Noah Kravitz

From Oakland, CA

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ExclusiveSmartphones, smart homes

Lifestyle Your smartphone can help keep your home running smarter and more efficiently. Noah takes a look at ways to use your phone to manage finances, keep tabs on family members and their phone usage, and even save minutes with WiFi chatting.

ExclusiveNext-Gen TV: Programs, chats, and more

PopularNoah's farewell post

Noah Answers Questions Four and a half years ago, give or take, I answered an ad on HowardForums.com in search of someone to write phone reviews for a site called PhoneDog. Four and a half years later, this is my final post on the Dog. The time that passed in between...

ExclusiveSamsung Transform Unboxing and Sprint ID

Android Noah gets Samsung's new Transform for Sprint out of the box and checks out the new Sprint ID customization feature.

ExclusiveCTIA Keynote Day 4 - Fall 2010, San Francisco

Ctia San Francisco 2010 A very special keynote ;-)

ExclusiveSamsung Galaxy Tab Hands-On with Noah

Android Noah finally gets his paws all over a Samsung Galaxy Tab. His thoughts? Samsung may have nailed it with the 7" form factor, but where's the tablet-optimized operating system? Live from CTIA Fall 2010.

ExclusiveHTC Desire HD - Unlocked GSM Version

Android Noah gets hands-on with the Android 2.2 HTC Desire HD. Unlocked European version.

ExclusiveNokia N8 HDMI with Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard

Ctia San Francisco 2010 The Nokia N8 paired up with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and HDMI monitor gives you an instantaneous laptop experience (maybe even a mini-computer). Also: Angry Birds! Live from Symbian's booth at CTIA Fall 2010.

ExclusiveSamsung Transform, Sanyo Zio and LG Optimus S for Sprint

Videos Sprint's new lineup of Android phones with "Sprint ID", available this month for $50, $100, and $150 ... wanna know more? Watch the video!

UpdatedLiveblog: Sprint's CTIA Press Event

Ctia San Francisco 2010 Liveblog: Sprint's CTIA Press Event

ExclusiveMotorola swings at BlackBerry with Droid Pro ... And misses

Android Motorola launched five Android devices last night at a press event themed around the tagline "Get Ready." They may as well have added a word to the meme and made it, "Get Ready, BlackBerry." From the execs on stage to the stats projected behind them...

ExclusiveNokia N8 Photo Samples

Symbian Os We'll be looking into the N8's image capturing prowess in the days to come - for starters, here's a handful of photos snapped with the device this morning. All photos were captured at full 12 MP resolution using the default settings. I then imported...

GalleryNokia N8 Review: Noah's First Impressions

First Last Friday I received Nokia's new flagship multimedia device, the N8. Powered by the Symbian^3 operating system and armed with a 12 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with HD video capture, the N8 is something of a stepping stone between Nokia's Symbian...

GalleryT-Mobile G2 Review: Noah's First Impressions

Android Late Friday morning I got the T-Mobile G2, the latest HTC-build Android phone to hit the US market. I unboxed it on video with Aaron's help, spent some time with it Friday afternoon, and then used it here and there over the weekend. Clearly I need...

ExclusiveT-Mobile HTC G2 Unboxing

Android Noah gets T-Mobile's first HSDPA+ phone, the HTC made G2. Android 2.2, Google Voice integration, touchscreen and full QWERTY board and 720p HD video capture. Check it out.

ExclusiveNokia N8 (Unlocked GSM) Unboxing

Symbian Os Nokia ups the ante in the cameraphone war with the 12 megapixel N8. HD video with Dolby sound, HDMI out, Symbian^3 OS, and a multitouch display. Noah takes it out of the box.

ExclusiveWindows Phone 7 Hands-On

Videos Noah gets a hands-on demo of Windows Phone 7. Final software running on prototype hardware. Makes iPhone look old (!!!). Live from Mobilize 2010.

ExclusiveWalt Mossberg is wrong, the iPad is lousy on working vacations

Iphone Os Then I read Uncle Walt's article. Oh no! He got it all wrong! Seems Walt really misunderstood the basic flaw with Apple's "Magical and revolutionary product": Typing on an iPad sucks. SUCKS. It's awful. To effectively type on the thing I realized...

ExclusiveWin an iPad from PhoneDog!

Iphone Os Win a free iPad from PhoneDog with our iPad giveaway through Facebook. All you gotta do is Like PhoneDog on Facebook for your chance to win an iPad! Really! The Live drawing is on October 4, 2010 at 5PM PST / 8PM EST.

ExclusiveI finally got me some 4G in Oaktown

Sprint 4g I KNEW there was a good reason I hadn't yet sent back my Evo 4G loaner (sorry, you-know-who at Sprint PR!). All I had to do was split town for a week and BOOM!, Sprint's 4G network is now lighting up the sky where I live, work, and play in the San...

ExclusiveHardcore Smartphones: Epic 4G and iPhone 4 on the road

Android Last week I hit the road. I traveled up to Seattle, WA - and then across the bay and up a tiny bit further north along the peninsula. My purpose was mainly to get away, to visit Seattle and that part of the Pacific Northwest for the first time and...

ExclusivePreview: Big weeks, small news?

Ctia San Francisco 2010 My Seattle Sojurn is over and I'm back in Oaktown gearing up for the Fall conference/trade show bonanza. Over the next two weeks in San Francisco alone we've got BlackBerry's DEVCON, GigaOm's Mobilize, and Fall CTIA. Used to be that Fall CTIA was...

ExclusiveBlackBerry is NOT dead; Noah gets dome buffed

Blackberry Os The numbers don't lie, though (unless they're made up, I guess). RIM may have lost a wee bit of U.S. smartphone platform marketshare in ComScore's July 2010 reports, but they also gained half a point on the overall OEM scene. So they're actually...

ExclusiveSamsung: Apple's new arch-enemy?

Business And Money No, Samsung didn't launch iPad, iTunes and Ping; they launched Galaxy Tab, Media Hub, and the new Samsung.com. But the parallels to Apple's recent moves are striking. To be fair, everyone and their cousin is going mobile, going tablet, going online...

ExclusiveOpenPeak OpenTablet 7 Android Tablet (AT&T)

Tablets Noah checks out the OpenPeak OpenTablet 7, an Android tablet set to come to AT&T in early 2011. Live from IDF 2010 in San Francisco.

ExclusiveVerizon iPhone Rumor du Jour: Jan 5 launch at CES 2011

Apple Iphone 4 Launch Rumor, rumor it's just a rumor. But at least we can play connect the dots while we read tea leaves and listen to my trusted source throw another log onto the Verizon-iPhone-in-January fire. You know how Verizon went and said they're not...

ExclusiveExoPC Windows 7 Slate Tablet Computer Hands-On

Cell Phone Apps Noah goes hands-on with ExoPC's Slate, a Windows 7 based tablet computer with 1080p video out via HDMI and WiFi/3G connectivity. Live from IDF 2010 in San Francisco.

ExclusiveWeTab Tablet Computer Hands-On

Cell Phone Apps Noah goes hands-on with WeTab, a Meego OS based tablet computer with HDMI video out, WiFi/3G connectivity and its own app store (!). Live from IDF 2010 in San Francisco.

ExclusiveTablets! Hands-On with AT&T's OpenPeak, Meego's WeTab and the Win7 ExoPC

Android Hai! from the Intel Developers Forum 2010 in San Francisco, CA. I spent a big chunk of time today way in the back corner of the Technology Showcase, checking out the latest tablet computers including the AT&T-bound, Android-powered OpenPeak tablet,...

ExclusiveAppNation: Halfbrick shows us the money

Cell Phone Apps Halfbrick shows off Fruit Ninja's new Arcade Mode and talks about the upcoming Android version of their popular game. These guys are making BANK. Plus, Monster Dash! Noah's live from AppNation 2010 in San Francisco.