Under no circumstances should you buy the Haier P6

Now this is kind of funny. Haier has released a cellphone that would be kinda innovative if it weren't such crap. The $250 P6 is basically a phone in a voice recorder casing. In fact, it even has a voice recorder feature that can record a hot 15 minutes of voice memos. That's more notes than you'll ever need but certainly not enough for a recording a meeting or lecture. The form factor requires a small screen, which in turn leads to the (monochrome) display being flipped ninety degrees for use; yes, you have to turn the phone to view anything except the time on it, which would most certainly drive us nuts in about two minutes. Not that the phone is a total wash, since it does come with a built-in laser pointer, the true don't-leave-home-without-it device.