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Verizon's Droid reboots its smartphone business
Whatever happened to the Verizon Wireless we knew -- the carrier with the great network but the boring, uncompetitive phones, the company that never met a phone feature it didn't want to limit or disable? The Motorola Droid, this carrier's first phone to run Google's Android software, doesn't come from...
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November 6, 2009; 1:07 PM ET |
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Verizon Wireless unveils Droid smartphone
Verizon Wireless may finally have a phone that can win some respect from iPhone fans. This morning, it unveiled the Droid, a Motorola smartphone running the new, 2.0 release of Google's Android software. This device -- shipping Nov. 6 at $199 for new and renewing customers who sign up for...
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October 28, 2009; 12:35 PM ET |
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E-reader news: Post readies Kindle deal, Barnes & Noble debuts an Nook tablet
The newspaper-plus-Kindle deals that Amazon heralded when it unveiled its Kindle DX electronic book reader in May--and then failed to deliver on schedule--are finally about to arrive. Later this week, the plan is for Amazon to start e-mailing select customers outside the Washington area, inviting them to buy a discounted...
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Rob Pegoraro
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October 20, 2009; 6:05 PM ET |
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Microsoft Says It Can Recover 'Most' Sidekick Data
The hundreds of thousands of users of T-Mobile's Sidekick phones may yet recover the contacts, calendars, notes and other personal data that a server meltdown had apparently vaporized last weekend. Early this morning, Microsoft, which took over the Sidekick's data-synchronization service when it bought Sidekick developer Danger Inc. last year,...
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October 15, 2009; 11:40 AM ET |
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Sidekick Users See Their Data Vanish Into a Cloud
A server meltdown over the weekend wiped out the master copies of personal data -- including address books, calendars, to-do lists and photos -- accumulated by users of T-Mobile's formerly popular Sidekick smartphone. This computing calamity allows Sidekick owners only a faint hope of backing up the information currently on...
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October 12, 2009; 11:17 AM ET |
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AT&T, Sprint Phones: Hope for Android, None for Windows Mobile
My latest column describes one phone that feels like a new beginning and another that looks like a closing act. And in this blog post, I'm going to talk about a big factor behind how each phone fared in my evaluation: its software. First, the device I hated -- AT&T's...
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October 9, 2009; 11:51 AM ET |
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