Find The Right Cell Phones

Motorola Cliq - titanium (T-Mobile)

With its excellent design, user interface improvements, and admirable feature set, the Motorola Cliq gives a big boost to the Android operating system. We had some performance quibbles with the device, and the MotoBlur interface can be a bit much, but the phone has a lot to like.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900, 360 min, With digital camera / digital player, 5.7 oz

LG Bliss - white (US Cellular)

The LG Bliss is a good midrange touch-screen handset for U.S. Cellular.

Specs: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, 270 min, With digital camera / digital player, 3.4 oz

LG Bliss - black (US Cellular)

The LG Bliss is a good midrange touch-screen handset for U.S. Cellular.

Specs: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, Up to 270 min, With digital camera / digital player, 3.4 oz

Garmin Nuvifone G60 (AT&T)

The Garmin Nuvifone G60 makes a fine navigator but fails as a smartphone. It's not worth the money.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900, With digital camera / digital player, 4.8 oz

Motorola Barrage (Verizon Wireless)

The Motorola Barrage offers Verizon Wireless customers a rugged push-to-talk phone with admirable call quality.

Specs: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, Up to 383 min, With digital camera / digital player, 4.2 oz

Motorola Entice W766 (Verizon Wireless)

The Motorola Entice makes for a decent midrange multimedia phone, especially if you care about call quality.

Specs: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, 330 min, With digital camera/digital player, 3.6 oz

HTC Touch2 (unlocked)

With the design improvements and enhancements of Windows Mobile 6.5, the HTC Touch2 makes for a nice smartphone for first-time users. Unfortunately, it's not bound for the U.S. and may not be worth its unlocked price.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900, Up to 440 min, With digital camera / digital player, 3.9 oz

HTC Pure (AT&T)

The HTC Pure offers AT&T customers an affordable touch-screen smartphone that showcases a more intuitive Windows Mobile operating system and strikes a nice balance between work and play. That said, those looking for a handset that excels in multimedia and Web browsing should stick with the iPhone.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900, Up to 336 min (GSM), Up to 300 min (WCDMA), With digital camera / digital player, 4.1 oz

HTC Imagio (Verizon Wireless)

The HTC Imagio is rich with both multimedia and business features, making it a great all-in-one smartphone for the Verizon globetrotter.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900 / CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, With digital camera, 6.5 oz

Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850 (Sprint)

The Samsung Instinct HD packs a lot of features and decent performance into an appealing design. But even with all it has to offer, we'd prefer to pay less and get a full smartphone.

Specs: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, Up to 348 min, With digital camera, 4 oz

Samsung SPH-M330 - silver (Sprint)

The Samsung SPH-M330 isn't for the active user, but it's good for infrequent callers who want a few extra features.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900, With digital camera, 3.2 oz

Nokia N86

If you can afford it, the Nokia N86 8MP is one of the more advanced and better camera phones on the market today, but there are cheaper alternatives.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900, Up to 378 min (GSM), Up to 234 min (WCDMA), With two digital cameras / digital player / FM radio / GPS receiver, 5.3 oz

Nokia 5130 XpressMusic - aqua/silver (T-Mobile)

Despite some minor complaints, the Nokia 5130 Xpress Music is an ideal choice for a budget music phone.

Specs: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband), Up to 360 min, With digital camera / digital player / FM radio, 3.1 oz

Nokia 5130 XpressMusic - red/black (T-Mobile)

Despite some minor complaints, the Nokia 5130 Xpress Music is an ideal choice for a budget music phone.

Specs: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband), Up to 360 min, With digital camera / digital player / FM radio, 3.1 oz

HTC Touch Pro2 (Verizon Wireless)

For Verizon's business customers who need more than just a messaging smartphone, the HTC Touch Pro2 delivers with more robust productivity tools and good performance.

Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900 / CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, Up to 318 min, 6.2 oz

Motorola Debut i856 (Sprint Nextel)

If you can live with a few design quirks, the Motorola Debut is a decent, basic, multimedia phone for Boost Mobile.

Specs: With digital camera / digital player, 0.2 lbs

Motorola Debut i856 (Boost Mobile)

If you can live with a few design quirks, the Motorola Debut is a decent, basic, multimedia phone for Boost Mobile.

Specs: iDEN 800/900 (Dual Band), 195 min, 3 oz

HTC Hero (Sprint)

While it could use a boost in the performance department, the HTC Hero is the most feature-packed Google Android device to date, bringing some notable improvements and a highly customizable interface.

Specs: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800, 250 min, With digital camera / digital player

Samsung Intensity SCH-U450 - flamingo red (Verizon Wireless)

The Samsung Intensity is a simple entry-level messaging phone with a few multimedia goodies that's very affordable and easy to use.

Samsung Intensity SCH-U450 - charcoal gray (Verizon Wireless)

The Samsung Intensity is a simple entry-level messaging phone with a few multimedia goodies that's very affordable and easy to use.