Word: celle
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ERICSSON CHATBOARD $50; available in June Snap this mini-keyboard onto your cell phone (the T18Z is shown here), and type instant messages to friends...
...they say, all this communication isn't bringing people together; it's pulling them apart. Go to the mall, and you'll see strolling couples--one partner yammering on a cell phone, the other feeling ignored. Go on vacation, and you'll see kids fending for themselves while their parents are running mini-offices from their beach blanket. My boss complains he doesn't have weekends free anymore. He tries to get away--taking his daughter, for example, on a Sunday romp in a park--but while she runs in the fields, he's busy checking e-mail...
...technology is getting hard to live without. When this story was edited, I was on a boat cruising down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. I was able to read and answer my editor's e-mail on my laptop (thanks to a wireless modem) and answer questions by cell phone. The work got done, but I missed a pretty good fish fry. --With reporting by David S. Jackson/Los Angeles and Anita Hamilton and Unmesh Kher/New York...
MOTOROLA V2282 $99 to $199 (depending on carrier), plus $14 for covers No ordinary cell phone, it has a built-in FM radio and offers a pick of colored shells...
ADMIT IT: unless you get cornered by a grizzly bear on your summer vacation or go into labor while trekking across the Mojave Desert, there are few times in life when you really need a cell phone. More often than not, you're just chatting with a friend while stuck in rush-hour traffic or asking your wife what flavor ice cream she wants you to pick up at the grocery store. As handy as cell phones can be, for many consumers they're just a fun way to pass the time...