Holiday Gift Guide 2004

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Showoffs Texters Shutterbugs Emailers

These people tend to talk about their phones more than they talk on them. They don't need reliability so much as they need a phone that turns heads, both when it's doing nothing as well as when it's doing something that's not very phone like. Novel design and extraordinary features like video playback or wide-screen web browsing are far more important than how well these phones actually make calls. To their credit, each of these phones is also quite capable at that as well.

Cingular: Nokia 6620
(Cingular is also selling the Motorola RAZR V3, the ultimate showoff phone, but at over $400 even with a contract, it was too expensive for us to recommend.)

Sprint: Samsung MM-A700

T-Mobile: Sidekick II

Verizon: Kyocera KX2

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