The Party Line — Phone Buzz of the Day

Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts:

google-personalized-suggestGoogle Personalized Search Launches (Google) — Earlier tonight, Android, iPhone and the Palm Pre gained a new search feature. Not only will Google save your prior search terms for easier recall, but it also synchronizes your search items between desktop and mobile. Tonight, I signed into Google on my notebook, searched for a few items and then hit my Palm Pre not more than 30 seconds later. Using Google in the handset browser, the same search terms were auto-suggested, making for the same experience on different devices.

BlackBerry Storm 2 Landing on October 25 (BGR) — The Storm 2 is brewing and forecast to hit shores in a few short weeks. No pricing or official news out of Verizon Wireless just yet though.

satellite-terrestrial-11-croppedHybird GSM / Satellite Phone Crashes to Earth (GigaOM) — Did you think consumer satellite phones were gone, gone, gone? TerreStar is bringing them back in a $799 hybrid model. The Genus is both a GSM and satellite phone but you won’t want to use it for long in satellite mode — actually, you can’t since it only gets 90 minutes of talk time and will cost you $0.65 a minute, plus a $24.99 monthly charge for sat service. You’ll get five hours of talk time in GSM mode and far faster data rates. When using satellite service for data, it’s $5 for every megabyte at EDGE-like speeds.

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