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Filed under: Peripherals, Sony Ericsson

Yes, true, it’s just a handsfree for your car equipped with noise and echo reduction, but Sony Ericsson’s HCB-108 has one rather astounding claim in its resume: 25 hours of talk time and “up to one month” of standby. Battery life is a good thing to concentrate on when you want your device clipped to a visor ad infinitum, we figure — and the bes. part about it is that the 108 is lined up to become the cheapest car kit in the company’s range. Look for it to launch in the fourth quarter in your choice of black or silver.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We’re hearing that AT&T dealers are at this time being briefed on the upcoming Samsung i907 — a phone that we’d like to believe will approximate the appearance and power of the i900 Omnia released overseas, though details are still slim on precisely what form its American cousin’s plan to take or what capabilites it’ll offer. Whatever it is, though, current estimates have it available for order on October 7 as the “Mirage.” In other words, yes, go ahead and kiss that Omnia name goodbye — and really, “Mirage” seems like a perfectly fine name, as long as AT&T isn’t trying to imply that it disappears as you get close to the launch date. More details on this one just as soon as we get ‘em.

[Thanks, Bill]

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Filed under: Handsets, Features, LG, Sprint, EV-DO, CDMA

Okay, okay, we admit it: we went a little harsh on the Lotus before we had a chance to cradle it in our own palm. It turns out that LG’s latest texting machine for Sprint is actually Truly a looker in a bizarre, quirky way, with the black version taking on a well-constructed, businesslike aura and the purple Makea reasonably good job repping the high-fashion set. Don’t get us wrong, it still looks downright weird when closed — mainly because we’re just not used to a square flip, we suppose — but when it’s open, it looks as decent as any featurephone on the market. We didn’t have a great opportunity to put the keyboard through it’s paces (stay tuned for that), but that new One Click UI paradigm looks like a winner at a quick glance — so even if you’re too fat-fingered to enjoy top SMS speeds, at least you’ll enjoy watching your mistakes materialize on the screen in glorious detail.

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