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Between your average utilitarian cellphone and the smartphone, there's a niche market that caters to a younger, social networking crowd. That niche is blowing up right now, spearheaded by the likes of Microsoft's Kin. T-Mobile and Samsung are dropping three more of these phones on consumers: Gravity 3, Gravity T and one simply called the :).
 
Cellphone blog Android and Me has acquired a Droid 2 handset early (pictured above, right), and decided to stack it up against the classic Droid (left). What did they find? In shape and size it's almost the same thing, though it's sporting a 1Ghz processor and 512 MB of RAM, just like the iPhone 4. That's nice and all, but it's going to need something else the original Droid had: heart.
 
The current generations of iPhone have issues with their screens breaking if dropped from any sort of height. The iPhone 4? It has glass on both sides. And initial testing shows that it is just as shatter-prone as the past versions. Is it worth it?
 
If you live in Bulgaria, you won't ever be assigned the cellphone number 0888 888 888. That's because every single person who's ever had that number was killed under suspicious circumstances. It's gotten so bad that cellphone provider Mobitel has permanently banned the number.

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