Word: keypad
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...gives it a good shot. The compact clamshell runs Palm's OS 4.1 on a color screen, and the stylus tucks neatly into a spot near its hinge. The Palm part of the 7135 is fine, but it truly stands out as a phone. It uses a regular keypad rather than a touchscreen, so it feels much more like a phone than its competitors, the Samsung I300, Handspring Treo and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition. And the halves of the 7135's brain work well together. Dial a number, and one click enters it in your Palm address book...
Just how difficult is it to get a hold of an IMEI? Type *#06# on your cell-phone keypad and see. And that's the problem - for those who know what they're doing, IMEIs can be almost as easy to alter as they are to access. Although some operators already bar stolen handsets from their networks, others say IMEI-based measures are ineffective, because criminals with access to the right software can hack into stolen phones and change the serial number, possibly to duplicate a legitimate IMEI. Block-ing stolen IMEIs looks "like a nice gesture towards the customers...
...Wireless (shown here) priced at $30 for 30 min. of talk time. To keep costs down, the device (about the size of a deck of cards) contains only a quarter of the components found in a typical cell phone. It doesn't take incoming calls, and there's no keypad or display. Instead, users plug in an earpiece (included) and speak the number aloud; voice-recognition technology converts the sounds into digits and places the call. To activate the phone, users simply push the green call button. Color-coded lights indicate when the 30 min. of prepaid talk time...
...Nearly 7,500 telepoems were submitted, written in funky shorthand and sent via mobile phone keypad, during the two-week competition. A panel that included distinguished poets U.A. Fanthorpe and Peter Sansom selected the seven best. All entrants were messaged the final selection so they could vote for the winning ode - again by text messaging their ratings to the judges on their mobiles. The competition's main rule: no poem could exceed 160 characters, the maximum that can fit on many cell-phone screens. "Telepoetry is the newest literary form," says Keegan. "We are at the start of a literary...
...with the SPH-1300 ($400). Billed as a hipper alternative to Kyocera's powerful but rather homely Smartphone, the SPH-1300 has the sleek good looks and 256-color screen of a high-end Palm. It weighs just 6 oz. and is about 5 in. long. There is no keypad, though, so you will have to dial with a stylus or by voice. It will be available in August through Sprint...