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Enjoy Mobile’s 9-page Phone Reviews and More!


Mobile Philippines May-June issue is out now with sultry Priscilla Meirelles on the cover. First stop: EIC Adel Gabot flies to Sepang to be part of Formula 1 and gives you the speed and noise on and off the track. Shutterbugs would surely rave over Mobile’s primer on the sleek tricks of sports photography.
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HP iPAQ rw6828: A tiny package with style


This is HP’s smallest ever Pocket PC with integrated phone functionality. It comes with enough style that you wouldn’t be ashamed to flaunt it in public. Its diminutive size can be misleading: at closer inspection, it reveals its true colors. Running on the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 OS, it comes packed with your standard fare […]

Treo 680: Elegant, evolutionary smartphone


Still very much in the game
When I was handed a Treo 680 review unit with the screen protector applied so poorly that it rendered the touchscreen useless, I still managed to use the 680’s phone and SMS functions and many other Palm OS applications quite normally for a day, using only the hardware buttons.
It’s this […]

LG KG800: Technically decadent


Let’s get it out of the way: the LG KG800 Chocolate Phone is not brown; it’s dark chocolate, so it’s black. So there. But black is beautiful, in this case. It’s made of ebony glass with glowing red lights, and stylish as anything we’ve seen lately. And it’s not just beautiful; it works great. Let’s […]

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