Motorola Ming A1200 (Unlocked)

Pros: Great Design, PDA/Cell Phone hybrid, excellent interface, and just a plain fun phone.

Cons: Not supported in United States, yet???

Summary: I started on a simple journey, a journey to find what I would consider the next evolution of Cellular Phone. If you can believe it, one had already exsisted. During my searches I wanted a few simple things...... 1. A great phone. 2. A PDA 3. Mobile email. So why didn't I just look at Blackberry you ask? My response simple, every PDA / Cell phone hybrid I have seen made me feel like I would be carrying a boat anchor with me. I started to become frustrated as I searched and found more and more cellular phones that made my old palm pilot from 1998 look like a sleak device.

Then by chance I came across a new phone released in Hong Kong. I don't know what made me review this phone but all I can say is, there is a God. A English text, Quad Band GSM phone began to perk my interest. I thought, hmmm even though this is a Hong Kong phone this would work with my local (Cellular One of Michigan) service. Then I started digging into the features, size and style.

I will start with the features and let me tell you being able to use a stylus to write, or keypad out text messages will make it hard for me to ever go back to a standard key pad phone. The pop3 mail availability, and full HTML web-surfing are nothing short of genius. A 2 megapixel camera, which can be used while the lid is closed makes for a new definition of "quick shot"

Oh by the way did I mention this phone is about as thin as a razor and slightly smaller than a Motorola V555, and without the external antenna??

I wish I could allow you to see this phone, it's styling is without a doubt far beyond any cell phone currently on the market, even the new pebl if your into that sort of phone.

With a simple swap of SIM card I was able to start using the phone for sending and receiving phone calls. With a small amount of time digging into the settings I was also able to set the phone for full English Capability. Actually if you picked up my phone right now you would be hard pressed to tell it was designed and released in Hong Kong. I'm hoping this was Motorola's Intent, and perhaps eventual plan to release this phone in the states??

Cellular One of Michigan was able to send me the MMS internet connection settings, (note we used my cell companies Motorola Razr MMS settings and it worked)

All in all if you are a techy person who wants a phone that will turn heads, this is the must have phone of the year. Thus far I've had this phone for a week and not short of 50 people have begged for me to find them one. (hi-mobile, Cell-Hut for starters)

I'm not sure if, or when, Motorola will support this phone in the states, and I will admit the phone doesn't sink well with my PC yet (software update coming soon)

To sum it up, this phone is small enough to fit in your front pocket, and has enough features and digital accessability to keep you busy for hours of fun.