HP iPAQ Glisten / HP iPAQ K3 Obsidian

Excellent keyboard ; Solid construction

Touchscreen too small ; Mediocre multimedia features

The HP iPaq Glisten has some great features for business users, but the small touchscreen can be difficult to use with Windows Mobile.

Vibrant AMOLED touch screen. Excellent keyboard. Tight Microsoft Exchange integration.

Poor Web browser and media player. Disappointing camera. Weak speakerphone.

Camera and Conclusions The 3.1-megapixel camera was another disappointment. There's no flash, auto-focus, or even a shortcut button. Many test photos were too blurry; shutter delay was a reasonable one second outside, but fell to almost three seconds...

The HP iPaq Glisten features a spacious QWERTY keyboard and offers the full range of wireless options. The phone has a sturdy construction.

The smartphone has a low-resolution screen that really isn't optimized for a touch user interface. It has subpar multimedia capabilities, and performance can be sluggish at times.

Offering the bare minimum, the HP iPaq Glisten fails to impress us. It can serve the role of a basic messaging smartphone, but there are better alternatives out there.

Gorgeous AMOLED display ; Snappy performance ; Good battery life

Relatively poor speakerphone performance, most notably low speaker volume ; Occasionally stuttery music playback ; Annoying five-way navigator

HP Photosmart Mobile is included, and I enjoyed the picture viewer application. It was easy to organize my photos, send them via email and even set them up to print automatically from a memory card. A slideshow feature is also included, and it works well

QWERTY messaging phone that's well-suited to business

Small, low resolution display, not a multimedia demon

The HP Glisten is literally a solid Windows Mobile QWERTY bar phone. It's well-made, sturdy and not bad looking as business phones go. But we can't say it adds anything new or enticing to the mix, and there's little that's changed since the HP 910c...