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The Finesse adds a touch screen for Metro PCS.

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Just a few weeks after it introduced its first smartphone, the RIM BlackBerry Curve, MetroPCS went even more high-end (relatively speaking) by adding its first touch-screen device, the Samsung Finesse, aka the SCH-r810 resembles Alltel’s Samsung Delve. It …

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Greenpeace's green meter for March 2009

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Struggling with the economic downturn, the biggest names in PC makers seem to lag on staying clean.

In the March issue of the Guide to Greener Electronics, released Tuesday, Greenpeace decided to knock a point out of Dell’s, HP’…

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Considering its full plate of goodies–built-in Blu-ray player, iPod dock, and the capability to stream Netflix movies and Pandora’s online music service–the $800 price tag on Samsung’s HT-BD8200 sound bar is quite reasonable. But that’s not to say it won’t be a tough sell …

During Tuesday’s Spring Fever press event, Samsung spilled their guts on two new MP3 players for 2009, the YP-U5 and YP-Q2, both scheduled for an April release.

The Samsung U5.

The Samsung YP-U5 (aka the U5, aka DoReMi) has been roaming the wilds of Europe and Asia for a …

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Samsung has taken the wraps off the HT-AS730, a component-based home theater system. Unlike the slate of sexy Blu-ray home theater systems back at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, the HT-AS730 is aimed at those who already have a disc player or game console: it has three HDMI …

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No April Foolery here: Sony has announced that it’s dropping the price of the PlayStation 2 from $129 to $100 as of April 1. The move confirms rumors that had surfaced in recent days.

Originally introduced in 2000, the current iteration of the PS2 is a superslim …

We’ve barely unpacked our bags from GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and we’re on the road again to Las Vegas for CTIA Wireless, the U.S. tradeshow and conference held every spring where the biggest and most influential players in the U.S. mobile market …

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The SCP-2700 comes in pink (left) and blue.

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If there is a theme at CTIA 2009, it is the messaging phones. Samsung and LG have released handsets with full alphabetic keyboards for faster texting, and now Sanyo is getting in on the thumb wars as well.

On Tuesday, …

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Moto’s VE465 isn’t a looker.

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Alltel announced a new Motorola phone for customers not migrating to Verizon Wireless with the merger. The Motorola VE465 isn’t much to look at–it has a very common Moto flip-phone design–and its feature set is mostly functional. Yet, it has …

Moto’s Evoke has a slider design.

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Motorola joined Nokia, Samsung, and LG on Monday in getting a head start on CTIA. Although the mobile festivities don’t begin until April 1 in Las Vegas, Moto spilled details on its new Evoke QA4.

Stocked with a midrange multimedia-feature …

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