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Smartphone Round Robin Wrap Up: Contest Winners Announced and Some Closing Thoughts...
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Smartphone Round Robin Wrap Up: Contest Winners Announced and Some Closing Thoughts...

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 12 Feb 2010 11:42 am
Our third annual Smartphone Round Robin has finally come to an end, which means there only two things left to do - announce the winners of some sweet new smartphones (find the winners at the bottom of this post) and say farewell until next year with some final thoughts... Back on the Crack and Loving It! If you missed any of this year's Round Robin posts, be sure to jump over to our Latest...
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Smartphone Round Robin Aftermath: What the Other Site Editors Thought About BlackBerry Smartphones

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 3 Feb 2010 1:36 pm
The Smartphone Round Robin is finally into the wind down phase. With so many platforms and devices participating this year the event has run a little long and has been a bit confusing to follow, but the content has been nothing less than stellar. If you're in the market for a new smartphone or are just curious to know how the experts perceive each competing platform based on their own...
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Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus Get Reviewed

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 20 Jan 2010 10:16 pm
[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] I know, I know... this is a BlackBerry site, so why are we posting a review of another platform's product? The answer is easy... the Smartphone Round Robin is still going on which dedicates six weeks to checking out the competition. I already reviewed the Sprint Palm Pre and Pixi, but tonight the embargoes have lifted and Dieter over at...
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Apple iPhone 3GS From the Perspective of a BlackBerry User, Smartphone Round Robin

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 18 Jan 2010 5:53 pm
Yin and Yang is the concept of duality forming a whole. In our every day lives, we see many examples of Yin and Yang before us. Think of pairings like night and day, or female and male. Diving deeper into the principles of Yin and Yang in Taoism, you'll find that neither are absolute, nor are they static, and that the summation of Yin and Yang form a whole and that their balance can be...
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Smartphone Round Robin Catch-Up: Windows on BlackBerry First Impressions; Palm on BlackBerry Final Review

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 15 Jan 2010 3:32 pm
The Smartphone Round Robin continues... and while I'm playing with the iToy this week (final review coming before end of weekend, see first impressions video here) there's some great BlackBerry coverage for you all to check out.  Dieter was tied up with CES, so like me was a little late in getting his last review up. Dieter really gave the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Storm2 some good thought in...
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iPhone 3GS First Impressions, Smartphone Round Robin

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 12 Jan 2010 2:57 pm
After a bit of a hiatus, the Smartphone Round Robin is back in full swing. Week #4 has me rock'n the iPhone 3GS. Below you'll find the video of me walking through the device with Rene Ritchie of TheiPhoneblog.com. Most people out there are pretty familiar with what the iPhone is all about so we spend our time talking shop and touching on a variety of points, including the amount of time I...
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Palm webOS, Pre and Pixi from the Perspective of a BlackBerry User, Smartphone Round Robin

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 11 Jan 2010 11:59 pm
Between New Year's celebrations and CES 2010 in Vegas last week, my final Palm review is coming at you about 10 days later than it should. There's a side benefit though. Last week at CES 2010 Palm announced that the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will be arriving at Verizon in the weeks ahead, so I now have much better perspective of where things are at and going for Palm than I would have...
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Smartphone Round Robin Podcast Part Deux - Let's Get It On!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 5 Jan 2010 4:46 pm
You may have heard that we're taking a short break from the 3rd annual Smartphone Round Robin for CES this year (and for our own sanity, truth be told.) Lucky for you, we have just the thing to tide you over this week: two podcasts with your favorite editors from the Smartphone Experts Network. First up, this past weekend, as with pretty much every weekend during the Round Robin, The Cell Phone...
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Palm User Takes on the Storm2 and Bold 9700, Smartphone Round Robin

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 30 Dec 2009 4:33 pm
We're half way through Week #3 of the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin. If you're a little lost as to who has what device and all that, be sure to visit the latest updates page. There are more devices and sites in this year's Round Robin over previous years, so it's a bit tougher to track but well worth your effort to do so. While I'm checking out the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi this week, our...
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Video: Palm Pre / Pixi / WebOS Hands-On Walk Through, Smartphone Round Robin

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 28 Dec 2009 3:31 pm
Week #3 of the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin has me on the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi, sampling Palm's new for 2009 WebOS platform. Think back to last year's Round Robin and Palm was on the brink of disaster. This year, they've pushed themselves back into the game with a very intuitive operating system that's really been designed for mobile use along with some decent hardware to get some momentum...

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