This week, Sprint is hosting its ninth annual developer conference in Santa Clara, CA and the theme is definitely smartphones. Android, Palm webOS and Windows Mobile are all featured heavily as Sprint attempts to catch up to T-Mobile and ATT in the smartphone market. I really only care about...

I’ll just come right out and admit it: This gadget seduced me. You could set the retail package on a pedestal in the MoMA and it would blend right in. It is a work of art. I opened up it up, stuck it in my ear and it just started working. It talked me through the process of pairing with...

I have one of those legendary Jawbone BlueTooth headsets. It works great, but I hate having to deal with it: Put it on. Take it off. Forget you have it on and look like a dork. Charge it when you get home. Lose it. What I REALLY wanted was a speakerphone for my car that I never had to think...

I bought an Android phone just to check it out (’cause that’s what I’m supposed to do; my friends count on me for that.) I bought it in spite of that fact that I hate T-Mobile, in spite of the fact that the Android didn’t support Microsoft Exchange or view PDFs or let...

What’s your phone number? Why should that question mean anything at all? Phone numbers are a holdover from an era of mechanical rotary switches. Each phone connected to   your central office (all 9999 of you) was assigned a number. When that got full, we put in a new central office...