Express Yourself: Trash Talk, Sweet Talk, & Dirty Talk

The original Jawbone headset is stylish and known for excellent sound quality and comfort. The simple modern styling steps away from the seemingly Star Trek-influenced designs coming from most Bluetooth headset manufacturers. Aliph paid particular attention to comfort, offering a few different ear loops and ear bud inserts to fit your ear's natural engineering.
However, these limited edition Jawbone designs created by Jawbone's original designer Yves Behar are an awesome update to an already well-design product. True, it's purely a cosmetic upgrade, but come on-- a miniature trucker lady on my ear bud? That's too cool - subtle style. Using some sort of handsfree device is slowly becoming required in order to use a cell phone while driving, so why not wear a device that has a little character? We've got two other pics available after the break.

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Source: Yanko Design
Source: Jawbone
Source: Josh Spear

Bluetrek's New Bizz is the Shizz

Bluetrek just announced details on the "Bizz", a new Bluetooth headset that also features microSD capabilities, and can be charged via USB. The headset will accept up to an 8GB microSD card, allowing you to use the headset as a microSD reader, giving you access to your phone's pictures, videos and music. The Bizz also charges via USB and features a swappable panel to customize the look of your Bizz with different colors.  Check out the demo video!

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New Palm Centro To Feature XM Radio Streaming

The inexpensive Palm Centro has been getting rave reviews on all the mobile phone and gadget blogs, and the fact that it comes in at $99 is pretty darn amazing. Originally the phone was only offered by Sprint, but now AT&T has a version of their own, and with it comes exclusive services as well as exclusive colors (for now anyway). The pearl white Centro is available now, and "obsidian" version will be available shortly. The phone features a touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, green illuminated buttons, and this is also the first phone to offer streaming XM radio. Sprint offered Sirius on a few phones a while back, but I'm not sure if they still do. I had it on my A900, but I never tried it once. However, the Centro is more multimedia friendly than my A900 as it 64MB of on board memory, but you can also toss in up to a 4GB microSD card.
If anybody picks up one of these phones, I'd be curious to hear some feedback in the forums. What do you think? Like It? Hate it?

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Source: Orbitcast

Cobra Brings Bluetooth to the CB Market

I should have seen this coming, but I didn't. With all the integration of emerging technologies, I hadn't considered much when it came to merging new tech with old tech, at least not old tech like a CB radio! Cobra just announced the addition of this little gem to their CB radio mix. Introducing the 29 LTD BT, a mobile radio with built-in Bluetooth for handsfree mobile phone operation.

The unit includes a noise-canceling microphone, 5-watt speaker, and boasts 4 Watts AM RF power output. The 29 LTD BT also features tactile controls, making it easy for the operators to know the position of each knob without having to take their eyes off the road. A built-in Bluetooth button on the handheld CB mic for accepting and hanging up phone calls. The 29 LTD BT will have an MSRP of $189.99 and will be available as early as this spring.

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Source: UberGizmo

Samsung's New Phone Touchscreen UI is Pretty Dope

The guys over at Phonescoop got a brief hands on with the new Samsung phone UI. As expected, it's very iPhone-esque, but has a flair of it's own. This isn't the F490 we blogged about awhile back, but it is a pretty cool phone none-the-less. Looks like Sammy has a pretty solid grip on what makes a good phone!

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