Samsung Behold

Behold is a slim, stylish touchscreen phone with a 3-inch display and a 5 megapixel camera. It’s piled high with the latest cell phone features: Worldwide 3G network access, AGPS navigation, mapping and voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, POP3 and IMAP e-mail as well as texting and instant messaging, an HTML Web browser, a full digital music player, and a full slate of PIM apps, games and utilities.

Behold also includes a built-in accelerometer so images and Web pages rotate automatically when you turn the phone, and an iPhone-like sensor which knows to turn off the screen when you bring the phone up to your face during a call (and lights it back up when you pull it down). For text input, you get two touch keypads, a traditional portrait alphanumeric dial/multi-touch pad, and a landscape QWERTY keyboard.

But while Behold offers cutting edge features, it cheats you on the physical side – there’s no 3.5mm headphone jack, and swapping out the microSD slot requires you to remove the battery.