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Nothin’ but air: US Airways gets Wifi

Business And Money I used to enjoy flying. It was a good time to unplug, catch up on some reading, or enjoy bonding time with a pal. I was even one of the few people who liked airplane food, as it used to be delivered, if not piping hot, then at least always...

from 2009 by Adriana Lee 5

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Joni's HTC Dash 3G review

3g The HTC Dash 3G is a worthy upgrade to the Dash, even though they both use the same Windows Mobile 6.1 OS. The new model has quite a few enhancements including 3G connectivity, an easy-to-use home screen, a trackball, a 2-megapixel camera,...

from 2009 by Joni Blecher 11

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John's HTC Touch Cruise review

Cell Phone Reviews What’s good: small and very pocketable, cool form factor, Footprints, 3.2 MP cam with geo-tagging, D-pad doubles as scroll wheel, TouchFLO, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, 3G. What's bad: Windows Mobile experience. TouchFLO helps a lot in this...

from 2009 by John Walton 8

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John's Nokia E75 Silver Black review

Cell Phone Reviews What’s good: 3.5 mm audio/video jack, Internet radio, 3.2 MP camera, video at 30 fps, secondary camera, text-to-speech, long battery life. What's bad: priced way out of range, dual-purpose soft-keys responsible for many mistakes, awkward...

from 2009 by John Walton 5

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John's Nokia 5800-XpressMusic Blue review

3g Overview What’s good: form-factor looks nice, fantastic in-line music controls, 3G (AT&T only for US), secondary camera for video calls, full touch screen, landscape mode, proximity sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Flash support, music...

from 2009 by John Walton 15

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Aaron's Samsung Propel Pro review

3g Overview What’s good: Battery life, shape, call quality What’s bad: Cramped keyboard Introduction Thanks to devices such as the Apple iPhone and the Palm Pre , 2009 has been unofficially coined as the year of the smartphone, and...

from 2009 by Aaron Baker 4

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VoiPod: making Wi-Fi calls with an iPod

Gadgets I realized a few months back that I should find a way to make calls at home without using our monthly cell minutes. So I got T-Mobile at home. It's $10 a month for unlimited calling, and it hasn't caused any problems. But until the other...

from 2009 by John Walton 5

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Aaron's HTC Touch Diamond CDMA review

Cell Phone Reviews Overview What’s good: TouchFlo 3D is useful, device resembles unlocked version, addition of microSD card slot What’s bad: Lack of memory, slow at times, battery life is mediocre Introduction Often criticized as the last carrier to...

from 2009 by Aaron Baker 6

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Aaron's Palm Pre review

Cell Phone Reviews Overview Pros: Fantastic operating system, multitasking capabilities, easy to use Cons: Battery life, lack of a progress bar in music player   Introduction To put it as simply as I can, Palm is back in the game. The Palm...

from 2009 by Aaron Baker 22

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Aaron's Samsung Jack review

3g Overview What’s good: Design, battery life, connectivity options (3G, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth) What's bad: Reception in some areas, proprietary ports Introduction The Samsung Jack i637 is a nice entry-level device that will compete...

from 2009 by Aaron Baker 10

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Joni's BlackBerry Curve 8900 review

Cell Phone Reviews The BlackBerry Curve 8900 is the most pocketable Curve to date and the nice thing about that is it doesn’t skimp on features. Quite the contrary, in fact this BlackBerry Curve has a ton of connection features: WiFi, Stereo Bluetooth, and...

from 2009 by Joni Blecher 24

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Joni's Nokia E71x review

3g The Nokia e71x is sleek, affordable, has fun multimedia features, navigation, and runs the Symbian OS. You can do all the things you can on other smartphones including accessing office documents, send/receive email from multiple accounts,...

from 2009 by Joni Blecher 28

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Another Storm’s brewing from BB (this time, with Wifi and a new screen)

Wifi BoyGenius Report and SlashGear reports that a new BlackBerry Storm is all set for a September release for Verizon Wireless. And, word has it, the handset will boast some nifty new hardware. According to BGR, Storm is getting a...

from 2009 by Adriana Lee 4

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Aaron's BlackBerry Curve 8350i review

Cell Phone Reviews It's no secret that iDEN has been a step behind when it comes to new phones. While their CDMA and GSM counterparts were enjoying fast, colorful devices with a slew of capabilities, iDEN users were stuck with relatively drab, boring...

from 2009 by Aaron Baker 2

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Joni's BlackBerry 9000-Bold review

3g The highly anticipated BlackBerry 9000 Bold has finally arrived and it just might have been worth the wait. The Bold sports all the favorite features wanted on a smartphone: WiFi, 3G data speeds for fast surfing while simultaneously...

from 2008 by Joni Blecher 19

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John's BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 review

Cell Phone Reviews What’s Good: surprisingly music-friendly; external play/pause button; stereo bluetooth, standard headphone jack; UMA capable; unique form factor; slick new BB interface; more compact than other BlackBerries; still has the BB office apps...

from 2008 by John Walton 22

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Treo 800w: Sprint Smartphone Gets WiFi and Rev. A

Wifi Sprint's gone and launched the Palm Treo 800w smartphone , and some of you might even have one already.  $249.99 (on contract and after rebates) gets you the latest Palm device with Windows Mobile 6.1 and the first Treo ever to...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 3

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Wi-Fi on the go: Alltel announces $70 3G/Wi-Fi plan with Boingo

3g The regional carrier that could, Alltel, announced a partnership with hotspot provider Boingo to add some WiFi to their customers' 3G data diet. $69.98 each month will now get you unlimited handset data via EV-DO along with unlimited...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 1

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Noah's Nokia N82 review

Cell Phone Reviews What’s Good: Incredible Camera w/Xenon Flash; Full VGA Video Capture; Excellent Web Browser; WiFi; Extendable Operating System; 3.5mm Headphone Jack What’s Not Good: Cheap-Feeling and Plasticky; Small Keys; Music File Sort Issues; S60 OS...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 6

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BlackBerry 9000: Better browsing, new theme, WiFi, HSDPA, and more

Wifi Boy Genius Report got their mitts on an official internal spec sheet for the upcoming BlackBerry 9000 from RIM, and it looks like the newest BlackBerry might just fix some of the things that still get me about the current crop of Curves...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 0