Top 10 cell phones for students

Top 10 cell phones for students

July 22, 2009

Love it or hate it, most students now have cell phones. Wirefly, a retailer of cell phones and wireless plans, released its annual Top 10 cell phones for students heading back to school. Factors considered included affordability, popularity and functionality.

1. LG Vu CU920 (AT) - Touchscreen phone with a 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, virtual QWERTY keyboard for email and text messaging, expandable memory, and AT Music and MediaFLO for watching videos and listening to music. Pricing: Free for current or new AT customers.

2. BlackBerry Curve 8900 (AT T-Mobile) - Includes a 3.2-MP camera, WiFi, GPS, full HTML internet browser, MP3 player. Pricing: Free for new AT or T-Mobile customers.

3. LG enV Touch (Verizon Wireless) - Messaging device with advanced multimedia capabilities, a full HTML web browser, an enhanced music player, and a 3.2 megapixel camera/camcorder. The 3" external touchscreen flips open to display a twin 3" display and QWERTY keyboard. Pricing: $99.99 for new Verizon Wireless customers.

4. Sidekick Slide (T-Mobile) - Features compact design with a sliding screen that reveals a full QWERTY keyboard. Includes MySpace mobile experience, text and picture messaging, email, always-on instant messenger, 1.3 megapixel camera. Pricing: Free for new T-Mobile customers.

5. BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) - Brings the Curve to CDMA networks for the first time and provides on-the-go email and calendar solutions for students. Includes a 2.0 Megapixel camera, GPS, media player, voice dialing and stereo Bluetooth. Pricing: Free for new Sprint customers.

6. LG enV3 (Verizon Wireless) - Slim flip-phone with QWERTY keyboard. Also includes auto-complete, instant reply, stereo Bluetooth compatibility, a music player and support for V CAST Music with Rhapsody and V CAST Video, and 3.0 megapixel camera/ camcorder. Pricing: Free for new Verizon Wireless customers.

7. Samsung Impression (AT) - Uses the nation's first AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display. 3.2" touchscreen, 3.0 megapixel camera/ camcorder, full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Video share. Pricing: Free for current or new AT customers.

8. LG Xenon (AT) - Touch screen, messaging-centric device featuring slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera/camcorder, and Video Share. Bluetooth v2.0 compatibility and voice-driven menu navigation and dialing combine for a hands-free experience. Pricing: Free for current or new AT customers.

9. Samsung Behold T919 (T-Mobile) - TouchWiz user interface, drag-and-drop widget technology, 5-MP camera, expandable memory, video capture, and voice-controlled menus. Pricing: Free for new T-Mobile customers.

10. Motorola Rival A455 (Verizon Wireless) - Messaging-centric phone with one-touch access to applications, a partial touchscreen and a slide-out, back-lit QWERTY keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, and hands-free options including Bluetooth, speakerphone and voice commands. Also equipped with V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Videos, mobile web, expandable memory, and a music player. Pricing: Free for current or new Verizon Wireless customers.

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COMMENTS (6)

Dave - 08/14/2009

The iPhone is expensive, with a very expensive data plan required. The iPhone data plan is over $100 a month...that's a lot of money. And, in contrast to popular opinion, the iPhone is not the end-all-be-all of cell phones. AT&T's network is stretched to the limit and has major issues with data issues and ped calls. Plus, if the student has a contract with another carrier, they can't just switch to the iPhone and AT&T without a heavy penalty. The other phones are available on multiple networks. You want an inexpensive smart phone, try the Palm Centro. It is available on all of the major networks, is cheap (less than $40), and there are thousands of applications available out there for education, 90% of them for free. The Palm Pre is also another great phone that just came out. I'd also suggest that students look at the G1 and all the new Android powered phones coming out. They are coming on multiple networks and have tons of applications available and are very inexpensive. In general though, any cell phone with a web browser is very useful because there are so many mobile web applications available right now for students and teachers. Dave (http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com)

Lee G - 08/14/2009

BTW... if the iPhone would have been included in this article it would have gone something like this: Numero Uno, King Supremo. - Apple iPhone (AT&T) - A 3.5" Multi-touch display with a 3.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, video editor, easy upload to YouTube, virtual QWERTY keyboard (both portrait and landscape modes) for email and text messaging, voice dialing, 8-32 GB of storage, bluetooth & Wi-Fi, Spotlight (built-in search), Cut, Copy & Paste, and lets not forget: iPod, web browser, movie player, calendar, Word/Excel editors, ability to open PDFs, a ton of games, alarm clock, built-in YouTube access, handy little level, access to Moodle or Blackboard systems, eBook reader, GPS, and last but not least calculator! Oh yeah, there is an APP for that!

Lee G. - 08/14/2009

WARNING! This article has little or no "journalistic integrity". Good post WOScholar! The results a "slightly" skewed at very best if the iPhone is not on the list. Seriously, go walk around any large campus and you will see iPhones are very popular. Ain't it convenient that each of the links above are not only links back to product pages on Wirefly.com (BTW... who DOES NOT sell the iPhone, hum... could this be the reason they didn't include this in the article) and the links even have an affiliate link so someone (probably TL) is making affiliate dollars off of this skewed article. At very least for the sake of "journalistic integrity" the top of this post should say something like "This is a sponsored posted by Wirefly.com". Wait I forgot... There is no such thing as integrity in jouralism anymore, it's all about making money even if the facts in the article aren't "exactly" true. Good job TL!

ANONYMOUS - 08/07/2009

SAMSUNG STAR IS THE BEST BY FAR

phil - 07/27/2009

I agree WOScholar you can get a G2 iPhone for 99 bucks and we have students using them to do presentations with. That phone should be on this list. Why 2 blackberry devices when they do not even connect with Active Sync?

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