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The Droid X is another of Motorola’s entries into the extremely popular Android smartphone market. Like most of the Android phones, this is a stellar performer – The Droid X is a phone where there’s very little to complain about and much to admire. Droid X hardware and performance Yes, there are some new features, […]

If you’re looking for an Android-powered smartphone, the HTC Incredible is the one you want. If you’d like a proper analysis and more detail about the Incredible, of course keep reading. But if you’re just wondering if the Incredible is really all that good, then I’m telling you now: Yes. Yes, it is. I suppose […]

I’ve just been introduced to an excellent combination. Literally, within seconds of using it, I realized how much I’d wanted this kind of functionality. Unfortunately, it’s not available on my own cellphone yet (the Palm Pre), but should be soon. What I’m talking about is the ability to listen to text from emails and messages […]

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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

The HTC Droid Eris adds more ammunition to the increasingly frightening anti-iPhone cannon. In this case, we get another slick combination of Google guts and HTC skeleton, all running on Verizon’s network. The Droid Eris is another great smartphone. For those of you unfamiliar with Google’s Android operating system, first read my review of the Motorola […]

The Motorola Droid is Verizon’s first smartphone running the much-touted “Android” operating system. The Android OS is fairly unique because it was built from the ground up by Google, and is released with a free software development kit – whoever wants to create applications for Android devices can do so. My understanding is that Google […]

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Droid X review

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Hear messages over Bluetooth: Review of the DriveSafely MotoSpeak text-to-speech reader with the Motorola H17 headset

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

Review of the Motorola Devour with MOTOBLUR

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

Wireless network security basics

HTC Droid Eris review

Review of the Motorola Droid from Verizon Wireless

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