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- The BlackBerry Storm, three weeks later
- When I first looked at the BlackBerry Storm a couple of weeks back, I promised to revisit the topic after I had some more time to use the device on a regular basis. After all, it only seemed fair to put in the extra time on a product that had...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple iPhone 3G, RIM BlackBerry, 3G, Keyboards, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Up close and personal: The BlackBerry Storm
- A first look at the BlackBerry Storm. by Josh Taylor
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Josh Taylor, Blackberry Storm, Blackberry 9530
- Image galleries 2008-11-20
- Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm
- First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide
- What good is it to have the best line-up of product bloggers around if they can't help you pick out holiday presents? With that in mind, we tapped our crack crew to help us help you find the year's best tech gift ideas. We'll run...
- Tags: Holiday, Blogging, Cellular Phones, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing
- At last, the Storm is on the horizon. (Wow, what are the odds I was the first person to break out that line?) Verizon just announced that the BlackBerry Storm (aka, the BlackBerry 9530), will be available online and in Verizon Wireless stores beginning Friday, ...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Pricing Strategy, BlackBerry Storm, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Hands on with the BlackBerry Bold
- When I finally got my hands on one of the year's most highly-anticipated smartphones of the year late last week, I was dubious that the BlackBerry Bold would live up to the hype. After playing with it for the past four days, I'm happy to report that by and...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, LOOK Much, Keyboards, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Up close and personal with the T-Mobile-Google G1
- My grade for the new T-Mobile G1 Google Android phone? Incomplete. A few days of playing with the G1 mostly -- though not entirely -- confirmed my initial reactions from the launch event. Namely that the G1 is a perfectly nice little gadget, but...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, T-Mobile G1, Data Plan, Keyboards, 3G, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Does this make me a member of the mile-high club?
- Now I can say I blogged from 35,000 feet. I knew American Airlines was testing GOGO's WiFi service on select flights between New York and San Francisco, but was still pleasantly surprised this morning to find out that my 7am flight out of Kennedy this morning was...
- Tags: Flight, Wireless LANs, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Welcome to the new ZDNet Reviews Beta
- I'm happy to announce that today, ZDNet Reviews got a much-needed overhaul. In addition to some strictly cosmetic design changes, we've added tons of new product review content. click to enlarge While we still feature best-in-breed content from our sister site, CNET.com, we're now...
- Tags: Review, Product, Beta, Matthew Miller, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Hands on: Slingbox PRO-HD
- Unless you're someone who spends a lot of time Slinging content from your high-def TV to a computer elsewhere on your home network, you're not likely to see a whole lot of reason to upgrade - at least not quite yet - to the new $299 Slingbox PRO-HD, which began...
- Tags: Bedroom, Home Network, Satellite, HD, Cable, TVs, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- T-Mobile G1: Apple shouldn't be scared... yet
- I've had a few hours to absorb the T-Mobile/Google launch event, and I have to say, I think I was expecting more. And if the folks around me in the product evaluation area were a representative sampling, I don't think I'm alone. Don't get me wrong -...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., T-Mobile G1, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Telecom & Utilities, 3G, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Has the iPhone delayed the Blackberry Bold's US debut?
- Even though RIM's Blackberry Bold is currently available in 13 countries, the U.S. ain't one of them, and that could be because the iPhone 3G is hogging AT&T’s 3G network, according to a story in yesterday's Toronto Globe and Mail. "Both devices use the same next generation (3G) network...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, 3G Network, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, 3G, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- iPhone 2.1 first impressions: So far, so good
- Now that I've finally got the 2.1 upgrade installed, I must say, the early returns are looking promising. Up until now when friends and family have asked me whether or not I thought they should get an...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Battery, 3G, Cellular Phones, Engineering, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- The iPhone 2.1 update is here. But, psych, you can't install it...
- Talk about cruel. I can't remember the last time I was genuinely excited by the thought of an incremental system update, but there I was, checking iTunes first thing this morning to see if the 2.1 software was available for the iPhone 3G I've been using. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Thought, 3G, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Father's Day gifts for gadget freaks
- With Fathers’ Day around the corner â€" and this being the first time I get to actually receive a gift in addition to giving one â€" here are five items that I think should be on every dad’s short list. (If I didn’t already own several of these, theywould all...
- Tags: Freak, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Father's Day gifts for gadget freaks
- The top five gifts I want the Father's Day Fairy to drop off at my place this Sunday. by Josh Taylor
- Tags: Freak, Josh Taylor, gadgets, gear, product photos
- Image galleries 2008-06-11
- iPhone 3G: The official rates from AT&T
- Now that the iPhone 3G announcement has finally come and gone, turns out the most common rumors were right -- big price drop, GPS, slightly thicker, Exchange-friendly out of the box, not immediately available -- others not so much (nope, no Product...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Minute, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- The worst shopping experience on the web?
- When I was hunting down an extra battery for my Canon Vixia HF10 last month, a sponsored link caught my eye. Some place called "The Camera Professionals" was advertising the camcorder for $599, or $300 less than the cheapest price I had seen at the time. (Since then, the store...
- Tags: Web, Camcorder, Order, E-mail, Online Communications, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Canon's new Vixia HF10: The best (and first) camcorder I've ever owned
- About a month before my wife gave birth (which explains where I've been the past few weeks), I got a great piece of purchasing, errrr, parenting advice, from my friend Joe via IM: "though you prolly already have this covered, use this as an excuse to buy photo and...
- Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changer
- The good folks over at Lifehacker have a nifty step-by-step tutorial on how to easily rip your [non-HD] DVDs to your PC. While the back-up files provide nice insurance in case anything ever happens to your original discs, more compellingingly, they make it even easier never to leave your couch. Rip...
- Tags: Media Center PC, PC, Media Center PCs, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
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