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BlackBerry Bold 9000 Phone, Black (AT&T)
$499.99
This phone is a high-quality piece of equipment that is just the right size with just the right amount of gadgetry and pizzaz. I didn't want an iPhone b/c well, frankly, it's becoming a sort of marker for the rampant DB population in my opinion--I just wanted a nice phone that I could check email on, surf the internet on the rare occasion I needed to outside of work or home, and communicate with friends via text, FB, and messenger. This phone looks good, is very easy to navigate, and can take a licking and keep on ticking----I dropped it outside my house and it laid in thick dew for 10 hours---started right up the next day when I found it and let it dry out. The screen is absolutely perfect---good size and excellent resolution. The apps I've downloaded are useful and not difficult to navigate--but in all honesty, I don't anticipate using those very much. Great phone, and with the deals they have for it---great price. Get it now before you have to get the redesigned Bold they just released---smaller screen and not as attractive, IMO.

Samsung Moment M900 Phone (Sprint)
$449.99
I love this phone. I realize it is not the best but for the money you can not beat it. I just wish I could have made the purchase from amazon, but their sales reps scared me off so I purchased it somewhere else.

Palm Pre Phone (Sprint)
$499.99
I have owned the pre now for a month. Downloaded the manual from Palm.com, all 350+ pages. I found the pre slightly hard to understand at first, so I read most of the manual in the first few days. Everything became so easy to understand once I figured out some of the basics. Now I feel a little dumb that I had to read the manual, but I had to admit it.....and for a guy, that is sometimes hard to do. You know what I mean, we don't even ask someone for directions, but now with the pre and the sprint everything plan, you have GPS at your fingertips too, so no need to ask for directions anyway.

Anyway, I did not see anyone else discussing the ease of using this phone as a music-player (IPOD like). My IPOD (second generation) doesn't function well since it is so old, but not too worry...... My new computer with Windows 7 took care of that issue. Window Media Player will automatically sync your palm pre with all of your music on your computer (even music that was originally under I-Tunes) using the USB connection....you need to set this up the first time you plug the pre into your computer to set up this auto sync feature. How awesome is that? I'll tell ya how awesome......I never need to buy another IPOD again! EVER. Thank god, because those things are expensive.

There are a lot of other things I love about my pre.......the layering of calendars, including my wifes' calendar and the layering of contacts from all my sources.....groupwise, google, optonline, linked-in.....it is unbelievably awesome. Using Companion-link to help with this made it very easy too for only $39. I wish this was free, but for the convenience, it was well worth the $39.

On the negative, I do wish that the pre had video, but I'm sure it is coming.

Absolutely love it.

LG Xenon GR500 Phone, Black (AT&T)
$249.99
I got this phone as a replacement for a water damaged Motorola phone. This was a big mistake.

1) Reception: This phone spontaneously loses service. Usually this occurs when moving from tower to tower. I called AT&T about this problem and they did update the software which allows it to only lose service half the time in the city rather than 3/4 of the time. This occurs in conditions when my wife's iphone maintains 3 or 4 bars.

2) Ease of use: It has a touch screen which slides open to expose a hardware keyboard. The touch screen spontaneously locks during calls and will give false inputs if you try to use it to input PIN numbers or negotiate automated menu choices during a call. So the hardware keyboard must be used instead. On some but not all calls it appears you must use the function key to obtain numerical input on the hardware keyboard...very frustrating. Both touch screen and hardware keyboard work better using a stylus but there is no stylus dock and no stylus is provided.

Normally it must be carried locked due to the risk of false inputs to the touch screen but in half light or darkness there are no distinguishing characteristics between the lock button and the volume down button. The lock button is very close to the camera switch which adds to the confusion. I suppose this would be acceptable to a user with perfect night vision, tiny hands and no calluses on their hands.

3) Unneeded functions - bling: There are numerous extra-cost services which clutter all the menus and screens and which appear impossible to delete. This comes at the expense of poorer access to functions the user needs on a daily basis.

4) Battery life: The battery normally only lasts a day or two between charges, even if there are no calls. There is an annoying, irregular, spontaneous, loud warning beep which cannot be turned off nor reset, which usually starts in the middle of the night when the phone decides it needs a charge.

5) Durability: This product is fragile. It appears easily scratched, dented and unsuitable to carry except in a heavy leather case, which unfortunately increases its rate of signal loss.

6) Audibility: The normal speaker (except for warning beeps) is impossible to hear in a moving truck but somewhat audible in a well soundproofed car. Conference mode is barely audible in a truck and easily audible in a car if it is held to the ear. Under quiet conditions with less than 4 bars of reception there remains a constant clipping or skip of both transmission and reception.

7) Connectivity: With effort it will produce a short range bluetooth connection which must be quickly stopped before batteries are depleted. Unfortunately its USB port is nonstandard and requires an extra-cost cable so I don't know how well that function works.

8) In summary: This would be an ideal gift purchase if the buyer has a wealthy elderly uncle whom they wish to drive insane so as to gain control of his vast estate. Or perhaps it could be sent to the buyer's favorite imprisoned Ponzi schemer. Otherwise buy anything else. This phone is entirely unsatisfactory, most suitable for use by a technophilic lemur who is addicted to purchasing extraneous add-on services.

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