Atrix 4G: Faux Laptop With a Phone For Brains

Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
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Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones

Some major benefits of the new Verizon iPhone service include crisp, clear calls with relatively few drops. But AT&T offers faster data downloads.
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Jawbone: You Won’t Pay a Penny for Our Thoughts

Headset maker Jawbone thinks it has found another nifty use for its electronic earwear. The company is using D: Dive Into Mobile to announce Thoughts, an iPhone app that lets road warriors dictate a quick thought that gets delivered as an audio file to whomever they like. The audio file gets sent to a recipients’ Thoughts app, or via email or a text message link.

Loud-and-Clear Mobile Calls for Seniors

My grandmother, a college graduate and former reference librarian, recently walked out of an electronics store in frustration. She compared the techie conversations that were going on around her with people speaking in a different language. And she isn’t alone.
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No Hands, All Ears for Sound in Cars

Bluetooth headsets, which wirelessly connect an earpiece with a cellphone to allow hands-free cellphone conversations, are especially useful in cars where drivers should be keeping both hands on the wheel.
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Extending Cellphones’ Reach

The $150 Vtech LS5145 Expandable Cordless Phone System synchronizes with your cellphone and redirects incoming cell calls to ring wherever the VTech phones are placed in the house.
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Helio’s New Ocean Has a Clever Design For Phone and Email

Walt Mossberg tests out the new smart phone from Helio. He finds the Ocean has an elegant solution to the common design problem of how to optimize smart phones both for making voice calls and for email and Web surfing.
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Finding the Speakerphone on a Treo

This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about using the speakerphone on a Treo, making a BCC address line appear in email and running the Parallels Desktop on a Mac.