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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.

By David Ponce

Boost Mobile is launching the SANYO Incognito SCP6760, a QWERTY handset with the following features:

2MP camera with VGA camcorder

2.6-inch, 320×240 screen

Touch-sensitive keypad and OLED display

Haptic feedback

MicroSD memory card slot that supports up to 16GB

MMS, stereo Bluetooth, a voice recorder, voice-activated dialing

GPS support

Bundled with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter apps

Boost Mobile offers a $50 Unlimited talk, text, Internet, taxes and fees plan; the great thing is that they don’t require a contract. The phone itself is priced at $129.99 (excluding taxes) if purchased online through the link provided below.

If you’re not familiar with Boost Mobile, they are division of Sprint Nextel and the service for this particular device runs on Sprint’s nationwide CDMA network. Aside from being able to purchase this handset online, the company is hoping to expand retail distribution to RadioShack as well as Target and Walmart soon.

Keep reading for a bunch more pictures of the Incognito SCP6760, and links.

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LeapFish Inc. All opinions are 100% mine.

By David Ponce

You might have heard over the last few months: the Internet is entering what many are referring to as “The Real-Time Web”. In other words, where static pages were all the rage in the 90’s, and blogs, social networks and interconnectivity became popular in the early part of the new millennium, we’re now entering a phase preoccupied with what’s happening now. As in right this minute. One salient example where this played a critical role was in the controversial Iranian presidential election, where Twitterers on the ground were able to get reports out live, without any help from the press.

Of course, like any emerging movements the early days can be a little confusing. Everyone is a content creator and at any given moment, hundreds of thousands of people are updating their Twitter accounts, their MySpace pages or Facebook profiles causing a cacophony. To filter through the noise, tap into what is effectively democratized journalism and allow an orderly Real Time Web to emerge, several companies are getting into “Real Time Search”. Recently Google joined the fray with the display of scrolling live results to a large number of searches. Watch the video we’ve embedded below for more on this. Another company is LeapFish who’ve launched a portal that includes a Live Search section with content from Digg, Twitter ([Update] Yeah… that’s it) and other social networks.

Again, watch their video at the end of the article if you’re interested.

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LG Chocolate Touch. All opinions are 100% mine.

Update: Well now you can win your very own LG Chocolate Touch! To enter this giveaway, simply leave a comment on this post about your very first phone. Or Tweet out a message containing the URL of this blog post as well as the hashtag #VX8575. Sadly this is US only. Full set of rules: here.

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By David Ponce

Verizon has recently made available the most recent incarnation of the LG Chocolate line of phones in the LG Chocolate Touch VX8575 . Like the previous generations, the Chocolate Touch has an emphasis on music, though it’s an altogether pretty rounded out phone.

Out of the box, the device seems slim and light, though not of any dimensions we haven’t seen before. The screen is a bright 3 inches with WQVGA resolution and support for 262k colors. It comes 1GB of internal music memory, though it’s expandable up to 16GB through MicroSD cards. Rounding out the main specs, you have a 3.2MP digicam, 3.5mm audio jack and a “Patented Dolby Mobile music system”.

The music features definitely stand out.

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[ The following article is sponsored by Eye-Fi. The device was provided free of charge, and I am being compensated for the time I took to review the product. The opinions expressed are entirely my own. -Ed. ]

By David Ponce

No one really likes cables. And the more electronic devices we own, the worse it gets. Anything anyone does to do away with all the spaghetti-like clutter is a good thing by my book. So that’s why I’ve always been a fan of Eye-Fi, makers of an SD card with an embedded Wi-Fi chip. Not only because it allows me to do away with the always-hard-to-find USB transfer cable, it actually makes my camera more useful (well, not quite my camera, no fault of Eye-Fi, but more on that in a minute). How so? By making it a snap to actually offload pictures from it and sharing them with whomever I like. This happens to be the entire point of cameras, but being the lazy person I am I’ve been known to leave pictures in there forever.

So does it work? Absolutely. Keep reading for a short review of the product.

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