you turn on the Era, it automatically enters pairing mode—no shaking necessary. My iPhone paired with the Era easily.) Other actions, however—such as activating the useful spoken summary of your battery’s remaining talk time, or redialing the most-recently called number—can be activated only with a button press, rather than a shake, tap, or any other kind of jiggle.



While the accelerometer-based controls might seem gimmicky, I took to them rather quickly, even though I never found the Icon’s button difficult to access or press. In fact, the Era’s tapping gesture offers two benefits that I hadn’t anticipated. First, as someone with longer hair, I find that tapping is actually faster than moving my hair out of the way to find the Era’s physical button. Second, by using a gentle tap instead of a button press, I don’t risk jostling the Era out of my ear. That’s not a major issue with the Icon or other earpieces, but it’s nice to be able to avoid the risk completely. (Of course, tapping too hard on a device that’s inserted in your ear can sound awfully loud; thankfully, gentle taps work just as well.)

My only two complaints about the Era’s control system mirror my complaints about the Icon’s controls. First, the power switch is difficult to access when the device is already in your ear, so I’m forced to remove the Era in order to turn it off and on. Second, I find that my iPhone needs an extra two seconds to enter Voice Control mode when triggered from the Era (although this may be an issue that’s out of the company’s control).

Like the Prime and the Icon, the Era comes packaged with an assortment of eartips and an earloop. After mixing and matching, I eventually found a snug, comfortable fit, and the plastic earloop is useful for added security. A bonus for large-eared people: There’s a new eartip included that’s larger than the biggest one included with the Icon.

Aliph claims battery life of 5.5 hours of talk time or up to 10 days of standby time—I haven’t yet had the Era for 10 days, but the 5.5-hour estimate matches with my early testing. You’ll need 30 minutes to charge the Era 80% of the way, and another 30 minutes to top it off. These numbers are all improvements over the Icon’s performance. (The Era charges via a micro-USB port; you can use the included AC charger or any powered USB port. Also included is a very short USB-to-micro-USB cable.)

Despite its innovative use of an accelerometer, the Era’s single biggest improvement over the Icon is its immediately noticeable superior audio quality. The Era employs a true wideband speaker that’s 25 percent larger than the Icon’s without changing the ergonomics of the earpiece, and the headset uses Jawbone’s NoiseAssassin technology for both inbound and outbound audio to automatically adjust volume and equalizer settings, catering them to your current audio environment.

The result is that, in my testing, calls, music, and YouTube audio all sounded impressively clear with the Era. Folks on the other end of phone calls reported that I sounded good, too. In fact, multiple callers indicated that I sounded better with the Era than I did when I switched to the iPhone’s built-in microphone. My chief complaint about the Icon was its mediocre audio quality, and, much to my delight, the Era corrects its predecessor’s flaw beautifully.

Like the Icon, the Era can connect with Jawbone’s MyTalk service, which lets you add Audio Apps and DialApps. (AudioApps customize the spoken voice that announces battery-status updates and the like; DialApps replace the “hold down the main button” voice-dialing functionality with 411 services, transcribed texts and status updates, and more). New for the Era is a Caller ID app that speaks the full names of your callers, instead of just their phone numbers. The app uses high-quality recordings of your contacts’ names whenever possible for better audio, though the app wasn’t yet available for testing at the time of this review.



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When we began our review of the BlackBerry Torch (aka the Bold 9800), our hearts were all aflutter. The leaked shots we'd been seeing of BlackBerry Torch 9800 review: The BlackBerry slider is a design gamble that has definitely paid off, adding an excellent touchscreen to the

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wWe have models like the Nokia E63. Based on the popular business smartphone E71, a full keyboard is now available to everyone. Its appearance is more casual, replacing the metal with a high-quality plastic. Hopefully, the build quality doesn’t suffer from this and is still very high-end.

The colors are also more liberal and instead of the boring grey and black, here we find the fresher blue or red. The E63 has gotten a bit thicker and is now 13 mm, instead of the E71’s 10 mm. There is virtually no change in the other dimensions and as a whole the size is pretty decent for a QWERTY phone. Speaking of the keyboard, we have to mention that the keys are very handy, although a bit small. Unfortunately, once again, the bottom row of keys isn’t shifted to the right so you’ll have to get used to it in order to avoid mistakes. When it comes to buttons, we have to note the total lack of such on the sides – no volume rocker and no power key.

The E63’s display won’t disappoint you. It looks good indoors, as well as when exposed to direct sunlight, though in the latter situation the colors become a bit undistinguishable. Still, the image is clear enough and allows you to use the device with no real issues.

SMS messages have become the most popular mobile service. Who would have thought that people will write messages in a peculiar way on these small keyboards? Years later, phones are much more advanced and the variety is greater, but this service continues to hold the first place.

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The new BlackBerry Dakota cell phone has capacitive touch screen, the 3G mobile hotspot is nice. I want a 4″ wide screen and a slide-out physical keyboard and front facing camera. The BlackBerry Dakota details are floating around in town and it looks like it will be the roughly the same size as the original BlackBerry Bold 9000. As for all you AT&T and T-Mobile customers, be happy to know that the device will be completely GSM.

Just as you can see, the screen is small that measures 2.8-inch, but the display should be vivid and clear thanks to the high 640 x 480 resolution. Other features are likely to have BlackBerry OS 6.1, a 5MP camera with HD video recording (I think it may be unpleasant to review the recording on the small display), also NFC, 3G Mobile hotspot as well as 4GB of built in storage and 768MB of RAM.



Well that device was allegedly a touchscreen device along with a QWERTY keyboard but mussing a trackball/trackpad. The BlackBerry Dakota is proud to be rockin’ the touch screen, QWERTY keyboard, and trackpad all at the same time. The liquid lens is a new fluid lens camera technology that basically has no moving parts whatsoever inside. From what they say, it supposedly acts like a human eye as far as focusing and looking at objects.

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