Huawei Pillar (Cricket Wireless)

The Huawei Pillar for Cricket Wireless ($59.99 direct) is a simple, budget-price cell phone?that's built for texting.

The Pillar measures 4.3 by 2.4 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.5 ounces. The display is just 2 inches, but sports a respectable 320-by-480-pixel resolution. The keyboard, meanwhile, looks like a slight smaller version that what you'd find on a BlackBerry Bold. That makes it a good choice for frequent texters.

The phone is a tri-band 2G 1xRTT (850/1700/1900 MHz) CDMA device with no Wi-Fi. No-contract plans on Cricket start at $35 per month for unlimited voice calls and text messaging. It's a good deal if you live in Cricket's coverage area and don't require fast Internet for Web browsing. Battery life is rated at four hours of talk time.

The Pillar also works as a music player. There's a standard 3.5mm jack on the top of the phone. It lacks any significant amount of internal memory, but accepts microSD cards up to?16GB. There's also a 0.3-megapixel VGA camera that has no flash or auto-focus capability.

Ultimately, if you aren't looking to consume media, and just want a low-cost, no-contract phone to make calls and send text messages, the Huawei Pillar looks like a decent choice, but you may also want to check out the Samsung Comment.

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