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Vodacom: We have your cheapest smart-phone.

August 18, 2010 | Cellular | 5 Comments

Smart-phones are cool. Smart-phones change the way you interact with the web and online services, completely. Social services like Twitter and Facebook and FourSquare, are simply elevated to a whole new level, when you have a smart-phone in your hand. Add a great camera and GPS into the mix, and the smart-phone, for many, becomes almost all the personal computer you'll ever need. But, there's a downside. At least here ...

HTC: AMOLED, or SLCD?

July 27, 2010 | Cellular | 0 Comments

My real-life introduction to AMOLED*, on a friend's shiny new HTC Desire, would not make for reproduction here. Sadly. It was a doozy. The display is just so...bright, and clear and vibrant, and, well, gob-smackingly beautiful, it scores a 12/10 on the first-impressions scale. Unfortunately, that's not the whole story. The promises of absurd viewing-angles, and ultra-low power consumption, are not quite all they were made out to be. ...

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

May 26, 2010 | Cellular | 1 Comments

Sony-Ericsson has always walked it's own path. And it hasn't always been highlighted with the best of tactical choices. Symbian. Windows Mobile. But they've always made great phones, and since the Sony tie-up, when discussing camera-phones, there has just been no way to ignore them. So, what about this new device, the Xperia X10? Well, at home, in Japan, NTT DoCoMo sold 100,000 X10 handsets in the first ...

HTC EVO *Sprints* to 4G speeds

May 14, 2010 | Cellular | 0 Comments

Lucky Americans... US mobile phone carrier Sprint, announced this week, the launch in June this year, of the first 4G phone to go on sale in the United States, the HTC EVO 4G. The Sprint 4G network is being touted as 10x faster than 3G. Specs are sort of standard fare for the rich crop of emerging Android ...

Dell phone storm: Lightning, Flash, Thunder

May 12, 2010 | Cellular | 0 Comments

Like a burst water-main, PC maker Dell, yesterday announced leaked three new phones. Yes, you read that right, phones. And not content with just driving a whole new device direction for the company, they've also pretty much covered half the OS market, with a handset championing Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone, as well as two models running Google's Android. ...