Samsung has been on a pretty good run with their phones. Starting with the S2, in my opinion, they have managed to come up with a number of impressive handsets. The Note, which I reviewed sometime back, quickly grew on me and was one of my favorite handsets. When the S3 was announced, I was keen to try out the “faster”, higher-end model. ...
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HTC was without a doubt one of the brands that I thought would lead the Android revolution. In many ways, it was one of the early pioneers, but for the past year, HTC has been nearly invisible. Several poor designs, poor time to market, and before you knew it HTC was eclipsed. Samsung in particular has been very dominant of late. Creative designs, solid...
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When Sony finally announced that they were launching their tablet, I had high hopes. Although the specs didn’t exactly blow me out of the water, I thought that Sony releasing a tablet had to be a pretty good product. So I bought one. Form The S tablet (aside: I think Sony could have thought of a better name than just a letter)...
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Large screens are now the norm for mobile phones with the advent of smartphones. But how big is too big? Having gone from the now meager 3.7” iPhone to the Galaxy S II’s 4.3” screen was already a solid improvement. That 0.5” difference is actually a sizeable amount of screen real estate. When Samsung announced the Galaxy note with a whopping 5.3”, I was...
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I’ve not been a fan of Samsung phones. Although it often is a leader in technology, I have tried a number of handsets before and it has always disappointed or been wrought with issues (battery life, ugly interface, slow processing, etc.). But the Samsung Galaxy S2 looked extremely impressive. There are two main things that sold me: 1) the 4.3” AMOLED screen and 2)...
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I have been a corporate Blackberry user now for the better part of 10 years. For all of its shortcomings, the Blackberry does one thing really well - email. It’s still fairly basic in its elements, but many of us in the corporate world rely on the device - perhaps a bit too much. So when Blackberry announced that they were launching a tablet...
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I've had my Motorola Razr V3 now for about 3 months now, so yes, this review is a bit old, but it still seems to be the trendy mobile to get, especially in the US so I still think this review might be relevant. Anyway, I was desperately languishing with my very useless Nokia 7610. I should have done a review on that too,...
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The SE T630 is an upgrade to the T610. I reviewed the T610 nearly a year ago. At that time, I really like the T610 and it turned out to be a great recommendation because the T610 was a huge success and I believe it was the main reason why the Sony Ericsson JV turned around. Even today, the T610 is still a great...
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Every now and then, a new mobile phone comes along that tries to break the norms. The norm in this case is the traditional design of a handset. Touting a "futuristic" design, the Nokia 7600 is just such a phone. The 7600 represents Nokia's first entry into 3G. It has a dual-mode W-CDMA (3G) chip as well as a...
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The Sony Ericsson P900 is the updated mobile phone/PDA of the older P800. And let me just start off by saying it's very different. I thought to myself after the P800 that I would probably never buy another convergent product again. The P800 was such a relative disappointment that I was pretty put off from these devices again. I think I've always said...
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