2010

Stress-testing and review of the Casio G’zOne Brigade cellphone

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The full name of this phone is the “Casio G’zOne Brigade”. On the box, each of those three words is printed in a different font. To prevent confusion and annoyance, for the remainder of this article I’ll simply call this phone the “Brigade”. The Brigade gave me a very good first impression. It’s clearly tough […]

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Review of the Motorola Devour with MOTOBLUR

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The Motorola Devour is another phone in the steadily-increasing array of Android-powered smartphones, with a Google-designed operating system and application store. The Devour also comes with features essential to those who message often. In fact, the Motorola Devour comes with “MOTOBLUR” (yes, you apparently must spell it in all caps!) – MOTOBLUR isn’t really a […]

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Review of Palm Pixi Plus, the Palm Pre, and Palm WebOS

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[From left to right, we see the Palm Pixi Plus, then the Palm Pre Plus with its keyboard closed and extended.] I recently had an interesting experience: my Verizon media rep gave me a temporary demo phone for review – a Palm Pixi Plus.Cool, I thought, I could finally have an extended look at the […]

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Wireless network security basics

This intro to wireless networking setup and security is written with the assumption that the reader has a basic understanding of wired networks, because in terms of protocol, wireless works almost the same way. The difference is in the wireless component and associated hardware configuration. Equipment To create a home network, you need a single […]

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