Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on April 27, 2011 at 6:02 pm PT
LG’s new G-Slate tablet has 4G cellular capability that makes it much speedier than the iPad. But its 3-D feature and in-between size are lackluster features.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on April 12, 2011 at 9:03 pm PT
There’s nothing special about a smartphone with a slide-out keyboard, but a smartphone with two touch screens is enough to turn heads. Katie reviews the Kyocera Echo.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 23, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT
Verizon’s ThunderBolt 4G cellphone is a speed demon, zipping past rival 4G phones’ cellular-data speeds and even past many home land-line Internet connections.
Erik Silk in Mobile on March 14, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
While T-Mobile is moving ahead with plans to kill off the last vestiges of the Danger-based Sidekick, it is also going forward with a new Sidekick, this one a 4G Android-based phone from Samsung.
Though it’s new under the hood, T-Mobile took pains to retain as much of the old Sidekick feel as possible, and built in a few new tricks.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 23, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
Motorola is launching its Xoom tablet on Feb. 24, and it’s the first real competitor to Apple’s hit iPad, writes Walt. That is partly because it is the first iPad challenger to run Honeycomb, an elegant new version of Google’s Android operating system designed especially for tablets.
John Paczkowski in News on February 1, 2011 at 4:15 am PT
No wonder sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab to date haven’t been what the company expected. Not only are consumers buying fewer of them than previously thought–they’re also returning them more frequently.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 1, 2011 at 4:02 am PT
In an interview, former Palm designer Matias Duarte talks about the changes that will allow Android to evolve from a phone-centric operating system to one well-suited to tablets and all manner of other devices.
John Paczkowski in News on January 31, 2011 at 12:01 pm PT
Samsung may have shipped two million Galaxy Tabs in its fourth quarter, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it sold them all. Because evidently, it didn’t. In truth, sales to date haven’t been as fast as the company expected.”
Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on December 24, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
Walt shares the best and worst products he reviewed in 2010 on WSJ Digits.