Nokia 7705 Twist

The 7705 Twist has a 1,000-contact phone book with room in each entry for five phone numbers, two e-mail addresses, a street address, and notes. You also can save a dedicated emergency number. For further personalization, you can save callers to groups and pair them with a photo and one of 15 72-chord polyphonic ringtones. You even can assign friends a color for the contact ring. A unique feature of the Twist is its "Habitat" mode. After picking one of two display themes ("urban" or "jungle"), your contacts will be represented by avatars in order of the last person called. Click on each avatar to see a list of messages and calls between you and that contact.

Essential features include a calculator, a calendar, an alarm clock, a stopwatch, a world clock, a notepad, a tip calculator, a unit and currency converter, and a speakerphone. You'll also find speaker-independent voice dialing, Bluetooth, PC syncing, USB mass storage, text-to-speech, and support for VZ Navigator.

 Besides threaded text and multimedia messaging, there's instant messaging, and e-mail. POP3 e-mail access for accounts such as AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail is limited to a clunky Web-based interface, but RemoSync service offers access to push e-mail from corporate accounts as well as calendar, notes, and contacts syncing. The initial sync took a few minutes, but after that the process as pretty smooth and you can view some e-mail attachments.