BlackBerry 7130e

Summary:
The BlackBerry 7130e ($449.99 direct from $299.99 with 2-year contract) brings high-speed EV-DO networking to this popular line of e-mail devices. That makes for an irony: This handheld shines most brightly when tethered to a PC. The year-old BlackBerry 71xx line delivers push e-mail in a more phone-like shape. It does so by using a hybrid keyboard where two letters share most keys. An advanced predictive-text system learns your vocabulary by absorbing the contents of your address book, calendar, and the words you type in e-mails which means that eventually, you double-tap less. This system is definitely a love-it-or-hate-it feature. Testing it out for a few minutes isn't enough to give you a real feel for it, because it takes a while for the BlackBerry to learn your vocabulary.

By Sascha Segan, PC Magazine