The Lotus Elite struggled to hold onto an EV-DO connection and spent most of the review in 1xRTT mode, while a nearby BlackBerry Pearl 8130 on Sprint had no such trouble.

The LG Lotus is a stylish and slender clamshell phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. Features include a 2.0-megapixel camera, a music player, Sprint's 3G services, and an innovative easy-to-use ...

The new Elise Sprint takes that to extremes and sees Lotus returning to the ultra minimalist engineering ethos laid down by founder Colin Chapman. All very well.