The T-Mobile Shadow – copper

The phone has a sliding surface and a sleek design. The editor of the cell review site has rated it very good by marking it 7.0 on 10. The phone comes in two uncommon colors, sage and copper, which adds to its attraction. The phone has an interesting navigation wheel in its key pad. The wheel can be turned clockwise and anticlockwise to surf through the menu. The key pad has a total of 20 buttons. The set has a 2 mega pixel camera, which allows a number of shooting modes and pictures can be shot in five resolutions. There are many options of adjusting the picture. Video can also be recorded with the camera. The picture quality is not that good but is acceptable. The colors of the pictures are not very bright. The phone supports the windows media player and hence good music with the help of music files can be enjoyed. Files like MPEG4, MP3, WMA, WMV, and AAC are supported. Any television shows recorded in a PC can be transferred to the set and enjoyed. The phone offers a speakerphone and world roaming facilities. Text and multimedia messaging is available along with voice activated dialing. The phone book is limited to the memory available with the phone set. Multiple numbers can be stored against each entry, including home and work and email addresses and other such important information. The set is equipped with 32 polyphonic ring tones. Caller groups can be formed and ring tones can be assigned with a photo against each group. Photo can be assigned to any number for caller ID purpose. The phone has options for availing MS Office and an integrated WI-FI to access internet easily.

The Bluetooth and WI-Fi and the attractive price range are its positive points. The display is too attractive and the availability of Windows Mobile.

Few applications are slow and the navigation wheel a bit slippery. The speakerphone quality lacks clarity.

The Sony Ericsson P1i (Unlocked)

The phone has got very good rating from the editors of cell phone review and it has got an immense response from the users. The users have rated the phone excellent and has given it 8.2 on 10. The phone has a touch screen facility. It also has the option for an onscreen keyboard. The numbers are outlined with red to help them distinguish between the black backgrounds. The Sony Ericsson P1i comes with a 3.2 mega pixel camera with 3x zoom and four shooting modes. Video recording is also available with the phone. The camera has a flash, choice of quality settings and various effects needed. In video there are options of frame sizes. The picture quality is good and the clarity is perfect. The colors are very bright and give life to the pictures. But the video quality is not so good. The phone also comes with a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi network to connect to the net easily.

The phone has two games loaded, Quadra Pop and Vijay Singh Pro Golf 3D. The other entertainment features of the phone include a FM radio as well as music and video players. MP3, MP4, 3GP and ACC music files are supported by the system and the sound quality is pretty good. The phone has a memory limited to the memory of the phone. Each contact entry has place for storing multiple numbers against it. Email, home, work addresses along with birthdays and other important information can be stored against each entry. There are total 31 ring tones all polyphonic. Caller groups can be formed which can be assigned with a photo. Individual photo can also be assigned against each entry. The phone comes with other features like speakerphone, multimedia messaging, vibrating mode, call waiting service.

The call quality is good. Productivity applications are provided. The WI-FI and Bluetooth are its attraction.

It does not support U.S. 3G network its performance is quite slow at times.

The Palm Centro comes in two colors, red and black. The red phone is more popular with the females. The Palm Centro has a small keypad; it also acts as a keyboard when the applications of computers are availed on it. The phone is equipped with 1.3 mega pixel camera. The camera has a 2x zooming capacity. The camera lacks flash and also editing options. But still the picture quality is quite praiseworthy but the colors are not that bright as expected. Video recording facility is also available with the camera. The phone has features like speakerphone, three-way calling, vibrating mode, speed dial and a special feature where a text message is immediately sent when one fails to receive a call. The set supports instant messaging as well as text and multimedia messaging.

There is Bluetooth 1.2 support. The memory of the phone is limited. There is place for the contacts list where many numbers can be stored against each entry. Email addresses, web, office or home addresses can also be stored. There is option for storing birthdays against each entry. There are total 37 ring tones in the set, all of which are polyphonic. Call groups can be formed and there is option of putting a photo against each entry or each group. Television channels can also be seen with the help of Sprint T.V. The phone also has an option for playing music of MP3 and DRM protected files. This phone can be used as a wireless modem for a laptop. This set also comes with the game of sudoku loaded.

The picture quality of the phone is fine. The battery can stand up to 3.5 hours of talk time. The phone has an attractive price range. The push email and Bluetooth facilities including some productivity applications are its positive points.

It lacks a WI-Fi. The speakerphone is a bit weak. The keyboard is a little crowded and the hardware is not perfect.

The Motorola Razr2 V9m (Sprint)

This phone is one of the best among the choice of the cell review site editors. The editors have awarded it with excellent rating. On the other hand the users of this phone has awarded it very good, giving 7.8 on 10, while the editors provided it with 8.0 on 10. The design of the phone is quite attractive as it is very thin but not the thinnest in the world. This helps in gripping the phone too. The best part of this phone is its external display; it is about 2 inches and the widest among cell phones. The phone is equipped with a 2 mega pixel camera without a flash.

The picture quality is excellent. Video can be recorded with sound. The pictures can be transferred with the help of the Bluetooth. The camera supports zoom and pictures can also be edited. Other qualities of the camera are that the brightness, color scheme can be set according to need. The Razr2 V9m has a wonderful music player. The music quality is much better due to the stereo sound. If connected with Sprint’s Power Vision; the phone allows its users to view more than 50 T.V channels. The phone is packed with multimedia features. The memory is quite strong. It can hold up to 1000 contacts, allowing 5 phone numbers, email, and home address, job title, web page address. Contact groups can be formed with the provision of setting a photo with each group. It also has general features notepad, converter, calculator, calendar, stopwatch, voice recorder, alarm clock and over all multimedia messaging. The ring tones are polyphonic in nature even video ring tones are available.

The best part of the phone is its gorgeous look and the user friendly nature. The picture quality of the camera demands attention too. The phone has a vibrating tactile feed.

The video quality of the phone is somewhat poor and the internal display is not strong enough.

The Kyocera Marbl K127 (Virgin Mobile)

The Kyocera Marbl K127 has received a good response from the editors of the cell review site but the general users are not quite fond of the phone. Still the phone is a good one for basic use and is quite decent for making calls the basic purpose of any phone. This is a flip phone which lacks an external display. The phone is not too big and it easily fits into the pocket and hence easy to carry. The phone has a nice design and is attractive; it has a logo of the virgin mobile inscribed in its body. The display of the set is 1.5 inch. The text size is small and cannot be adjusted, while the contrast and backlight time can be adjusted. The keypad has large buttons which are a bit big for the phone’s size. And the backlight of the keypad is a bit too bright.

The phone’s contact book can store limited contacts of at the most 200 contacts. Each contact entry can hold up to six other phone numbers, two web, two email, and two street addresses. It can also support notes against each entry. There are only 4 polyphonic ring tones. Caller groups can be formed and a ring tone can be assigned to each of them. Photo can be paired with each group for caller ID purpose but this is to be done without the help of camera or multimedia messaging options, so it is a bit useless. The phone also offers two games, Race 21 and Brick Attack. The phone also comes with a WAP 2.0 web browser which helps in downloading and browsing the net. Other regular features of the phone are alarm clock, tip calculator, speakerphone, stopwatch, a voice memo recorder, scheduler, text messaging and a countdown timer.

The call quality and volume is pretty good and the battery supports 3.8 hours talk time.

The phonebook and ring tone selection is too small.

The LG Rumor – white (Sprint)

The LG Rumor has been rated as very good by the editor of cell review site. It has got a 7.3 on 10. The phone is very attractive. It is sliding and when one opens it one finds the keyboard hidden below the number pad. The key board resembles that of a computer. The phone has a 2 inch diagonal display. The backlight and the font size of the display can be adjusted but nor the brightness neither the contrast can be adjusted. The phone comes equipped with a 1.3 mega pixel camera; it takes pictures in three resolutions. There are other options of adjusting the brightness and also has a self timer. The camera has four shutter tones and a silent option. There is a camcorder. But the pictures taken were not good. The colors faded and the picture quality seemed poor according to a 1.3 mega pixel camera. The video recording too is not up to the mark. The other features of the set are an alarm clock, a vibrator, calculator, converter, notepad, voice recorder, stopwatch, and most importantly text and multimedia messaging facilities. It also provides a stereo Bluetooth, email and web browser facilities. The phone book of the set has space for about 500 contacts and 5 numbers can be stored against each entry along with email, web, home addresses and a memo. There are total 35 polyphonic ring tones. Groups formed can be assigned one of the ring tones and a photo can either be assigned to group or a single person for caller ID purpose. The phone comes with games like World Series of Poker, Ms. Pac-Man, Midnight Pool, Tetris and Tornado Mania. The phone also has a standard music player. It also provides GPS navigation.

It provides an easy access to Facebook and supports Sprint Navigation. The design draws attention.

Net surfing can be a bit slow due to lack of EV-DO. The screen is not very clear.

The LG Aloha –LX140 (Virgin Mobile)

This phone has been rated as good by the editors of the cell review site. But the users seem to be quite happy with the phone. Many have rated it as perfect. This is a flip phone with no external display. The screen can be seen when the front flap is opened. There is a red light on the phone which blinks to confirm that the phone is on, it can also be switched off. The size of the phone is average and it is of quite light weight. The internal screen is relatively small according to the size of the phone, it’s only 1.5 inches, and it only supports a text of 8 lines. The backlight and the font size can be changed and adjusted. The keypad is well designed, the buttons are large in size and there is a backlight to have a better view of the keypad. The buttons are at a distance which makes it easier to dial and type. The phone does not have space for a large phone book. It can only support 199 contacts; five phone numbers, three email addresses, one web address and notes can be supported against each contact entry. There are a total 10 polyphonic ring tones. Caller groups can be formed and each group can be assigned with one of the ring tones. There are two games included in this set, the games are, ZooZooClub and Battle Reverse. More games can be downloaded with the help of the phone’s wireless browser. The phone provides a space of 3.5 MB for storing any downloaded content. Other features are a voice memo recorder, speakerphone, alarm clock, a notepad, a scheduler, world clock, text messaging and a tip calculator. It also has voice dialing facility.

The phone is quite a simple one and is very much user friendly. The battery supports three hours of talk time.

The call quality is not too good and lacks external display.

The HTC Mogul PPC-6800 (Sprint)

The Sprint Mogul cell phone is manufactured by HTC and costs $299.99. It rating too is very impressive as it received very good rating from the editor of the cell review site and from the user it has been able to retrieve an excellent rating. The varied feature of the phone makes it attractive and keeps it in demand.

It has a speaker phone, speed dialing, smart dialing, text and multimedia messaging, voice commands and much more. It has a large contact memory which allows storing as much as 12 numbers against each entry, along with home and work address, includes 24 polyphonic ring tones, has a caller id which allows pairing the contact with the photo of the caller. It also has 2- mega pixel camera which allows up to 8x zoom and video recording. It allows video recording with or without sound. The picture quality is fine but not perfect, some colours are bright but some are hazy, the quality of video is not up to the mark. Another important feature of the phone is the access to windows. A person can receive or send emails and also avail the facilities of MS Office. Adobe reader mechanism is also available with the phone. The phone has an in built Bluetooth. There is a huge space for storing music and immense number of music can be downloaded with the help of Sprint music store. But it takes quite a long time downloading the full song. Recorded television shows can also be viewed with the help of windows media player.

The best part of the phone is that it includes the latest Windows Mobile 6. It gives access to sprint mobile store for downloading music. The design is attractive as it is thin one and the memory is much more compared to others. The Bluetooth is quite strong.

The phone has a slow performance sometimes due to slow processor. The speakerphone too is not perfect.