I have always been a fan of Sony Ericsson phones, ever since I had my hands on the s710 and w600…the w600 was my favorite. Their swivels were awesome units that always came through in regards to functionality.  A little weary with their flip phones, I think this new one coming out will definately make it a popular one for quite awhile.  It’s their first 3G phone in America, so you can download and browse the internet faster than ever before.  Plus they look nice and sleek. 

It comes with a 2.0 megapixel camera, the necessary expandle memory for music/photo files, and it even comes in…pink?  Ladies…look pretty in pink without having a Razor.

I never thought the Sidekick on T-Mobile was a great phone at all.  I mean, sure it has all these useful applications that allow you to connect to the internet and instant message people.  But, it just always looked ugly to me.  Now, Motorola is making me think again about the Sidekick with the Zante.  It looks like it belongs in nightclubs just so you can get emails and phone numbers from people…just don’t spill your drinks on it.

The Motorola Q900 (Zante) features full multimedia playback support, JAVA, game controllers, Danger OS, EDGE connectivity (via T-Mobile), 128MB of internal flash RAM, MiniSD card slot for 2GB, 5.9 hours of talk time. The phone also supports MP3, WAV, MIMI, AAC, AAC+ and WMA formats. The 2.4″ QVGA display boats of 65K TFT screen. It has a 1.3 MP camera and large 5-row QWERTY keyboard. Bluetooth, Push Email, SMS, MMS and IM are the other specs.

Pricing is about $269, a nice compromise to the iPhone. 

Beejive’s JiveTalk for iPhone is the first IM client for the iPhone. Including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, ICQ, and Jabber (no iChat), the service is free to use.

I’ve always loved Nokia and its simplicity.  It pretty much jump-started the cell phone industry with its candy bar style phones that seem hard to part with.  When Nokia came out with their flip phones, it wasn’t that impressive or even nice to look at.  Now, Nokia is fighting back and getting smart with their very own, stylish and very functional smartphone, the N76.

 At $500 a pop, I think they need to try a bit harder.  Hey, at least they’re trying right?