cellphones

Walt Mossberg’s Review of the 3G iPhone

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
by DoubleB

Good ol’ Walt gives us his thoughts on the iPhone 3G after being able to use it for a couple of weeks.

Unboxing Video of the HTC Touch Diamond.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
by DoubleB

Nice video by Matthew Miller from Zdnet.com

Samsung Instinct Hands-on

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
by DoubleB

We hate gratuitous iPhone comparisons as much as the next guy, but let’s be straight with each other here: Sprint has its sights squarely focused on Cupertino’s darling with the Instinct. From beginning to end, the carrier has pulled no punches about the model’s target audience and its competition. Make no mistake, though, the Instinct is no iPhone ripoff or clone — it’s distinctly its own beast that just happens to share a form factor and a few common UI paradigms, and depending on your perspective and the specific feature you happen to be using, that can be a good or a bad thing.

Read the rest at Engadget.com

The HTC Touch Diamond.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
by DoubleB

From HTC comes yet another phone to compete with the iPhone.

The phones Highlights are as follows:

	2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the pixels of most phones.
	Vibrant TouchFLO 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media… all vividly displayed as photos and artwork powered by the 3D graphics processor.
	HTC Weather - providing a constant view of weather at home and abroad.
	Surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity.
	3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera for quality stills and video.
	4GB of internal storage to preserve more photos, music, files and exchanged data than ever before.
	Integrated GPS for use with maps software for a full turn-by-turn satellite navigation experience.