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If you love sleek and sexy designs, you’ll love the new Motorola U9. The phone can be used with either T-Mobile or AT&T.

The new U9 features Bluetooth, a microSD card slot, Moto’s Crystal Talk technology, a 2-megapixel camera, and quadband GSM world phone support.

The U9 is currently retailing at $275.99 in the US.

With Apple’s absolute dominance in computer designs, PC manufacturer Dell is stepping up their game with the Studio Hybrid. Priced at $499, this tiny desktop will be in direct competition with the Mac mini.

Dell has stepped up their design with many of their products including the inspiron 518 with a new sleek exterior.

With major airlines now charging for luggage by the pound it’s important to know whether your luggage is over the limit. Balanzza’s digital luggage scale should help traveller’s from having to pay the extra luggage fee.

You simply attach your bag to the small scale and lift the bag with the scale’s handle and you’ll get a readout of how much your bag weighs. It can safely lift any bag that’s less than 100 lbs.

This model runs for about $21.

Samsung has announced the launch of their cheapest bluray theater system yet. The price tag on their new system is set at $800, nearly half the cost of their previous system.

Their new bluray set includes:

• 5.1 channel system, 800 watts total power
• Four satellite speakers, one center speaker and a passive subwoofer
• HDMI output for Blu-ray, and 1080p upconversion for DVDs
• Two optical digital audio inputs
• Ethernet port for firmware updates only
• Onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD High Resolution
• Available in August with a list price of $800

This is a very competitively priced bluray system and you would be hard pressed to put together a system like it on your own.

LG is rumored to be getting into the mini notebook business. The leading mini-notebook on the market is currently HP’s 2133.

The 2133 features a 9 inch screen, 2GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive or 64GB SSD. The price ranges from $500-$1000 for HPs mini-notebook. The rumor is that LG’s notebook will be in a similar price range and offer similar features.

Mini-notebooks have limited appeal because they generally can’t be used as primary computers as other higher powered notebooks can be.

A Seattle Judge recently ruled that a class action lawsuit against T-Mobile will be allowed to move forward. The lawsuit was made against T-Mobile because T-Mobile does little to nothing to protect its users from paying for spam text messages users receive on their cell phones.

Subscribers can either pony up for each spam text, or pay the $175 early deactivation fee if they want to drop T-Mobile. Other carriers allow users to block text messages but T-Mobile offers no such service. I guess they should have offered this to their customers, oops.