The high-voltage third rail that runs next to a set of train tracks is, of course, something to be avoided. The Third Rail System for the iPhone 4, however, is to be welcomed. This friendly breed of Third Rail combines a skin-tight phone case and a surprisingly light battery pack you attach to your ...
When the original Motorola Droid charged into the smartphone world, it shook things up. The Droid’s arrival was notable not because it was an extraordinarily kickass phone, but because it was the first serious Android-powered challenger able to stand up against the market-dominating iPhone. Plus, ...
A photon moves at the speed of light, shines brightly and has a resting mass of zero. That said, it’s a damn good name for Motorola’s latest Android phone. The Photon brings 4G speeds and dual-core processing power to Sprint customers. An all-around powerhouse Android phone, the Photon is a good ...
There’s no question the EVO 3D is a lightning-fast workhorse. The latest entry into HTC’s flagship line of Android phones has a dual-core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon chip, and the rest of the specs are equally as impressive on paper as they are in practice. It makes crystal-clear phone calls, too. The pho ...
And while it’s a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, big is beautiful. You could almost call the Xperia Play the shorter, fatter cousin to the svelte Xperia Arc, which Sony Ericsson once described as the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” At .62 inches, the Play ...
When you first grip the thing in your hand and try out the keyboard, you think, “Oh man, this is never going to work.” But after a few initial typos, it’s actually not that bad at all. At 3.25 inches long, the Veer is tiny, stealthy and unassuming. It’s so small, it’ll even fit in the coin poc ...
HTC has been one of the more prolific players in the Android phone market of late. But so far, the Taiwanese manufacturer hasn’t quite solidified its desired reputation as a beloved premium handset maker, up with the likes of Apple, Samsung and Motorola. Over the past couple of years, HTC’s strat ...
The Lumia 900 is not a specced-out superphone for the early adopters. The dominating forces in the mobile hardware race — Apple, HTC, Motorola, Samsung — have got that area covered, with beefy handsets offering the fastest processors, the highest resolutions and all the other things that matter t ...
Consistency, for one thing. Unlike the myriad flavors of Android, Microsoft's interface looks the same on every device. And compared with the static home screens of Apple's iOS, Windows' "live tile" menus are a Mardi Gras of activity. Animated squares cascade down as you scroll through a column of ...
On paper, the Samsung Galaxy Note is rich with top-of-the-line features. It has a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of internal storage and an 8-megapixel camera, all tied to ATT’s speedy 4G LTE network. But see the Note in the flesh and you’ll notice one thing above all else: its massive 5.3-i ...
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