News, reviews and articles about wireless devices and accessories.
Our friends at ThinkGeek were nice enough to ship me a new toy: The Digital Hotspotter from Canary Wireless. This is probably the best portable 802.11b/g WiFi signal detector that I’ve tested so far. We’ve had several detectors reviewed here in the past that were either disappointing or just plain mediocre. They usually consist […]
Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter Review Read More
Background Although the concept of the smart phone pretends to be cutting-edge, it was really created by Nokia back in the early nineties with the 9000 series. It was dubbed the Communicator and by combining telephony, e-mail, internet and PDA functions in one item it lived up to its name. Despite the miraculous convergence, however,
Nokia 9500 Mobile Phone Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Bluetooth enabled PDAs and Smart phones ThinkOutside’s Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard now has a competitor. Brando is selling a similarly sized product named the Smart Keyboard. Priced $50 cheaper, what does this keyboard have that might make you purchase it over ThinkOutside’s offering? Keep reading… Package Contents Smart Keyboard 2 AAA Batteries
Brando Bluetooth Smart Keyboard Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Bluetooth enabled Pocket PCs and Smart phones Most modern day PDAs have been designed to be entirely stylus driven. But sometimes you really just need a good old fashioned keyboard to get your job done. Enter the Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard from our friends at ThinkOutside. While this product is far from
ThinkOutside Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Bluetooth enabled Pocket PCs running Windows Mobile 2003, Windows XP Bluetooth enabled computers/notebooks, Mac OS X Bluetooth enabled computers/notebooks The generic name given to a Windows Mobile enabled PDA is Pocket PC. This name really fits the description when you happen to have a Bluetooth PPC and ThinkOutside’s Stowaway Bluetooth Travel Mouse.
ThinkOutside Stowaway Bluetooth Travel Mouse Review Read More
Clarification added 12/04/04: The Razr V3 that I purchased was from Expansys-US. This means that the version I got was for the UK and came with the standard Motorola packaging and accessories. The US models of this phone seem to be repackaged and so does not come with the nice metal box and perhaps even
Motorola Razr V3 Review Read More
The FrogPad is a one-handed keypad designed to provide all the functionality of a full keyboard in a small form. The designers intended to provide a comfortable, productive device that could be used by those with disabilities and to relieve or prevent carpal tunnel stress. After a year of marketing the USB version, the eponymous
FrogPad iFrog Bluetooth Keyboard Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Bluetooth enabled mobile phones. See compatibility list. Cellular phones are a great boon to communication. There is no longer a need to search for a pay phone or to wait until you get home to find out how to get somewhere or notify AAA that you need a tow or tire
Bluetake BT400 G3 Bluetooth Headset Review Read More
Product Requirements: Supported phones include: Nokia 8210/8250, Samsung N628/T108, Nokia 7210/7250, Ericsson T28/T29, Motorola V998/T191 and other compatible models Oh, to be fourteen again…back in the days before caller ID and *69. Back when you could make a prank phone call without getting busted. You had better believe that if I had owned a cell
JIAHE Caller Voice Changing Headset Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP An Ethernet (10Base-T or 100Base-TX) adapter for wired client A least one 802.11b (11Mbps) or 802.11g (54Mbps) wireless adapter for wireless mobile client An installed TCP/IP and Internet browser I’ve been a big fan of ASUS products for a long while now. In fact, I have built two
ASUS WL-330 Pocket Access Point Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Any audio device with a 3.5mm headphone jack, various Bluetooth mobile phones It’s hard to review a product that is a first in its class because there’s nothing to compare it with, no standard of excellence that it needs to live up to. Such is the case with the Bluetake’s new i-PHONO
Bluetake i-PHONO BT420EX Bluetooth Headphones Review Read More
I had a lot of trepidation regarding the Motorola V500, the first time I saw it. Maybe it was the darkening Singapore shopping mall around me, at half-past closing time. Maybe it was the pushy sales clerk who alternately badgered and begged me to hand over my money. Maybe it was because I’d never heard
Motorola V400/V500 Mobile Phone Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: O2-XDA II, Qtek 2020, Orange M100 How does one reconcile a technolust for the top gadgets (often the most fragile and expensive) with an active lifestyle in rugged conditions? Innopocket hopes to provide the answer to this thorny question. I tend to embody the worst of the two in the above dilemma.
Innopocket O2-XDA II Metal Deluxe Case Review Read More
About a year ago, I reviewed the first of the stand-alone WiFi detection devices to hit the market, the Kensington WiFi Finder, a neat little (3” long) product whose main drawback was that it didn’t work. Subsequently, I found (on The-Gadgeteer.com, of course!) the Smart ID WiFi Detector, a somewhat larger (4”x2.25”x.625”) and clunkier (1.82
PCTEL WiFi Seeker Review Read More
Product Requirements: A mobile phone with a universal 2.5mm plug, adapter required for those not compatible There are a couple reasons why the idea of wearing a headset while using my cell phone does not appeal. For one, their weight after perching on my ear for any amount of time can become painful. Furthermore, all
Etymotic Research\’s ETY.COM Mobile Phone Headset Review Read More
A few months ago I reviewed the Samsung E700 and thought at that time, that this was the ultimate gadget phone. However, this is no longer true, as I bought the Inno 90 from the 2nd largest mobile phone manufacturer in Korea called Innostream. The Inno 90 is on sale in North America through
Innostream Inno 90 Mobile Phone Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Sony Ericsson T610,T612,T616,T628,T630 Official Product Photos and Description from Krusell: “Made in carefully selected buffalo leather and designed to fit 100% to each individual phone. A key feature on the Classic cases are their tight fit, that makes even very small phones look extremely good in their Krusell case. Forget about
Krusell Classic Sony Ericsson T610-T630 Case Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Handspring/PalmOne Treo 600 Mobile Phone I had been happily using a Dell Axim for the last year or so and figured that my mobile gear situation was pretty well covered with that machine. My wife, however, knew that I was very intrigued by the new Treo 600 and went out and
Vaja Classic Leather Treo 600 Case Review Read More
Fans of wireless networking (otherwise known as WiFi, 802.11b, or g) will probably have heard the term Warchalking before. For those of you that are unfamiliar with this term, warchalking is the practice of marking a series of symbols on sidewalks and walls to indicate nearby wireless access points. When these symbols are seen
Smart ID WiFi Detector Review Read More
I have had a few camera phones already, but none of them had a reasonably good integrated camera that delivers fair picture quality. Until now only snap-on cameras for Sony Ericsson and Siemens phones provided VGA-quality, but I always forgot to take the cameras with me, and in any case quick snap shots were almost
Samsung E700 Mobile Phone Review Read More