Recent Posts

Why companies test phones in the wild

As CNET reported yesterday, a second unreleased Apple iPhone has gone astray. The secret device was lost at a San Francisco bar in late July, CNET reporters Declan McCullagh and Greg Sandoval wrote, and Apple quickly conducted an aggressive campaign to find it. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Remember that last year, an Apple computer engineer accidentally …

Read More »

How HTC’s new Windows Mango phones stack up

Ever since Microsoft took the wraps off of Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named Mango), we’ve been wondering how phone-makers would update the first crop of phones to carry the new operating system. HTC gave us its answer with the announcements of the HTC Titan and HTC Radar, both available in Europe starting in October. Both handsets bring hardware improvements in the …

Read More »