Gadget Envy: LG Trax Music Mobile Phone

 

September 7, 2007, 06:22 PM

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What It Is: AT&T's new clamshell-style music phone with dedicated music keys, a 1.3 megapixel camera and the fastest HSDPA (3G) network currently available (near-broadband speeds for Web surfing, e-mail reading and file downloading).
Who It's For: Music heads who are so impatient, they need to buy music and download it to their phone in mere seconds.
Why It's Worthy: It's one of the few phones that works with the new eMusic Mobile service, which lets you download seven songs a month for $9.95 — right to your phone (you download a second copy on your PC using eMusic's desktop software). We downloaded tracks from Arcade Fire's Neon Bible and Caribou's Andorra in less than a minute per tune. The service also works with the Napster subscription service, but you'll have to sync those tunes manually. Stereo Bluetooth capability means you won't have to worry about proprietary and tangle-prone headphones.
Our Only Complaint: You can only download one song at a time on the eMusic service (not whole albums) and the headphone jack is proprietary, so you'll need an adapter to use that fancy new set of Shure earbuds.

Cost/Where to Get It: $129 (with two-year contract), wireless.att.com


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