World phones for world travelers

We're definitely as sick as you are of carrying multiple phones while living the life of a jetsetter because of incompatible cellular standards worldwide. So you can imagine how stoked we were to hear that Samsung, LG, and Motorola have all released handsets that support both GSM and CDMA networks for the global traveler market. While a billion users worldwide use GSM, there's still some 200 million (mainly in the US and Asia)
that are sticking it out with CDMA, so Samsung's got the SCH-W109 and LG's got the W800, both GSM/CDMA compatible offerings. Also, Verizon is now offering the Samsung A790 (at $350, seen at right), so you can get your roaming charges pumping not just in North America, but Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and pretyy much everywhere else in the world.