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The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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

The Bottom Line: 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