LG VX8600 Review - Comparison

  LG VX8600

    
      Excellent

     
      Excellent

  
Good

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The LG VX8600 is a stylish successor to the LG VX8500 Chocolate, and, dare we say, a lot nicer in terms of navigation and feel. If you're wary of the Chocolate's quirky touch pad but still want a Chocolate-like phone in a clamshell design, you could do well to give the VX8600 a try.

The LG VX8600 is a stylish successor to the LG VX8500 Chocolate, and, dare we say, a lot nicer in terms of navigation and feel. If you're wary of the Chocolate's quirky touchpad but still want a Chocolate-like phone in a clamshell design, you could do well to give the VX8600 a try.

It's the best balance of high-end looks and decent voice quality on Verizon, though it has some notable flaws.

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 $99 - $159

 $99 - $159

 $130

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 Motorola Rizr Z3

          Excellent

  Excellent

  Excellent

  Excellent

 Motorola aren't renowned for making slider phones but this is a substantial offering. It has a smooth slide mechanism and packs an all-rounder feature set

Motorola aren't renowned for making slider phones but this is a substantial offering. It has a smooth slide mechanism and packs an all-rounder feature set

  $200 - $260

 $200 - $290

  $198.95 - $619.94

 Sony Ericsson K750i

  Excellent

  Excellent

 
Very Good

 
Very Good

The K750i is a great mix of good hardware and software features. It's small in size, sleek in design and has some of the best features we've seen in a handset. The standout is the camera, which is both easy to use and well specified. We could see ourselves getting standard prints from this phone -– something we've never wanted to try before

 The K750i is a great mix of good hardware and software features. It's small in size, sleek in design and has some of the best features we've seen in a handset. The standout is the camera, which is both easy to use and well specified. We could see ourselves getting standard prints from this phone -– something we've never wanted to try before

 Cingular's high-speed network goes truly portable with the new Samsung BlackJack, an excellent little handheld for folks looking for a Blackberry-style device with more speed and multimedia features.

  Thin is clearly in at Samsung. The company's new BlackJack i607 from Cingular is the spitting image of Verizon's Motorola Q, also black, and one of the thinnest phones you can buy. Though the two PDA phones look alike, the BlackJack features a lighter, narrower design and more-robust multimedia capabilities (such as streaming music and video).

 $199 - $259

  $199 - $259

 $199.99

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 Nokia 5300

 
 Very Good

 
 Very Good

  
Good

  
Good

 While this isn't the most advanced handset out there, it has a strong casing, a decent all-round feature set and an elegant, straightforward design. This is Nokia at its best

   While this isn't the most advanced handset out there, it has a strong casing, a decent all-round feature set and an elegant, straightforward design. This is Nokia at its best

 It was only about 18 months, but it seemed as if it had been on the market for an eternity. The MDA was an okay handset, but a slow processor and poor voice reception limited its appeal. The new T-Mobile Wing, the MDA's replacement, packs in many notable improvements, including a 2-megapixel camera, a brighter screen, better voice quality, Windows Mobile 6, and a classier overall design. Unfortunately, T-Mobile left the slow CPU intact, making this otherwise powerful handset feel sluggish and sticky to use

 For $300, the T-Mobile Wing is a reasonable value, given the phone's versatile functionality, stellar call quality, and excellent battery life. My greatest concerns about the phone involve its limited on-board storage and its poorly constructed buttons; longer term, Ia??d worry about the integrity of that slider mechanism. But those concerns aside, the Wing makes a great package, especially if you value the easy input that a touch screen affords, together with the computing flexibility of Windows Mobile.

 $220 - $258

  $220 - $258

 $315.99

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