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HP iPAQ 910c Business Messenger smartphone

CNET's rating: 7.0 Very good

The good: The HP iPaq 910c Business Messenger features Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G support. The Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone also offers strong messaging capabilities with a full qwerty keyboard and a 3-megapixel camera.

The bad: The iPaq 910c is bulky and the screen size is a bit small. The smartphone is expensive and can be sluggish at times. The phone's speaker is also on the soft side.

The bottom line: The HP iPaq 910c offers mobile professionals a well-stocked, messaging-centric smartphone, but it faces stiff competition from the likes of HTC, Motorola and Samsung.

This article was originally published in the November 2008 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Get the Message.