| Cool Slideshows: 10 eye-catching gadgets at CTIA
Last week's CTIA trade show in Las Vegas generated a decent amount of news, including BlackBerry's announcement that it was opening its own application store and Verizon's partnership with Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent to open a research center for Long Term Evolution (LTE) devices and applications. But as usual, the biggest attractions at CTIA were the gadgets being paraded around by big-named device manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC, LG, RIM, Palm, Motorola and Nokia. Here's a look at the 10 gadgets that most caught our eye at CTIA, plus details about pricing, availability and carrier support. Are you an IT geezer? (and we mean that in a good way)
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Nokia introduces a phone with an LED flashlight, a table top speaker and a U.S. version of the E71. CTIA: RIM opens BlackBerry App World
This week at CTIA in Las Vegas Research in Motion opened App World an on-device application store for Blackberries. Handgrip exerciser doubles as mouse
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By moving a touchscreen device’s interaction component to the back of the device, new technology can prevent fingers from occluding a touchsreen display and allow displays to shrink in size. Nintendo unleashes DSi on rabid fans
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