It didn’t take long for the latest BlackBerry (and iPhone competitor) to sell at a deep discount. If you sign up as a Verizon customer you can now get yourself a BlackBerry Storm 9530 from Amazon.com for $100! That’s an 80% discount over the regular $500 price.

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Telephone land lines are expensive. And so very 1990s. If you have a high speed internet connection you already have a modern communication line you can use for telephone calls.

With an eye towards ridding yourself of your phone company, Spot Cool Stuff examines three internet telephone services: MagicJack, Vonage and Skype. With all three you can dial out to any telephone number in the world. With all three you can receive a call from any telephone in the world. It is there, though, that the similarities end.

So which of the three services is best? Read on for our full analysis or skip ahead to the conclusion.

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In addition to using your BlackBerry to make phone calls, write emails and play BrickBreaker, you can now use it to change the channels on your TV, pause your Blu-Ray player and program your TiVO. That thanks to a new app that gives your BlackBerry all the functionality of a universal remote control.

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If you are a 13 year old girl chances are that you can text message on a tiny cell phone as fast as you can type on a computer. The rest of us would prefer a more normal keyboard to type our text messages. But we don’t want larger cells phones either. To the rescue comes the Vtech is6110, an at-home cordless telephone with the text messaging capabilities of a cell phone. The Vtech is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard a little larger than that of a full sized BlackBerry. It can also send and received instant messages via AOL, MSN and Windows Live. The phone comes with a base station at must be plugged into your computer (either a Mac or PC). $99

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The battle for the best compact smartphone has been well joined by Sony and it’s Xperia X1.

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