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more about #smartphones more comments → burnblue: I don't understand this review. You say that HTC's replaced everything. So then is the replacement good? Where's the software review? Do you enjoy usi... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Ok, I usually ignore posts bad mouthing Microsoft and polishing Apple's... apples on Gizmodo. But let me ask this one thing John, and I'll ask for so... more » Kaiser-Machead: I also harbor a strong dislike for standard Windows Mobile, but if HTC covered up Winmo's interface beyond the first few panels and managed to get it ... more » smokee: So you get to use an amazingly slick UI most of the time, then get the flexibility and extensibility of the most mature mobile OS out there when you n... more » MarcusMaximus: After reading this, it left me confused. Most of the article was talking about the amazing hardware. Then it finally gets to the hated part(Windows Mo... more » MarcusMaximus: Lovin the time. #htctouchhd2review more » not_a_virus.exe.vbs: I've been wondering this as well, since Sense runs so good why not just replace the whole Windows experience? HTC has the manpower to bang out their o... more » smegz: Putting lipstick on a pig comes to mind when talking about WinMo on sexy hardware. #htctouchhd2review more » KassiaHaoe: Blah blah Gizmodo hates Windows Mobile and never gives any HTC Phone with it a fair review blah blah nothing to see here. #htctouchhd2review more » chizelord: I love HTC's designs. Throw some Android in there and it would be darn near perfect. #htctouchhd2review more » -
#review
HTC Touch HD2 Review: A Tragedy
Let's just get this out of the way: in terms of hardware, the Touch HD2 is the nicest phone in the world. It's ostentatiously huge and amazingly slim; it's business-savvy and utterly pornographic. But hardware like this deserves better software. More » -
#android
The iPhone-to-Android Switch: 10 Things You Need to Know
You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the great Google. Here's what you need to know. More » -
#palm
Palm Gives Pre Developers a Stupid-Simple Tool to Make Stupid-Simple Apps
It's no secret that Palm's been taking it niiiice 'n slow with their app strategy, whatever it is. Here's their next baby step: Ares, a browser-based, drag-and-drop development toolkit for making simple apps. It's a marginally good idea! More » -
#blockquote
Inventor of Cellphones Says They've Become Too Complicated
I love that smartphones let me avoid cramming my pockets with extra gadgets like an MP3 player or camera. But Dr. Martin Cooper—the former lead engineer of the Motorola team that developed the first cellphone—reckons that's just phooey. More » -
#droid
Droid Tethering on Verizon Is 30 Bucks a Month
Yes, Droid can tether, but not superduper cheaply. The official word is that the Mobile Broadband Connect plan to tether it to a laptop will be an extra 30 bucks a month for 5GB of data, on top of the standard data plan. [Network World] -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World
This week we met Motorola's Droid, the first handset with Android 2.0. To an outsider, it just looks like another Google smartphone, but 2.0 is more than that: it's proof that Android is finally going to take over the world. More » -
#att
AT&T FLO TV Service Drops to $10/month
If you want to watch "CBS Mobile, CNBC, CNN Mobile, COMEDY CENTRAL, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, FOX News, MSNBC, MTV, NBC 2Go, Nickelodeon and the movie channel Crackle", that's now $10 on AT&T phones that support FLO TV. Well, not RIGHT NOW. We mean starting November 8th. More » -
#smartphones
HTC Droid Eris: Last Month's Killer Android, Now 99 Bucks on Verizon
HTC's Droid Eris, one of the worst-kept secrets in recent memory, is coming to Verizon November 6th for $99. Essentially a rebranded Hero, it shows just how fast time flies: Last month's Android champion is this month's killer budget option. More » -
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#blockquote
David Pogue: "Smartphone Is Too Limited...It's An App Phone"
Before David Pogue wrote his review of the Droid, he had trouble deciding what to call the device. He argued that "smartphone" is an outdated label for the "iPhone-like" devices coming out and so he looked for a new one. More » -
#blackberry
BlackBerry Bold 9700 Impressions: Small and Chirpy, Like a Black Hummingbird
The BlackBerry Bold 9700 in a word? Compact. It's efficient, almost cramped, like a Japanese car from the 80s. More » -
#droid
Droid Does Tethering (Or Will, Anyway)
Verizon says a tethering plan's coming for Droid sometime next year. Since it uses all of Verizon's standard data rates, that should be an extra $15/month with Verizon's Broadband Access Connect plan—not too bad, actually. [Gearlog] -
#review
Android 2.0 Review: Almost Human
A year ago, Android was an unfinished OS for nerds, bursting with potential. With Android 2.0, it's evolved into something sleeker, more refined and focused—but still something not quite human. More » -
#iphoneapps
iPhone Ebooks: The New Fart Apps
A buzzy new report says that iPhone ebook apps are on the rise, and accounted for more new apps in October—nearly a fifth—than even games. It's unexpected and exciting, but what does it mean? Spam, is what. More » -
#wifi
Atheros Wireless N for Smartphones Actually Uses Less Power Than Slowass G
Wireless N in cellphones, it's happening next year: Atheros's AR6003 802.11n/Bluetooth chip for cellphones is tiny, has serious range and uses less power than their current wireless G chip, which is in the Zune HD. It'll hit phones around the second half of next year. Such a long wait. [PC Mag] -
#blackberry
RIM Is Definitely Developing a WebKit (Read: Decent) Browser
It wasn't a huge leap to take RIM's purchase of Torch Mobile, a software company known exclusively for making a WebKit mobile browser, as a sign that the company was considering taking the dive. Today, though, we can be sure. More » -
#cellphones
Windows XP Phone: A First Look at its Touchscreen Interface
Remember the xpPhone? The 4.8-inch touchscreen slider has netbook-like specs, some sort of "AMD Super Mobile CPU", and runs a full-blown copy of Windows XP. They've just sent through shots of its phone-function interface…and they actually look pretty good. More » -
#review
BlackBerry Storm 2 Review: Improving, But Still Mostly Cloudy
Take the BlackBerry Storm. Now imagine a phone that's basically exactly the same, but does everything better. That's the Storm 2. More » -
#smartphones
How Palm Lost (Like Apple in the '80s)
The Droid, and Android 2.0 as a whole, isn't going to kill the iPhone. That's ridiculous. Teamed with the iPhone, though, it just straight up murdered Palm—the same way that Microsoft brought Apple to its knees decades ago. More » -
#droid
Droid Fancy Dock and Car Mount Are Each $30
In case you're wondering how much the Droid's schmancy dock and car mount cost, they're $30 a piece. [Gearlog] -
#droid
Best Buy's Taking Droid Pre-Orders and Lets You Skip the Mail-In Rebate Madness
Like it's done for every major phone that carriers force you to actually mail in a rebate for to get the advertised price (*cough*PalmPre*cough*), Best Buy's taking care of the rebate bullshit for you with the Motorola Droid, whose rebate process with Verizon—resulting in a $100 debit card—is inexplicably stranger than most. More » -
#droideris
Droid Eris Doesn't Look Too Shabby for a Cheapo Android Phone
A better look at the purportedly $99 Droid Eris. Not bad, but why is everybody going to stupid touch-sensitive buttons? [Phone Arena] -
#motorola
How Motorola Stopped Sucking
So, uh, how did this company make this phone? A happy accident, it turns out. More » -
#unconfirmed
HTC Droid Eris Might Be the Cheapest Android Phone at $99
A lot of attention has been lavished on the Motorola Droid today—and rightfully so—but it's merely the "cornerstone" of Verizon's Droid family. HTC's Droid Eris is gonna be the cheap stepbrother, at 99 bucks. More » -
#android20
A Visual Guide to Android 2.0: So Much Nicer
The best thing about the Motorola Droid might just be Android 2.0. It got official yesterday, and Google showed off some highlights, but here's a visual guide if you wanna get a little closer. (You should, it's pretty great.) More » -
#droid
Motorola Droid First Hands On: It's a Terminator
The Motorola Droid. Not to mix droid metaphors here, but I feel like it's the phone Darth Vader would use. And after a couple of minutes using it, I'm still excited about it. Updated with fresh impressions, photos and video. More » -
#motorola
Motorola Droid Hits Verizon on November 6th for $200
It'd have been difficult to leak Motorola's new Android piece any harder—we've already seen the hardware, the software, and even a review—but now we know for sure sure: It's coming to Verizon on the 6th, for $200. More » -
#garmin
Amazon Chops Garmin Nuvifone G60 Price By Two Thirds In the First Month
Our recommended price for the Nuvifone G60 was death, payable by the handset, not the prospective buyer. Until that can be arranged, though, Amazon's plunging $200 discount (on a $300 phone!) will have to do. More » -
#droideris
HTC Droid Eris Pictured, I Really Hope It's Cheap
We've seen leaks of the HTC Droid Eris (on Verizon) before, but now there's a more official-looking shot from a Verizon training course—and it looks pretty much like the Hero, with some slightly different coloration and button placement. More » -
#rumor
Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris Launching on November 6th
Boy Genius has it on good authority that both the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris will launch on Verizon November 6th—a few days earlier than previously expected. Look for an official announcement tomorrow. [BGR] -
#android
Android 2.0 Official: It's the Android We've Been Waiting For
This is it: The official video laying out Android 2.0's new features, to go along with 2.0 support hitting the SDK today. Man, Android 2.0 is nice. More » -
#review
Samsung Moment Review: The ED-209 of Android Phones
The Samsung Moment is the first Android phone trying to be special purely through hardware: It's got a really rich AMOLED display, a gigantic keyboard, an 800MHz processor (the fastest yet for Android) and it's on Sprint's sturdy 3G network. More » -
#howto
Build Your Own Life HUD With a Smartphone and Some Cardboard
A cardboard box, sliced to pieces, taped together, fastened to a pair of work goggles, and capped off with an HTC Magic: this is what DIY augmented reality looks like, right now. More » -
#n97
Nokia N97 Firmware 2.0 Valiantly Attempts to Make It Less Godawful
Hello, Nokia N97 owners who ignored our heartfelt advice to look elsewhere for a smartphone. (You couldn't go with the vastly superior E71?) Firmware 2.0 is out, and it supposedly—hopefully—makes life better. Kinetic scrolling! [DailyMobile via Engadget] -
#blackberry
Still Want a BlackBerry Storm 2 Review?
Hey guys and gals, we just got a BlackBerry Storm 2 loaner—and an explanation for the delay. Still interested in a review? More » -
#iphone
The Cheapest Way To Smash An iPhone For Fun
Oddly enough, a website called iPhonedummy.net is selling realistic looking but completely non-functional iPhone dummies for $20 apiece. As stupid as that sounds, there are a million and one uses for this thing. More » -
#verizon
BlackBerry Storm 2 Thunders Over to Verizon Oct. 28
After a messy launch, the Storm 2's finally hitting Verizon—on Wednesday. You can check out some of the early reviews here, though Wi-Fi automatically makes it better than the first Storm in my book. More » -
#motoroladroid
Motorola Droid Reviewed: "You're Going To Love It"
Boy Genius came away with a great first impression of the Motorola Droid, but their expanded review of a pre-release version of the handset reveals more about why it might have the right stuff to take on the iPhone. More » -
#cellphones
Else Intuition: The Surprisingly Not-Sad Fate of Palm OS
In 2006, Access bought the rights to Palm OS, and licensed the code to Palm. Access spent plenty of time and money developing a next-gen OS, which Palm totally ignored for their own. Things looked grim! Until this thing. More » -
#leaks
Motorola Droid Unexpectedly Appears on Motorola's Site Ahead of Schedule
Motorola is set to officially announce the Droid for Verizon on October 28th, but it popped up on Moto's official site with full specs and more detail than we've seen so far. More »

