Which new cell phones and smartphones represent 2009 and 2010s best deals?
We review the hottest Apple, Palm, BlackBerry, Nokia and LG models to see which you’ll want to keep on speed dial. When the Motorola Razr first appeared in back in 2004, the angular marvel retailed for $500 from Cingular, and even that was only after a $100 rebate. Business execs swooned over them, celebrities flaunted them, and regular Joes emptied their bank accounts to get them. Little more than a year later, you could get one for free. So it goes in the fast-progress world of handsets, where yesterday’s Ferrari becomes today’s Festiva, but still does zero to 60 in under three seconds. It’s easy to fixate on the latest week-old darling of the media world, and lay out most of next month’s rent check for it, but those with patience will find the wake behind these trailblazers the easiest place to comfortably float by in the tech world, where performance meets practicality. With that in mind, we’ve tracked down 10 phones that deliver the best bang-for-the-buck out there. They may not a
