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Walt Mossberg is down on the new Smartphones

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There have plenty of positive reviews of these elsewhere, but the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg doesn’t have many good things to say about Samsung’s i600 (pictured at right) or Motorola’s MPx200, the first two cellphones released in the US to run on Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system:

Neither phone is anywhere near as good as the Treo 600. Unlike the Treo, they lack keyboards for entering large amounts of text, so I can’t recommend them for serious e-mail users. They’re really not even in the Treo’s category. They’re smart phones for people still interested primarily in making voice calls, but want a few extras.

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