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Phone Headset Curbs Sounds of the City

Wireless headsets can be a real boon to mobile-phone users, especially for chatty folks who often have their hands full. In recent years, these headsets have bolstered their noise-canceling technology, making it easier to conduct conversations even while walking on noisy city streets.

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Motorola ROKR E8:Hip and User-Friendly

Motorola’s ROKR E8 is a head-turning phone with many built-in advances that give it a smarter interface than basic cellphones. Its standout feature is its keyboard, which dynamically changes to accommodate whatever you’re doing.

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Printer Makes a New Kind of Polaroid Magic

Polaroid’s new PoGo is an inkless printer that churns out photos sent to it via Bluetooth devices. The print quality of photos from a digital camera is sharp, but its awkward size, bad battery life and small prints make it a no-go.

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A Pad to Easily Power Up Your Phone

A thin pad called WildCharge allows users to charge portable devices without a messy tangle of cords and adapters.

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Extending Cellphones’ Reach

The $150 Vtech LS5145 Expandable Cordless Phone System synchronizes with your cellphone and redirects incoming cell calls to ring wherever the VTech phones are placed in the house.

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Directions Are a Cellphone Call Away

A new, free service launching in nine metropolitan areas sends travel directions to your cellphone via text message after using voice-recognition technology to determine your current location and where you’d like to go.

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Keeping Tabs on Kids’ Phones

A new software application called Radar allows parents to monitor activity on their children’s cellphones. The program is user-friendly enough for tech-shy parents, but it doesn’t yet work with most basic cellphones.

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Smartphones Get Smarter

In a test of two new smartphones, Motorola’s Q wins points for its low price tag and striking design. But Palm’s improved Treo, with greater speed and other enhancements, is still the best bet for serious users of mobile email, Web and Microsoft’s Office.

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A Simple Way to Back Up Cellphone Contacts

Losing your cellphone can be a disaster, because it often contains the only copy of your address book. Spark Technology’s CellStik, which plugs into your phone to back up data, offers a smart, easy way to protect against this.

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Turning Your Cellphone Into Your Home Phone

Cellphones rule in lots of places but the old-fashioned wired phone still wins at home. Here’s a look at two products that aim to solve that problem by tying your cellphone into your wired home phone setup.

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A Guide to Cellphone Technobabble

The cellphone industry generates more and more obscure jargon that makes it harder to decide what to buy. Walt delivers a basic glossary of wireless jargon, for mere mortals who speak only English.

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Music-Playing Cellphones Hit a Flat Note

After testing three music-playing cellphones, including the new iTunes-friendly ROKR, Walt isn’t ready to give up his iPod. None lives up to the full potential of what a combined phone and music player could be, he writes.

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