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Best touchscreen phones with keyboards

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:59:02 +0000

It's touchscreen madness these days, but keyboards remain a must-have for business users and keen texters. Here are four of the best touchscreen mobile phones with keyboards

BlackBerry Bold 9700 review

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:08:01 +0000

The Bold 9700 is the best of the BlackBerry bunch, offering all the features that made previous models great and improving on everything else. It may not be as innovative as its smart-phone rivals, but its zippy performance, vivid screen and reliable email service are very appealing

HTC HD2 review

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:38:02 +0000

Hail the current king of Windows Mobile smart phones. With a huge, 109mm capacitive touchscreen, a plethora of features and its beautiful HTC Sense user interface, the responsive and speedy HD2 achieves the near impossible -- making Windows Mobile desirable

Acer beTouch E200 review

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:27:02 +0000

Running version 6.5 of Microsoft's mobile operating system, the touchscreen beTouch E200 is something of a rarity among Windows Mobile smart phones -- rather than a Qwerty keyboard, it has a slide-out keypad, which works surprisingly well. The E200 also feels speedy and solidly built for a phone at this low price

Acer beTouch E101 review

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:14:01 +0000

The beTouch E101 budget smart phone offers a touchscreen, Windows Mobile 6.5, good call quality and a number of social-networking apps. But, while Acer has cemented a reputation for making decent low-cost laptops, can it pull off the same trick with this handset?

Acer neoTouch S200 review

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:47:01 +0000

The neoTouch S200's build quality could be better and some of its Acer-branded apps are rather buggy, but this touchscreen smart phone, running Windows Mobile 6.5, still has plenty to offer. Chief among its attractions are its speedy 1GHz Snapdragon processor and impressive, high-resolution display

HTC Touch2 review

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0000

The diminutive Touch2 is the first smart phone we've seen that runs Windows Mobile 6.5, and we're pleased to say that, although not perfect, the operating system is an improvement over previous versions. The Touch2 also benefits from access to the satisfying My Phone online syncing service, and Microsoft's app store

Motorola Dext review

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:58:01 +0000

The Dext smart phone breathes new life into the cooling corpse of Motorola's mobile-phone efforts. It looks frumpy, but its fun social-networking features, peppy touchscreen and slide-out Qwerty keyboard help make it a solid Android handset that should appeal to Twitter addicts and Facebook freaks

Nokia E55 review

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:52:02 +0000

The E55 smart phone impresses for numerous reasons. Its hybrid alphanumeric/Qwerty keypad is surprisingly effective once you get used to it, it offers excellent battery life, it's easy to use, and, for a smart phone, it's amazingly slim. Overall, this is a great handset

Acer Tempo M900 review

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:45:02 +0000

Running Windows Mobile 6.1, the Tempo M900 is a relatively bulky smart phone. But that has its advantages -- the screen is one of the largest we've seen on such a device, and the keys on the slide-out Qwerty keyboard are also relatively big. Its performance isn't too shoddy either