Gosh, wouldn’t it be swell if somebody came up with a cell phone that played MP3s? Like, you could be listening to your legally purchased DRM-encased audio files and when a call came, this magical wonder-device would mute the music so you could talk. And maybe they could sell it for, like, six hundred bucks, but only for a month or two, and then you could lower the price just to stick it to the eager beavers. Ha ha! Boy, what fun that’d be. A phone that plays MP3s. That’s some futuristic year-3000 Jetsons stuff right there.

Until that far-off day when this dream comes true, there’s the Philips Bluetooth MP3/Cell Phone Headset. See, it can connect to your Bluetooth audio player and your Bluetooth phone at the same time. Switch between them with the casual aplomb of Catherine Zeta-Jones switching accents. If you take the call on the built-in mic, the choons automatically mute. Someday, an MP3-playing phone will appear on the market and change everything about our lives, our world, and our universe. For now, the Philips Bluetooth MP3/Cell Phone Headset will have to do.

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