The power button is on the top of the unit, on the left. The left edge houses a volume slider and the lower-right edge has the camera button. Between the stylus slot and the camera button, unmarked and easy to miss, is the flip-down cover of the microSD card slot. The bottom has your USB port and the reset button.

The XV6900 comes with a carrying sleeve, a charger, a USB splitter for using a headset (not included), a USB cable and a spare stylus. The device can sync with a computer using Bluetooth or USB. It's retailing for $350 after a $50 rebate.

In the just-for-fun category, we would be remiss not to mention the self-portrait mirror. Point your camera phone at yourself and you can see in the tiny round mirror the image it's about to frame. It's not perfect but it's surely superior to guess work.

After you snap an image, click the magnifying glass to see it full screen. A really handy feature is that you can rotate photos by simply tracing your finger over the screen in the direction in which you want the image to turn. Finger swipes also let you scroll through your photos manually. The Smartphone also shoots video.

The XV6900 goes for $350 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

Through the test, we had to concede the device shines. It takes some adjusting-we often turned it off when we didn't mean to, for example-and we're not wholly sold on abandoning the slide-out keyboard. But overall this smartphone seems poised to challenge many other Windows Mobile-platform options, particularly where size and weight are prime considerations.

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