Motorola Milestone XT720 is the latest cell phone from this company and the internal specs are really impressive. The slider keyboard interface is dumped to give the phone a sleeker design and plenty of other improvements like an awesome eight megapixel camera which supports HD video recording. The feature set is really good but the performance is not as fast as some of the fastest Android devices out there. So if you yearn for plenty of power, I would recommend you to go for something like the Motorola Droid X. I got the unlocked version of this phone in my labs for reviewing, the cost of the unlocked handset is $460 and it was given to me by eXpansys USA. However, Cincinnati Bell announced a few days ago that they would be covering this phone for $199.99. Motorola Milestone XT720 looks really sleek but it is a bit odd for smartphone. The handset is 4.53 inches tall, 0.43 inch thick, 2.39 inches wide and weighs around 5.6 ounces. The design, just like other touch screen  [...]

HTC Desire was first announced at the Mobile World Congress 2010 and I expected this phone to arrive in the markets immediately. We had to wait seven months for it and I wonder why HTC held back this handset for so long. This phone might not have some of the greatest features that you’d yearn on a cell phone like HDMI port or front facing camera but the feature set is quite impressive and I was impressed by the performance. This is an excellent phone for U.S. Cellular whose lineup of smartphones has been lackluster of late. Till now, the only Android phone it has offered is Samsung Acclaim. In my opinion, this is the best smartphone that this carrier has came out with till now. This phone will come out in the US markets from August 27th and it will cost you $199.99 along with a two year contract and $70 mail in rebate. Looks of this phone remind me of the Nexus One and it is a good thing because the N1 is really gorgeous. The handset is 4.7 inches tall, 0.5 inch thick, 2.4 inches wide  [...]

="http://www.gsmcellulars.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" mce_src="http://www.gsmcellulars.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" class="mceWPmore mceItemNoResize" title="More...">This phone is from AT&T service and it does improve on a lot of problems that I first found on the original X10. The biggest one is that the QWERTY keyboard now works in the landscape mode so you can now comfortably type long messages on the phone. The screen too is big enough and hence you get a roomy keyboard to work around with. I bitterly missed this feature in the original X10. Typing in standard portrait keyboard can be quite challenging. Apart from that, the price of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is also a lot less than its predecessor. This handset is yours for $149 but you have to sign a service agreement with AT&T, the service provider. The original X10 costed a hefty $700 which would certainly make a big hole in your pocket. I am  [...]

We all know that Verizon has not been doing well in the market for some days now and it looks like Sprint has joined in to give some company. Sprint, just like Verizon Wireless, has also reported a loss of Q2 but it is a bit smaller than what we actually expected. The service provider has posted loss of $760 million for the quarter which just ended. The loss is about $760 million or 15 cents per share which is not that big. Analysts predicted loss of about 17 percent. The difference in loss can be attributed to the release of HTC EVO 4G which was America’s first 4G phone. Some say that this phone is the best one from this manufacturer. HTC EVO 4G has a really gorgeous display, and the processor too is really fast. 4G speeds are supposed to be much faster than that of 3G. We tested this and found that it was true but we had expected better. The handset also has a camera on the front for making video calls and on the back, there is an eight megapixel  [...]

Here in the US, we are pretty much stuck with AT&T for the iPhone. There have been rumors going around that T-Mobile is going to offer the iPhone 4 but nothing has been confirmed yet. AT&T is full of problems and we think they are far from the ideal service provider for a gem like iPhone. Canadian users have just got lucky, the Apple is offering the iPhone 4 unlocked in the US which means you don’t have to enter in to any service agreement. You can easily hop through the carriers by just putting in the SIM card of your choice. The downside is that an unlocked phone doesn’t come with a carrier and hence the phone isn’t offered at a low cost. Unlocked iPhone comes at a big price. The high price is not surprising since unlocked phones usually make a hole in your wallet. We have reviewed unlocked HTC phones and have been struck by the high price at which they are offered. CBC News says that users will have to pay $549 for the 8GB, $779 for 32GB, and $659 for 16GB iPhone 3GS.  [...]

We first saw the Samsung Wave GT-S8500 at Mobile World Congress 2010 and this is the first phone from Samsung to run the Bada OS. The OS is not on par with Google's Android or Apple iOS but you will still get that smartphone experience irrespective of geographical location or cost. Samsung says that it is still pretty committed to Windows and Android Phone but still the new OS is pretty exciting. This phone is available unlocked for $370 to $400 which will certainly make a hole in your pocket. The display of the Samsung Wave GT-S8500 is 3.3 inches big (measured diagonally) and it has a AMOLED touch screen. It supports 16 million colors along with WVGA resolution. There are plenty of goodies that come along with AMOLED display like better improved responsiveness and viewing angles. However, the best feature of this technology is the sharpness which is really good. The better quality certainly cannot be described in words here and if you haven't checked out an AMOLED display yet, we will  [...]

Samsung Vibrant has a four inch Super AMOLED touch screen and I think this is the reason behind the name. The screen supports about 16 million colors along with a WVGA resolution. The screen is extremely sharp and very vibrant. Text is really easy to read and the screen is readable even in bright daylight. If you ask me to compare this display with the iPhone's I'd say that the Vibrant's screen is a bit more saturated. It shows rich colors and the blacks too are deeper. On the other side, iPhone's screen is crisper. Vibrant's screen is also quite responsive. It registered my taps quite well and the scrolling too was fast and smooth. Apart from that, there is built in accelerometer which quickly changes the screen rotation when you tilt the phone. You have plenty of input options like the Samsung's own keyboard, Swype,  and the standard Android keyboard. Below the screen, there are four touch sensitive buttons for search, menu, back and home. There are not too many physical buttons on  [...]

LG Prime GoPhone gives you a full QWERTY keyboard in the landscape mode for typing messages. In the portrait, there is the alphanumeric keypad which is not that comfortable to type on. The phone book is limited to 1000 entries. A single entry can take in memo, anniversary, birthday, three postal addresses, Web addresses, display name, company name, four IM handles, three –email IDs and six phone numbers. Feature set on the LG Prime GoPhone include speakerphone, vibrate mode, multimedia and text messaging, calendar, alarm clock, notepad, world clock, calculator, tasks list, tip calculator, stopwatch, and unit converter. Some of the advanced features on the handset include voice command, voice recorder, FM radio, AT&T's mobile e-mail for checking your personal e-mail, instant messaging, and Bluetooth. AT&T Social Net application gives you access to Web sites of social networking like Twitter and Facebook. Mobile e-mail service is really cool but it comes at a price of $5 a month. LG  [...]

When I first got this phone in my labs it took me some time digest the name of the phone. Isn’t the name ‘Smiley’ a bit gay? They have even put the emoticon on the model name for this. I wasn’t too happy about the name and I certainly won’t recommend this phone to any of my male friends. The Samsung reps told me that there is a guy hired by the company who comes with all these names. If he is reading this review, I would like to tell him to think a bit harder before he comes up with the names. Other than the name, the phone is quite decent. Samsung Smiley has a slider design and you have to slide the phone up to reveal the QWERTY keyboard. The display of the phone is pretty decent. There is that emoticon on the home screen wallpaper which irritates me even more. I am just glad that Samsung didn’t engrave the icon somewhere on the back or front. The emoticon is there just on a wallpaper which you can change and get rid of it. Below the  [...]

It has been two years since we last saw a smartphone from Nokia. The manufacturer hasn't got any phones after E71 which was considered as the best Nokia phone ever to date. That was quite true simply because touch screen phones hadn't come that popular back then and people were fans of the numeric keypads. Nokia E73's keyboard could have been better though, it has straight rows. We'd preferred a curved layout like the ones seen on most QWERTY handsets like BlackBerry. The keys are well contoured but they don't have that satisfying click to them. Above the keyboard, there are the navigation keys which also look a bit weird. This is one area where E73 has gone one step behind E71; the shortcuts keys for Mail, Address Book, Calendar and Home are not delineated anymore. They are made up of the same plastic pieces as the soft and Send/End keys. At the center, you have the four way navigation pad along with an optical pad in the center. We thought Nokia got a bit too ambitious when they went  [...]