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Unlocked cell phones have not made it into the U.S. market yet, but Nokia and Sony Ericsson have U.S. ready cell phones that they believe can compete with the most popular phones. The Nokia N97 with touch screen is one of these cell phones, which also supports 3G and Wi-Fi, has a 5-mega-pixel camera and also has 32 GB of memory. Then there is the Sony Ericsson W995a that is setup for 3G and Wi-Fi, has an 8.1 mega pixel camera, bright display screen, media player, GPS and stereo Bluetooth. The Nokia N97 rivals the features in the Cupertino, California based Apple iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre, while the Sony Ericsson W995a can compete with the Verizon LG enV3 or the Samsung Memoir T929. Here you can find more technology as well as California News and reports.
The problem with these cell phones is that they are not purchased through a plan like the Verizon LG enV3 or the Samsung Memoir T929 that is under T-Mobile plans.

Technology involving Braille could make it possible with some learning to allow the blind to read mobile content. This will work by raised dots that will have an intense vibration, lower level vibration will be gaps and there are longer lasting buzzes. This according to the New Scientists the cell phone display is able to be read by the blind in approximately a little over one second.

At the University of Tampere in Finland to prove this new technology could work and work with existing cell phones they wrote custom software and used it with a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. This software is able to mimic the bumps that would be used by the blind. What is dependant to make this system work correctly is a cell phone that has a piezoelecrity layer in the display screen.

This is a large technological advance for the blind and should be put into use quickly, since there are no major barriers and the learning process is uncomplicated to be able to work the Braille cell phone.

A new email migrater is now available by Yippie Move service. This one benefits newbie email users who do not know how to change all their email addresses over to a new account. Most advanced users know how to do this by just simply mass forwarding all the recipients in their email address book over into a new account. But the new to email users who do not know how to do this yet can use this account mover service for $10.

 Once you put in the essential information from your old account, the Yippie Move service will move them all for you. This service works really well with 40 different types of web and educational email service providers. It also works with any account that supports IMAP.

 The creator of this service is Viktor Peterson who says that most port transfer jobs can be finished in about 10 minutes unless it is a really large account, which may take a little more time.

 The only drawback is that it does not support Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo Mail accounts. These are two very popular email accounts that many people have or would like to have their accounts migrated to and from. IMAP is the main focus of the Yippie Move service right now but support for service for the popular web accounts will be coming soon.