Nicole Lee

LG Rumor Touch gets pricing and availability

Remember the LG Rumor Touch that was announced at CES earlier this year? Well, Sprint is finally ready to release it out into the wild. The Rumor Touch was made available starting March 28 and will cost $79.99 with a new two-year service agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate. It is available in blue to …

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Admiring the LG BL40 and the LG BL20

LG BL20 and LG BL40 (photos) +1 more See all photos Both the LG BL20 and the BL40 were announced last year, but they are only available in Europe and Asia. So when we got the chance to handle these devices for ourselves at CTIA 2010, we leapt at it. Of course, you can read CNET UK’s full review of …

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LG Wine II impressions

LG Wine II (photos) +1 more See all photos The LG Wine II was released a few months ago, but we did not have a chance to get a closer look at the phone until CTIA 2010. This overall design is not quite as shiny as its predecessor, the LG Wine, but it still has that basic flip phone form …

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More Bluetooth headsets from Samsung

New Bluetooth headsets from Samsung (photos) +5 more See all photos Along with the Modus 3500 and the HM1000, Samsung also showed us a whole slew of Bluetooth headsets that it hopes to release in the second quarter of 2010. They are the HM1600, the HM1500, the HM3200, the HM3600, and the WEP570. The HM1600 is sort of like the …

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Sneak peek at Pantech Link, Pantech Pursuit

Pantech Link (photos) +1 more See all photos LAS VEGAS–Even though AT&T announced the Pantech Link and the Pantech Pursuit prior to the start of CTIA, we managed to get a quick hands-on with both phones at the show. As we mentioned in the announcement of the two phones, they are both messaging handsets with the addition of AT&T’s new …

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Just5 is good for grandma

Just5 (photos) +4 more See all photos While we were perusing through CTIA’s list of Emerging Tech award nominees, we noticed an interesting company called Just5. A company based in Europe, Just5 makes and sells basic phones for the elderly, in the style of both the Jitterbug and the Doro PhoneEasy handsets. Just5 is currently only selling one model of …

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CTIA day one wrap

CNET’s cell phone crew has been on the ground in Las Vegas covering CTIA 2010 since Monday, and, boy, did we have plenty to cover! Here’s a brief overview of the news that broke on the first day of CTIA 2010: Palm Pre Plus, Pixi Plus headed to AT&T AT&T snags a Dell Android phone, the Dell Aero Nextel goes …

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LG Cosmos up close

LG Cosmos (photos) +1 more See all photos Despite its heavenly name, the LG Cosmos does not quite reach for the stars when it comes to features. However, it is a pretty decent starter messaging phone for Verizon customers. The Cosmos is essentially a rejiggering of the LG Rumor 2 for Verizon. The design is about the same–it has a …

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Hands

LG Arena (photos) +6 more See all photos LAS VEGAS — Even though the LG Arena debuted at GSMA 2009, we had yet to see it arrive on U.S. shores. That is, until a month or so ago when AT&T announced it would be bringing the Arena to the States complete with support for AT&T Mobile TV, AT&T’s live mobile …

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Samsung announces Modus convertible headset, plus HM1000

LAS VEGAS–Samsung released a couple of new Bluetooth headsets here at CTIA 2010, and they are the Samsung Modus 3500 mono-to-stereo headset, plus a simple mono headset called the Samsung HM1000. Both headsets will be available in Q1 of this year. The Samsung Modus 3500 is Samsung’s response to what it says is the popularity of the WEP870, which is …

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