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service package."You may not get the
phone for free but you'll probably be
do more pleased with what you have."
The SonyCM-RX100, selling for
under $500, is about the size of a deck
of cards and weighs just over a half-
pound. To answer or start a call, a tiny
microphone arm flips out giving you
that futuristic feel. The phone can
store up to 99 numbers for speed dial-
ing and it lets you spin through the
phone's features so you don't have to
ow flip through the owner's manual. It's
rated to give you 90 minutes of talk
time and a standby time of about 24
hours. Mcitorola's ultra small StarTac
remains the ultimate status symbol.It
costs between $1,000 and $2,000 and
gives four hours of talk time and 47
hours of standby mode.
The less expensive StarTac 6000
weighs a bit more but costs consider-
ably less — about $500.
"If phone calls aren't enough and
you want to check your e-mail, then
move up to AT&T's PocketNet
Phone, the next wave of smart phones,
says Csatari. The Pocket Net looks like
a standard cell phone except it comes
with a modem and its own e-mail
address.
Perfect for keeping track of busy
families and for the home office is
Lucent Technologies Digital -
Answering System Caller ID speaker-
phone 1854. It has all the benefits of
digital technology plus instant play-
back, selective save and delete, repeat
and review, and forward. Another fea-
ture allows you to record a specific
outgoing announcement for calls corn-
ing in from a pre-selected phone num-
°. ber. You also can select phone num-
bers in your call list as priority num-
bers (up to 100) and a distinctive ring
alerts you when a call is received from
a phone on this list.Suggested retail
price is $219.
If you're looking for a digital cord-
less phone that gives lots of range, the
new Lucent Technologies Telephone
9510 can take on calls almost a mile
10- away. You can carry the phone's hand-
set to your neighbor's house and still
receive calls or purchase an extra 9510
handset and keep it in another part of
the house. A unique feature is that the
two handsets can be used as walkie-
talkies while separated by up to 4,000
feet even when neither handset is
within range of the phone base.Retail

price is $349 and it's available at many
stores including Sears, Office Max,
Staples and Service Merchandise.
More people are trading up to the
newer digital tapeless answering
machines such as the Lucent
Technologies Digital Answering
Machine 1725. With four mailboxes
(one for each member of the family),
digital answering machines allow you
to listen to messages in any order and
offers features such as selective save,
message previewand delete plus the
option of allowing three outgoing
announcements.

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Al Nelson of RadioShack, consid- -
ered one of the top retailers of cellular
phones and pagers, predicts that the
flip-style cellular with vibrating alert
(TSP 17-1111), priced under $50,
and the flip-style with 40-number
memory (TSP 17-1110), priced under
$20, will be big sellers this year.

PDAs Personal Digital
Assistants and Electronic
Organizers

Electronic organizers - also called
personal digital assistants (PDAs) -
haven't lost their appeal! These small
electronic reminders are especially
appealing when datebooks seem to be
growing bigger and thicker.
U.S. Robotics resurrected the PDA
last year with its Pilot. Slightly larger
than a deck of cards, the Pilot is small
enough to slip into a jacket pocket.
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