Samsung SPH-i500 (Sprint)
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The good: Compact; full-featured Palm PDA integrated with a phone; improved color screen; decent battery life; analog roaming.
The bad: Expensive; no expansion slot; no speakerphone.
The bottom line: It may not be for heavy e-mail use, but the compact i500 is one of the most civil marriages of a phone and a PDA that we've seen to date.
While we weren't disappointed by the generally good sound quality, callers said that they could tell we were using a cell phone. But it's hard to determine whether that was the service--Sprint PCS isn't stellar in New York City--or the phone. Battery life was decent, especially if you stick with the larger standard battery. We hit the rated talk time of 4.2 hours and were able to leave the phone in standby mode for almost a full week (Samsung rates the standby time at 250 hours). If you're a power user and don't mind bulking up the phone a little more, Sprint will sell you a $60 extended battery that delivers up to 5.4 hours of talk time and 350 hours of standby. Hide Review Compare to other sCompare selected David Carnoy Hunkered down in New York City, Executive Editor David Carnoy covers the gamut of gadgets and writes his Fully Equipped column, which carries the tag line "The electronics you lust for." He's also the author of "Knife Music," a novel that's available at Amazon, bn.com, and as a Kindle, iBooks, or Nook e-book. User ReviewsSee all user reviewsMost Helpful User Reviewstars 10 of 10 users found this review helpful "Will be the perfect PDA/phone with these improvements..." ByPros Great size, nice and bright, but wouldn't suffer to be a hair bigger to accomodate a slightly larger screen. This would still keep it smaller than the Treo, and would still be small enough that no one would complain. It's a flip--thank you! Doesn't have Cons It's not using the latest Palm OS version, but it should. It doesn't have an expansion slot, but it definitely should! If the device is made just a little bigger as I mentioned, I believe it could accomodate an expansion slot. If this is not an option, th Most Recent User Reviews (Showing 2 of 125 reviews)Where to BuyPricing not available  Where to BuyPricing not available 
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