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Kyocera Wild Card
(Credit: Kyocera)
Virgin Mobile has been selling the Kyocera Wild Card since October 7, but it’s finally making the phone available to its retail partners like Best Buy, Target, and RadioShack.

Also known as the Kyocera M1000, the Wild Card is exactly the same as Cricket’s Lingo except for a few services that only Virgin Mobile offers.
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Original post by Nicole Lee

Kyocera Wild Card
(Credit: Kyocera)
Though Virgin Mobile has been selling the Kyocera Wild Card since October 7, it’s finally making the phone available to its retail partners like Best Buy, Target, and RadioShack. Also known as the Kyocera M1000, the Wild Card is exactly the same as Cricket’s Lingo …

Original post by Nicole Lee

Sony appears to be making a consumer-server play, introducing the $400 80GB HDMS-S1D “photo album” for the high-def enjoyment of up to 50,000 still images. You can import photos via Memory Stick slot—but also SD, CF and xD! (Way to go, Sony!) You can connect the HDMS-S1D to your TV via HDMI, and navigate slideshows using its remote control. It has a CD/DVD burner for getting and saving shots. We also see an Ethernet port, so we’re going to assume there’s at least some way to push photos to it from your PC (or Mac?) In addition to letting you edit, rotate, delete and group photos on screen, there are also some unique automated features:
• x-Pict Story HD automatically builds “professional quality” slideshows
• Face detection technology locates faces and frames slideshow transitions around faces
• x-ScrapBook sets photos in templates, using face detection and event-clustering for sharp layouts
Here’s what the back [...]

Original post by Wilson Rothman