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The HP isn't a thin phone by any means, and it's about the same thickness as recent BlackBerry Curve 8500 series models. The not terribly good or loud speakerphone lives under a small grille on the back. A 3.5mm stereo headset jack and micro USB port are on the right and the volume controls are on the left. The chromed plastic sides have relatively few controls and ports. But their slick surface makes typing faster but less accurate.The embedded number pad is clear in contrasting white and there are shortcuts on the bottom row for the web browser, calendar, email and AT&T Navigator. The QWERTY keyboard's keys are laid out in a smile configuration and are relatively large: both pluses. The iPAQ feels solid and well made, and we particularly like the grippy soft-touch back.

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There's a fixed focus 3.1 megapixel camera on board as well as a full complement of wireless: GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and WiFi 802.11b/g. The Glisten is powered by a 528MHz Qualcomm CPU and it has 256 megs of RAM and 512 megs of flash memory. It has a 2.5' AMOLED touch screen and it runs Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. It's a quad band GSM world phone with EDGE for those places that are devoid of 3G coverage. The HP iPAQ Glisten is sold by AT&T in the US and it has 3G HSDPA on AT&T's bands as well as 2100MHz for Europe and Asia. RIM's smartphones are easier to use one-handed and their UI is much better optimized to the hardware controls with myriad keyboard shortcuts and convenient home screen options. It's otherwise unlikely that the HP would win in a contest against a BlackBerry. The HP Glisten is likely to appeal to veteran Windows Mobile users who accustomed to, if not fond of, that operating system's features and UI. Combine that with Windows Mobile's excellent integration with MS Exchange, and you've got a decent business phone. What stands in the Glisten's favor are its sturdy build, grippable back and good QWERTY keyboard. The small, low resolution display is hard to navigate with a finger, making the included stylus a must, and that feels very dated and inefficient. Thank goodness for the touch screen, you say? Well, not so much. A shame because that was easy to navigate using the d-pad, while the hex grid of icons that replaces it is a nightmare with the d-pad.

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That means the traditional Start Menu that looked just like the one on your Windows PC is gone. WinMo 6.5 was designed with larger screens in mind, and it attempts to be more touch-centric, neither of which matches with the QWERTY bar smartphone.

What has suffered is one-handed and touch navigation thanks to Windows Mobile 6.5.

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The looks have gotten more modern and trendy, with a flush display and a black soft-touch casing, but it's still your basic Windows Mobile Pro QWERTY-bar business phone. It's apt enough for HP's latest business smartphone, the Glisten, whose form and function aren't so different from the 2008 HP iPAQ 910c. The more things change, the more they stay the same, or so the cliche goes. What's not: Small, low resolution display, not a multimedia demon. What's hot: QWERTY messaging phone that's well-suited to business.

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