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Do you have someone on your gift list this year that's always on-the-go – whether it's driving the kids to basketball practice or constantly running around town for a business meeting? Check out our picks of some of the best gifts for people on-the-go:

Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse
Designed for people on the go, this wireless mouse pops up for comfort and flattens for portability. When you're ready to go simply collapse the mouse, slip it in your bag, purse or pocket and you're set! Arc Touch features a touch scroll strip with Microsoft Touch technology for fast and easy navigation and Bluetrack technology lets you use it on almost any surface – even on carpet!

Price: $59.95
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Nokia hasn't been making huge splashes in the handset market lately; however they are developing headsets that seem to be landing on the 'favorites' list of many industry experts. We recently looked at the Nokia Luna Bluetooth headset, one of the many new gadgets they've brought to market in the last couple of months. Creative thinking went into the design and shape of the Luna. It looks like it fell right out of a spaceship.

The Luna includes a base for charging and storing your headset. Removing it from the base automatically powers on the Bluetooth and saves on battery life when it's not in use. When you place it back in the base, the Luna will power down.

But that's not your only connectivity option here. Nokia has incorporated an RFID chip inside, allowing you to pair it with a smartphone bearing the same technology simply by physically tapping the two together. Other handsets with built-in NFC, such as the Nokia C7, Oro, 600, 603, 700, 701 and N9, will all be able to play nice with it, freeing up Bluetooth for some other device to work with your phone.Read more

Not every new smartphone hitting stores costs $199 (or more). Nokia just announced the Nokia Astound, a $79.99 smartphone hitting T-Mobile on April 6, 2011.

The Astound features an 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash and 720p HD video capture, a 3.5-inch capacitive touch AMOLED display, free turn-by-turn navigation from Nokia and access to thousands of free and paid apps via Nokia's Ovi Store.

It comes equipped with the latest version of Ovi Maps and provides free voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation in almost 100 countries in 46 languages. New features include improved search engines and WiFi positioning, a drive assistance mode for real-time traffic updates, maps of public transit lines, and the ability to check in to places and share great moments with friends on Facebook, Twitter and many local social networks. Read more

T-Mobile this week announced that for one day only – Saturday, June 19 – every phone in every T-Mobile store is free. Starting at 8 a.m., go to a T-Mobile retail store and switch to any family plan, or add a new line to an existing family plan, and walk out of the store with a new phone for every new line with a two-year agreement.

No phones are excluded from the promotion. Over 30 devices are offered, including the new myTouch 3G Slide, HTC HD2, and Garminfone. Additional phones are available from Motorola, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, SonyEricsson, and Sharp. All phones will be available while supplies last, so you better arrive early to get the phone you want!

T-Mobile's free phones promotion is one day only, June 19, 2010 in every T-Mobile store across the country. For additional promotion details and a list of participating stores, visit www.t-mobile.com/celebratefamilies.

Dolby and Nokia have joined forces to bring Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound on the Nokia N8 smartphone. This will be the first smartphone to offer true surround sound…with more phones to come.

The Nokia N8 runs on the new Symbian 3 operating system and with Dolby Digital Plus included on the phone, high definition surround sound content can be output to HD-ready TVs, audio/video receivers, and home theater systems via HDMI.

Additional features include a 3.5 inch touch screen display, 12 megapixel digital camera, HD video recording, HDMI out and 16GB of internal memory. Read more

T-Mobile and Nokia this week announced the Nokia Nuron, a touchscreen smartphone powered by Symbian S60 5th Edition. But the big news on this device is the fact that it comes with Ovi Maps pre-loaded, giving you FREE turn-by-turn navigation. The Ovi Store will also be pre-loaded for easy access to thousands of applications and games.

The 3G-enabled Nuron features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, full HTML browser, On-screen keyboard, 70 MB internal memory, Bluetooth 2.0, 4GB microSD memory card (expandable to 16 GB), 3.5mm headphone jack, MP3 player, FM radio and 2MP built-in video camera with 3x digital zoom.

An exact launch date of the Nuron has not been given, but it is rumored to be available at T-Mobile on March 17th for just $70 with a two year agreement. Not too bad…Read more

Guitar Hero fans, pay attention! The Ovi Store by Nokia now has Guitar Hero 5 available. But not only that, Nokia announced the Rock Star Photo Competition, giving you a chance to win a ton of prizes, with the grand prize being a trip for two to see any Nokia Theater concert in NYC or LA.

Here's how the contest works. Go to http://promotions.ovi.com/gh5 and register. All you need to register for the contest is your Ovi Account (it's free and quick to get if you don't have one already). Then:

1. Upload a photo
2. Give your photo the rock star treatment with the photo customizer (or just enter it as is).
3. Share it with your friends and start voting.

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Do you own one of the 100 Nokia devices available with access to the Ovi Store, Nokia's one-stop-shop for applications and games? If so, head on over to the Ovi Store by Nokia for a free app for travelers, Locago.

Locago is a free mobile map browser with directions and GPS support covering North America and Europe. With Locago you can browse business listings and traffic info, Wikipedia articles, geotagged images, weather forecasts and touristic webcams on a map in your phone. It also features technology that allows you to create new layers with content such as making map mashups and more. Pretty cool, huh? And best of all, it's FREE!Read more

Best Buy Mobile announced more holiday savings on four Blackberry devices, the AT&T Xenon and the Nokia Booklet 3G.

The four Blackberry smartphones are on sale with new two-year activations with AT&T. Running December 12 through the holidays, the savings are on the following devices:

• Blackberry 9700: $99.99 after $100 savings ($199.99 regular price)
• Blackberry 8900: $69.99 after $80 savings ($149.99 regular price)
• Blackberry 9000: $89.99 after $60 savings ($149.99 regular price)
• Blackberry 8520: $29.99 after $20 savings ($49.99 regular price)

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When it comes to protecting your smartphone, nobody does it better than OtterBox. They just announced two new cases for the popular Nokia E72 smartphone. Both the rugged Defender Series and hybrid Commuter Series cases protect Nokia E-series phones from bumps, shock and dust while still giving you access to the camera, USB and micro SD ports, volume keys, light sensor, power key, microphone and ear piece.

The Defender Series for the Nokia E72 has a built-in screen protector, polycarbonate shell and a silicone exterior. This three-layer combination protects your phone from dust, dirt, drops and scratches: Read more