What exactly is a smartphone, and what exactly is a PDA? at The Smart PDA

What exactly is a smartphone, and what exactly is a PDA? As innovations allow handhelds to add more functions to their feature sets, the difference between the two gadgets becomes less clear. This has complicated efforts for reaching commonly accepted definitions A brave soul at Wikipedia contends that smartphones are first and foremost, phones. They may either have simple PDA programs, or have capabilities which put Desktop Computers to shame, but [...] Read More


Saddam Hussein's Last Moments Captured by a Smartphone Camera at The Smart PDA

No other event could make it any clearer: the built-in camera and online video are here to stay. A cellphone video of Saddam Hussein's execution is making the rounds in Iraq, thanks to Bluetooth and flash drives. And of course, it has found its way online. Privacy concerns aside (I've decided not to include a direct link to the video on this post, since you'll easily find it anyway), it's painfully obvious [...] Read More


Yet Another Ultra-Expensive Smartphone at The Smart PDA

Once again, here's a really expensive gadget only the ultra-rich can even consider buying. Thanks to liberally-applied blue diamonds (over 50 of them!), the Diamond Crypto Smartphone Project costs over $ 1.3 million, easily a lot more than the Black Diamond. Russian company JSC Ancort and jeweler Peter Aloisson have teamed up to make this spendthrift smartphone a reality. Apparently, this phone isn't all about style. There are decent features inside [...] Read More


Novelist Hammers Out Novel on Smartphone at The Gadgets Weblog

When it comes to smartphone typing, I am all thumbs, or maybe I am not thumb enough. Which ever the case, I can barely work my way around a competent email on my iPhone let alone type an entire document. I cannot imagine what sci-fi author Peter Brett went through. He knocked out over 100,000 words of his novel, The Warded Man, on a subway in New York using only [...] Read More


AT&T Wireless Announces AT&T Tilt Smartphone from HTC at The Wireless Weblog

AT&T Wireless has announced that the AT&T Tilt smartphone will launch tomorrow, Friday, October 5th, priced at $300 with a two-year contract. The Tilt, designed by HTC, is a Windows Mobile 6 handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, three-megapixel camera and 3G data speeds. It also includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, as well as a MicroSD memory card slot. "While the Tilt looks a lot like its predecessor - tablet design, full [...] Read More