Nokia Surge

AT&T* and Nokia today announced the availability of the Nokia Surge, a socially supercharged smartphone powered by the nation's fastest 3G network. Available online and in AT&T stores on July 19, the Nokia Surge is an ideal device for active consumers who like to stay connected whether using IM, text or email, sending multimedia messages, AT&T Video Share, or updating and connecting via their favorite social networks.

In addition to an impressive suite of messaging capabilities, the Nokia Surge offers a powerful browsing experience, including Flash support to view most sites in full HTML or watch YouTube videos. Nokia Surge allows users to post messages, images, videos, and comments to web sites like Facebook on-the-go with the pre-installed JuiceCaster application.

The Nokia Surge offers multimedia and entertainment features, including:

- 2.0 megapixel camera - Customers can capture quality photos with color camera and 4X digital zoom
- AT&T Mobile Music - Customers can listen and download their favorite music from Napster Mobile, eMusic Mobile, XM Radio and more over the air
- JuiceCaster - Customers can share videos and pictures from their wireless device to the Web's most popular sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr

The Nokia Surge will be available through select AT&T retail locations or at www.wireless.att.com for 79.99 USD with a two-year service agreement and after a mail-in rebate. (Pay 129.99 USD and after mail-in rebate receive 50.00 USD AT&T Promotion Card. Two-year agreement for wireless voice plan of 39.99 USD a month or higher and data plan of 30.00 USD a month or more required for rebate.) For more information, please go to www.att.com/nokiasurge. For more information and detailed disclaimer information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom.

Motorola Hint QA30

Design
The Hint isn't a perfect square (3.32 inches by 2.43 inches by 0.6 inch), but its distinctive shape is unmistakable. Unfortunately, that's where the Hint's good design points end. The toggle and OK button double as music player controls, but when the phone is in standby mode we'd prefer that the OK button open the main menu instead of the Web browser. Though the toggle is large, the soft keys, music player shortcut, and back control are tiny.
The Hint's keyboard is small and rather difficult to use.
The keyboard is rather small, though we realize that a bigger keyboard would result in a bigger phone. The remaining keys include a symbol/shift control, back and delete buttons, and shortcuts for the messaging folder, the camera, the speakerphone (nice), the camera, and the Web browser.
Features
Te Hint has a 700-contact phone book with room in each entry for five phone numbers, two e-mail addresses, a birthday, URL, a street address, and notes. The Hint also offers a voice recorder, text and multimedia messaging, stereo Bluetooth, and voice dialing.
The Hint's camera lacks a flash and a self-portrait mirror.
Photo quality was decent. The Hint's card slot will accommodate microSD cards up to 8GB.
The Hint has acceptable photo quality.
The music player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, and WMA files. You will need a memory card to use the music player--Cricket didn't include a card with our review model.
The Hint offers one game (Bloc Breaker D2) with additional titles available from Cricket.
Performance
We tested the dual-band (CDMA 800/1900) Hint in San Francisco. Call quality was above average. Speakerphone volume was loud and callers could understand us if we spoke close to the phone. The Hint is equipped for 3G (EV-DO) networks, which Cricket operates throughout its home network. Music quality over the external speakers wasn't so impressive. The music player also plays videos. Clips off a memory card looked quite good, though videos we shot with the phone's camera were jerky.

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