Well You Need a Cell Phone, Right?

You want a new cell phone right? I mean the new technology of cell phones these days can almost compare to that of a computer. Cell phone manufacturers are incorporating wifi, higher megapixel cameras, and fast processors. This new technology can help you when you are away from computer to stay connected. Anyway here my top 5 favorite cell phones that are currently out, not including the iPhone.


Name: HTC Droid Eris
Provider: Verizon
Price: $99.99 New Customer/$99.99 Qualified Upgrade
Change to Plan: Requires $29.99 Smartphone plan feature
Features: This phone has the new Google Android software, an open source operating system with a non apple app store! The Eris has a 5 megapixel camera, that is nothing to write home about, but still allows the user to put filters on the photos for added effect. The browser has html capabilities and can support everything except flash. The phone can function in two ways, touch screen or by the track ball. The touch screen can operate the entire phone, including menu selections, and virtual keyboard. The trackball will only navigate through menu options and selecting things. Google maps, one thing that is amazing on this phone. The GPS locator can find you anywhere you have service, and direct you to your location. This phone can also sync to your google contacts, google calendar, and facebook. It extracts your contacts from both google and facebook into your address book. The android market place I mentioned earlier is the best feature about all of the droid phones. You can download apps that expand the functions of your phone for a small price or for free. The droid phones run applications in the background of the phone, and this can slow your phone down a lot if you don't close them. Advanced Task Killer is a free app on the android marketplace that allows you to close all open applications.

Name: Motorola Droid
Provider: Verizon
Price: $199.99 for new customer/$199.99 Qualified Upgrade
Change To Plan: Requires a $29.99 add on like the Eris
Features: This phone runs the Android 2.0 software and is the only android phone to have this software. The Droid has the highest processor speed of all the android phones also. The phone also features a slick slideout keyboard, for the user that doesn't like touch screens. However, if you want to use the touch keyboard, you can! 5mp camera, wifi, and muchhhhhhh more!!






Name: Palm Pixi
Provider: Sprint
Price: $99.99 for both new customer and qualified upgrade
Change To Plan: The sprint customer must be on the everything data plan, family or single line
Features: Palm has completely re worked their os. The new palm os features their "card" system for browsing. Whenever you open up an application on the phone it becomes a "card," where you can minimize it into the background or simply close it, by sliding your finger over it. The pixi is the second palm phone with this new os, and the first being the Palm Pre. The Pre's slider was very broken and they took back most of them as defects. The Pixi has wifi, touch screen, html browser, and a small app store.




Name: RIM Blackberry Curve 8520
Provider: AT&T or Verizon (Sprint soon)
Price: $49.99 for both new customer and qualified upgrade
Change to Plan: Requires a Smartphone addon for $29.99.
Features: This blackberry is very interesting. It came out about a month ago, and it's only 50 bucks! This new curve still has the old curve keyboard, so if you have the old curve you won't have to adjust to anything new. Research In Motion has pioneered the touch pad on their new blackberrys to replace the trackball. The touch pad works exactly like the touch pad on a laptop. The only drawback to this phone is it runs on the EDGE network on AT&T. Why RIM didn't make this phone 3G capable confuses me. If you can bare the slower internet on this phone, it's amazing for the price. Other features include html browser, wifi, and the Blackberry App World



Name: Samsung Moment
Provider: Sprint
Price: $99.99 for new customers and $179.99 for Qualified Upgrade
Change to Plan: The Sprint customer must also be on the everything data plan like the Palm Pixi
Features: This phone is probably my favorite. It features an OLED screen from samsung with the same HD technology Samsung uses in their light weight high quality televisions. Aside from the screen quality the phone has a slide out keyboard like the Motorola Droid. This phone also runs the Google android software (do you kinda see the trend here?). Like the blackberry this phone has the track pad for laptop-like navigation. Other features include wifi, 3G speeds, facebook and google sync.