And so we've reached the end of the third annual Smartphone Round Robin. Windows Mobile and the HTC Touch Pro 2 and HD2 were given the what-for by the other Smartphone Experts editors over the past couple of months. We laughed. We cried. We saw some pretty damn cool phones. Let's take a look back at what they had to say ... (From left: Phil, Rene, Casey, Matt, Kevin, Dieter and...
We saved the best (and penultimate) episode of our Smartphone Round Robin mini-podcasts for last — Windows Mobile, baby! Once again hosted by our pal Mickey Papillon of The Cell Phone Junkie, all your favorite Smartphone Experts editors talk about what they saw during our time together. Listen in below! Subscribe to The Cell Phone Junkie podcast with your favorite client...
Of all the other smartphones and all the other operating systems we've looked at over the course of the third annual Smartphone Round Robin, none is as similar to Windows Mobile as Android. That's a little odd, as Windows Mobile at its core is rapidly aging, and Android is one of the newest players of the bunch. But it's true. With Windows Mobile you get a high customizable operating...
OK, that's singularly the weirdest headline I've every written. But it's true. Our fearless leader is championing Palm's webOS in the third annual Smartphone Round Robin, and its our job (you guys think I'm doing this by myself?) to teach him a thing or three about the latest in Windows Mobile. You saw our sit-down during which Dieter took a look at the Touch Pro 2 and HD2, right? And...
We're almost there, folks. It's the penultimate week of the third annual Smartphone Round Robin, and this week Android Central's Casey Chan teaches me a thing or three about the little green robot. I've said it many a time, but Windows Mobile and Android share a lot in common, and we're definitely going to get down to the bottom of it. In addition, I've started a thread over at...
An e-mail powerhouse with an aging operating system whose shelf life may or may not be slowly ticking down. Slightly iterative hardware every six months or so. Adored by business users. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? But, no, we're not talking about Windows Mobile. It's BlackBerry week in the third annual Smartphone Round Robin, and CrackBerry Kevin brought us two of his platform's best...
The third annual Smartphone Round Robin is back, everybody! And we're kicking off the second half with CrackBerry Kevin himself and his bevy of BlackBerries. (Actually, we concentrated on the Bold 9700 and Storm 2, but you know how we are about alliteration.) Anyhoo, I've started a forum thread at CrackBerry.com to figure out why these things are just so darn addictive. Check it...
Since the entire SPE team was here at CES in Las Vegas, it made perfect sense to take some time away from ogling gadgets and chatting up our friends in the blogosphere to record a podcast. We talk up what we've seen so far, including the Nexus One and Motorola Backflip; we also chatted a bit about what we're hoping to see at Palm's event today. As you might have guessed, the show was...
Just a reminder that we're taking a break from the Smartphone Round Robin this week to cover CES. But that doesn't mean we don't have something special for ya: A pair of podcast with all your favorite SPE editors. First up is the second podcast we recorded during the Round Robin, brought to you by our pals at The Cell Phone Junkie. It's embedded below, but you've already subscribed to...
What do you get when you shove an HTC Touch Pro 2 and HD2 into the hands of a longtime Android user? Besides a pair of hands that tremble under that much power, you get Casey Chan (of AndroidCentral fame) in the opening round of the third annual Smartphone Round Robin. Casey gets a look at how HTC Sense and TouchFLO 3D stand up to stock the Android OS, as well as on HTC Android fare....
See those hands up there? Those are the 10 talented fingers of one Matthew Miller of NokiaExperts. And in Week 3 of the third annual Smartphone Round Robin, he's taking a look at Windows Mobile, and specifically the HTC Touch Pro 2 and HD2. If you haven't already, check out his hands-on video with yours truly. And then head over to the thread he's started in the WMExperts Forums,...
We're back with Week 3 of the third annual Smartphone Round Robin, and this time we'll be looking at the mysterious world of Nokia, with help from our pal Matthew Miller at NokiaExperts. Turns out these are some serious (if under appreciated) phones. So, peep the hands-on video after the break. And to get things rolling, I've got some questions for the NokiaExperts faithful. Hit up this...
And you thought our review of the iPhone was good? Check out what happened when CrackBerry Kevin (the self-professed BlackBerry addict) spent some time with the HTC HD2 and Touch Pro 2. Let's just say his description of the HD2 is one for the ages. Check out Kevin's review here, and get ready for Week 3 of the Smartphone Round Robin.
What do you get when you put the best of Windows Mobile into a self-proclaimed BlackBerry addict? You get the third annual Smartphone Round Robin, of course. And this week, CrackBerry Kevin's putting down the front-facing QWERTY and picking up the HTC Touch Pro 2 and HD2. If you haven't already, check out his hands-on video at CrackBerry.com. And dive into the WME Forums and lend him a...
"Wow, that's a lot of apps." Those were some of the first words out of my mouth when I sat down to take a look at the iPhone. You know, the platform that has single-handedly killed off every other smartphone known to -- oh, wait. We're all still here? Good. So, to get the discussion going, I've started a thread in The iPhone Blog's forums. And I expect each and every one of you go post...
Myriad metaphors come to mind when thinking about Palm and Microsoft. David and Goliath. A young upstart fighter who took a couple of punches, versus an aging but still powerful opponent. A young executive overtaking the old man in the corner office. Take your pick. In the past year, Palm announced and delivered on a new (and some say revolutionary) operating system and a pair of new...
And so it begins. We kick off the third annual Smartphone Round Robin today by going head-to-head with Palm's webOS, the Pre and the Pixi — and one Dieter Bohn, esq., of PreCentral.net. We've all seen webOS before, so it's the bells and whistles I was really interested in. Does it stand up with long-term multi-tasking? Will the Pre really skip across a pond? Things like that. And I have...
As it did the year before, the Smartphone Round Robin needed to go into overtime again this time around -- but we're finished now! If you haven't been following along, here's what you missed: Each of the editors of our five Smartphone Experts sites swapped phones for a week or so, reviewing and leanring what it's like to wear another smarphone user's shoes. The result is the...
The Smartphone Round Robin took quite the unexpected hiatus -- I've been awfully busy these past few weeks and truth be told it was Windows Mobile itself that helped me manage my increasingly hectic worklife. In case you missed it, here's my Video of the Fuze, including some details on how I've decided not to use TouchFlo 3D. Now that I'm back on Windows Mobile, it's time to...
The Round Robin Contest ends tomorrow. All you have to do to enter is to post in any of the Round Robin Forum threads. You can find the Round Robin Update page or through our RSS Feed. Once the Round Robin is "officially" over tomorrow, Dieter will be able to return to Windows Mobile and will share his thoughts on his triumphant return. Look for it next week and in the meantime, take...