The 5-megapixel camera on the Trophy is nothing to write home about. Colors looked washed out, and photos could be sharper. Videos fared better when I cranked the recording resolution up to 720p, but were still not as sharp as I would have liked them to be.

Windows Phone 7 seems to have been built with media in mind. All WP7 handsets come preloaded with Xbox Live, Zune, and Netflix apps. The Zune app was designed to be your one stop shop for movies and music. If you have the Zune desktop client on your PC, you can easily import your own media files onto the phone's 16 GB internal memory. Unfortunately movie playback in the Netflix app was sorely lacking. Even with great reception, videos were heavily pixilated. If you plan on watching a lot of movies on the Trophy, I recommend either loading your own or buying them off the Zune Marketplace in order to avoid having to deal with network issues.

As much as I like the Trophy, it is difficult to recommend mainly due to the fact that nothing about the phone really makes it stand out from its competition. While it is a good WP7 phone, in comparison to other smartphones currently available the Trophy is lacking where it counts. If you bought a , own an Xbox 360, or are married to Office, then the Trophy will fit into your life just fine. For the rest of us that don't like Bing or don't have a Live account, I would suggest skipping the Trophy and looking at Verizon's other offerings like the or the .