Gadgets & Gear: Smart Phones
May 31, 2007
It's the future calling and these products are more than smart phones, they're pure genius
Apple iphone
Apple's first new phone promises to be the most elegant combination of multimedia and Web navigation on a phone to date. The new phone offers up to 8 gigabytes of memory to store music and pictures from its 2-megapixel camera. With an iPod interface and storage rivaling standalone mp3 players, the iPhone could easily be your only portable music player. The iPhone offers an HTML rich e-mail client, built-in Google and Yahoo! search engines, and the Safari Web browser, which can sync bookmarks from your personal computer. Like other Apple products, the iPhone has a simple yet beautiful design: there is no keyboard and most of the phone's front surface is touch screen.
$499 for 4 GB; $599 for 8 GB.
Available only through Cingular Wireless
Samsung BlackJack
The Samsung BlackJack is a beautiful combination of work and play. On one hand, the BlackJack has a QWERTY keyboard for fast e-mailing and comes with Microsoft Mobile 5.0, which offers mobile versions of Microsoft Office with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook e-mail, contacts, and a calendar. On the other hand, it's a sleek camera phone and mp3 player, with access to Cingular Music, a subscription music service, and Cingular video, an on-demand streaming video service. For work, play and style, the BlackJack is a good bet.
$199.99 with two-year activation and unlimited data plan
Rim Blackberry 8800
Love your BlackBerry but hate toting it around? The new BlackBerry 8800 is for you. Along with the suite of BlackBerry services, such as e-mail and a built-in global positioning system, this phone is light, weighing only 4.7 ounces, and only about a half-inch thick. New features include a trackball for navigating among features and scrolling through e-mails.
$299.99 with a new Cingular Wireless voice & data plan
Helio Ocean
Slide up, and you see a number pad; slide to the right, and a QWERTY keyboard is revealed. The Ocean, a new phone from Helio, fits both keyboards along with 200 megabytes of memory and a 2.4-inch display screen into a 4-inch phone. The phone has its own interface for downloadable content such as games, TV shows, movies and music, though its storage is a little low. For work, the phone offers e-mail and IM capabilities, while its unique contacts software integrates AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
$295
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