smartphones

Somebody over at Boy Genius Report has the hook-up. They’ve got the full specs for the new Blackberry 9000, although the one picture they have (also above) looks kind of…

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Verizon's VX6800: A meta-write-up

1:34 pm PST • November 28, 2007

Another day, another hot Windows Mobile-based smartphone made by HTC. This is the sentence where we talk about the QWERTY keyboard. This is where we mention the touchscreen. This is…

Stuck with Windows Mobile? Opera Mini not cutting it for you? You’re in luck, friend, as development of Mozilla for mobile devices is now official. According to Arne Hess at…

Research In Motion has been reported as working on a next-generation OS for Blackberry’s mythical 9000 series. They’ve got a pretty fat list of improvements going on for the 9000s,…

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New version of Google Maps for Windows Mobile

11:30 am PST • November 16, 2007

Good news. Google maps is now available as a standalone, non-java program for Windows Mobile devices. No more midlet business. It’s faster and easier to use than Live Search, in…

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PDAs of our past, it's been real

3:02 pm PST • November 13, 2007

Remember PDAs? Those nifty little handheld tablets that let you track appointments and set to-do lists? Yah, we do too, and they seem like an artifact from yesterrday. With the…

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Glofiish X800 now shipping to channel partners

3:30 pm PST • November 5, 2007

The adorably misspelled Glofiish X800 is making its way around the world as we speak. This is the same phone that caused our very own Peter Ha to say the…

AT&T users can now enjoy the majesty of the updated Moto Q in the privacy their bathrooms or cars. The Q 9h, dubbed the “world” edition, is a quad-band 3G…

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T-Mobile Shadow review

1:58 pm PDT • October 29, 2007

T-Mobile knows how to work with OEMs. Witness their popular Dash and Sidekick. They create branded experiences, completely change UIs and operating systems, and generally do a good job of…

So far, one of the things that most smartphones have had in common has been that they’re relatively expensive when they first launch. Microsoft’s trying to buck that trend by…

Heads up! It’s smartphone day at Verizon Wireless, where the carrier has today launched not one, not two, but four new smartphones today.

When it comes to Web browsers, I swear by exactly two: Firefox by Mozilla, and Opera Mini by Opera, the former for my laptop, and the later for my mobiles.…

Today is the day AT&T launches the much-hyped Tilt. The smartphone is better than most Windows Mobile devices simply because it has everything built-in that one could possible want (short…

The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 now works on CDMA networks, opening the door to Verizon Wireless and/or Sprint picking it up in the near future. It’s more or less the same…

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BlackBerry Curve Review

8:53 am PDT • September 27, 2007

Cast your memory back to the dark ages before smartphones. The StarTAC was still in common rotation. Cellphones were bricks. Windows Mobile was just a glimmer in Bill Gates’ eye.…