The first thing that stands out about Sprint’s exclusive LG Lotus is it’s shape. Few, if any, flip phones possess a square shape and a full QWERTY keyboard in a true clamshell design. The hardware was inspired by makeup accessories every woman on the planet carries around, but despite its target audience, the Lotus hardware is nice hardware for anyone who make text messages their priority.

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LG Lotus Hands-On [Cellphones]

In case you don’t feel like waiting an extra month for a WiFi-enabled BlackBerry, AT&T will release the titanium variant of the BlackBerry Curve 8320 on Tuesday, September 23.

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WiFi-enabled BlackBerry Curve Coming to AT&T on Sept. 23 [BlackBerry]

Filed under: Displays , Wireless What’s better than a ( cheap ) XEL-1? How’s about a wireless, battery-powered XEL-1

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Sony demos battery-powered, fully-wireless OLED TV

Now not only can you get Sony’s OLED TV for the bargain bin price of $1,748 , you’ll also soon be able to make that 11-inch hunk of visual sexiness completely wireless.

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Sony Shows Off Completely Wireless OLED TV [OLED TV]

Dell has figured out an untraditional way to market its tech equipment: Sponsor a reality television show. “We Mean Business” debuted Saturday at 10 a.m. on cable channel A&E.

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Dell Turns to Reality TV

Filed under: Cellphones , Handhelds Oh, come on, you know there’s a part of you that wants it.

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Hands-on with Sprint’s Touch Pro

Filed under: Cellphones , Portable Audio We put “free” in quotes for a reason, and now it seems the dark, nasty truth could be upon us. While pre-order prices on a retailer’s website should be taken as pure speculation and nothing more, a couple of notable examples reveal £70 to £85 premiums on the Comes with Music version of two phones. For instance, Expansys offers up Nokia’s N95 8GB for £394.99, but the CwM edition is a stiff £479.99.

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Nokia’s Comes With Music premium in the $150 range?

Filed under: Portable Audio , Portable Video Usually product teardowns are only interesting for the raw, visceral thrill of seeing chipsets and circuit boards splayed wide open, but iFixit’s disassembly of the new iPod touch revealed something rather more interesting: a Broadcom BCM4325 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR chip.

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Debunk: the iPod touch Bluetooth chip is really the Nike+ receiver

Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year’s TechCrunch50. Every day, the presentations just seemed to get stronger and stronger

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Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50

Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch : TC50: Birdpost and Closet Couture, Two Social Networks for Birds   —  The first two companies to present at this afternoon’s Vertical Social Networking session proved that niche social networks can be exciting, even for people outside of their respective niches.  —  On paper, a social network for bird watchers sounds like a joke.

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TC50: Birdpost and Closet Couture, Two Social Networks for Birds (Mark Hendrickson/TechCrunch)