As with the Intensity, social communication is the handset's main goal. To that end, there's threaded text and MSM messaging, and instant messaging for the AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo protocols. The Intensity II also offers a mobile e-mail in-box that supports AOL and AIM mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, and other Web mail accounts. The latter will create a browser shortcut for your in-box. Although we're glad to see this feature, e-mail loaded a bit slowly in our tests and also took some time alerting us to new messages. Also, keep in mind that the e-mail app costs $5 to download if you don't have mobile e-mail already integrated into your data plan.