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I can't believe that any of the major cell phone manufacturers have the balls to apply the label "music phone" to any of the steaming piles of shit they pass of as such. Take for example the Samsung Katalyst. Certainly no one is expecting anything exciting from a low-end T-Mobile handset. Nonetheless, the Katalyst comes with a microSD slot and a media player application. To quote T-Mobile's web site, listed under the Features of this phone, it says "Make a personal soundtrack with your favorite MP3s on your phone." Yet they make it awfully difficult to actually listen the music. Not only does the Katalyst lack both a 3.5mm headphone jack and A2DP, you can't even buy a stereo headset from T-Mo's site -- wired or otherwise -- if you wanted to. Just for grins, I sent an email to their customer support, indicating my interest in utilizing this purported music player. My message went unanswered. Other than using the built-in speaker, no one can tell me exactly how I might listen to music on it.

I use the Katalyst as a whipping boy but it's obviously not the only american handset that falls into this category. Please Engadget, use your powers for good and tell all the big guys that we're going on a hunger strike until proper headphone jacks are on every phone!

Or something like that.]]>May 15th 2008 9:26AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/14/lgs-km501-says-hello-to-taiwan-with-a-3-5mm-headphone-jack/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/14/lgs-km501-says-hello-to-taiwan-with-a-3-5mm-headphone-jack/May 15th 2008 10:04AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/14/lgs-km501-says-hello-to-taiwan-with-a-3-5mm-headphone-jack/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/14/lgs-km501-says-hello-to-taiwan-with-a-3-5mm-headphone-jack/May 15th 2008 1:15PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/14/lgs-km501-says-hello-to-taiwan-with-a-3-5mm-headphone-jack/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/14/lgs-km501-says-hello-to-taiwan-with-a-3-5mm-headphone-jack/May 15th 2008 7:48PM