When You Call My Equinox I See Purple

I’ve not only got your number, I’ve got your color. That’s what you’ll be telling people when you start carrying the new Sony Ericsson Equinox Carbon cell phone for T-Mobile. This phone goes beyond Caller ID. It’s got pulsating caller colors.

Anxiously awaiting a call from that special someone? No need to keep the ringer turned up and embarrass yourself in the movies or at dinner with friends. No need to squint at the caller ID hoping to see that magical number appear. Just set your phone on the table and glance at it inconspicuously from time to time. You know how to be nonchalant, right? You won’t miss a thing, because when the call comes through you’ll see a pulsating colored light, perhaps purple, that’s you’ve assigned to that special number. You actually get 5 different colors that include amber, sapphire, beryl, diamond and amethyst. That’s five friends you have color coded. Or, four friends and one person you’re trying to avoid. When that color comes up, just pretend you’ve seen nothing at all.

The Sony Ericsson Equinox has other special features beyond the color coded call alert. The smooth black case of this flip-phone has a disappearing external display. It’s there when you want it, with battery power, signal strength or caller ID. Then it disappears into the background where it won’t distract from the sleek appearance of the outside cover.

You’ll also notice the lens of a digital camera near the top of the case. This is a high resolution 3.2 Megapixel camera that also functions as a camcorder. Sony Ericsson knows that you like to upload your photos and videos to social networking and photo sharing sites. So they’ve made it easy to get your videos on YouTube and other popular sites. Print the pix you want hard copies of using Bluetooth wireless printing. Geotagging is also available so you can identify where your pictures were taken much later on.

The GPS services support for picture geotagging is also used for the TeleNav Navigator navigation service for turn by turn driving directions. This phone also works with Google Maps. Yes, it’s a 3G phone with download speeds up to 3.6 Mbps where available. That means mobile Web browsing and email, along with text messaging, IM, and multimedia messaging.

What else does this sleek and clever cell phone offer? Why, an MP3 player of course. This one includes an FM Radio so you’ll have music or the latest news wherever you go. You can expand memory by adding a Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory card up to 8 GB so ensure that you’ll have plenty of storage for your tune, pix and videos.

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Samsung Memoir Phone Captures Memories

You know how it is. The most important things happen when you don't have a camera. That's why you've been thinking about getting a new cell phone with a built-in camera. Sure, the picture quality won't hold a candle to your fancy digital camera. But at least you'll have something for the memory book. A little blurry beats a blank page any day.

Well, forget that. Now you don't have to settle for either carrying a cell phone or a digital camera. The Samsung Memoir gives you both. This new touch screen phone is intended to satisfy both amateur and professional photographers alike. Imagine, an 8.0 Megapixel camera right in your phone.

The Memoir goes way beyond mere Megapixels. In addition to a resolution that rivals most of the digital cameras that you'll actually keep with you, this one features auto-focus, a real xenon flash, 16x digital zoom and 6 shooting modes. You get 12 preset scene options including panorama, smile detection and blink detection. Yes, this camera knows when someone blinked so you can get the shot right. It looks like a camera and it acts like a camera.

So far, so good. But here's where the sum is better than the two parts. Having a phone and a camera in a single package not only gives you better portability, but features neither gadget provides alone. For instance, the Samsung Memoir connects to the T-Mobile 3G data network. That gives you the option to quickly and easily upload the pictures you take to Flickr, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish and Photobucket.

There's also a GPS capability built-in. Sure, you'll get the same turn by turn directions that other smartphones offer. But you'll also have the ability to do Geo-Tagging. That's where the integrated GPS can be used to tag your photographs with the location where they were snapped.

Picture and video messaging? Of course. Just add this optional service to your calling plan and you're good to go.

I did say video messaging. The Samsung Memoir not only takes astounding high resolution still photos. It's also a great camcorder that can record up to 1 hour of video capture. For this capacity just add up to 16 GB in the expandable memory slot to supplement the built-in 100 MB of memory.

Don't forget the huge 1.6 x 2.6 inch high resolution color main display. That's puts a lot of lesser cameras to shame, and a lot of phones as well. This one supports over 262,000 colors. Yes, it's touchscreen for easy operation. The TouchWiz user interface makes this display easy to customize as well.

But, just a second. I don't want to be carrying a brick around just to have both a phone and a high performance camera in one package. Fortunately, there's no need to. The Samsung Memoir is a mere 0.6 inches thick. That's what they used to call a really thin phone. How they packaged a 3G touchscreen phone with a 8 Megapixel digital camera in a 4.2 inch x 2.1 in x 0.6 in. case is pretty amazing in itself.

Did I mention that the Memoir is also a cell phone? It is, and a versatile one at that. It's internationally compatible so you can take it around the world. This is what's called a quad band GSM phone for use on the most common cellular airwaves worldwide. It's also compatible with T-Mobiles myFaves service when you order a suitable wireless plan.

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