The LG Thrive is a compact smartphone with all of the function but few of the frills. This is the perfect phone for those who don’t need piles of power or another camera, but still want a snappy smartphone able to chat, text, email, and surf the web.

The Symbian based Nokia E5 offers fast 3G connectivity, superior social media interactivity, and a responsive full QWERTY keyboard for quick texts, emails, and messages. You can be sure to always be connected with quad-band GSM capabilities and excellent battery life in this powerful and economical smartphone.

For those with business in mind, the BlackBerry Bold 9780 is hard to beat. This solid little smart phone delivers the excellent looks and quality consumers have come to expect from BlackBerry.

The T-Mobile Tap is a touchscreen-only cell phone with a less than full feature list.  The Tap was built by Hauwei and only available with T-Mobile service ($349.99 at Best Buy at time of writing). Reports say the interface…

Motorola's Quench is the Motorola CLIQ XT in the US. It's an Android 1.5 phone with integrated social networking (thank to MotoBlur), and a 5 MP camera. It should also have turn-by-turn directions in the US. Other than that…