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...buck a day doesn't sound like much to keep your PC revved for a 24/7 Google fix. But powering down to sleep mode between, say, 4 p.m. and 10 a.m. could save 75¢ a day--or $273.75 a year...
...Perhaps to avoid the angry reaction to last year's "crippled" Motorola V710 (a phone I still use, by the way), Verizon is quick to point out that while the VX9800 has Bluetooth, it supports it only for wireless headsets and hands-free accessories, not for synching with a PC's desktop...
Cross Talk You're on vacation in China, trying to get directions to a hotel, when you realize you've left your Mandarin phrase book on the plane. Fortunately, you have your Pocket PC, equipped with IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. MASTOR recognizes both Mandarin and English, automatically translating what it hears into the other tongue, so two people who speak different languages can have a conversation. In a TIME test, when told the phrase "I would like to rent a motorboat," MASTOR translated it audibly and flashed a picture of a boat onscreen. Although...
Bragging rights go to the 6700 for being the first Pocket PC phone in the country to run the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform. Most of it looks just like the older Pocket PC environment, although there are some updates, including Outlook Mobile--which makes it easy to manage a Hotmail account--and PowerPoint Mobile, for handling those presentations that used to be too big to fit in your...
...screen is large enough to work on a Word document, although when looking at Web pages, it's still a tad cramped. There's also a 1.3-megapixel built-in camera-camcorder and a MiniSD card slot for transferring files, including movies and music, from your PC--a reward, perhaps, for all your hard work...