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Tiny phones

By Joni Blecher Follow me on Twitter    |   Friday, December 01, 2006 (permalink)
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Countries in Central America get a bad wrap about the lack of cool cell phones that can be found there. It is true they don't have the latest and greatest cell phones. Consumers there tend to have models that came out here a little over a year ago. If you think about how fast new cell phones are available here, it might seem like the cell phones in those countries are mobile dinosaurs. That's just not true. Some of the phones I saw in Costa Rica, for example, I know people who still have those same models here. The main difference really is that they don't tend to be decked out with a ton of features.

They also have something we don't: a plethora of small handsets. I don't have the biggest hands on the planet, so I'm always on the lookout for petite phones. Every where I looked the cell phones seemed smaller and smaller. So many reminded me of Sony Ericsson's super popular T68 cell phone. I can't help but wonder why we don't have more smaller cell phones available here. Perhaps the Krzr will start a spark and small cell phones will make a comeback.

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