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The Verizon Wireless G’zOne Boulder is rugged and is built water tight. The new Boulder features: V Cast Music and Videos, VZ Navigator and more, all backed by Verizon Wireless’ super-fast EV-DO Rev. A network. Most of the features don’t work as well on the Boulder as they do on other phones, especially when it’s time to dry the phone off and actually make some calls, but that might be what you have to live with to have a phone that can take such punishment.

Released: July 2008. Price: $130.

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Sprint has officially unveiled a new CDMA handset – Motorola V950 Renegade with QChat. As the majority of the recent Motorola models the V950 is dressed up in a clam-shell form. What’s different is that this phone features a protected style and aggressive design. The music control buttons below the large external display are a clear sign of the phone being used for music playback, so the base package is expected to include a memory card.

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LG Secret KF750 is a high-end touchscreen slider phone with support of HSDPA/UMTS and GSM Quadband network. KF750 also comes with a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, VGA camera for video calls, 160MB of memory, Bluetooth 2.0, Media Player, FM-Radio and microSD expansion slot.

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The Airave is a femtocell that is being offered by Sprint and its technology partner Samsung. The basic idea is to improve cellular coverage in your home or office. Basic tests show that cell coverage increases considerably where there was weak coverage to start. The device covers an area of 5000 sqft. so it’s great for most homes that don’t get great reception.

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The Glyde U940 is Samsung’s first touchscreen phone for Verizon and is in direct competition with the LG Voyager that was released almost 6 month earlier. It is based on the GSM Samsung F700, with similarities in style and form, yet the feature-set has changed. The Glyde is targeted to consumers that are looking for a touchscreen device, with a smaller footprint than the Voyager, while maintaining a mechanical QWERTY keyboard.

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Tag Heuer released details about their first mobile phone the Tag Heuer Meridiist which will be launching in September, reports I4U News. The Tag Heuer Meridiist will carry over the luxury materials Tag Heuer uses in its famous watches. The mobile phone will be hand assembled from 430 components and constructed from corrosion-resistant, watch making 316L steel. The displays are protected by scratch resistant 60.5 carats sapphire crystal.

Of course Tag Heuer found a way to feature a time display in a very cool way on the Meridiist. On the top of the handset a digital time display makes this phone unique. {Wristdreams}

A white XV6900 or HTC Touch is now available at Verizon Wireless. Keep in mind that you have to be under a contract. The HTC Touch is going for about $250 after rebate. {techfresh}

Nokia 6300i offers a fully integrated and easy-to-use VoIP client (via WLAN 802.11b/g) combined with a Tri-band GSM/EDGE mobile phone. The 6300i also sports a 2.0 megapixel camera, FM stereo radio, Media Player, Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP), and MicroSD expansion slot (TransFlash), 512 MB card included, 30 MB of user memory. Web broswsing is made easy with pre-installed Opera mini browser and 2.0 inch TFT QVGA display with 320 x 240 pixel resolution and up to 16.7 million colors. Coming soon expected release second quarter 2008.{Mobile88}

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