Sascha Segan

Verizon and Motorola announced the availability of the long-awaited Q smart phone on May 22. The RAZR-thin, keyboard-equipped device will be sold starting May 31 on Verizons Web site for $199.99 (after discounts with a two-year contract and voice plan), and will appear in stores in June, the companies said. First informally introduced last July, […]

Theres something in the water at PC Magazine. Our editorial staff has four babies less than one year old, with more on the way. And though the babies themselves dont know a ring tone from a teething ring, all of us new parents are trying to find ways to use tech to enjoy the maximum […]

The long-awaited Helio mobile phone carrier launched today with their first two phones and a raft of multimedia services aimed at the “lifestyle of young people,” according to a statement by founder Sky Dayton. I saw Helios two phones, the Kickflip and the Hero, at the CTIA trade show recently. Both are midrange phones from […]

As Apple turns 30, Mac users with cell phones face the classic Mac dilemma: You get fewer choices, but the ones you do get work so much more smoothly than those on your friends Windows PCs. Apples built-in iSync software and Bluetooth support mean that if you pick the right cell phone, it will work […]

Since narf2006 and blanka announced their solution for booting Windows XP on Intel Macs last week, many aspiring dual-booters have been posting on the OnMac forums trying to get Bills baby running on Steves systems. We thought, what can we add to all of this? Why, we can boot XP on a 20-inch iMac, a […]

ZIFFPAGE TITLEAt A Glance > ZIFFPAGE TITLEFull Review This is not your fathers BlackBerry. The BlackBerry 8700c combines the convenience of the traditional slab-style unit with the color and verve of the new 7100 models, creating a top-notch e-mail device for a new generation. The 4.7-ounce 8700c is about 0.2 ounces lighter, and at 4.3 […]

Sprint on Thursday turned on its high-speed EvDO network in at least 13 cities, offering widespread, DSL-like wireless Internet speeds—a move that should bring much-needed competition to the wireless data world. Sprints launch is progressive: The network will start off small, with coverage in some cities (typically in downtown areas or airports) and expand to […]

PalmOne today announced a new “mobile manager” class of handheld products, and Amazon.com let slip that the first gadget in the new category will be called the LifeDrive. Mobile Managers will join PalmOnes Treo smart phones, Tungsten business-oriented PDAs, and Zire personal PDAs in PalmOnes product line. In a press release, PalmOne stated that handhelds […]

Verizon kicked the US mobile phone market into the third generation at CES this year, lighting up 32 cities with high-speed data services and announcing three handsets. And thats just the tip of the EVDO (Evolution-Data Only) iceberg; every manufacturer we saw, from Samsung to Motorola to oddball Chinese firms like Amoi, was showing off […]

Samsung pumped up its smartphone lineup with two new models at a recent New York show, both of which will probably give new life to Verizons elderly-looking array of phone/PDA hybrids. Pocket PC fans will prefer the SCH-i730; its a full Pocket PC device with a 320 by 240 touchscreen, 64MB RAM, SD card slot […]