Dual taste

Kyiv is the city where the new and the old make wonderful chances for cultural and aesthetical exploration. However, before you become a visitor to this fantastic city, take some time to decide on at least two things: accommodation and transport.

Let us consider selecting a place to stay. Depending on your budget and personal preference, you could either choose to stay in a Kiev hotel, or rent an apartment. Mind the class of Kiev hotels to estimate the quality of the service and accommodation and the price you are willing to pay for it.

Kyiv boasts of several luxury hotels. There are virtually dozens of less chic Kiev accommodation opportunities. A luxury hotel will be approximately $400-850 per 24 hrs, four star hotels will cost $150-$500, 3 star hotels will cost you about $70-300, two stars will cost from $50 to 120 and 1 star hotels cost around 25-100 per 24 hours.

There exist as well several hostels in Kiev for youth. In a regular hostel you will have unpretentious but clean accommodation and several beds in one and the same room.

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Dual-screen cellphones are nothing new, after all, flips have long offered anemic external displays for caller ID and the like with a bigger, higher resolution screen on the inside for taking care of business. Still, two folding screens emerging as one bigazz display a la the 701 ThinkPad’s butterfly keyboard would be a welcome addition, right? Seok Hong Jeong thinks so and is presenting his “dual LCD mobile phone” prototype at the Seoul International Invention Fair 2006 in Korea. He’s already applied for patents in “overseas markets” which we presume means the USPTO among other freewheelin’ entities. Godspeed sir, and please get Sammy on the horn for a couple of those 0.82-mm slim LCD’s they like to brag about — let’s keep the bulk down, eh?