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Today we’ll see a recent release from LG via Verizon Wireless at a price of $149.99 with contract, called LG Decoy.
I personally like this cell phone a lot because of how it looks, especially when slide open revealing this deep black keypad surrounded by light metallic silver.

Besides the design characteristics, LG Decoy is a music phone with detachable headset working wirelessly through the Bluetooth capability. The headset is built-in the back of the handset.
There is also an integrated 2MP digital camera with camcorder functionality and microSD slot for expanding the internal memory up to 8GB.
It sports a 2.2-inch TFT LCD of 262K colors with a mirror look and measures 4.01 x 1.97 x 0.67 inches at 4.05 oz.

Decoy supports common music file formats including MP3, video playback and USB Mass Storage to transfer files between the cell phone and your computer.
The camera offers a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels for still pictures, which you can edit, and video resolution up to 320 x 240 pixels.



With it you can listen to the stereo music using the wireless headset, connect with up to 2 Bluetooth-enabled devices having one in standby, transfer files wirelessly and print your photos wirelessy using the Bluetooth printing capability with a compatible printer device.
Verizon Wireless adds V CAST Music with Rhapsody for over-the-air music downloads, V CAST Videos, the VZ Navigator, and Chaperone Parent/Child.

Also, LG Decoy has other functionalities like email, voice messaging, video messaging, Instant Messaging, voice mail, one-touch speakerphone, and speaker-independent voice commands.
You can talk on the phone for up to 2 hours continuously or keep it in standby mode up to 80 hours.

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It made its first appearance among LG phones at CES 2008 in black, and now Verizon Wireless has it in titanium, with V Cast Music with Rhapsody for over-the-air downloads of over 5 million songs, and Visual Voice Mail feature, which allows you to manage your messages I a smarter way.

This touchscreen smartphone with a flip QWERTY keyboard in a laptop style, and dual-display, comes at a price of $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a 2-year agreement.
The V Cast Music costs $14.99 monthly, while the Visual Voice Mail service available at $2.99 on month lets you delete, reply or forward voice mail messages without listening to voice instructions.



LG Voyager in Titanium provides also V Cast Mobile TV, full HTML browsing, Bluetooth 2.0 wireless transfers at high-speeds, a built-in 2MP camera with camcorder functionality, and the possibility to manage your files on a large 2.81-inch external or internal touch-sensitive Thin Film Transistor display with vibration response. The vibration response makes me thing of the haptic technology used by Samsung Instinct, which gives you a subtle feedback as you browse through the menus and access commands. Haptic comes from the Grek “Haphe” which means “pertaining to the sense of touch”, and the new technology replies to the user selections by making him/her feel subtle forces, vibrations or motions through the skin surface.



Other features include multimedia player, dual speakers for stereo sound, microSD memory slot for up to 8GB storage capacity, Instant Messaging, standard email, the VZ Navigator service for access to location details of all points of interest as well as turn-by-turn directions, USB Mass Storage for PC connectivity, retractable TV antenna for enhanced TV reception, and up to 240 minutes of talk time.
The handset measures 4.64 x 2.12 x 0.71 inches at 4.69oz and has hearing aid compatibility, like all the other newly released handsets on the market.

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Finally we have a new special cell phone to show you! It is the Verizon Wireless Blitz optimized for texting on the go.

When it’s slide in it has a funny look, like a half Blackberry, and when you slide it out, it reveals a nice QWERTY keyboard with an overall aspect of a true smartphone.
Verizon describes it as a cell phone designed and equipped for school students in the United States, who prepare to start a new year. It is available online with a 2-year contract and a discount for online purchasing, at a price of $69.99.

This cute bold phone sports a 2.2-inch display of 262K colors, ideal for web browsing, and integrates a 1.3MP camera with self-timer for up to 10-seconds shots, color effects like antique and negative, up to 180 x 9620 landscape resolution, portrait mode, dedicated camera key and self-portrait mirror.



You can use it to listen to the music wirelessly in stereo mode via the Bluetooth technology, download games, set cool wallpapers, assign specific ringtones to each o your contact, check weather forecasts or sports, send MSN or Yahoo emails, chat with your colleagues with the Instant Messaging application, send pictures via MMS, and get audible and visual directions to the most popular points of interest in your area.

If you and your parents agree, you can set the Blitz to enable location sharing via Chaperone Child service, so your parents will always be able to check online and find out where you are at a specific time of the day.



Verizon Wireless Blitz also supports voice commands for when you want things to be done quickly and have the hands busy.
In addition to the Calculator, Calendar, Alarm Clock or World Clock, Blitz features 1,000 phone book entries, and up to 280 minutes of talk time, with a standby of 280 hours.

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Samsung U340 and Samsung U430 are two new handsets available via Verizon Wireless featuring the FOTA technology, which enables firmware updates from the cell phone, with no re-flashing. In addition, the new models come with the InnoPath Mobile Device Management Client pre-installed, which couples with the special server to avoid device recalls and to permit over-the-air upgrades.

"The growing installed base of FOTA-enabled phones is evidence that this is a capability critical to both operators and to their handset vendor partners," said Terry Hartsfield, vice president of Operations for InnoPath. "The ease in which our OEM partners can port the client to new phones is testament to our end-to-end operational capabilities."

Samsung SCH-U340 is a flip phone with CDMA dual-band coverage, speakerphone, several messaging capabilities including picture sharing and sound sharing, and a simple built-in digital camera with up to 640 x 480 resolution for still pictures, autofocus and LED flash.
The mid-level cell phone has push-to-talk, Instant Messaging, MP3 player, Java, voice recognition, and basic applications including to-do lists, scheduler and world time.

Samsung SCH-U430 is also a flip-style cell phone, but with more advanced features than the previously described model. It has Bluetooth wireless connectivity, camera with self-timer, email functionality in addition to Instant Messaging, and in the rest it has the same elements as the Samsung U340.



The U340 is available for free with a 2-year contract and Verizon Wireless enables access to sports, news, traffic, weather forecast and horoscope via text alerts. The more advanced handset comes also with the VZ Navigator featuring audible turn-by-turn directions to let you find the best route to your destination. More than that, you can use this service to browser through millions of points-of-interest and get the best option for spending your free time alone or together with some friends in popular bars, restaurants and other social places.

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Both RIM’s Blackberry Curve 8330 and Blackberry Pearl 8130 smartphones have now pink brothers available for pre-orders at Verizon Wireless, with the shipping date set for August 15. Well, actually the Blackberry Pearl 8130 in hot pink is already available in stores, and the other model is preparing to come out too. The main target sector is students who want to stick to the fashion trends.

Those of you who plan to get one of the 2 Blackberry cell phones can forget about pink case because the entire handsets come in a light pink housing. Blackberry Curve 8330, the smallest and lightest full-QWERTY
BlackBerry smartphone, costs $99.99 if purchased online with a 2-year contract, while the Blackberry Pearl 8130 model has a price of $79.99, both after a $70 mail-in rebate.
The Curve 8330 model has push to talk, web page emailing, multi-tasking, the VZ Navigator with audible turn-by-turn directions, BroadbandAccess Connect, 96MB flash memory, 32MB RAM, and the Blackberry 4.3 Desktop Software with email, phone, SMS, browser, calendar, address book and organizers. In addition, there is support for 10 personal email accounts, remote address book look-up, and mobile Instant Messaging.

Besides these communication capabilities, the handset also has a 2.5-inch LCD display with LED backlit and 65K colors, full QWERTY keyboard, a built-in 2MP camera with flash and video recording, media player, stereo Bluetooth, up to 8GB memory expansion slot, and provides up to 260 minutes of talk time. It measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches at a weight of 4.02 oz.



The other model, Blackberry Pearl 8130, has the same features but it supports up to 4GB memory via a microSD card, and a SureType QWERTY keyboard with 2 keys per button to reduce the form factor, providing 220 minutes of talk time. It doesn’t feature BroadbandAccess Connect. This capability enables laptop connectivity to the Internet via the cell phone using a cable.