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Motorola Theory (Boost Mobile)

The $79.99 Motorola Theory is a solid cell phone for users looking to talk and text while saving some money with Boost Mobile's low monthly rates. It's got a great QWERTY keyboard, good call quality, and a nice display. Everything else is a bit dated, but the Theory should satisfy talk and text fanatics.

Design, Keyboard, and Call Quality
The Motorola Theory looks and feels more luxurious than its price tag would lead you to believe. You wouldn't be out of line in confusing it for a BlackBerry. It measures 4.4 by 2.4 by .5 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.5 ounces. The back of the phone is made of soft-touch black plastic, while the front is shiny and glossy. The function keys are made of greyish plastic with a wood-grain look and sit directly below the phone's 2.4-inch LCD. The display is surprisingly sharp for 320-by-240 pixels, and again looks to be of a higher quality than you'd expect at this price range. Overall, the Theory is a very handsome device.

The real draw here is the QWERTY keyboard, and the Theory doesn't disappoint. The keys are nicely sized, raised, and well-separated. My fingers are less than nimble, yet I found it fast and easy to type long messages on the Theory. The spacebar on the keyboard lacks the same springy feeling as the rest of the keys, so that took some getting used to. But the selection keys are big enough, and I had no trouble navigating my way through the phone's simple UI.

The Theory is a single-band (1900 MHz) CDMA device with no Wi-Fi which runs on Sprint's nationwide 2G 1xRTT network. Reception was fine, and call quality was good overall. Calls sounded loud and clear through the phone's earpiece. Calls made with the phone were also good—voices could sound a bit muted, but there was decent background noise reduction. Calls sounded clear over the speakerphone, though the volume is a touch too low to use outdoors. I was able to easily connect to my Aliph Jawbone Icon Bluetooth headset ($99, 4 stars) and call quality was good. Voice dialing worked fine and battery life was average at 5 hours and 31 minutes of talk time.

Apps, Features, and Conclusions
Boost's $50 per month plan offers unlimited voice calls, texting, and Web access, which is a pretty fantastic value. Better yet, that $50 monthly fee is reduced by $5 for every 6 payments you make on time, until you reach $35. With unlimited data at your fingertips, it'd be nice to put it to good use. The Theory's Myriad Web browser did a decent job rendering basic WAP pages, and everything looked pretty good on the phone's display. The Theory may not have true high-speed Internet, but Sprint's 1X network is still much faster than the iDen network used by the competing Motorola Clutch +i475 ($99.99, 3.5 stars). The Theory is fine for casual mobile Web access, but it isn't the phone to get for real desktop-style browsing.

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