Sascha Segan

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 […]

Its hard to find a phone nowadays that doesnt have a calendar, a few games, or even downloadable applications. But some phones go the extra mile to bring voice and data needs together, including syncing e-mail, surfing the Web, shooting pictures (Find out how we test phone cameras and see a slide show of results), […]

PalmOne stretches out its product line Monday with the new Tungsten T5 handheld, which packs in a fast processor, a big clear screen and a whopping 215MB of available memory for $399 direct. The T5 is a slim and shiny business device that looks like a stretched-out T3 (3.1″ x 4.8″ x 0.6″ HWD, 5.1 […]

Nokia isnt afraid to shock with phone designs. Weve been looking quizzically at pictures of their keypad-less 7280 fashion phone since it was announced last week, but we wanted to hold off on judging it until we got our hands on the sleek little gadget ourselves. And when we did, we were amazed. This phone […]

Voice phone by day, e-mail machine by night, the Nokia 6820 looks like a perfectly normal compact bar phone. But flip it open and youll find a hidden QWERTY thumb keyboard. Suited for text messaging and e-mail, it also has Bluetooth and high-speed EDGE network compatibility for data, giving it even greater business-traveler appeal. Later […]

The original Sidekick arrived to much anticipation in October 2002. It was the first consumer-oriented mobile device that combined PDA and phone features along with e-mail and messaging. Even better, all of this was packaged in a very cool, innovative case. Less than two years later, the device receives its second upgrade: The T-Mobile Sidekick […]

The Sony RoomLink is a slender box that sits on top of your television set, serving up music, video, and photo slide shows from a Sony VAIO. Setup is easy: Plug it into your home network and television (an Ethernet network or 802.11a/Ethernet converter is required to serve video). In testing, MP3s sounded excellent on […]