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After iOS, Skype is now available for the Android platform, but only on devices running Android version 2.1 or later. The Android app lets users make free Skype-to-Skype calls, as well as send and receive IMs for free. Calls to phones are charged at Skype’s standard rates, and they work over both Wi-Fi and 3G. If you already have a Skype account, you’ll be able to instantly access your contact [...]

Celsius X VI II it’s an impressive merging of a mobile phone with a tourbillion watch that integrates a patented rewinding mechanism hidden within its hinge. The upshot of over three years of development and based on complex micromechanics, opening the phone activates the internal device. Inspired by tourbillion watches—invented in the late 18th century to offset the supposed effects of gravity on accuracy by rotating a full 360º within [...]

The Nokia C6 is no lightweight at 5.29 oz (150 g). The handset is plump on account of the added physical keyboard, which fattens it up to 0.66 inches (16.8 mm). Thus the handset only approaches the outer appearance of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic at the front, but when you hold it, it feels chunky. The C6 is a slider phone that looks, from a distance, like the N97, which [...]

The RIM BlackBerry Torch combines both a touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard. The first thing you’ll notice about the Torch, obviously, is that it looks very much like the current crop of BlackBerry devices. The size and shape of the device is nearly identical to the 9700, and  its dimensions  are4.4-inches up and down by 2.4-inches across when closed.The thickness differs by a tiny margin (the Torch is 0.57-inches [...]

In many ways, the 3GS is a mirror image of the iPhone 3G;  externally there’s no difference. It’s inside where all the changes have happened, with Apple issuing a better CPU,  new internal compass, larger capacities for storage, etc… and it finally adds common cell phone features like multimedia messaging, video recording, and voice dialing. It runs faster; its promised battery life is longer; and the multimedia quality continues to [...]