Thursday, May 21, 2009

Amazon sells Nokia E71x smartphone for 1 cent - USATODAY.com

You can't even get chewing gum for a penny anymore. But you can get a smartphone. One cent is what Amazon.com is charging for the Nokia E71x smartphone I've been testing.

You're probably thinking a penny phone must be a discontinued model, or a device lacking state-of-the-art features. But the Nokia E71x only went on sale this month. And this sleek-looking world phone has a full qwerty keyboard, Web browser, Wi-Fi, GPS, access to corporate e-mail through Exchange, a 3.2-megapixel camera (with video, no less) and other multimedia features...