Many people ask me why I don't review more phones, but the truth is that I don't have access to phones for testing purposes. The phones you see reviewed on this page have either been purchased outright, or I have taken advantage of the generous return policies offered by Fido and Clearnet PCS. Obviously there is a limit to how many phones I am going to buy personally, and there is certainly a limit to how far I will stretch the generosity of Fido and Clearnet.

What I need is a source of phones that I can borrow for the purpose of testing. If you are in a position to lend me phones I have not tested, or you know people who are, then I would really appreciate hearing from you. You can e-mail me at pcsguide@rogers.com. If you run a retail outlet, perhaps we can work out a trade involving advertising.

Words of Warning: Many newer reviews make reference to older reviews, and this sometimes creates apparent inconsistencies in the overall assessments of various models. Reviews are relative by nature, and so what seemed like a great phone a year or so ago, may seem only mediocre now because other phones have "raised the bar" so to speak. If you find that I'm being negative about a phone, while saying it's about the same as a phone I once gave positive reviews to, this a perfect example.

It is also possible that one phone might get a "thumbs up" assessment, while another seemingly similar phone gets a "thumbs down" assessment. This can happen due to the lack of a certain feature, or because a particular facet of the phone (such as its audio quality) was poor on one, and great on another. The T28w and T38m are good examples of this. While I didn't have a T28w to compare directly to the T39m, I had go by my original assessment of the T28w's audio qualities, which I remembered as being better than the T39m.

In the case "World Phones" (GSM models that support 1900 MHz as well as 900 and/or 1800 MHz) that I can only test RF performance at 1900 MHz. For all I know, a phone that performs very poorly at 1900 MHz may in fact perform exceedingly well at either 900 MHz or 1800 MHz. You should consider this possibility when deciding upon a world phone. Check with reviews written outside of North America for information about RF performance at other frequencies.

Before reading any of these reviews, please read Some Thoughts on Reviewing Phones.

For now however, here are the phones which I have reviewed:

Nokia 6340 11-Mar-2003	Siemens S55 02-Mar-2003	Samsung S105 26-Feb-2003	Nokia 6385 17-Feb-2003
Samsung R225 / N625 07-Jan-2003	Motorola V120x 13-Dec-2002	Nokia 6310i 24-Nov-2002	Samsung A520 24-Nov-2002
Samsung A540 11-Nov-2002	Ericsson T206 06-Dec-2002	Nokia 3590 01-Nov-2002	Nokia 6188 (Second Look) 13-Oct-2000
Ericsson T200 15-Sep-2002	Motorola V60c 09-Sep-2002	VTech A700 22-Aug-2002	Motorola A388 27-Jul-2002
Samsung N105 17-Jul-2002	LG TM-520 19-Sep-2002	Motorola P270c 05-Jun-2002	Motorola V60g 13-May-2002
Nokia 8390 10-May-2002	Ericsson T66 24-Apr-2002	Motorola V101 16-Mar-2002	Ericsson T68 23-Dec-2001
Motorola i90 13-Dec-2001	Motorola V66 10-Nov-2001	Samsung T300 07-Nov-2001	Motorola i80 05-Nov-2001
Motorola v120c 03-Nov-2001	Motorola i85/i55sr 24-Oct-2001	Motorola P280 31-Sep-2001	Motorola P7389i 17-Sep-2001
Nokia 6185i 03-Sep-2001	Ericsson T39m 24-Jul-2001	Siemens S40 03-Jul-2001	Ericsson R520m 27-Jun-2001
Nokia 7190 28-May-2001	Motorola V2282 09-Mar-2001	Nokia 3390 01-Mar-2002	Ericsson T28w 13-Nov-2000
Mitsubishi G310 26-Oct-2001	Motorola ST7867W 05-Oct-2000	Nokia 8890 03-Oct-2000	Samsung 8580 28-Aug-2000
Motorola Timeport 28-Aug-2000	Ericsson T18z 22-Mar-2000	Motorola L Series 07-Mar-2000	Sanyo SCP-4000 02-Feb-2000
Qualcomm 2760 16-Oct-2000	Nokia 6188 (Original Review) 13-Nov-2000	Qualcomm 1960 16-Oct-2000	Motorola 7797 12-Jun-2000