Top-10 messaging phones (photos)
Messaging phones retain their popularity, thanks to the legions of text-happy people everywhere. These handsets are phones with full or partial QWERTY keyboards, but are not classified as smartphones. That doesn't mean they're dumb, though--many of them have high-end multimedia features, too. Here's a look at the top-ten best messaging phones that have come our way recently.
LG enV Touch
The LG enV Touch flips open to reveal a 3-inch display plus a full QWERTY keyboard. It has impressive features, such as a 3.2-megapixel camera, EV-DO Rev. A, and a full HTML Web browser.
Samsung Rogue
The Samsung Rogue is a great multimedia touch-screen messaging phone for Verizon Wireless customers.
Verizon Wireless Razzle
The Verizon Wireless Razzle has a smart and functional swivel design with both QWERTY keyboard and music player controls. We like the ergonomics of the tilted keyboard and the multimedia features.
Samsung Impression
The Samsung Impression isn't perfect, but it ranks high on our list as a messaging and multimedia phone.
LG Lotus Elite
The LG Lotus Elite's stylish design, healthy feature set, and excellent performance makes it a great messaging phone choice for Sprint customers.
Sanyo SCP-6760 Incognito
The Sanyo SCP-6760 Incognito has a great messaging keyboard, a useful feature set, and satisfying call and photo quality, but we didn't love the touchpad interface.
Pantech Impact
The Pantech Impact has a unique OLED touch-sensitive keypad, dual displays, and a full QWERTY keyboard. Features include 3G, GPS, a HTML browser, a 2.0-megapixel camera, and a music player.
Samsung Propel
The Samsung Propel has an impressive high-end feature set, but we were disappointed by its design.
Samsung Freeform
The Samsung Freeform looks like a simple messaging phone for Alltel. It does have pretty good features, like GPS, a music player, a camera, e-mail, and more.
Samsung Flight
The Samsung Flight offers a unique, likable design and a fair number of features, but some performance gaps keep it from playing in the big leagues.
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