HTC didn’t just launch a revamped HTC Sense UI, a new HTC Desire HD smartphone, and the HTCSense.com cloud-based phone management service, the smartphone maker also unveiled their new keyboard-toting HTC Desire Z smartphone. The Desire Z runs Android 2.2 Froyo but makes use of the new Sense UI. The Desire HD isn’t as powerful…
Hands-on: HTC Desire HD – The next stage in Android superphones
If you’ve been following Android, you’ll be more than familiar with the HTC Desire HD as the evolution of the big-screen Android superphone. Today, HTC officially unveiled the HTC Desire HD to the world, showing off the phone’s 4.3-inch display, its 8-megapixel camera and the all-aluminum casing. But, there’s so much more to the new…
Hands-on: Nokia C6 – The baby Symbian^3 smartphone
Nokia launched a couple high-level Symbian^3 smartphones at Nokia World, but the Nokia C6 (C6-01) shows that the Finns haven’t forgotten their entry-level customer base. While the Nokia E7, C7, and N8 rule the upper end of the smartphone spectrum, the Nokia C6 brings Symbian^3 to the lower range. We had a chance to go…
Hands-on and first impressions of the Nokia C7 Symbian^3 smartphone
The new Nokia C7 is, by all measures, a lesser smartphone than the Nokia N8 – which is Nokia’s Symbian^3 flagship, due to hit market in the coming weeks. The C7 has a down-rated camera and less onboard storage than the N8, but that doesn’t mean the C7 is a bad phone. Nokia announced today…
Hands-on: Nokia E7 – The Symbian^3 successor to the 9000 Communicator
If you ever thought to yourself that you’d love to see Nokia produce a successor to the brick-sized Nokia 9000 Communicator that Val Kilmer used in The Saint, your wishes have been granted in the just-announced Nokia E7. At the Nokia World 2010 London keynote today, Nokia officially announced the E7, among other phones, as…
Hands-on: Verizon Fascinate (Samsung Galaxy S) unboxing and first impressions
Verizon has just gone live with their own variant of the Samsung Galaxy S Android phone, dubbed the Verizon Fascinate, so of course we had to get our very own Fascinate to play with. The $200 (with new 2-year contract) Verizon Fascinate is the last Galaxy S phone to hit a major US wireless carrier,…
Preview: Puzzle Quest 2 for iPad (With Video)
D3Publisher’s Puzzle Quest was one of those games that seemed to have popped out of nowhere and yet it created such an impact with anyone that’s played it to this day. TransGaming took charge of bringing that experience to the iPhone platform, but, ultimately, the game didn’t capture the same ambiance as other versions of…
Shoot-out: Retina Display vs. Super LCD vs. Super AMOLED
I had some time over the long weekend to swing by the Bell store and compare the Super LCD screen on the HTC Desire to the iPhone 4’s retina display and the Super AMOLED screen on the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant I9000 (nope, it’s not the Vibrant y’all have in the U.S., but it’s the…
Review: BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300
The first we saw of the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 was a bit of a let-down. It looked pretty much identical to the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and 8530 which had made its first appearance nearly a year earlier; same screen, same camera, same housing, same keyboard. Wi-Fi 802.11n wasn’t a huge deal, and though the…
HDR Photography on iOS 4.1 for iPhone
With today’s release of iOS 4.1 for the iPhone, a new HDR photography feature was included with the camera software. For those of you unfamiliar with HDR, it stands for “High Dynamic Range.” It’s a style of photography that can capture great detail in scenes and areas where there is a wide range of available…









