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Case in point: Dell consumer division VP Ron Garriques, who told analysts yesterday that the company would 'work with the top three to four' carriers 'and see what their needs are.' That's only slightly more concrete that what &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/michael-dell-confirms-doesnt-confirm-dell-smartphones/"&gt;we've been hearing Michael Dell say&lt;/a&gt; for a while now, but apparently Ron got a little more specific: reports from the event also say he indicated that plans are being drawn up to launch products in the US, Asia, and Europe. We'd love a full transcript to figure out exactly what went down, but remember that Mr. Garriques here is &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/16/ron-garriques-is-out-at-motorola/"&gt;the ex-head of Motorola's mobile devices unit&lt;/a&gt;, so he's got some experience cranking out handsets for every market. Just a note, though, Ron: if you ever &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/adamo-redux-dell-teases-new-thin-and-light-laptops-in-paris-wit/"&gt;pull an Adamo&lt;/a&gt; on us and reveal a product without specs, you are &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; not invited to sit at our table for lunch anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget CELLS&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-6328477250887084446?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/m7tjdvV845s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/m7tjdvV845s/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-9097894343857154882</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:45:17.249-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Samsung</category><title>Samsung Comeback gets spec’d</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/14/samsung-comeback-gets-specd/#comments"&gt;Samsung Comeback gets spec’d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/14/samsung-comeback-gets-specd/" &gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter" style="margin: 4px;" src="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/img00103-20090505-1255.jpg" alt="" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;You might recall the Samsung Comeback — though its name was unknown at the time — from a group of four T-Mobile-bound headsets &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/06/four-sexy-3g-samsungs-get-pictured-on-their-way-to-t-mobile/" &gt;we spied back in early May&lt;/a&gt;. Sure it was likely the least interesting of the group but you’ll be hard pressed to find a T-Mobile subscriber who isn’t at least somewhat excited when news of a new 3G handset rolls around. Well T-Moblers, the next piece of the puzzle just fell into place as the complete specs of this little QWERTY have been uncovered. Highlights include the QWERTY keyboard of course, a 2 megapixel camera with video capture, microSDHC support, integrated email and IM support, Bluetooth, 75MB of internal memory, a 960 mAh battery and a pair of low-quality displays. Oh, and let’s not forget 1700MHz 3G. We’d say this little guy has the potential to make a decent showing with the tween demo as long as we see a price tag around $50. Hit the jump for the full specs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-9097894343857154882?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/k0eg4Q5lfIA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/k0eg4Q5lfIA/samsung-b7620-armani-2-specs-unveiled.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/samsung-b7620-armani-2-specs-unveiled.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-4244352052373005485</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:43:28.082-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">T-Mobile</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Samsung</category><title>T-Mobile Samsung Highlight gets official, July release</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/t-mobile-samsung-highlight-gets-official-july-release/#comments"&gt;T-Mobile Samsung Highlight gets official, July release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30130 aligncenter" title="22738-30920-samsung_highlight-ice_front_right" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/22738-30920-samsung_highlight-ice_front_right.jpg" alt="" width="249" height="529" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s not a T-Mobile myTouch 3G (aka the dumbest name in marketing history), but Samsung is going to take care of that feature-phone segment with a new 3G handset — or at least try to. The Samsung Highlight will be available this month if you’re interested. It’ll retail for $150 after rebates and here are the official specs:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Large touch-screen display, thin-profile design&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Available in two colors options: fire and ice &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;3 megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom and video capture &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stereo Bluetooth &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;microSD slot for up to 16 GB of optional removable memory &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Music player supports MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+ &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Support for SMS, MMS, instant messaging (IM) and e-mail &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;IM support: AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;E-mail support: AOL, Yahoo!, additional POP3 accounts &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Complete Web access through T-Mobile web2go &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;A-GPS with Location Based Services by TeleNav &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quad-band GSM world phone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;UMTS/HSDPA-capable (1700/2100 – AWS Band IV) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Display: 1.61 x 2.64 inches, 240 x 400 pixels, 262k TFT display &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;4.27 x 2.11 x 0.54 inches; 3.7 ounces &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-4244352052373005485?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/bY6e6w56koE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/bY6e6w56koE/t-mobile-samsung-highlight-gets.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/t-mobile-samsung-highlight-gets.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-7718436228352134376</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:41:27.324-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sony Ericsson</category><title>Sony Ericsson announces entry level W205 and W205a Walkman phones</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-announces-w205-and-w205a-walkman-phones/#comments"&gt;Sony Ericsson announces entry level W205 and W205a Walkman phones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-announces-w205-and-w205a-walkman-phones/" &gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30148 aligncenter" style="margin: 4px;" title="se-w205" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/se-w205.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="566" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you had always been itching for some of that Sony Ericsson Walkman goodness but were hoping for something wrapped in a slightly more attainable package, this is your bag. Sony Ericsson has just announced the W205 and W205a Walkman phones, a pair Sony Ericsson promises to be the most affordable handsets to ever grace its Walkman line. Highlights:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy your music with the high quality Walkman experience&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;FM radio – catch up with the latest news and views&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;TrackID – name that tune at a press of a button&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;1.3 megapixel camera – take great shots and share the fun instantly&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Video recording – capture your favorite moments on film&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bluetooth™ – share your favorite songs, pictures and video clips, or connect to a wireless headset&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Multiple phonebook – keep your contacts in order and share your mobile phone with your family&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Memory Stick Micro (M2) support up to 2GB&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;While the press release throws the word ‘affordable’ around willy nilly, no pricing information has been provided at this point. There’s also no word on exactly when the W205 or W205a will be released — SE says they’re both expected to launch within three months — though we do notice that USA is missing from the W205a’s local availability list despite the presence of GSM 850/1900. This either means a carrier deal is still in the works or SE is skipping the US — and we doubt many BGR readers will miss it. Besides, we’ve already seen &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/13/atts-nokia-surge-gets-official/" &gt;plenty&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/13/sprint-adds-lg-lx290-to-portfolio-tour-chuckles-smugly/" &gt;new&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/14/samsung-comeback-gets-specd/" &gt;tween&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/t-mobile-samsung-highlight-gets-official-july-release/" &gt;phones&lt;/a&gt; this week. Hit the jump for two more shots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="more-30146"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30171 aligncenter" title="w205-black" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/w205-black.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="687" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30170 aligncenter" title="w205-open" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/w205-open.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="638" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-7718436228352134376?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/NL4vF_BEI4c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/NL4vF_BEI4c/sony-ericsson-announces-entry-level.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/sony-ericsson-announces-entry-level.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-4435810122281411862</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:41:03.241-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sony Ericsson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ATT</category><title>Sony Ericsson C905a: coming July 19th to an AT&amp;T store near you</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-c905a-coming-july-19th-to-an-att-store-near-you/#comments"&gt;Sony Ericsson C905a: coming July 19th to an AT&amp;T store near you&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-c905a-coming-july-19th-to-an-att-store-near-you/" &gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-30189" style="margin: 4px;" title="se-c905a1" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/se-c905a1.jpg" alt="" width="459" height="434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well boys and girls, call this one confirmed. &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/09/sony-ericsson-c905a-hitting-att-july-19th/" &gt;We scooped it last week&lt;/a&gt; and now Sony Ericsson has made AT&amp;T’s C905a official. July 19th is indeed the date you can get your mitts on the 8.1 megapixel beast and as far as pricing goes, you’re looking at 179.99 after rebate on a 2-year contract. A quick recap of the spec highlights:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;8.1 megapixel camera with a xenon flash, auto-focus and video capture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, dual-band HSDPA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;On-device image editing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scratch-resistant mineral glass display&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;GPS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;FM Radio&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bluetooth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Memory Stick Micro (M2) support up to 16GB&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok photogs, stop drooling on your keyboards. It’s definitely no &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/08/new-images-of-sony-ericsson-rachael-and-kiki-surface-along-with-a-rachael-ui-video/" &gt;‘Rachael’&lt;/a&gt; but its also a hell of a lot more exciting than the &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-announces-w205-and-w205a-walkman-phones/" &gt;W205/W205a&lt;/a&gt; SE (re)announced this morning. Anyone planning to check this puppy out this Sunday? Hit the jump for more shots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="more-30175"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30188 aligncenter" title="se-c905a2" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/se-c905a2.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="604" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30191 aligncenter" title="se-c905a31" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/se-c905a31.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="604" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-4435810122281411862?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/EC-Vde7ay9g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/EC-Vde7ay9g/sony-ericsson-c905a-coming-july-19th-to.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/sony-ericsson-c905a-coming-july-19th-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-3732070704997781591</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:40:34.087-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sony Ericsson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ATT</category><title>Sony Ericsson W518a completes the trifecta; also hitting AT&amp;T on July 19th</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-w518a-completes-the-trifecta-also-hitting-att-on-july-19th/#comments"&gt;Sony Ericsson W518a completes the trifecta; also hitting AT&amp;T on July 19th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30194 aligncenter" style="margin: 4px;" title="se-w518a1" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/se-w518a1.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="443" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sony’s Ericsson’s day in the sun continues with the announcement of the AT&amp;T-bound W518a. Slim and sleek, this clamshell Walkman phone packs as much music-centric functionality as it can into a tight little package. Highlights include ‘Shake Control’ technology that allows users to shuffle, skip and control volume by shaking the handset, and ‘Gesture Control’, which lets users ignore incoming calls or snooze alarms by waving a hand over the camera lens. Pretty sweet. Beyond that, the W518a touts a host of social networking features — just like every other handset in the world these days — and of course the beloved Walkman music player. Pricing is set at a very reasonable $49.99 after rebates on a 2-year contract and like &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-c905a-coming-july-19th-to-an-att-store-near-you/" &gt;the C905a&lt;/a&gt;, this little guy will hit store shelves this Sunday, July 19th, Hit the jump for more angles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="more-30187"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30193 aligncenter" title="se-w518a2" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/se-w518a2.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="335" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-3732070704997781591?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/uX0lcXGou7Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/uX0lcXGou7Y/sony-ericsson-w518a-completes-trifecta.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/sony-ericsson-w518a-completes-trifecta.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-8296543989442169480</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:39:29.789-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sprint</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LG</category><title>LG's LX290 for Sprint touts "compact and sleek productivity"</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/13/lgs-lx290-for-sprint-touts-compact-and-sleek-productivity/"&gt;LG's LX290 for Sprint touts "compact and sleek productivity"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?phoneSKU=LG290KIT"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/07/lg-lx290-ofc.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Compact and sleek productivity' might be a bit over the top, but the bottom line is this: at $29.99 on contract after rebates, &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/category/lg"&gt;LG's&lt;/a&gt; new LX290 for Sprint is one of the cheapest ways to get Sprint Navigation and email access in your pocket. The slider packs a 1.3 megapixel camera for basic shooting needs, instant messaging capability, AGPS (naturally), a 320 x 240 display, and a 2.5mm audio jack -- we would've preferred 3.5, of course, but at that bargain-basement price, we'll take what we can get. The phone is available now, so go on, get productive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com"&gt;Engadget Mobile&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-8296543989442169480?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/PqsaJPshVqI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/PqsaJPshVqI/lg-lx290-for-sprint-touts-and-sleek.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/lg-lx290-for-sprint-touts-and-sleek.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-2187340901515671782</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:38:45.548-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nokia</category><title>Nokia E55 hits the FCC if the E52 isn't your style</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/14/nokia-e55-hits-the-fcc-if-the-e52-isnt-your-style/"&gt;Nokia E55 hits the FCC if the E52 isn't your style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&amp;RequestTimeout=500&amp;calledFromFrame=N&amp;application_id=533859&amp;fcc_id=%27PYARM-482%27"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/07/nokia-e55-fcc.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you're like, 'man, I love the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/E52/"&gt;E52&lt;/a&gt; -- I just wish it had more... &lt;em&gt;keys&lt;/em&gt;!' Yeah? Well, there's a phone for that, and it just passed the FCC. The 'dash 1' variant of the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/E55/"&gt;E55&lt;/a&gt; just garnered approval from the American powers that be, but sadly, this particular unit is a special kind of useless in the States because it's doing HSPA on 900 and 2100MHz alone. That's not to say you couldn't use it on EDGE in the Western Hemisphere, but what's the fun in that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com"&gt;Engadget Mobile&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-2187340901515671782?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/a_EI28yCQIc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/a_EI28yCQIc/nokia-e55-hits-fcc-if-e52-isn-your.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/nokia-e55-hits-fcc-if-e52-isn-your.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-827105503336998440</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:38:01.558-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sharp</category><title>NTT DoCoMo succumbs to the solar trend, announces Sharp's SH-08A</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/15/ntt-docomo-succumbs-to-the-solar-trend-announces-sharps-sh-08a/"&gt;NTT DoCoMo succumbs to the solar trend, announces Sharp's SH-08A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/2009/001448.html"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/07/ntt-docomo-sh-08a.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Sharp's domestic carrier partners, solar power is &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/05/19/sharps-solar-936sh-and-934sh-with-memory-lcd-headline-latest/"&gt;all&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/05/24/kddi-au-unveils-summer-09-lineup-e-books-solar-power-and-720/"&gt;rage&lt;/a&gt; right now, and now NTT DoCoMo is hopping up on the exceptionally eco-friendly bandwagon with the SH-08A. Bearing the same SOLAR HYBRID badging as its sister device on SoftBank, the 936SH, the SH-08A flip features IPX5 / IPX7 compliance for splashes and submersion up to a meter, an 8 megapixel camera, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, and -- of course -- a wide VGA display. You'll get one minute of talk time for every 10 minutes of time spent baking in the sun, which certainly isn't bad when you're in a pinch and there's not a wall outlet for miles. The SH-08A will go on display at Wireless Japan this month with sales following on in September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com"&gt;Engadget Mobile&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-827105503336998440?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/LM6RPA-_umk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/LM6RPA-_umk/ntt-docomo-succumbs-to-solar-trend.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/ntt-docomo-succumbs-to-solar-trend.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-258268251395073144</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T14:36:39.718-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sony Ericsson</category><title>Sony Ericsson hand delivers 8.1MP C905a and W518a Walkman to AT&amp;T</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/sony-ericsson-hand-delivers-8-1mp-c905a-and-w518a-walkman-to-atand/"&gt;Sony Ericsson hand delivers 8.1MP C905a and W518a Walkman to AT&amp;amp;T&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&amp;cdvn=news&amp;newsarticleid=26944"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/07/att-c905a-w518a.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While one could argue that Sony Ericsson should really be focusing its efforts on getting a &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/08/sony-ericsson-rachael-images-and-ui-video-leak-out-kiki-comes-f/"&gt;Rachael&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/05/22/sony-ericsson-drops-clues-on-android-2-0-based-smartphone/"&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt;-based handset out on the double, it's evidently content with digging up a &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/c905"&gt;year-old phone&lt;/a&gt;, slapping an 'a' on the end of it and passing it along to AT&amp;T. The 8.1 megapixel C905 that we were so jazzed about in &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/17/sony-ericssons-8-1-megapixel-c905-breaks-free/"&gt;June &lt;em&gt;of 2008&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has indeed been certified for AT&amp;T as the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/C905a/"&gt;C905a Cyber-shot&lt;/a&gt; (left and center), offering the same 8.1 megapixel sensor, face detection, AutoFocus, Xenon flash, GPS tagging and 3G support. In related news, SE is also offering up the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/30/sony-ericsson-w518a-for-atandt-gets-fcc-blessing/"&gt;518a Walkman&lt;/a&gt; (shown right) on the same carrier, which features a 3.2 megapixel camera, an obsession with Facebook, Shake Control and OTA music downloads from Napster and eMusic via AT&amp;T Music. Both sets will be available on July 19th for $179.99 and $49.99 (respectively) after mail-in rebate and a two-year agreement, which sounds 'way too high' and 'too high' to us (also respectively).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget CELLS&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-258268251395073144?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/embiOnRwiCA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/embiOnRwiCA/sony-ericsson-hand-delivers-81mp-c905a.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/sony-ericsson-hand-delivers-81mp-c905a.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-916759096150502710</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T16:56:14.901-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nokia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ATT</category><title>AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cellphones.techfresh.net/att-nokia-surge-to-be-released-on-july-19th-2009/#comments"&gt;AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://cellphones.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ATT_Nokia_Surge_03.jpg" alt="AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009" title="AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009" width="400" height="263" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8593" style="margin-left: 50px" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nokia and AT&amp;T have officially announced the Nokia Surge, an entry-level S60 handset with slide-out QWERTY keyboard and 3G connectivity. The Nokia Surge has a 2.4-inch (240 x 320) LCD display, a 2MP shooter, A-GPS with AT&amp;T Navigator support, and AT&amp;T Video Share for video calls. In addition, the phone also supports a full messaging suite, including IM, SMS, MMS and email. You can easily upload and share pictures or videos from the phone to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr using JuiceCaster. The browser has Flash support for streaming video, and various mobile music download options such as Napster, eMusic and XM Radio. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Nokia Surge will be available on AT&amp;T from July 19th, 2009 for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. It will require a two-year agreement on both a voice plan (minimum $39.99) and data plan (minimum $30), which adds up to $1,759.75 over the course of the contract. &lt;span id="more-8590"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://cellphones.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ATT_Nokia_Surge_02.jpg" alt="AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009" title="AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009" width="308" height="400" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8592" style="margin-left: 50px" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://cellphones.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ATT_Nokia_Surge_01.jpg" alt="AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009" title="AT&amp;T Nokia Surge To Be Released on July 19th, 2009" width="400" height="376" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8591" style="margin-left: 50px" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://cellphones.techfresh.net"&gt;Upcoming Cell Phones&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-916759096150502710?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/v1xMzc0Dhzw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/v1xMzc0Dhzw/at-nokia-surge-to-be-released-on-july.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/at-nokia-surge-to-be-released-on-july.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-6207993727422149074</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T16:56:09.263-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BlackBerry</category><title>Blackberry 9550 may be the Storm 2</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.phonemag.com/blackberry-9550-may-be-the-storm-2-079567.php#comments"&gt;Blackberry 9550 may be the Storm 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Blackberry line is one of the most popular series of smartphones available. I personally don’t care for the devices to much; my wife has a Curve that is nowhere near as good as my iPhone for net surfing for me. Still there are many who wait for the next Blackberry with glee.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.phonemag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/blackberry9550.jpg" alt="" width="414" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9568" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to Boy Genius Report, it has some information that makes it seem that the Blackberry 9550 may indeed be the Storm 2. The Storm 2 is due to hit Verizon later this year and may hit Vodafone overseas as well.&lt;span id="more-9567"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The big new feature for the Storm is Wi-Fi, which seems very two years ago to be a big feature in my book. We can also hope the device gets a better screen; the original Storm drew criticism for its screen. Features of the 9550 include CDMA 1x RTT/EVDO Rev. A, quad-band GSM, Wi-Fi, a 3.2-megapixel camera, 360 x 480 capacitive touchscreen and more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;[via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/12/blackberry-9550-is-the-storm-2/"&gt;BGR&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-6207993727422149074?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/NPm0z6QOYb4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/NPm0z6QOYb4/blackberry-9550-may-be-storm-2.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/blackberry-9550-may-be-storm-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-8300840611121367839</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T16:55:57.438-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">T-Mobile</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><title>T-Mobile UK lands LG's GT500 as an exclusive</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/11/t-mobile-uk-lands-lgs-gt500-as-an-exclusive/"&gt;T-Mobile UK lands LG's GT500 as an exclusive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/25222/lg-gt500-launches-t-mobile-exclusive.phtml"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/07/lg-gt500-t-mobile.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want a peek at a phone you'll almost certainly never have the opportunity to own? Look no further than T-Mobile UK for the GT500 from LG where the well-equipped HSDPA full touch handset that we've been tracking for a while now is apparently now shipping. Headlining features include a 5 megapixel cam with image stabilization, AGPS, tethering capability, 130MB of onboard storage, and microSD expansion (though really, what phone in 2009 doesn't have a microSD slot besides the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Pre/"&gt;Pre&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/iPhone/"&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/08/more-pantech-escapade-shots-emerge-sounding-very-low-end/"&gt;a weird Pantech&lt;/a&gt; here and there?). Rumors persist that this &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/27/rogers-getting-the-5-megapixel-lg-gt500/"&gt;might eventually show up on Rogers&lt;/a&gt;, so one way or another, you're probably going to have to end up in a Commonwealth nation if you want this thing badly enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com"&gt;Engadget Mobile&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-8300840611121367839?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/LbbmhANp6_Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/LbbmhANp6_Q/t-mobile-uk-lands-lg-gt500-as-exclusive.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/t-mobile-uk-lands-lg-gt500-as-exclusive.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-8458423758677049284</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T16:55:55.294-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sprint</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BlackBerry</category><title>Sprint's crazy "Inferno" BlackBerry Curve 8330 now available</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/12/sprints-crazy-inferno-blackberry-curve-8330-now-available/"&gt;Sprint's crazy "Inferno" BlackBerry Curve 8330 now available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?phoneSKU=S8330RIMAN"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/07/blackberry-8330-inferno-sprint.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know you. You're the type of self-styled individual that likes to play by your own rules. You effortlessly mix work and play, transitioning from power lunches, to 2PM meetings, to 5PM happy hours, and you never change phones. You want your BlackBerry to make a statement -- a bold statement (but not that &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Bold/"&gt;Bold&lt;/a&gt;). For you, Sprint and RIM proudly present a new color of the Curve 8330, &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/09/sprint-getting-orange-blackberry-curve-8330-red-8350i/"&gt;'Inferno'&lt;/a&gt; -- and as the name implies, it blinds the retinas. It's available for $49.99 after discounts on contract, the same you'll pay for the far less statement-making titanium and red variations. You &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; want to make a statement, don't you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com"&gt;Engadget Mobile&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-8458423758677049284?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/jfoho4NIhmU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/jfoho4NIhmU/sprint-crazy-blackberry-curve-8330-now.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/sprint-crazy-blackberry-curve-8330-now.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-5213746188749036772</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T16:55:32.701-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LG</category><title>LG's GB130: at least it has an FM button</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/13/lgs-gb130-at-least-it-has-an-fm-button/"&gt;LG's GB130: at least it has an FM button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mobile-review.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fshow_comments.pl%3FnewsId%3D25078"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/07/lg-gb130.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming off that epic &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/13/lgs-next-gen-chocolate-bl40-teased-on-video-looks-good-enough/"&gt;BL40 tease&lt;/a&gt;, it's hard to take something from the same company that looks like this very seriously -- but hey, you've got to cover every market segment to be a global top-five manufacturer, and that's exactly how LG rolls. The GB130 is an ultra-simple slider destined for the Russian market, featuring a 2-inch screen at 160 x 120 resolution, an integrated FM radio (conveniently accessed via a dedicated button), and 6.5 claimed hours of talk time. Look for it on your next trip to Moscow for 2,990 rubles (about $91).&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com"&gt;Engadget Mobile&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-5213746188749036772?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/-U43RBJidD4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/-U43RBJidD4/lg-gb130-at-least-it-has-fm-button.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/lg-gb130-at-least-it-has-fm-button.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-8155381218358437214</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T16:55:32.415-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sprint</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LG</category><title>Sprint adds LG LX290 to portfolio, Tour chuckles smugly</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/13/sprint-adds-lg-lx290-to-portfolio-tour-chuckles-smugly/#comments"&gt;Sprint adds LG LX290 to portfolio, Tour chuckles smugly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?phoneSKU=LG290KIT" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/nextelonline.nextel.com');"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-30008 aligncenter" style="margin: 4px;" title="lg-lx290" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/lg-lx290.png" alt="" width="394" height="340" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next up in &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/13/atts-nokia-surge-gets-official/" &gt;today’s line of handsets&lt;/a&gt; eager to fight their way into the pockets of the 14-and-under crowd is LG’s LX290. Available nary a day after &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/12/blackberry-tour-9630-on-sale-today/" &gt;Sprint’s BlackBerry Tour&lt;/a&gt; hit the scene — just to help ensure our readers would barely blink — this latest offering from Sprint features, well, basically nothing:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENTERTAINMENT &amp; PERSONALIZATION &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; NFL Mobile Live providing live audio broadcasts of every regular season game and watch the live broadcasts of all NFL Network games. Get real-time red zone alerts, scores, stats, live NFL Network 24/7 and more. Manage your fantasy football team like a pro with up-to-the-minute insights, analysis, stats and alerts.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; 1.3 MP camera with 2x digital zoom and Picture Messaging to shoot, share, print high-resolution digital photos instantly, and upload photos directly to social networking sites.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; 2.5 mm headset jack &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRODUCTIVITY &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Sprint Navigation with GPS-enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, one-click traffic rerouting and more than 10 million local listings &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Four conveniently-located shortcut keys for quick access to texting, email, personal calendar and alarm &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Easy, one-touch access to all your personal and work email including AOL/AIM, Yahoo!, Windows Live (Hotmail and MSN) and more &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Record a voice message and send it to as many as 25 friends at once, without even making a call &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Built-in productivity tools such as planner and scheduler, memo pad, world clock, alarm clock, calculator and more&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPECIFICATIONS &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Dimensions: 4.09 x 1.94 x 0.63 inches; 3.6 ounces &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Display: 1.33 x 1.77 inches TFT (240 x 320 pixels QVGA and 262K vibrant colors) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Standard Lithium (LiIon) battery: up to 6 hours continuous talk time*&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Imagine… A handset with specs so sparse that a 2.5mm headset jack is actually worth mentioning. Right on. The LG LX290 is available immediately for $29.99 after mail-in rebate on a 2-year contract. The line forms to the right this time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-8155381218358437214?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/AH7NqTjXqFg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/AH7NqTjXqFg/sprint-adds-lg-lx290-to-portfolio-tour.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/sprint-adds-lg-lx290-to-portfolio-tour.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-2685165119073131832</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T16:55:02.489-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LG</category><title>Is this the LG BL40 Chocolate? If not, it should be</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/13/is-this-the-lg-bl40-chocolate-if-not-it-should-be/#comments"&gt;Is this the LG BL40 Chocolate? If not, it should be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/13/is-this-the-lg-bl40-chocolate-if-not-it-should-be/" &gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-29989 aligncenter" style="margin: 4px;" title="lg-bl40" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/lg-bl40.png" alt="" width="500" height="302" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;It looks as if we no longer have to wait on LG to complete a &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/07/lg-slowly-unveils-the-next-generation-chocolate/" &gt;slow and painful&lt;/a&gt; unveiling of its brand new Black Label series phone — if this is the real deal, of course. A very convincing promotional video popped up on YouTube that, if genuine, not only gives us our first shots of the device but also details the majority of its specs. As expected, the BL40 appears to be a very formidable phone with features that include a 4-inch 345x800 capacitive touchscreen display (note the very unusual 21:9 aspect ratio) under scratch resistant glass, 5 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach lens, 7.2Mbps UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, aGPS and the what appears to be a suped up S Class UI. While we feel it necessary to again stress that this video is in no way official yet and could certainly be a farce, we would love nothing more than to see this puppy materialize. Hit the jump to check out the video.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span id="more-29956"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fU8Ur_4K3z0" /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fU8Ur_4K3z0"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-2685165119073131832?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/na-_ex62cp8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/na-_ex62cp8/is-this-lg-bl40-chocolate-if-not-it.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-this-lg-bl40-chocolate-if-not-it.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-2263950595990719253</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-10T06:09:43.150-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Toshiba</category><title>Video: Toshiba TG01 officially exclusive to Orange UK</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/video-toshiba-tg01-officially-exclusive-to-orange-uk/"&gt;Video: Toshiba TG01 officially exclusive to Orange UK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsroom.orange.co.uk/2009/07/09/orange-brings-the-portable-cinematic-experience-to-mobile-users-in-the-uk-with-the-exclusive-launch-of-the-toshiba-tg01/"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/07/9july_toshi_orange_excl.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orange has come out this morning, in advance of the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/toshibas-tg01-stepping-out-in-london-on-july-9th/"&gt;official UK unveiling of the phone&lt;/a&gt;, to confirm it will be the exclusive UK carrier of the TG01. We can confirm availability from July 10 (i.e. tomorrow), and the phone can be had for free on a 2-year contract costing £39.15 per month. To figure out if that sort of investment is worth it, we'll have an intrepid reporter stationed at this afternoon's event, who'll be bringing you up-to-the-minute details and imagery of the first Snapdragon handset to hit British shores. You'll find the full PR at the read link, or continue reading for an unshaven Orange rep walking you through the phone's specs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news4853.html"&gt;CoolSmartPhone&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-2263950595990719253?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/QtmaWV2g-Js" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/QtmaWV2g-Js/t-mobiles-mytouch-3g-available-for-pre.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/t-mobiles-mytouch-3g-available-for-pre.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-1217283697482758855</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-10T06:09:04.499-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">T-Mobile</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><title>T-Mobile USA: no Hero for you</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/08/t-mobile-usa-no-hero-for-you/#comments"&gt;T-Mobile USA: no Hero for you&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=4549" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.phonescoop.com');"&gt;&lt;img class="size-full wp-image-28595 aligncenter" style="margin: 4px;" title="htc-hero" src="http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/htc-hero.png" alt="" width="300" height="494" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well T-Mobile customers, it looks like you can’t have your myTouch 3G and eat your Hero, too. Great news trickled through this morning as the &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/08/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-now-available-for-pre-order/" &gt;myTouch 3G became available for pre-order&lt;/a&gt; to current T-Mobile subscribers. On the flip side of the coin however, T-Mobile USA CTO Cole Brodman confirmed at a T-Mobile event today what many had expected — the highly anticipated HTC Hero will not be coming to the nation’s number four wireless carrier. Brodman’s exact words: ‘[T-Mobile USA] has no plans to bring the HTC Hero to market.’ It’s definitely a shame considering the high desirability factor carried by HTC’s upcoming handset but there’s still hope the Hero will drop with AT&amp;T in the near future. So what do you think, T-Moblers — sad to learn there’s no Hero in your future or will the myTouch 3G suit your Android-loving needs while we wait for the &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/08/t-mobiles-walmart-roadmap-t-mobile-g1-v2/" &gt;next generation&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/04/t-mobile-android-roadmap-reveals-samsung-houdini-g1-v2-coming-this-fall/" &gt;T-Mobile Android handsets&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com"&gt;The Boy Genius Report&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-1217283697482758855?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/UZ6YHEPysxQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/UZ6YHEPysxQ/t-mobile-usa-no-hero-for-you.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/t-mobile-usa-no-hero-for-you.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-353558246424089790</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-10T06:08:25.039-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Motorola</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><title>Motorola ROKR ZN50 Full Touch Music Slider For Korea</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cellphones.techfresh.net/motorola-rokr-zn50-full-touch-music-slider-for-korea/#comments"&gt;Motorola ROKR ZN50 Full Touch Music Slider For Korea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8539" title="Motorola ROKR ZN50 Full Touch Music Slider For Korea" src="http://cellphones.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Motorola-ROKR-ZN50-interfac.gif" alt="Motorola ROKR ZN50 Full Touch Music Slider For Korea" width="400" height="301" style="margin-left: 50px; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #ccc;" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Motorola has come out with another full touchscreen music slider phone for the Korean market. Dubbed as the Moto ROKR ZN50, the handset offers a 3.2-inch TFT color display with 240 x 427 resolution, a 3.2MP camera, Motorola’s Panorama UI, a microSD card slot, a T-DMB2 TV tuner, SRS WOW HD sound system, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, a USB 2.0 (HS) port, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a 950 mAh battery and supports WCDMA 2100, GSM 900/1800/1900 as well as HSDPA 7.2Mbps connectivities. Sadly, there’s no word on pricing yet. &lt;span id="more-8538"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://cellphones.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/MotoROKR-ZN50-hardware.gif" alt="Motorola ROKR ZN50 Full Touch Music Slider For Korea" title="Motorola ROKR ZN50 Full Touch Music Slider For Korea" width="400" height="369" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8540" style="margin-left: 50px;" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.unwiredview.com/2009/07/08/motorola-rokr-zn50-full-touch-music-slider-for-korea/"&gt;Unwiredview&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-353558246424089790?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/ZlaTLhJFt4s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/ZlaTLhJFt4s/motorola-rokr-zn50-full-touch-music.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/motorola-rokr-zn50-full-touch-music.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-6637545998783593802</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-10T06:07:49.983-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><title>More Pantech Escapade shots emerge, sounding very low-end</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/07/08/more-pantech-escapade-shots-emerge-sounding-very-low-end/"&gt;More Pantech Escapade shots emerge, sounding very low-end&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Official-looking-pictures-of-the-Verizon-Escapade-article-a_5884.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/07/pantech-escapade-phonearena-2.jpg"  alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're not sure we understand the market for a global phone on Verizon that's so low-end that it doesn't even support 3G, but Pantech seems to understand it -- or at least it &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; it does -- with the latest info leaking out about its upcoming &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Escapade/"&gt;Escapade&lt;/a&gt; flip. The phone will apparently support CDMA with 1x data alongside GSM with GPRS data, which makes it next to useless to getting serious work done from your handset no matter where you happen to be in the world. Otherwise, it's expected to feature a 2 megapixel camera and a measly 2.5mm headphone jack, but it's said to be lacking a microSD slot -- something found on even the most basic phones for the last year or two. Global or not, this thing better be within a few bucks of free when it launches; as of right now, we don't know when that'll be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com"&gt;Engadget Mobile&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-6637545998783593802?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~4/AYwOUo-bb2c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CellAndSmartPhonesReviews/~3/AYwOUo-bb2c/lg-gc990-louvre-121mp-touchscreen.html</link><author>mavilonus@gmail.com (.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cell-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/lg-gc990-louvre-121mp-touchscreen.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2835528289554643487.post-7311065089293129195</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-08T05:55:21.134-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cellphones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LG</category><title>Low-end messaging phone LG GW300 in works</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intomobile.com/2009/07/08/low-end-messaging-phone-lg-gw300-in-works.html#comments"&gt;Low-end messaging phone LG GW300 in works&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img title="LG GW300" src="http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/lg-gw300.jpg" alt="LG GW300" width="350" height="283" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;LG is working on a new low-end messaging phone called GW300. We don’t have all the details at this stage, but we do know the upcoming device will come with pre-installed Facebook, email and IM clients, as well as the full QWERTY keyboard. Rest of the specs include 2.4-inch QVGA screen, Bluetooth, some camera (we don’t have the megapixel count) and EDGE data (no 3G). Moreover, we know it will be quite light device, weighing only 95 grams.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;And that’s about all there’s to say about the LG GW300 at the moment. As soon as we hear something new, we’ll certainly write about it. Stay tuned…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via: &lt;a href="http://www.unwiredview.com/2009/07/07/lg-gw300-cheap-qwerty-phone-for-facebook-and-e-mail/" target="_blank"&gt;Unwired View&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2835528289554643487-7311065089293129195?l=cell-reviews.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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