Monthly Archives: December 2006

Q vs. Pearl

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

More comparison photos on Flickr
The Motorola Q versus the BlackBerry Pearl: Q walks away in shame while the Pearl shines on. Windows Mobile and hardware vendors like Motorola have a long way to go! The BlackBerry OS plus a near perfect hardware design makes the Pearl a joy to use: encrypted push email, [...]

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Serial Phone Switching

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Seven smartphones, 3 years. In search of the smartphone holy grail, what was once the perfect phone becomes the ugly duckling. What drives this search? I am not sure. It’s not just one feature (push email, web browsing, GPS, or bluetooth modem tethering) that creates the impulse to switch, but instead a combination [...]

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