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Are There Any Good and Cheap Smartphones?
jkOnTheRun — ... PC Magazine’s Smart Device Central offers thoughts on the best, “cheap” smartphones available today. This is a timely read to me for two reasons: it’s the most oft-asked question I’m seeing these days and because I came within an inch of bagging a NAM Nokia E71 over the weekend. The unlocked S60 smartphone was available on a one-day sale for $289. I passed at the last second because my current AT&T contract is up in July. I could stay with the carrier, but I might also move to a CDMA network, which would render my $289 investment fairly useless ...

Breaking: MetroPCS Introduces BlackBerry w/$50 Unlimited Plan
Gearlog — Talk about declaring a price war: MetroPCS has launched their first BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone with an unlimited rate plan. The $50 personal rate plan includes unlimited talk, text, web browsing, MMS and BlackBerry email access through BlackBerry Internet Service, while an extra $10 gets you the BlackBerry Enterprise Server version. That means it's the first smart phone from the Cricket, Metro, and Boost Mobile unlimited, no-contract group, and the price is fully half of what Sprint is charging for the same thing via their Simply Everything plan—which was a good deal until about 13 seconds ago. There's always a catch, ...