Five Picks for High-Tech Love

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MotoKrzr: Love on the Line
Editor's Note: As a special feature for February, TheStreet.com offers a five-part series on Valentine's Day designed to help you find the perfect gift.

This Valentine's Day, running to get her a bunch of roses is going to merely be the first step: Now any self-respecting, mall-fearing man has to find that special someone the perfect cell phone, portable media player, branded hard drive or custom-built piece of sporting goods.

Don't ask me why, but Valentine's Day has gone high-tech.

And profit-starved consumer electronics firms, such as Motorola (MOT Quote), LG, Nokia (NOK Quote), Sony (SNE Quote) and the rest are falling over themselves to make the right gadget for this year's day of romance and roses.

And it's almost all aimed at the ladies: Never have there been more female-friendly phones, computers and other digital gadgets.

Here, then, are my picks for best Valentine's Day tech presents.

But first, do me a favor. As fun as, say, a new pink hard drive might be, go ahead and get some decent flowers too.

Electronics are nice, but they won't warm the heart on a cold winter night.

Calling all Colors

Motorola basically invented the Valentine's Day tech trend last year with its wildly popular colorized riffs on the Razr V3. Suddenly color was in with cell phones -- and otherwise mature women were seen clutching devices the color of a child's stuffed animal.

For 2007, everyone from LG to Nokia is looking to take some of Motorola's vibrant thunder. There is the spiffy LG Chocolate available from Verizon, the Samsung Sync in red from AT&T, and other phones.

But it won't matter. The Razr will still rule.

The hot phone this V-day will be a slimmed-down version of the original Razr, the MotoKrzr ($149 with two-year plan from Verizon Wireless).

Apart from being a fabulous design -- small, sleek and with an excellent feel -- Motorola has done gorgeous color work on these units, including a very nice off-white that works in the gym by day and then seamlessly out to a bar at night.

However, don't expect to do multimedia on this unit. The screen is too small for videos or navigation on the go. But for a straight-up cell phone with style and romance, there is no beating the MotoKrzr in white.

Digital Jane Austen

Face it, men, on Valentine's Day there is exactly one great film: Pride and Prejudice.

As nice as she acts during supposedly great films like Citizen Kane, The Godfather and The Departed, there is simply nothing to compare on this special day to Mr. Darcy and his ego issues.

This is not news. What is news is that finally, great gal-friendly movies are now available for download.

No more messy discs and battling players -- direct-from-the-Web movies ($5.95) have gone mainstream.

Words of warning: You will be paying top dollar per film -- almost six bucks.

To view Jonathan Blum's video take of today's Good Life segment, click here.

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