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1.5 from Microsoft for voice control, IGuidance for my GPS, and Noviimedia to use as a remote control for my tv, or my friends, or the ones at the gym instead of searching endlessly for a lost cause.

So what honestly is the key advantage to all of this? Versatility. You are not limited to the software that the vendor has placed onto the phone, or only able to use a specific media player or email app. While the windows mobile 5.0 edition phones such as the Xv-6700 carry some default applications included in the pricetag, you can still switch to whatever you want as long as someone is selling it or able to program it for you. I have to pre-warn everyone though that if you go to buy microsoft voice commander in the thoughts that your bluetooth headset will work; you will find yourself soon dissapointed due to the sampling rate built into the headset and bluetooth technology. Unfortunately the computing power of most pda/phones will not be equivalent to the large corporate phone systems and cannot decipher anything said under a 16kb sample.

Back to the point of the phone.

If anyone has had the experience of typing a text message on a phone or typing in contact info of their new colleague or friend, you will find that most phones use the standard alpha-numeric keypad where you have to press 1 so many times to get the letter c and so forth and so on. With this phone, they built in a complete slideout keyboard to help ease the annoyances of text messaging. While it is not the size of a standard keyboard, it is decent enough that you do not fat finger the wrong letter or number and it lights up incase of it being dark. I tend to like that it immediately switches to landscape mode as soon as its open so you do not have to rotate the screen to see what you are typing. One extreme downfall on the design of the keyboard- the use of an addition to the shift key in order to produce symbols such as ('; , :? / *&, etc.) and any numerical entries. For all who do not have the phone, it is a red dot right below the shift button. While normally you will not use it that often, i tend to find having to type in an encryption key for wireless very annoying when you have to press a red dot every time you desire to hit a number.

Don't worry, the keyboard is still very useable and much better than its predecessor. However, there are other great features of the phone still to come.

Camera phones- eat your heart out. While most of us remember the digital camera era starting off with way under

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