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About 2486 days ago Mobility Tips and Tricks

Eight Great Cell Phones

As an entrepreneur, your cell phone may be one of the most important tech tools you own. Not only does it enable clients, colleagues, and customers to reach you wherever you are, but many of today’s cell phones have morphed into mini-computers that serve as digital day-timers, address books, note takers, Web surfers, e-mail readers, and digital cameras. If you’re considering an upgrade, the following is a look at eight hot “basic” cell phone models that are ideal for your business: Get Their Number As the first 3.2-Mega pixel camera phone in the U.S., the Samsung a990 ($349.99 on a 2-year service plan with Verizon Wireless; www.samsung.com) captures digital images and video and includes flash, zoom, and editing capabilities. Perhaps more useful for business trips and meetings, this Bluetooth-enabled phone also features a business card scanning feature and expandable postage stamp-sized MicroSD memory to store additional applications and files. All-Locations Phone The Motorola i580 ($279.99 with Sprint Nextel; www.sprint.com) is in good shape for road warriors. Designed to meet military specs for resistance to dust, rain, and shock, this phone also offers location-based services, Bluetooth support and expandable memory via teeny TransFlash cards (sold separately) for extra file storage. Look Good Like the company’s best-selling RAZR phone, the Motorola KRZR K1 (price and carrier is TBD; www.motorola.com) features a sleek design for entrepreneurs with cell phone image concerns. But this phone also comes with useful business tools such as high-speed data access and an enhanced phonebook with fields such as IM, URL, address, and birthday. Also included: music playback, stereo Bluetooth wireless audio, a 2-Mega pixel camera, and expandable memory. Take Them With You The Nokia 6126 (price and carrier TBD; www.nokiausa.com) is a robust phone that allows you to keep most of your contacts close at hand, with storage for up to 1,000 contacts. This Nokia is a lightweight flip-phone with a 1.3 Mega pixel camera, integrated MP3 player an expandable MicroSD memory (up to 2GB). The Nokia 6126 also features hands-free chatting (wireless headset or speakerphone), voice recorder, two color displays and a calendar with reminders. Sync Up While not as svelte as the mega-popular Motorola RAZR flip phone, the stainless steel Nokia 8801 ($549.99 with T-Mobile; www.nokiausa.com) is stylish, but more importantly, it syncs with a PC for calendar appointments, to-do lists and contacts, and supports EDGE wireless service for near broadband download speeds. Perfect for lengthy business trips, this Bluetooth-enabled phone offers eight days of stand-by time. Back to Basics The Nokia 6103 (free with 2-year commitment to T-Mobile; www.nokiausa.com) is a compact GSM world phone with Bluetooth wireless technology, hands-free speakerphone, integrated camera/camcorder, and mobile Web browser. Ideal for businesspersons who rely on messaging with clients or colleagues, the clamshell handset also supports SMS, MMS, email and Nokia Xpress audio messaging which lets users record and send voice messages with the push of a button. Power Up No walls? No wires? No worries. While not a cell phone, it can keep your phone alive: the Motorola Portable Power P790 (price TBD; www.motorola.com) is a pocket-sized battery that plugs into any Motorola cell phone’s mini-USB port for power on the go. It also works to juice up your wireless Bluetooth headset. The fully-charged P790 provides one to two full battery charges for your cell phone or 10 full Bluetooth headset charges. Available in one of six colors.

About 2639 days ago PCs, Laptops, and Notebooks

Gear: Disconnected (In a Good Way)

RAZR With Brains The Motorola Q is so svelte that it may give Treo and BlackBerry owners an inferiority complex. Less than a half-inch thick, the Q is designed to work with cellular broadband (just like the most recent BlackBerry and Treo models) for fast Web surfing. It also packs a full QWERTY keyboard for pecking out e-mails and a 1.3-megapixel camera. The device runs Windows Mobile 5.0, which means you’ll have easy access to your Outlook e-mail, calendar, and contacts. The only catch is that it doesn’t use the Pocket PC edition of Windows Mobile, so you sacrifice both a touchscreen and the ability to edit Word documents and Excel files. The Q also comes with a built-in MP3 player, a relatively large 320×240-pixel display, a MiniSD card slot, and a high-quality speakerphone. Motorola is keeping mum about how the Q will compare with other smart phones on price. www.motorola.com Mobile VoIP With Netgear’s Skype Wi-Fi phone, you don’t have to be near your computer to make free PC-to-PC calls. Just like an instant-messenger program, it displays which members are available to talk. Calling regular phone numbers costs just two cents a minute. You can sign up to receive calls from regular phones for about $36 per year. (The price of the handset hasn’t been announced.) The phone works with Wi-Fi networks that need a WEP security key but not, unfortunately, from hot spots that require a user name and password. www.netgear.com Liberating Your Laptop Belkin’s CableFree USB hub promises an end to that rat’s nest of wires hanging off your laptop or desktop. Place the wireless hub anywhere in the same room as your PC and maintain connectivity with up to four gadgets simultaneously, including your MP3 player, camera, printer, or any other USB device. And it’s up to 100 times faster than Bluetooth. Just plug the small adapter into your computer’s USB port, plug your other equipment into the hub, and you’ll never need to tether your laptop to the printer again. $130; www.belkin.com Stream Catcher With Hewlett-Packard’s Advanced Digital Media LCD television, you can wirelessly stream music and videos stored on your computer to the 37-inch display. You just need a PC with a Wi-Fi connection. Using the remote control, you can easily put on a slide show of your vacation highlights and play MP3s. The LCD is also an awesome HDTV with a fast six-millisecond response time to eliminate motion blur and a sharp 6,000 to 1 contrast ratio. HP hadn’t put a price tag on it at presstime, but its model without integrated Wi-Fi goes for $2,700. www.hp.com XM on the Move The first round of portable satellite radios were about as portable as bricks. The 4.4-ounce Pioneer Inno isn’t much bigger than a cell phone, yet it can tune in and record XM’s 160 digital channels. The Inno’s one gigabyte of storage can hold up to 50 hours of music, sports, talk radio, and songs from your own digital collection. And it comes with a built-in FM transmitter so you can broadcast satellite radio and MP3s from the Inno to your car or home stereo without any accessories. $400; www.pioneerelectronics.com Mini Music Store The first portable music player to cut out the PC middleman, the MusicGremlin portable Wi-Fi device lets you buy and download tracks on the go. Just scroll the alphabet on this eight-gigabyte player’s color screen to narrow your selection of artists, choose a track or an album from the company’s library of 1.6 million songs, and start downloading songs for $1 each. You can also download preprogrammed playlists. Or use a computer to upload tracks from your existing collection. Less than $400; www.musicgremlin.com