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App Review: Angry Birds (Android)

Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

What does it take to make an addictive game? Not much — just throw in some super simple controls, cute graphics, and basic physics. Rovio Mobile’s Angry Birds is one such game that includes all these elements, and today the studio’s just released a p…

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Vodafone R201 mobile WiFi hotspot review

Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

Mobile broadband has come a long way since the early (and expensive) attempts at integrating 3G modules into laptops; today, cubicle dwellers are liberated by cheaper mobile data, along with the abundance of 3G dongles and the emerging mobile WiFi (er…

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HTC Desire (US Cellular) review

Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

HTC’s Desire is undoubtedly one of the headline Android devices of 2010 so far — and heck, when you’re using the already-great Nexus One as a starting point and re-upping it with an optical pad, physical buttons, and Sense, it’s hard to argue otherwi…

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 for AT&T review

Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

We’ve already published a pretty exhaustive review of Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 some five months ago, but it’s taken until this month for it to reach AT&T’s network and retail chain. A lot’s changed in the mobile phone market since then — the iP…

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Epic 4G review

Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Of the seemingly countless variants of the Galaxy S that Samsung’s in the process of deploying around the globe, one stands out in a couple very unique (and important) ways: Sprint’s Epic 4G. The Epic hangs on to a couple of the Galaxy line’s most important characteristics — namely the 1GHz Hummingbird processor and the 4-inch Super AMOLED display — but adds in a sliding landscape QWERTY keyboard, support for the wickedly fast WiMAX network that Sprint shares with partner Clearwire, and a handful of other notable one-off customizations.

We’ve already taken a look at two of the other US-bound Galaxy S models — AT&T’s Captivate and T-Mobile’s Vibrant — but it shouldn’t take more than a quick glance at the Epic to tell you that this is a very, very different beast. Becoming just the second WiMAX phone released in the States (and the first with a physical keyboard), this is a pretty critical release for Sprint at a time when its subscriber count is just starting to pick up after several quarters of decline — and making things even more interesting is the fact that Sprint’s first WiMAX handset — HTC’s EVO 4G — is simply one of the best phones we’ve ever reviewed. In other words, yeah, you could say that the Epic’s got a lot to live up to. Is it up to the task? Let’s find out.

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Epic 4G review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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App review: The Incident

Posted on 14. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Like its contemporary, Canabalt, The Incident is a game that knows exactly what it is — and is not — and plays to those strengths to a T. The basic premise of this iPhone title is simple enough, and in that simplicity (as with many great games) lies…

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Droid 2 review

Posted on 13. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Even by mid-2010 standards, Verizon’s original Droid still looks and feels thoroughly modern — after all, it set a pretty high benchmark for the upper end of Android’s product portfolio when it launched late last year, and Motorola has managed to kee…

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iPhone 4 KIRF reviewed, can its ‘WVGA screen village’ compare? (video)

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

From the outside of its white box, labeled “Phone no. 4,” it’s clear to see that the Air Phone 4 is trying awfully hard to be an iPhone 4. But then we already knew that. How does it compare to the real thing in the real world? Not well, according to i…

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ZTE Racer review

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

In a battlefield now abundant with Android handsets, there’s only one easy way for a young smartphone brand to grab our attention: make a seriously dirt cheap handset. And we’re not just talking about a free phone chained to a pricey 18-month contract…

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Clear iSpot review

Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Lately, the notion of getting Apple’s ever-growing line of mobile devices connected to 3G and 4G networks is attracting a lot of attention from carriers that aren’t AT&T — take Sprint’s Overdrive case for the iPad, for instance — but not in a mi…

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BlackBerry Torch review

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

When we began our review of the BlackBerry Torch (aka the Bold 9800), our hearts were all aflutter. The leaked shots we’d been seeing of some kind of Palm Pre-esque RIM slider were different and frankly weird enough to cause a kind of low hum gadget l…

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Samsung Galaxy S review shootout: Captivate for AT&T and Vibrant for T-Mobile

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

We’ve got to hand it to Samsung with its Galaxy S line. Coordinating the launch of a single family of devices across all four national US carriers (plus a regional or two) is a feat very rarely accomplished, and usually reserved for really unique hand…

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Dell Streak review redux: thoughts from the New World

Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

If you’ve been following the ongoing saga of Dell’s Streak, you’ve probably already read our review of O2 UK’s version — thing is, the British perspective can be very different from the Yankee one (we didn’t see eye-to-eye during the War of 1812, for instance). To that end, we wanted to circle back now that the gargantuan Android beast is finally coming close to a US release and get another quick take.

As a refresher, this thing matches or exceeds the specs you’d expect to find on any modern high-end smartphone in most respects, starting with a 1GHz Snapdragon core, a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 850 / 1900MHz 3G for use on AT&T, Rogers, Bell, and Telus, and 2GB of internal storage coupled with a bundled and pre-installed 16GB microSDHC card. Where the Streak sets itself far, far apart from the crowd, though, is with an absolutely enormous 5-inch capacitive touchscreen at 800 x 480 resolution. Needless to say, it’s a polarizing feature — and for many, it’ll singlehandedly determine whether the phone is a buy or a no-buy.

Our original review ultimately concluded that the Streak was a promising device in need of an update from Android 1.6 to Froyo. On second look, does our American reviewer agree? Read on.

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Dell Streak review redux: thoughts from the New World originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SlingPlayer Mobile for Android review

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

The World Cup may have just ended, but whether you’re into football or not, there must have been a point over the last five weeks where you or someone you know moaned about missing a live goal. This is where SlingBox comes in — in case you didn’t kno…

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini / Mini Pro review

Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

In a smartphone market saturated with 3.5-inch and larger displays, Sony Ericsson reckons there’s still a little place for petite packages. Enter the Xperia X10 Mini (E10i) and Mini Pro (U20i) — both direct descendants of the beastly X10 Android 1.6 …

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Motorola Droid X review

Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

The original Droid made a powerful statement. Actually, make that statements, plural: for Motorola, it was the largest single affirmation that it was going all-in with Android (after having already released the far less memorable midrange CLIQ on T-Mo…

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HTC Wildfire review

Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by IBM. 

If phones could make babies, then this HTC Wildfire would indubitably be the love child of the Desire and Nexus One. But of course, the humdrum reality is that ’tis just an Android 2.1 replacement for the entry-level Tattoo — same 528MHz Qualcomm MSM…

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