Well, it's finally here.  Nokia's take on a head to head fight with the Apple iPhone is the Nokia Tube 5800 Express music. Too bad it's missing the Christmas gift rush, because if it will make it I'm sure it's gonna be in a lot of people's sock from Santa! I've been a Nokia phone fan for like a decade already.  Tried switching to phones from Sony Ericson, Samsung, Apple, the generic ones... but something's pulling me back to Nokia all the time.  It's just too easy to use, at least for me. The 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube) is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia.  I was surprised it wasn't a continuation of the ...
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  The LG Dare by Verizon is CNet's most popular gadget, number 1 baby!  The iPhone was set back to the number 2 position.  I tell you, when I heard this on CNet's top 5 podcast, I couldn't believe it.  But yes... good 'ol iPhone has taken the #2 slot.  At least for this week. The LG Dare has an intuitive touch-screen interface, an advanced 3.2-megapixel camera.  Now this is something the iPhone doesn't have!  And I think this is why it has nudged it's nose past the tape to win the favorites race.  It sports a full HTML browser, EV-DO Rev. A, and plenty of other powerful features. It also has excellent call quality. Let me ...
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  I am trying to decide if I should get a Sony K850i. I know this is such a cool phone to have, the 5MP camera is really tempting.  I love the way it tries to be a great camera (with the auto-orientation feature), but there's this side of me trying to pull me back from the purchase. I don't like the tiny "rice-like" buttons, that's for sure!  I think I have fingers too big for those little things.  I wonder if Sony held-off giving us larger buttons so it can accommodate more electronics inside.. like for camera. I've read the online reviews, they were all good... but some though "I feel" is trying to tell me there's a ...
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Last weekend i went shopping for a new cellphone for my wife.  I went thru the Nokia shelves, then the Motorola shelves, the Samsung shelves and then finally hit the Sony Erickson shelves too.  You know when shopping for something tech, I often times forget who I'm shopping for.  I'd always think of what is good for me to have, what I like, what I crave, what I can, what I will, what I should.  Boy there's too many of me when I tech shop! I was too engrossed with several choices from those brands that I finally gave up and shot a text message to the Mrs., to come and just point what she likes off ...
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We've put Swarovski crystals on Macbook Airs and re-skinned our iPhones, so I'm not surprised that an emerging trend is the accessorization of the Bluetooth headset. Clunky, dark and ugly no more!  These wireless sensations are about to get all dolled up. The first of what promises to be many in the growing cell phone sector, is the Plantronic Discovery 925.  Currently available to celebs only (Eva Longoria Parker and Brooke Shields have been spotted sporting the 925), the general public can expect these headsets to be released in April. Thinner and lighter than most available earpieces, the 925 will initially be offered black, gold and magenta - with nine more flavors to follow. $149 will not only get you good looks, ...
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The more I've thought about Modu, the modular cellular handset that launches on October 1 with carriers in Russia, Italy, and Israel, the more intrigued I become. Called a glorified SIM card by some, Modu offers the basics of a cell phone (calls, texting, contacts), with the expandability to power an array of electronic devices. Based around a concept of "jackets," you'll be able to dock Modu into specially designed gadgets. From GPS devices to digital cameras, the options appear endless.
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I was strolling down a mall, window-shopping one lazy Sunday afternoon, when I noticed an unusual crowd of uniformed high-school students flocking into the Sony Phone shop.  Shaking my head, I said, "It's just a bunch of kids testing out a tired model".  I was right. These kids were getting excited with the Sony Ericson W910 and the Sony Ericson W960.  One of the first models to introduce the "shake mode" or as they call it "flick-of-the-wrist control".  Go to this mode and you can skip and shuffle around  your music collection by doing just that.  Also works with a few games! Not sure how successful it is on the rack, but a noble idea nonetheless if it was creating that mall ...
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Three days straight of nothing but phones. After drooling on those luxury phones yesterday, I might as well drool over some more phones. But this time, I want something I can actually target to buy for myself. Something that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to buy, and if some pickpocket thinks to pick it out of my pocket, I won’t need to cry for all the hard work I put in just to buy it. The Nokia 3500 was something I actually considered, because it packed all those features in under $200. A phone with features like those used to cost more than $200, and I think it’s really a good buy.
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It seriously had me at the gold detail. I told you, I’m no longer on my cellphone obsession, but as I was looking for Nokia 3500 pictures, I bumped into this beauty. And seriously, if I were Beyoncé, I would have wanted to represent the Armani phone instead of the F300, though admittedly, the F300 is also pretty sexy. I guess the luxurious gold set in black was what got me drooling for this Armani phone.
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I am so not into cellular phones lately, but I had come across this phone up on Multiply.com. I just thought you’d like to know that this relatively affordable phone has pretty kick-butt features for its price. I searched for it on Google Products, and the first page results yielded a range from $174.49 at the lowest and $229 at the [believably] highest. There was a result from Detek.biz that seemed fishy because it was way out of the results’ price range at $888, so I ignored it. For a phone that has: 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video camera Java MIDP 2.0 MP3/MP4/AAC/AAC+ player Stereo FM radio Bluetooth HSCSD GPRS At that price, and with the funky black and colored trim design, ...
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