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2010 Metal Monsters: Nokia N97 mini and Motorola Milestone

"Maybe I've got a metal fetish, but there's just something about handling cool metal that makes me fall in love with a phone. I started with the Nokia N93, then (in approximate order) Nokia E90, Nokia E61i, Motorola Z10 and now the N97 mini, built to Eseries standards by those nice folk in the Nseries team. And, as part of my attempt to do real world comparisons between the best the Symbian world has to offer and the best of the competition, I've matched up the N97 mini with the slightly ...

Droid Eris HTC Smartphone Demo | Specs Review

Not all Android phones are high-priced, just like the HTC Droid Eris that debuted last November 6, 2009 in Verizon stores. At $100, Droid Eris can be availed on a two-year contract. This middle of the road Android handset is geared with HTC’s very own efficient Sense user interface which considerably increases the phone’s aesthetic value. Droid Eris is lightweight and can be placed in your pocket, has a slim design integrated with numerous applications and performs rather satisfactory with pinc...

DROID and Imagio get FiOS remote, Sony-Ericsson turned down Nexus One, Synaptics Fuse hands-on

Verizon announced today that it was offering the Mobil Remote service for FiOS users on the Motorola DROID and HTC Imagio. The app lets you have full control over DVR functionality. Sony-Ericsson’s CEO has revealed that Google approached the company to build the Nexus One and SE turned them down. The reason is reportedly that SE only wants to build for in-house software. SlashGear spent some quality time fondling the Synaptics Fuse concept at MWC. The handset has a track pad on the back ...

Nexus One Story: The Google Phone Story (Videos)

Right before the christening of the Nexus One, a lot of bewilderment rises from the tropics, asking how did the google phone really began? Doing some recap, it seems the first authenticated source of the N1 came from a tweet only, followed by a couple of precious unboxing vids and the rest was history. Still, users were left clueless, on how does the nexus one looks like from the start?… I mean, was it made by a human, a droid, a robot, or by nexus himself? A couple of days ago, Google started ...

Nokia Smartphones from the Perspective of a BlackBerrry User

"Talk about procrastination. My final Nokia review for the Smartphone Round Robin should have been up last Friday, but here it is a week late. Everytime I sat down to start writing it, I always managed to find a distraction compelling enough to pull me away. This one is definitely tough for me to write. For every other platform I've looked at over the past 6+ weeks that the Round Robin has been on, it has never been difficult for me to find something to say; in fact, I have had the p...

New Survey Shows Android OS Roiling the Smart Phone Market

"Android mobile operating system was released more than a year ago, midst high expectations it would change the smart phone market. But the big transformation never materialized – until now.ChangeWave's December 9-14 survey of 4,068 consumers shows the Android operating system roiling the smart phone market, with Motorola's new Droid smart phone the biggest and most immediate beneficiary.Among respondents who currently own a smart phone, 4% say they're currently using Google's Android operating...

Motorola MILESTONE Review

You´ve probably noticed that Motorola has not been doing great in financial terms lately, registered record-breaking losses and has been slowly, but steadily, losing ground on the cell phone market and the major winners that cashed in on the weakness of the former leader turned out to be Samsung and LG. The company decided to cast its lot in with Android, the young operating system that is picking up speed as we speak and gaining popularity incredibly rapidly. By the time of the curren...

Verizon responds to FCC complaint, DROID Eris gets cheap, Google Nexus One coming Jan 5?

The FCC has hit Verizon Wireless with a complaint that has to do with the company’s early termination fees and mobile web charges. Verizon dismisses one claim that it charges wireless users who accidentally connect online $1.99. Best Buy Mobile is offering the HTC DROID Eris free to Reward Zone silver subscribers. The free offer requires no mail-in rebates but does require a 2-year contract. That Google Nexus One smartphone has been spied with increasing frequency recently. A new rumor s...

Preview of GSM UMTS smartphone Motorola Milestone DROID

"Launching Motorola DEXT (codenamed Morrison, also know as the CLIQ in the US), Motorola had a global task in mind - they were targeting the top-tier as well with their brand-new Anroid-based line-up. The first flagship device in this range they're releasing into the wild is the Droid, although in reality this handle is employed by Verizon Wireless for a whole plethora of phones from various manufacturers they are distributing, for example, they'll launch an HTC-branded device as "Droid" too. I...

Motorola MB300 Backflip leaks, Milestone multi touch in DROID hack, iPhone overtakes WinMo

A new device from Motorola called the MB300 Backflip/Enzo has leaked. The device is a folding handset and features MOTOBLUR along with a 5MP camera and QWERTY keyboard that folds against the screen. A hack has put multi-touch from the Motorola Milestone on the DROID. The Milestone firmware is worked over somehow to support the DROID and the ROM should be ready in a few days. ComScore reports that the iPhone has overtaken Windows Mobile in market share for the first time in the US. RIM is still...