Category — Cell Phones

Here’s a personal GPS tracking gadget that looks like interesting: the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker Messenger. It has a built in GPS chip which monitors and reports the user’s location from anywhere on the planet, and it works with Google Earth to provide real-time location mapping. The SPOT GPS tracker has a built in help and emergency buttons which allow the user to immediately send location reports to select family members, friends, or emergency services.

Here are a few ideas for using the SPOT GPS tracker:

Track a Teenage Driver: This GPS tracker can be tossed in the glove box of a car to monitor your teenager’s location at all times.

Child Safety: Clip the SPOT GPS tracking system inside a child’s backpack for added peace of mind.

Hiking/Camping: Use for added safety when no cell phone service is available.

Photo by Cabela’s.

There’s no doubt about it- having all the latest gadgets means a mess of power cords and chargers. Here’s an easy and neater way to charge all your gadgets at one time without the massive tangle of AC adapters and cell phone chargers.

The Family Charger Station allows you to charge up to three gadgets at once, including your iPod, cell phone, Blackberry or PDA. It works like a power strip with built in adjustable holders. Simply plug in your chargers, hide the cords in the built in compartments on the back side and pop in your gadgets. You can set this charging station on a desk or counter top or mount it to the wall. If found this charging station at Improvements for $39.99.

This one made me laugh out loud…but it’s just so cool! It’s the Bluetooth compatible Retro-Handset by ThinkGeek. You can pretend that you’re making calls the old-fashioned way with this new Bluetooth accessory. The vintage design Retro-Handset will work within 30 feet of your Bluetooth enabled cell phone, and it has a blue LED indicator to show you when it’s activated. It works with Bluetooth 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.

So go ahead, pretend like you don’t live in the wireless age, and dial up Aunt Betty on the Retro-Handset! You’ve gotta admit it’s so much better than those alien-like Bluetooth ear pieces.

This Bluetooth handset is available only at ThinkGeek for $29.99.

Samsung’s E250 packs a lot of gadgetry in to a very sleek design. This triband cell phone features a VGA camera, MP3 player, Bluetooth, USB connection, and even an FM radio. The compact design of Samsung E250 Slider makes this phone great for tossing into a backpack or handbag. There’s also a micro SD card slot so you can store extra pictures and data, and you can surf the Web with Samsung’s EDGE Internet connnection.

Packed with gadgets, this phone also offers a calendar, organizer, currency converter, calculator, to do list, alarm clock, and photo address book, and polyphonic audio. This looks like a great smart phone, but I’m partial to my Blackberry 8310. I must admit, however, that I am green with envy over that FM radio feature.

I’ve been using my Blackberry Curve 8310 for 6 months now and I truly believe I could not live without it.  In my opinion here are the best features of the Blackberry Curve.   My Blackberry 8310 seems to be durable.  I’ve dropped it (more than once) on concrete and it seems to be unphased.  Secondly, I love the camera on the Blackberry 8310.  The pictures come out looking great thanks to 5X digital zoom.  And thirdly, the Blackberry Curve is easy to use.  I had mine figured out in a matter of days, and I use every feature on it except for GPS.  Just haven’t activated the GPS yet.  Here is one thing I think could be improved with the Blackberry Curve:  the buttons are very,very small.  I do fine with them, but it’s obvious that someone with bigger hands might not do so well. 

Being the owner of a Sony Portable PlayStation, I am still a little bitter about the iPhone’s success. The PSP debuted far earlier and if Sony had decided to make it the ultimate portable convergence device, it could have. After all, Sony owns own a huge chunk of the world’s music already, makes cel phones, mp3 devices, video playback devices, and at least until recently, ruled the gaming world as well.  Ah well…

One thing the iPhone has lacked though is games, and a good way to play them, since touchscreens are just, well, irritating for that sort of thing. Not any longer though. Soon, you’ll be able to play your emulators and Apple-sponsored games with full game-pad glory with the iControlPad, which also acts as a protective case for your “Precious”.

via TopIphoneNews.

Looking like a cross between Motorola’s K1m KRZR, an Apple iPhone, and a bar of Scharffenberger chocolate, LG’s Black Label phone is quite the handsome (and practically edible) gadget. It also sports a 5 megapixel camera. How many candy bars can you name that have one of those, hmm?