Smartphones - Features

Clever free ways to connect via phone and Web

Looking to improve how you communicate? Check out these six great options in free e-mail and phone services.

Best free apps and services for your phone

Expand the limits of your phone with these nine free downloads and services, including Google Mobile, Remote, and Shazam.

Why you should be excited about the Palm Pre

Although a collective sigh may be raised at comparing yet another touch-screen smartphone with Apple's Apple's iPhone 3G, Palm's Pre has been generating plenty of buzz since it was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year.

Dell's smartphone: not dead after all?

A day after a leading industry analyst reported that Dell cancelled its smartphone due to lack of interest from cellular carriers, a new report says the PC maker's handset may be very much alive.

Reports: Next-gen iPhone may be a major upgrade

Rumors are percolating about the next-generation iPhone, particularly after Apple offered a sneak preview< last week of its upcoming iPhone 3.0 software. If the reports are true, the upcoming iPhone may prove to be a major upgrade of the current mod...

Just touch it: the best touch-screen mobile phones

We take a look at the handsets trying to knock Apple's iPhone off its perch. Sony Ericsson, RIM, HTC, Samsung, Nokia and LG all have touch-screen-equipped mobile phones on the market.

Metal Gear Solid Touch

How does a mobile/handheld game play on the morning commute? Let's find out.

Hands on with Acer's F900 and M900 smartphones

Global PC vendor Acer made its first move into the smartphone market at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month and I had a chance to sit down and try out a few of the new devices in Taipei.

Apple's iPhone 3.0: 10 features that might make the cut

The iPhone 3.0 countdown is officially on: Apple has announced plans to reveal the next generation of its iPhone operating system at a media event next Tuesday.

Palm Treo Pro & debut of IE Mobile 6

On March 15 the Sprint Palm Treo Pro officially goes on sale, and I've been testing a production unit for the past few weeks. It's basically the same Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone as the unlocked Treo Pro that I tested in late 2008. But the addition ...

Nokia accelerates music push with services and phones

The 5730 XpressMusic

10 iPhone apps that could get you into trouble

iPhone applications are proliferating like rabbits, but not all of them are great. In fact some can get you into hot water.

Lawyers move toward iPhones, give up BlackBerrys

Lawyers are increasingly jumping ship from BlackBerrys to iPhones, thanks in large part to functionality enabled by the iPhone's special screen.

Acer sees the future of smartphones as free

Introducing the Acer F900 touch-screen smartphone

iPhone apps that foretell the future

Ah, the Apple App Store. Since July 2008, the month when Apple opened its wildly popular library of applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, the world has been treated to more than 20,000 apps, with some 500 million downloaded as of February 2009.