Samsung SCH-i600 (Verizon Wireless)
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CNET Editors' Review
The good: Compact; full-featured PDA integrated with a phone; high-resolution screen; SDIO-compatible expansion slot; extended battery included.
The bad: Expensive; no Bluetooth; uses 2002 operating system.
The bottom line: Samsung's Windows Mobile smart phone has a slick design and offers excellent integration with Outlook, but it's no e-mail demon.
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Editor's note: We have changed the rating in this review to reflect recent changes in our rating scale. Click here to find out more. Like its Palm sibling, the i600 is fairly compact for a smart phone. With the standard battery installed, this flip-style model weighs 5.3 ounces and measures 3.54 by 2.1 by 0.92 inches, only slightly bigger than Samsung's 4.4-ounce A600 camera phone. The 176x220-pixel screen is obviously not a full-size Pocket PC display, but it supports 65,536 colors and is quite sharp and readable. As noted, it's not a touch screen; Windows Mobile OS handsets are designed to be operated with one hand, sans stylus.
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