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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...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  November 6, 2009; 1:07 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (6)
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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...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  October 28, 2009; 12:35 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (39)
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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...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  October 20, 2009; 6:05 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (18)
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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,...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  October 15, 2009; 11:40 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (10)
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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...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  October 12, 2009; 11:17 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (25)
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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...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  October 9, 2009; 11:51 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
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Older Entries in This Category »

Microsoft Launches Windows Mobile 6.5, Rob Pegoraro , October 6, 2009
Adobe Pushes for a Flash-ier Mobile Web, Rob Pegoraro , October 5, 2009
Welcome to MMS, iPhone Users, Rob Pegoraro , September 25, 2009
iPod Nano Adds FM, Video; Zune Tunes Into HD Radio, Rob Pegoraro , September 18, 2009
Tablet Tidbits, Rob Pegoraro , August 25, 2009
TomTom, Navigon iPhone GPS Apps Seem Lost, Rob Pegoraro , August 21, 2009
The iPhone Is Getting Easier to Dislike, Rob Pegoraro , August 4, 2009
Palm, Apple Continue iTunes-Syncing Battle, Rob Pegoraro , July 27, 2009
Post-Review Thoughts On Palm's Pre, Rob Pegoraro , July 1, 2009
Amazon's Kindle DX Turns A Page In E-Books, Rob Pegoraro , June 19, 2009
Tips For iPhone 3G S Shoppers, Rob Pegoraro , June 18, 2009
Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 Arrives Today, Rob Pegoraro , June 17, 2009
With The Pre, Palm Reboots Itself, Rob Pegoraro , June 12, 2009
Flip, Kodak Bring HD Video To Go, For Less, Rob Pegoraro , May 15, 2009
TomTom Links GPS To Web Traffic Data, Rob Pegoraro , April 17, 2009
HD Radio Backers Claim Progress, Rob Pegoraro , March 25, 2009
Apple Previews iPhone 3.0 Software, Rob Pegoraro , March 17, 2009
The Vanishing Full-Line Electronics Retailer, Rob Pegoraro , March 6, 2009
Kvetching About Amazon's Kindle 2, Rob Pegoraro , February 26, 2009
Microsoft Unveils New Windows Mobile Software, Rob Pegoraro , February 17, 2009
Amazon Unveils Kindle 2, Rob Pegoraro , February 9, 2009
What Should Your Next Car Stereo Connect To?, Rob Pegoraro , February 6, 2009
Phones To Watch, And One That Is A Watch, Rob Pegoraro , January 10, 2009
Palm Introduces Prē Smartphone, Rob Pegoraro , January 8, 2009
GPS + Web = Drive - Traffic, Rob Pegoraro , December 29, 2008
New BlackBerry Phones: Both Sweet And Sour, Rob Pegoraro , December 18, 2008
Now Accepting CES Coverage Requests, Rob Pegoraro , December 8, 2008
Gadget Guidance 2008: Leftovers , Rob Pegoraro , November 26, 2008
Gadget Guidance 2008: (Don't Call Them) MP3 Players, Rob Pegoraro , November 26, 2008
Gadget Guidance 2008: Digital Cameras, Rob Pegoraro , November 26, 2008
iPhone 2.2 Update Brings Better Maps, Rob Pegoraro , November 21, 2008
Smarter Phones Leave No Escape From the Web , Rob Pegoraro , October 27, 2008
T-Mobile G1 Arrives in Stores, Rob Pegoraro , October 22, 2008
Google's Android Arrives, Rob Pegoraro , October 16, 2008
What's The Cost of a Cheap Camera?, Rob Pegoraro , October 9, 2008
DVR Dilemma: Where Are Your TiVo Alternatives?, Rob Pegoraro , October 7, 2008
Computing For Cheapskates, Telecom For Tightwads, Rob Pegoraro , October 2, 2008
New Slingbox Adds HD Video, Keeps Some Old Issues, Rob Pegoraro , September 25, 2008
T-Mobile Unveils First Google Android Phone, Rob Pegoraro , September 23, 2008
iPod, Therefore I Write, Rob Pegoraro , September 18, 2008
Apple Remixes the iPod and iTunes, Rob Pegoraro , September 10, 2008
Rekindling Interest in Amazon's E-Book Reader, Rob Pegoraro , August 25, 2008
iPhone 3G First Impressions, Rob Pegoraro , July 14, 2008
Don't Run Out To Buy An iPhone Today, Rob Pegoraro , July 11, 2008
Instinct-ive Responses, Rob Pegoraro , July 3, 2008
Updated Google Maps For Palm Can Find Itself, Rob Pegoraro , June 24, 2008
Improving the iPod's Click Wheel, Rob Pegoraro , May 23, 2008
Microsoft's SPOT Watch Winds Down, Rob Pegoraro , April 25, 2008
Handhelds Without a Home, Rob Pegoraro , March 13, 2008
New Developments For the iPhone, Rob Pegoraro , March 7, 2008
Finding Some GPS Guidance, Rob Pegoraro , December 17, 2007
Verizon's Voyager, Rob Pegoraro , December 13, 2007
Focusing on Digital Picture Frames, Rob Pegoraro , December 12, 2007
Did Technology Speed Your Thanksgiving Trek?, Rob Pegoraro , November 26, 2007
How to Buy Smartphones and MP3 Players, Rob Pegoraro , November 22, 2007
Zune 2.0, Rob Pegoraro , November 15, 2007
Android: There's Some Real Software Here, Rob Pegoraro , November 13, 2007
Android Anticipation, or Anxiety?, Rob Pegoraro , November 8, 2007
Analyzing Google's "Android", Rob Pegoraro , November 6, 2007
Something New, Something Old From Palm and RIM, Rob Pegoraro , October 18, 2007
From iPhone to iBrick?, Rob Pegoraro , October 5, 2007
Robot Invasion Escalates, Rob Pegoraro , September 28, 2007
Is Your iPod Feeling Old Today?, Rob Pegoraro , September 20, 2007
Weighed Down By Power Bricks, Rob Pegoraro , September 6, 2007
Palm's Foleo Folds, Rob Pegoraro , September 5, 2007
Revisiting My iPhone Review, Rob Pegoraro , August 29, 2007
GPS Is My Co-Pilot, Rob Pegoraro , August 2, 2007
Simple Gifts: Jitterbug, Presto, Rob Pegoraro , July 26, 2007
And Yet More On the iPhone, Rob Pegoraro , July 5, 2007
iPhone First Impressions, Rob Pegoraro , June 30, 2007
iPhone Freakout Watch, Rob Pegoraro , June 29, 2007
Watt's Happening, Rob Pegoraro , June 28, 2007
iPhone iNsanity Continues, Rob Pegoraro , June 26, 2007
Revisiting Windows Mobile, Rob Pegoraro , June 7, 2007
Reset Runaround, Rob Pegoraro , June 5, 2007
Microsoft Scratches the "Surface", Rob Pegoraro , June 4, 2007
So This Is What Palm's Been Up To, Rob Pegoraro , June 1, 2007
Guided By GPS, Rob Pegoraro , May 29, 2007
Fed Up With Palm, Rob Pegoraro , May 24, 2007
Good Enough vs. New Enough, Rob Pegoraro , May 15, 2007
Dressing for Tech Success, Rob Pegoraro , May 14, 2007
Is A Lack of Web Radio a Turn-Off?, Rob Pegoraro , March 26, 2007
Pick A Card, Any Card--If You Can Find It, Rob Pegoraro , March 21, 2007
What's Up With Palm?, Rob Pegoraro , February 8, 2007
 
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