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Review: Nokia 7705 Twist

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The Twist supports SMS, MMS, IM, email (including Microsoft Exchange-based work email), chat and visual voicemail.

You'll be happy to know that the Twist supports a form of threaded SMS messaging. Users can choose to view SMS by "Time" or "Contact". The Time setting will show each message in a long list according to when they arrived. The Contact setting will lump messages together from each person so you can see all of the messages from a given contact in one conversation. The Twist has a keyboard shortcut that brings up the SMS/MMS composition screen, so sending text messages is quick and easy.

The mobile IM client is the same as on other Verizon phones, and supports AIM, Windows Live and Yahoo.

Emails can be set up two different ways. You can use Verizon's email service, or access your POP3 accounts via the Web browser. The included email application, which costs $5 extra per month unless you have subscribed to unlimited data, is easy enough to use for setting up and accessing POP3 accounts. You can also use Verizon's RemoSync service to sync with Microsoft Exchange-based corporate email.

Wait, what, you wanted a Twitter and Facebook application, too? No such luck, at least not out of the box. There are no social networking clients on board of any kind. Nor can you download any from Verizon's web portal.

Weak, Verizon, weak.

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Nokia Twist 7705

2.4" display 320 x 240 pixels
860 mAh battery
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