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Thanks to aggressive marketing strategies, some phones destined to a mass market become very widespread and popular among the average cell phone user. Last year, it was the case of the Samsung SCH-3500, that you can see in the hands of many people. I have selected three quite popular phones of the year 2001 and tried them. Here they are:

	Ericsson R289LX "The text-oriented phone"
	Panasonic ProMax EB-TX210 "The good deal"
	Motorola Timeport P8767 "The color-screen improved StarTac"