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Netcomm was at CTIA showing off its 3G pocket router, and while they admit it apes the MiFi, it builds on it in some pretty useful ways. Battery life purportedly outdoes its rival, with four hours use, even with multiple devices connected — and when your batteries finally do tank, connecting it to your laptop will let it recharge and still allow wireless connectivity. The MyZone ships in both US and global 3G variants with both also packing quad-band EDGE, and 802.11g WiFi. Another handy feature — at least for those that travel — is the MyZone’s ability to sort out the APN details for whatever carrier’s SIM you happen to put in it, so using it is as simple as popping in your SIM and connecting. We didn’t have an opportunity to get connected to it and give it a proper test drive, but we’re waiting for one to arrive and as soon as we do we’ll let you know how we get on. Few more pics right after the break.

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Think you know what your cell phone is thinking? Add your own captions below. Executive Editor Dan Costa started us off with this gem:

“Please put me in your jacket pocket today.”

Development consultant Moto Labs has published an intriguing look at how the touchscreens of various smartphones work, by tracing a test pattern across each.

The test used a robotic arm, with two differently sized styluses, as an attempt to figure out which touchscreens were the most accurate. Accuracy is important, the firm noted, both for selecting small blocks of text in a browser, as well as interacting with applications.

Note that the tests did not test multitouch or gestures, simply how the touchscreen recorded a touch in a given location. A deliberate gap was left in the top right-hand corner.

You’ll have to wait a few months for the HTC Evo 4G phone, but Sprint is already selling their 4G WiMAX modems for laptops. At the CTIA Wireless trade show today, we saw the next generation of these modems – they may be coming in a smaller form, and a lot of jaunty colors.

Sprint’s current line of modems are manufactured by C-Motech, and over at C-Motech’s booth we saw two new lines of modems with the Sprint logo proudly emblazoned upon them. The first (at top) was a row of Sprint U301 modems coming in seven colors. The U301 modem has a “halo” antenna around its top, and the halo was colored on these models.

In the C-Motech booth we also saw the Sprint U302 (at left), which appears to be Sprint’s next-generation modem. It looks a lot like the U301, but with the halo eliminated; it’s a smaller, slimmer device.

Sprint hasn’t announced the U302 or the colored U301 devices yet, so we’re not sure when they’re coming. But the U302 is pretty clearly coming to Sprint soon. I’m not so sure about the colored modems, though; they may just have been for display. (The C-Motech folks weren’t too clear on that.)