smartphones now 2006

Smartphones Now 2006

Thanks for reading this year’s edition of Smartphones Now. It’s been a long week for us getting our bearings with such an extensive feature-set, but in the end everything gelled quite happ

Smartphones Now: First-Time Buyer's Guide

So you’ve decided to buy your first smartphone. That’s fantastic, but before you go crazy and drop your car payment in favor of PDA-meets-cellphone goodness, you need to stop and figure ou

Smartphones Now: Linux

If you thought Linux-based OSes were for back rooms, hardcore geeks, and computer science grad students, you’d be right. Recently, however, its made great strides toward becoming much more “user f

Smartphones Now: Palm OS

Though it sits behind RIM and its BlackBerries in market share in the US, the Palm OS is still a powerful operating system that is favored by many users who swear by its reliability and ease of use. F

Smartphones Now: 10 Things I Hate About Smartphones

is a special group of features by CrunchGear writers on the latest smartphones available or soon to be available in the US. In this installment, we froth at the mouth at the current crop of smartphone

Smartphones Now!

Greetings all, I just wanted to take a minute to remind you that we’re currently in the midst of our Smartphones Now 2006 feature set. We’re covering a wide array of smartphone topics and

Smartphones Now: Windows Mobile 5

If you’ve heard about a Windows-based smartphone in the past year or two, it’s most likely running Windows Mobile 5.0. Actually a subset of what Microsoft calls Windows CE, Windows Mobile

Smartphones Now: Opera Mini 2 Opens Up Real Mobile Web Browsing

Smartphones Now: Symbian

Smartphones Now is a special group of features by CrunchGear writers on the latest smartphones available or soon to be available in the US. In this installment, we discuss smartphones running the Symb

Smartphones Now: The Blackberry Pearl

Smartphones Now is a special group of features by CrunchGear writers on the latest smartphones available – or soon to be available – in the US. In this installment, we review the T-Mobile

Smartphones Now: The T-Mobile Dash

Smartphones Now is a special group of features by CrunchGear writers on the latest smartphones available – or soon to be available – in the US. In this installment, we review the T-Mobile

Smartphones Now: Welcome

Welcome to Smartphones Now, our first annual survey of the smartphone arena. This collection of articles, which will run from today until this Friday, touches on the major smartphone OSes along with s