Phone Scoop

BlackBerry owners can now use a new Starbucks Card Mobile App to manage a Starbucks card and even make mobile payments at select stores. The app lets Starbucks Card holders check their balance, reload their card and also make payments at more than 1,000 U.S. Target stores and in Starbucks locations participating in a trial in Seattle and Northern California. The app also lets users check their My Starbucks Rewards status and find local shops. The app is available now for download on Starbucks' site.

The first BlackBerry to combine a large touch screen with a physical QWERTY keyboard. This GSM smartphone also sports 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with video recording and video sharing, 3G data, WiFi, GPS navigation, new full web browser, memory card slot, 3.5mm audio jack, and stereo Bluetooth.

This follow-up to the Curve 8330 is slightly lighter and thinner, while adding Wi-Fi and switching to an optical direction control. Other features are similar, including 2 megapixel camera with video capture, GPS navigation, music player, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack, and memory card slot.

The 9650 is follow-up to the 9630 (Tour), adding Wi-Fi and switching to an optical pad for navigation. This CDMA messaging phone is otherwise similar to its predecessor, including 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture, Rev. A data domestically, GSM and 3G overseas, 3.5mm audio jack, memory card slot, push email, QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, and GPS navigation.

The 9650 is follow-up to the 9630 (Tour), adding Wi-Fi and switching to an optical pad for navigation. This CDMA messaging phone is otherwise similar to its predecessor, including 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture, Rev. A data domestically, GSM and 3G overseas, 3.5mm audio jack, memory card slot, push email, QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, and GPS navigation.

This follow-up to the Curve 8330 is slightly lighter and thinner, while adding Wi-Fi and switching to an optical direction control. Other features are similar, including 2 megapixel camera with video capture, GPS navigation, music player, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack, and memory card slot.