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Vodafone's first 3G cellphone

z105

Unlike 3, AT&T Wireless and a few of the other 3G networks, Vodafone is skipping over the big clunky handsets and jumping right into something nice and sleek for their first 3G cellphone. The Samsung Z105 looks better than most other networks' first 3G efforts and it has decent battery life too, but that's about where the compliments end. The phone excels at video calling, but so far video calling has been a flop on all the other Euro 3G networks so who cares? Bizarrely, the Z105 requires a wired headset to make video calls, which makes no sense to us at all considering the necessary speaker and microphone are already right there in the phone (duh). And the headset is wired because the Z105 doesn't have Bluetooth, nor does it support POP3 email or play back MP3s. In other words, it does less than most high-end 2G phones.