Mobiledia editors see a lot of phones. And every quarter, they ask themselves, "What cell phones would we want to slip in our own pockets?" Scouring the latest mobile devices on the market, special attention was paid to design, features, functions, as well as value. What they came up with in the end was the Mobiledia Editors' Choice Award for best overall cell phones.

Not every cell phone is right for everyone, and that's why the Editors' Choice list is so diverse. Considering a wide variety of demographics, the best devices were chosen in a broad range to ensure everyone can find a cell phone that best fits them, from the businessman on the road to the party animal in the club.

Cell phones chosen for the Editors' Choice Award were selected from devices at the time of release. Thus older phones may be lacking compared to newer devices. Please make note of the release date.

	HTC Fuze Released: Q4 2008 GSM 850 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 900 / 2100 65000 colors 480 x 640 px screen Talk: 8.08 hr Standby: 406 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: Released for AT&T, the HTC Fuze is a 3G tri-band HSDPA Windows Mobile smartphone design to access to the world. It features a 5-row slide-out QWERTY keyboard for text entry and a large VGA touch screen using TouchFlo 3D user interface. It keeps connected with email, text and instant messaging, Internet access, personal organizer, video, satellite radio, and more - all at broadband speeds. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS navigation, and Push-to-Talk. With Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, the Fuze can access Microsoft Outlook mailbox, contacts, calendar, notes, and tasks; edit Microsoft Office documents or view Adobe PDF attachments; or take advantage of support for multiple email applications including Microsoft Direct Push, Good Mobile Messaging, and Blackberry Connect... [More Details]
	HTC Touch HD Released: Q4 2008 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 900 / 2100 65000 colors 480 x 800 px screen Talk: 5.17 hr Standby: 390 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: The Touch HD features a stylish design with high performance capabilities to deliver an entertainment focused device. A large 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen offers clear and vibrant colors for watching movies and browsing the Internet. The integrates a 5.0-megapixel camera takes high-quality stills and videos. HTC's TouchFLO 3D user interface provides finger-swipe access to people, messages and content. It renders websites quickly with download speeds up to 18 times faster than standard 3G. A standard 3.5mm headphone jack allows consumers to use high-performance headphones... [More Details]
	HTC Touch Pro Released: Q4 2008 GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 900 / 2100 65000 colors 480 x 640 px screen Talk: 8.08 hr Standby: 406 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: Released for Sprint, the HTC Touch Pro is a business device with 3D touch user interface, desktop-like browsing and 5-row sliding QWERTY keyboard. It offers touch screen technology with TouchFLO 3D, for one touch scrolling through common tasks like messaging, calendar appointments or making calls. Music, photos, contacts and surfing the web are also responsive. Delivering HSDPA 7.2 Mbps speeds, the Touch Pro views and navigations websites designed for PCs. Surfers can zoom and pan with one-hand and view content created to fit the display. Turning the handheld sideways automatically rotates the webpage view from a portrait to landscape. Built-in TV-out functionality, users can deliver PowerPoint presentations from the handheld. The 3.2-megapixel camera includes an optical auto-focus lens for clear and consistent photos. The 2.8-inch display provides web browsing and viewing of snapshots... [More Details]
	Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Released: Q4 2008 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 900 / 2100 16700000 colors 360 x 640 px screen Talk: 8.80 hr Standby: 406 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: The 5800 XpressMusic is Nokia's first touch screen phone. It introduces the Media Bar, a drop down menu for music and entertainment such as tracks, videos and photos. The Contacts Bar highlights four favorite contacts on the home screen. With a single touch, consumers can track the history of recent text messages, emails, phone logs, photos and blog updates. It comes with a 3.2-inch widescreen display (16 by 9 aspect ratio) capable of 30 frames-per-second playback and recording. A built-in 3.2-megapixel camera uses a Carl Zeiss lens. Photos and videos taken can be shared via Share on Ovi, Flickr or Facebook. To communicate with friends, users can enter text in multiple ways, either through a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, a pen stylus or a plectrum. The integrated music player includes a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, a 3.5mm jack and surround sound stereo speakers... [More Details]
	Nokia N79 Released: Q4 2008 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 900 / 2100 16700000 colors 240 x 320 px screen Talk: 5.50 hr Standby: 372 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: The Nokia N79 integrates navigation, music with FM transmitter, high-speed connectivity, web browsing, over 10 preinstalled N-Gage games and an advanced camera in one compact device. The 5.0-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics comes with dual LED flash and video lights to captures clear images. Video can be edited on the N79 directly and photos can be geotagged to specific locations. Nokia Maps gives travelers turn-by-turn navigation for walking or driving to over 15 million points of interest. The N79 comes with a combination of three Xpress-on smart covers of either Light Sea Blue, Espresso Brown, Olive Green, White and Coral Red... [More Details]
	Nokia N85 Released: Q4 2008 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 900 / 2100 16700000 colors 240 x 320 px screen Talk: 6.90 hr Standby: 363 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: The Nokia N85 comes preinstalled with over 10 made-for-mobile N-Gage gaming titles. Gaming keys light up when the N85 is in landscape gaming mode. The built-in 5.0-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens features dual LED flash to snap clear images and DVD-quality videos at 30 frames per second. It can geotag pictures with Nokia Maps. Users can listen to RDS radio or internet stations. A FM transmitter lets the N85 play wirelessly through a car or home stereo. Consumers can synchronize the N85 to a PC via a USB cable... [More Details]
	Palm Treo Pro Released: Q4 2008 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / UMTS 850 / 1900 / 2100 65000 colors 320 x 320 px screen Talk: 5.00 hr Standby: 250 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: The Palm Treo Pro has a thin sleek design with a high-resolution color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard. A removable battery provides for up to five hours of talk time. Consumers can quickly reply to email, surf the web, make appointments and contacts, and use Wi-Fi or GPS on the go. The Treo Pro delivers increased security, easier device management and access to information on corporate networks. One-touch Wi-Fi button let users easily access fast connections (802.11b/g). Screen enhancements let users search the web directly from the Today screen. When users are in a meeting, a ringer switch can silence the Treo Pro immediately while screensavers lets users know at a glance, without turning on the device, what time it is and whether they've missed a call or have a new message... [More Details]
	RIM BlackBerry Bold (9000) Released: Q4 2008 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / UMTS 1900 / 2100 65000 colors 480 x 320 px screen Talk: 5.00 hr Standby: 312 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: The BlackBerry Bold (9000) is RIM's slickest, speediest, most powerful and most connected BlackBerry to date. Offering high-speed mobile Internet access using tri-band HSDPA networks, Wi-Fi and integrated GPS, the Bold also has twice the screen resolution (480 x 320 px) of the current BlackBerry Curve model, making for a very sharp display. Powered by a 624 MHz mobile processor and support for tri-band HSDPA and enterprise-grade Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) networks, the Bold makes short work of downloading email attachments, streaming video or rendering webpages. It also includes 128 MB flash memory plus 1 GB on-board storage memory. A microSD/SDHC memory card slot is accessible from a side door. The Bold features a 2.0-megapixel camera with video recording capability, built-in flash and 5x digital zoom. The media player displays pictures and slideshows, plays movies in full screen mode, and manages the music collection... [More Details]
	RIM BlackBerry Storm Released: Q4 2008 GSM 800 / 1900 65000 colors 360 x 480 px screen Talk: 5.50 hr Standby: 360 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: Released for Verizon Wireless, the RIM BlackBerry Storm offers 'clickable' touch-screen technology that responds much like a physical keyboard. It supports single-touch, multi-touch and gestures for application navigation. The BlackBerry Storm has high-speed EV-DO Rev. A technology for fast Internet browsing and multimedia applications. It integrates a full HTML browser that works in portrait or landscape orientation. Navigate websites with the touch-screen interface by double tapping to zoom in and sliding the fingers to scroll and pan. Icons access websites, switches between Page View and Column View and toggles between Pan mode and Cursor mode... [More Details]
	Samsung Highnote (M630) Released: Q4 2008 CDMA 800 / 1900 262000 colors 176 x 220 px screen Talk: 5.60 hr Standby: 0 hr Cam: 3G: MP3: BT: Released for Sprint, the Samsung Highnote slides up to reveal a dial pad and slides down to highlight its stereo speakers. Offering Sprint's new One Click user interface, users can access text messaging, web access, email, Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV and Sprint Music Store by personalizing the home screen by selecting commonly used features. Additional features include a built-in 2.0-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, expandable memory up to 16GB, and speaker-independent voice recognition... [More Details]
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