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Palm Pixi Review

Why prance around it? The Palm Pixi's very existence is a cruel joke. More »

11/16/09

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By matt buchanan

#robots

KDDI Iida Polaris Puts Phone Inside Robot, Annoyingly Follows You Around

Leave it to a Japanese cell phone carrier to figure out a way to breed robots and cell phones. KDDI's iida Polaris is a rolling robot with a touchscreen candybar phone inside that can keep your life in order. More »

09/09/09

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By Joanna Stern

#cellphones

LG BL40, Ultra-Wide Touchscreen Phone, Launching Ultra-Soon in Europe and a Month Later in States

Since seeing the promo videos for the LG BL40 candybar, I've had a hankering to play around with it. The software is impressive, the 21:9 touchscreen display lickable, and it'll be out over the next few months. More »

09/04/09

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By Rosa Golijan

#lg

The LG BL40 "Long Chocolate" Looks Kind Of Ridiculous In Real Life

All I can think about when watching this hands-on video with LG's super-long BL40 Chocolate touchscreen phone is that we've been using the phrase "candybar phone" way too loosely for the last few years. More »

08/18/09

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By John Herrman

#knockoffs

Refreshed Nokla E81—With an L—Nokia Knockoff Packs Plenty of Swivel

If Nokia had ever followed through on that rumored swiveling "E71-type handset" we heard about last April, it would probably have looked a lot like Nokla's E81 phone here. In fact, Nokla's betting a few people don't know the difference. More »

08/16/09

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By Jack Loftus

#cellphones

HP Shows Off Two New iPaq Phones: One Touch, One Not

HP's rumored touchscreen handset has showed up in the for of the iPaq Data Communicator, a pop-out QWERTY Windows Mobile handset, with a solid but predictable spec sheet. You'll find a full range of 3G capabilities, Wi-Fi, a-GPS, a 3.1MP camera with autofocus and flash all behind a 2.8in, 320 x 240 screen, controlled with a 5-way "optical navigation" key. It measures in at the same respectable 1.7cm thickness as the T-Mobile G1 — a little thinner than its clear competitor, the HTC Touch Pro. For the old-fashioned types, you can find most of the same guts in the Voice Communicator, a sleek, half-QWERTY candybar phone More »