Cell Phones

The Motorola Evoke QA4, now available for Cricket customers, features a 2.8-inch touch-screen and a slide out traditional numeric keypad. Web info is displayed on the home screen, which can be customized using integrated widget and personalized RSS feeds. The Evoke also features a full HTML browser that will use Cricket's 3G EVDO network.

The Evoke is highly customizable with widgets to provide real-time access to the information that is most important to users. It also features a 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, integrated music player and microSD card slot with removable memory for music, stereo Bluetooth, preloaded BREW games, voice activated dialing and more.

The Motorola Evoke is available now at www.mycricket.com/cricketphones/details/evoke for $299.99 and will soon be available at Cricket retail stores and Cricket dealers.

AT&T is offering the Samsung Eternity touch screen phone for $79.99, which features AT&T Mobile TV, AT&T Navigator and AT&T FamilyMap. The Samsung Eternity's touch screen is 3.2-inches and boasts a full-touch QWERTY keypad providing customers access to messaging, AT&T Mobile Music with Napster Mobile and a 3.0 megapixel camera. The Eternity also has a web browser that works great on AT&T's 3G network.

More info on AT&T's most popular services:

• AT&T Mobile TV offers full-length, broadcast-quality live and time-shifted television programming from 12 leading news and entertainment brands (starting at $15 a month).
• AT&T Navigator provides a GPS turn-by-turn, voice-guided and on-screen directions complete with traffic alerts, one-touch rerouting, the ability to find gas by price, weather reports and more (free for 30 days and then $9.99 per month).
• AT&T FamilyMap lets customers see the location of family members on a map from a PC or AT&T wireless phone. You can also find surrounding landmarks, schools, parks and more ($9.99 per month to locate two phones on an account or $14.99 per month to locate up to five phones on an account. Families can try it for free for the first 30 days).

The Samsung Eternity is available through AT&T retail locations or online at www.wireless.att.com for $79.99 with a two-year service agreement. (Pay $129.99 and after mail-in rebate receive $50 AT&T Promotion Card. Two-year agreement and minimum $20 data or messaging plan required.)

The Casio EXILIM features a 180-degree rotating display, professional 5.1 megapixel camera and access to instant messaging, Visual Voice Mail and V CAST Music with Rhapsody and is available in black or champagne.

The EXILIM meets military specifications 810F standards for: water (immersion and rain), humidity, salt-fog, shock, vibration, dust, solar radiation, altitude, and low and high temperature storage. So, you can bet that this will last you a very long time.Read more

Motorola just introduced a phone made for texting – the Motorola Rival A455. With just one touch, you can start texting your friends with IM-style emoticons. It features a backlit slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touch dial pad, EVDO connectivity, and comes in two colors – Tin Silver and Purple.

The Motorola Rival can hold up to 500 text messages and even organizes them by contact and displays them in a chat-like format. Pretty cool! Other features include a 2 megapixel camera, a 3.5 mm headset jack, up to 8 GB optional removable memory (sold separately), Mobile IM and Mobile email. The phone also supports V CAST Music with Rhapsody, VZ Navigator and Visual Voice Mail.

The Motorola Rival A455 is available today at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

To add a little fun to your day, Motorola also launched the Thumb-Fu Challenge, an online game that lets you compete for the title of "Thumb-Fu Master." Try it out and see if you are the Master at www.motorola.com/rival!

The Nokia N97 will allow users to see and share the latest information with their social networks and access content news and entertainment from around the world. The N97 features a 3.5-inch touch screen, full QWERTY keyboard and is a "living device." This Nokia will dynamically update the consumer's information using real time, personal Internet feeds. You can also take advantage of the latest Ovi services such as Nokia Maps, Ovi Share and more.

This device comes with 32GB of internal memory with a microSD card slot for additional memory (up to 16 gigabytes), an nHD display with 16:9 true widescreen resolution, five megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics and dual LED flash. It also features A-GPS and a full HTML web browser with Adobe Flash support.

More information is available at www.nokiausa.com. Get your Nokia N97 today!

According to SunSpider JavaScript, the iPhone 2.0 loaded a webpage in 126 seconds, while the 3G loaded one in 43 seconds. Well, the 3G S should load in 15 seconds! The 3G S will also support OpenGL|ES and 7.2 Mbps HSDPA.

Everything about the camera has been improved, too. A 3MP autofocus camera that can take 30 fps video is installed in the new iPhone. It will also feature auto white balance and auto exposure. There’s been a voice dialer added, too. You can tell your iPhone to call someone, play a song type, play a playlist, etc.

Other features include:

• Built-in digital compass
• Built-in support for Nike+
• Hardware Encryption
• Better battery life extension
• The 3G got 6hrs on Wi-Fi, 7 on Video, 24 on Audio, 10 on 2G talk and 5 on 3G talk. 3GS gets 9 on Wi-Fi, 10 on video, 30 on audio, 12 on 2g talk and 5 on 3g talk
• No front camera :(

The iPhone 3G S will ship at $199 (16GB version) and $299 (32GB version) on June, 19th. It will be available in 80+ countries by the 26th. The iPhone 3G (8GB) will stay in the market for $99, starting today!

For more information, read the press release.

For more WWDC 09 Coverage, click here.

Boost Mobile announced today that they are offering the Motorola Stature i9 in a new color - red. The i9, which is the thinnest flip phone available on the iDEN network, was first introduced in February 2009, but was only available in black. The company says that they have added this new color to keep up with demand for the phone.

While, yes, this is a slick looking phone featuring Nationwide Boost Walkie-Talkie, a 3.1 Megapixel Camera with 8x Zoom and Flash, Video Camera, and a Music Player, it comes in at the hefty price of $299.99. I suppose the price of the phone can be justified considering the Boost Mobile service has no contract, credit check, or "hidden" fees.

Boost Mobile also offers a Monthly Unlimited plan with unlimited anytime calling, text messaging, wireless Web and walkie-talkie services with a national calling area for $50 a month.

For more information on the i9 and other calling plans, visit www.boostmobile.com.

Pharos just announced the availability of the Traveler 137, a Windows phone that works on both the T-Mobile and AT&T wireless networks.

What makes this phone even more unique is its hybrid GPS navigation software that gives you voice-prompted navigation even without a connection to a carrier's network. The Traveler 137 is sold unlocked, so you can use local GSM SIM cards worldwide and avoid international roaming charges.

The Traveler 137 is now available from Amazon.com, Dell.com, eXpansys.com, and Newegg.com for $599.95. If you want to save some bucks, you can get a $250 discount on the phone if you sign up on a new two-year contract with T-Mobile – but this has to be done through Pharos to get the discount. Read more