Michelle Maisto

Repair site iFixit set to work disemboweling a Dell Streak, a device it described as a “not-so-little half-tablet, half-phone” that “seriously piqued” its interest. Among its findings are an appreciation for how simple the Streak is to access-and so repair. Perhaps not coincidentally, then, with the teardown of the Streak, iFixit also announced the introduction […]

The BlackBerry Torch-the smartphone that Research In Motion launched with much fanfare less than a week ago, and which was supposed to help it win back market share in North America by standing up to the Apple iPhone and Android-running smartphones-is now being offered for just $99.99 on Amazon.com. The Amazon offer is attached to […]

Nokia introduced the X3 Touch and Type Aug. 17, on the Nokia Conversations blog. Touch screen or keypad? No need to decide, says the Finnish phone maker. In a first, it’s combined the two, offering a 12-button keypad to complement the X3’s 2.4-inch touch screen. “Our research tells us consumers who have invested years in […]

Surely Desmond found the duties that tied him the Apple-II Plus in the Swan Station to be a drag, but “Lost” fans who fancied the old Apple desktop, or would like to fulfill a hatch-reenactment fantasy of hurriedly typing 4, 8, 16, 23 into the computer, now have a chance. ABC Studios, along with Profiles […]

Is the Motorola Droid 2 plagued with antenna problems, or does the big wheel of the rumor mill simply keep on turning? Mobile Crunch, citing “those we know who have had ’em for a day or two and who pay a nearly obsessive amount of [attention] to stuff like this,” reports that early Droid 2 […]

Verizon Wireless customers do indeed want an Apple iPhone, but they’re not the only ones, market research firm Morpace reported in a new study out this month. According to the firm, 34 percent of current AT&T iPhone owners say they haven’t yet upgraded to the iPhone 4 because they’re waiting for the device to debut […]

AT&T furthered the national conversation on net neutrality Aug. 13, with a post by its vice president of Federal Regulatory, Joan Marsh, who tried to clear up some “misinformation” regarding the issue. On the AT&T Public Policy blog Marsh emphasized the differences between wireless and wireline networks, which she felt a recent Fortune article addressed […]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab-the company’s new mobile device that is based on Google Android and ready to take on Apple’s iPad-is slated for a September debut, according to several published reports. On June 7, Samsung confirmed that it will launch the Galaxy Tab during the second half of 2010, though offered few other details. Unconfirmed […]

Motorola Droid 2 Smartphone, with Android 2.2, Is a Solid Update: iFixit by Michelle Maisto Motorola Droid 2 A side-by-side comparison of the Motorola Droid (right) and Droid 2. They’re so alike, says iFixit, that the repair manual for the former can be used on the latter. One distinction, however, is that the Droid 2, […]

The Dell Streak is now available at Dell.com, enabling consumers in the United States to get on board with the smartphone-meets-tablet device that O2 customers in the United Kingdom have been enjoying since early June.< The Streak, which became available for pre-sale Aug. 12, is priced at $550, or $300 with a two-year service contract […]

The Motorola Droid 2 went on sale on the Verizon network Aug. 12-going head-to-head with the launch of the BlackBerry Torch on AT&T. The folks at iFixit immediately got their hands on the successor to Motorola’s popular and accolade-winning Droid and performed a teardown to compare the two. The verdict? Motorola knows its way around […]

The Dell Streak is available for preorder Aug. 12-and goes on sale Aug. 13 on the AT&T network. But smartphone lovers and Dell fans may still want a peek at the rumored Dell Thunder, a prototype Dell smartphone that Engadget reports it has secured some-albeit dark and wobbly-video footage of. The site’s “tipster” shows off […]