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...only limited use. You recorded a name and later, if you said it exactly the way you did the first time, the phone might make the call. Now a new class of phones is speaker independent: anyone can say a name and, in theory, the phone will call. Sprint PCS sells three such phones--the Samsung A600 ($350), VGA1000 ($260) and new VI660 ($230). Verizon Wireless introduced similar voice recognition last fall in the Samsung i600 Smartphone ($500) and this week follows it up with the VX4500 from LG ($120). We programmed the four new models with identical phone books...
...calls and having to dial all those numbers, users can chat with each other walkie-talkie style, coast to coast. To initiate a conversation, you press a button on the side of your phone, which sends an attention-getting chirp to your buddy's phone. In recent weeks, Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless have introduced their own push-to-talk phones...
We’ve all been there. Thankfully, the good folks at Sprint know that. Meet the PCS Vision-serviced Treo 600, made by Handspring, which is so nifty that it deserves a place on every hard-working student’s holiday wish list...
...effort to showcase a young generation informed about and engaged in important public policy issues. Paying homage to the 1992 Rock the Vote town hall meeting’s famous “boxers or briefs” question, a young woman simply asked, “Macs or PCs?” Most of the candidates responded with puzzled looks, and their one-word answers revealed nothing about their ability to lead this country effectively. CNN has since acknowledged that it pressured the young woman to ask this question. However, the network’s heavy handedness revealed...
...only a matter of time before electronics makers started putting DVD burners right into their camcorders. After all, why hook your camera to the TV when you can just pop out the disc and toss it in the player? (The 8-cm discs can also be played on most PCs with DVD-ROM drives.) Hitachi was the first to launch DVD camcorders, back in 2000, but they were bulky and expensive. The new, slimmed-down versions are cheaper and easier to use. Hitachi's DZ-MV350A ($900, left) and Sony's DCR-DVD100 Handycam ($900, right) are the newest...