The Pantech Matrix

The good: The Pantech Matrix slides both ways to reveal both a number keypad and a QWERTY keyboard. It has a megapixel camera, HSDPA, A-GPS, and access to AT&T's broadband services.

The bad: The Pantech Matrix suffers from tiny navigation keys and a flat keypad. The handset is also on the bulky side.

The bottom line: The Pantech Matrix is a pretty good dual-sliding multimedia handset, but we just weren't pleased with the keypad design.

Specifications: Band / mode: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900 ; Talk time: Up to 180 min ; Combined with: With digital camera / digital player ; See full specs

LG Xenon - black (AT&T)

The good: The LG Xenon has an attractive touch-screen display, a great QWERTY keyboard, customizable standby screens, plenty of shortcuts, and lots of features like 3G speeds, quad-band support, a 2-megapixel camera, GPS, and more.

The bad: The LG Xenon suffers from the lack of POP or IMAP e-mail support, the touch screen suffers from a slight learning curve, the Web browser feels a little clunky, and you're limited to only six widgets to customize the home screen.

The bottom line: Despite a few problems, the LG Xenon is one of the better messaging phones we've seen, plus it has a cool touch-screen interface and plenty of features.

Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile is a brand used by many mobile phone service providers based in the United Kingdom and operating in India, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States and France; the brand survived only briefly in Singapore. The international Virgin Mobile businesses each act as independent entities, usually in a partnership between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and an existing phone company. Virgin Group provides the brand, and the phone company operates the network infrastructure.

Virgin Mobile was the world's first Mobile Virtual Network Operator when it launched in the United Kingdom in 1999.^[1] It does not maintain its own network but instead contracts to use the existing network(s) of other providers.

AT&T Conferencing

The AT&T Conferencing Services portfolio of audio, web, and video collaboration tools help businesses conduct meetings faster and more efficiently than ever before. You can choose from a range of options - from completely self-run to fully managed high touch meetings. From simply picking up your telephone to fully integrated audio, Web, and video conferences to multi-location high-quality video conferences AT&T has the services, equipment, and resources needed for world-class collaboration!

• expedite decisions, optimize productivity, and react more quickly to events in your marketplace
• flexible, secure, and cost effective solution
• ability to have reservationless, reserved, and operator assisted conferences
• interactive web conferencing collaboration
• integrated voice, Web and video conferencing
• Executive and Global audio conferencing service options
• web-based tools and resources to schedule, monitor, and managed conferences

Features include Conference Record for later playback; integrated audio, Web and video conferencing via AT&T Connect^®; Conference Monitor for conference control via Web, plus much more...

AT&T Conferencing Service Global Option

AT&T Conferencing Service Global option provides you with the ability to establish global audio conferences with non-U.S. callers participating via their own in-country dial-in access numbers, any time and from anywhere:

• local access numbers available in over 60 countries around the world
• reservations, customer care, and technical support is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Reservationless, Reserved and Executive Service available

AT&T Conferencing Service Executive Option

Designed to meet the special needs of high-profile teleconferences, AT&T Conference Services Executive option makes it easy for you to arrange, plan, and conduct your high-profile meetings - virtually. Take advantage of this communications tool to bring your participants together anytime, anywhere.

• provides high touch facilitation of special conference calls, supporting from 3 to 4000+ participants
• flexible, secure, and cost effective solution
• allows companies to quickly reach thousands of people simultaneously

AT&T Cell Phones

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Review of Cingular Wireless

I recently switched from Sprint PCS to Cingular. Here are some of my experiences with Cingular’s service. I will be posting separate reviews in the coming week about my phones and my experience with Sprint over the past few years.

Background and Technology
Cingular is a nationwide mobile phone carrier. Unlike most American carriers, Cingular uses GSM. GSM is a set of digital standards that is used by approximately 70% of the world’s cell-using population, and is most widely deployed in Europe and Asia. I have discovered there are some advantages to GSM:

* Every GSM phone has a “SIM card” in it. This card carries information such as your phone number, cell provider account, and wireless networks to use. It can optionally also hold phonebook entries. If you wish to switch phones, all you have to do is pop the SIM card from one to the next, and your new phone is instantly live and active on the network. Very nice system.
* PC communications (using your phone as a modem, downloading phonebook entries, etc.) seem to be standardized across GSM phones
* Data communications (Internet browsing from your phone) also seems to be fairly well standardized in the GSM world

It seems that the coolest, smallest (and also best-priced) phones come out first in GSM. I suspect that’s because the GSM market is much larger than the mostly North American CDMA market.

Terah and I signed up for the cheapest 2-phone plan from Cingular, a $60/mo “FamilyTalk” plan with 500 anytime minutes per month (that roll over to the next month if unused), and unlimited nights/weekends and mobile-to-mobile calling. We both have Motorola v551 phones.

LG Lotus - black (Sprint)

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* CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars Excellent
Detailed editors' rating
Design: 9.0
Features: 8.0
Performance: 8.0
Overall score: 8.3 (4.0 stars)
* Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 26 reviews
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Product summary

The good: The LG Lotus is a stylish and slender clamshell phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. Features include a 2.0-megapixel camera, a music player, Sprint's 3G services, and an innovative easy-to-use shortcut interface called One Click. Call quality is good and the keyboard is tactile.

The bad: The LG Lotus lags a bit when entering text and switching applications, and is a little on the pricey side.

The bottom line: The LG Lotus has an eye-catching design, top-notch features, and great performance, making it one of the top messaging phones available from Sprint.

Specifications: Talk time: Up to 330 min ; Combined with: With digital camera / digital player ; Weight: 3.7 oz