The Mogul is stocked with the essential voice features: voice commands, speakerphone, speed dial, smart dialing, vibrate mode, and text and multimedia messaging. Each contact entry can include comprehensive information, including as many as 12 numbers, e-mail, multiple snail mail addresses, birthday, IM screen name, spouse's name, and more. The Caller ID allows users to pair contacts with a photo, a caller group, and/or a couple dozen polyphonic ring tones.

Because it's a Windows Mobile 6 device, call history is linked to the contact page. We love this feature. You can see when you placed or received calls to/from a contact, as well as the time of the call, the duration, etc.

Wireless options on the Sprint Mogul include built-in Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, and EV-DO support. To get to the Web, you can either access a WLAN (or Wi-Fi hotspot) or use Sprint's EV-DO network, which can give you data speeds up to 2.4Mbps. (The Mogul will be upgradeable to EV-DO Rev when it launches later this year.)

E-mail delivery happens in real-time and syncs with your Outlook calendar, tasks, and contacts via Exchange Server thanks to Microsoft's Direct Push technology.

The Mogul is compatible with Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, which means you can play AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG-4, and WMV files or view TV shows recorded on your Windows Media Center PC. The sound quality isn't superb, but it's also not the primary reason most users will buy the Mogul, so we see it as only a small drawback.

The built-in 2-megapixel camera features a flash, an 8x zoom, self-timer, time-stamp, and picture counter. Users can choose from five resolutions, four quality settings, and also tinker with white-balance control and a few effects.

For video, the Mogul can record clips with or without sound in MPEG-4, Motion JPG, or H.263 format. Picture and video quality were fine for a 2MP phone camera, but certainly not good enough to serve as a replacement for even a low-end point-and-shoot digicam. We expect most users will value this Pocket PC more for its PIM functions than for its multimedia capabilities—and they won't be disappointed.

We conducted our tests of the dual-band (CDMA 850/1900; EV-DO) Sprint Mogul HTC in Western Massachusetts on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network. Call quality was good, although not excellent. The speakerphone volume wasn't able to go as high as we'd like, which was frustrating for us and our callers. Touch tones were clear and strong enough that we were able to navigate automated voice-activation systems quickly and easily.

The Sprint Mogul has 256MB of ROM and 64MB of RAM and a 400MHz Intel PXA250 processor. While 64MB sounds good, the available program memory is actually not quite adequate given how much memory the apps eat up. We ran into trouble when trying to run multiple Office apps, which hampers productivity. The microSD slot can help, though. A 512MB card ships with the device and cards up to 2GB are supported.

Sound quality was mediocre in video and music playback, but the screen is sharp, the colors rich, and it's viewable from any angle, which we loved.

The Mogul's lithium-ion battery is rated for 4.1 hours of talk time, about 20% more than its predecessor, the Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device PPC-6700.

Overall, we found the full-featured Mogul to be an exciting and attractive addition to the selection of Windows Mobile devices available to Sprint subscribers. If