Andrew Garcia

I barely ever use my iPhone as an actual phone. To me it’s an iPod first, an SMS and Internet device second and a phone third. My phone usage is so limited that I’m subscribed to the minimum voice service plan AT&T allows with the iPhone, yet I constantly have around 4,000 minutes in my […]

Anybody remember what happened July 2, 2007? That was the first Monday after the much ballyhooed launch of the original iPhone. On that day, the AT&T network, flush with thousands of new data users on the EDGE network, crashed hard. This left many of the happy new iPhone users—and lots of non-iPhone users—stranded without data […]

As the first publicly released smart phone running the Open Handset Alliance’s Android mobile operating system, the T-Mobile G1 with Google is a qualified success. But while packed with innovative features and well-designed capabilities, the device is also overrun with a raft of small, first-generation bugs and idiosyncrasies. Despite the problems, as a consumer, I […]

T-Mobile G1 with Google (Android Phone) No Title The G1 screen is very bright–a little too bright in a dark room, I found. But the brightness is easily changeable via the touch-screen controls. Photo: T-Mobile No Title When the user slides the screen out to expose the keyboard, the screen switches to landscape view. Photo: […]

One of the primary attractions of the Android operating system is the potential for a vibrant developer community to create a mass of useful apps allowing users to squeeze a little more usefulness from their mobile experience. As I’ve learned during my prerelease testing of the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1 with Google, there […]

With the new Treo Pro, Palm for once is bringing the sexy to business users, delivering a sleek, appealing device ready for business use. Unfortunately, the Treo Pro’s erratic 3G performance quickly depletes the battery under certain circumstances, making it difficult to recommend the device until the 3G problems are resolved. Without question the Treo […]

In an effort to resolve the mystery surrounding the poor talk time performance of the Treo Pro smart phone I’ve been reviewing, Palm sent me a second unit that was waiting for me when I returned from my recent vacation. While I was able to prove that the GSM radio works properly in this second […]

Free and open just met free and closed. But the introduction of the two will come with a price tag on it. This week during Digium’s Astricon conference in Glendale, Ariz., Digium and Skype announced Skype for Asterisk—granting Asterisk PBX users the ability to leverage Skype for both outbound and inbound calling. Users on an […]

Mobile administrators charged with growing a company’s mobile initiatives quickly find that proper management is essential for providing a consistent and predictable experience to mobile users. However, as a company’s use of mobile technologies grows, mobile administrators need to expand their perception of what constitutes mobile management beyond the device and its configuration. They need […]

Zenprise for BlackBerry and Exchange has everything a company needs to monitor and troubleshoot mobile e-mail delivery-as long as that environment comprises BlackBerry smart phones at the edge and Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server at the core. Despite this somewhat limited scope of supported environments, Zenprise for BlackBerry and Enterprise hits the mark with […]

Polycoms New Telepresence Executive Briefing Center Polycoms New Telepresence Executive Briefing Center – Remote Greeting When participants enter the Briefing Center, they will be greeted via televideo. The receptionist will actually be located on the other side of the wall. Polycoms New Telepresence Executive Briefing Center – Room 418M The largest conference room is designed […]

I had been hoping to get eWEEK’s review of Palm’s new Treo Pro smart phone online this week, but testing took an unfortunate right turn, leading us to return the device and wait for a replacement before we could finish the tests. Although I am bummed about the delay, I had a lot fun troubleshooting […]