Noah Kravitz

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Walkmen and a modem: SE announces K660, W890, and W380 phones and MD300 USB modem

Sony Ericsson dropped two new pieces of gear on its North American faithful today, along with a few higher end handsets with quad band GSM support (but no US-spec 3G bands) should you care to import...

gPhone watch: Google announces Android Mobile platform, open handset alliance

A press release showed up in my INBOX 45 minutes or so ago announcing the Open Handset Alliance and Android, "the first truly open and comprehensive for mobile devices."  The email also invited me to...

Paranoid Android: gPhone is a platform, not a phone

Okay, so a few press releases, a giant conference call, and an afternoon's worth of reporting and blogging later, here's what I can tell you about the Gphone.  There is no Gphone, but there will be...

iPhone watch: Upgraded my unlocked iPhone to 1.1.1 at long last

So I finally took the plunge yesterday and upgraded my unlocked, running on T-Mobile, v 1.0.2 iPhone to v 1.1.1.  The process took longer than I'd anticipated (or hoped, anyway) due to a few snags. ...

A big "nonevent": Google and T-Mobile announcement coming Monday?

Valleywag.com is reporting that Google will be announcing T-Mobile as their first cellular partner, and that said announcement could be coming next week.  (Remember, I quoted USA Today about Google...

Noah's Motorola RAZR2-V9m review

Motorola's RAZR is an icon of cellphones, technology, and design in general.  The V3 and all of its brethren collectively became the second most successful mobile handset in history, and the word ?...

Thanks for watching: The YouTube Q&A blog

Dear YouTube viewers: I love you.  You guys are awesome.  And thanks for giving the fish some love, too. I don't check my YouTube Inbox that often, I must confess.  But today I went through and...

Noah's Nokia E61i review

Despite its quirky ?1960s scientific calculator? looks and lack of US-band 3G support, the Nokia E61i is one of the best smartphones in the world.  The combination of a strong WiFi antenna, the...

gPhone watch: Announcement within two weeks; phones next year

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that an announcement from Google regarding their plans to enter the cellular phone market will be coming in the next two weeks.  Amol Sharma writes in the October...

Hands-On: T-Mobile Shadow in stores

Well lookie what I found on my way to the FedEx place.  The T-Mobile store I passed in downtown Berkeley, CA had a bunch of ads up for the new Shadow handset, so I popped in and there they were: Two...

Halloween Shadow: T-Mobile announces Shadow, "The official phone of fun"

T-Mobile announced the October 31st release of Shadow, which apparently isn't just a handset but a franchise of phones under the Shadow brand ... "a name that will become synonymous with playful,...

3 Skypephone: 3 and Skype announce handset for free skype calling

As expected, Skype and the UK mobile operator 3 today announced the 3 Skypephone, a mobile handset that offers free Skype to Skype calling and Skype instant messaging on the go.  The 3 Skypephone is...

And the CTIA hits keep comin'

Here is a quick video preview of the Motorola's new ROKR U9. Although it sports a "PEBL" esque form factor it still manages to distinguish itself through its new UI, advanced music player and...

Dual Slider Smartphone: Duo Shows Up in AT&T Stores

Boy Genius reports he's got his hands on the new Pantech Duo for AT&T, and word is also trickling in from other sources that the Duo is, in fact, available in select locations.  This Windows...

Helio: Is the Samsung-made Mysto Helio's new slider?

There was some buzz going around CTIA this week about a new super slim slider coming soon from Helio.  There are a bunch of renderings and rumors online about the Samsung U600 becoming that new...

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