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iPhone has half the failure rate of BlackBerry

Crave Palm's Treos fared even worse, with 16.2 per cent having some sort of malfunction in the first 12 months of use. Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by a mobile phone warranty...

11 November 2008, 9:13

Photos: Hands-on with the Motorola International 7500

Crave As you can see, the 7500 fits very snugly in the palm of your hand. It wasn't so very long ago that mobile phones were the size and shape of a fridge. Luckily we're now living in a world where you can get a phone in your pocket with minimal fuss.

6 November 2008, 11:24

Imovio iKit: Is this the Foleo's baby cousin?

Crave UMPCs were heralded as the next big thing but never took off, then Palm tried to convince us that all we needed was a laptop that wasn't a laptop, in the form of the disastrous Foleo. For a while the future of mobile computing was very much up in...

Tags: laptop, wi fi, opera mini, air

20 October 2008, 11:05

Hands-on with the Samsung VP-MX20: Credit crunch camcorder

Crave The camcorder is certainly small, nestling in the palm of the hand like a can of Coke, or rather, generic discount cola. In these troubled times, we all need to tighten our belts. Accordingly, the Samsung VP-MX20 takes a number of measures to be a...

Tags: samsung, lens, hand, shooting

15 October 2008, 12:12

Photos: Palm Treo Pro gets Crave-handled

Crave Good things come to those who wait -- and no one has waited longer for a super phone than Palm users. While other manufacturers, such as HTC and RIM, have steamed ahead with all-in-one smart phones that offered almost everything you could need in...

8 September 2008, 11:49

Budget HD: Hands-on with the Aiptek AHD Z500 Plus

Crave The record button is slightly too low, so you have to hold it with your first two fingers rather than nestling it in your palm. It's easy to be sceptical about budget camcorders. But the lines are blurring between compact cameras, camera phones and...

Tags: aiptek, shooting, budget, camcorders

20 June 2008, 11:02

Toshiba Quad Core HD Processor: Qosmio X300, F50 and G50

Crave Put a palm in the air and it'll pause and resume video. Back in January, we intrepidly voyaged to Las Vegas, to check out casinos Toshiba's Spurs Engine -- laptop technology that could turn standard-def video into hi-def in real time.

18 June 2008, 9:35

Stick or twist 3G: Should I upgrade my iPhone?

Crave You're also left with a spare handset, which O2 charitably suggests you can palm off on a family member or friend. So it's finally here: the fabled 3G iPhone arrives on 11 July. Anyone who's been waiting to buy will have a pretty straightforward...

Tags: apple, upgrade, iphone, edge

12 June 2008, 10:34

Slingbox on 3G iPhone: Jumping the gun

Crave Sling already makes the SlingPlayer Mobile available on Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Symbian phones, with RIM's BlackBerry on the way. Sling Media has plans to connect your Slingbox to Apple's 3G iPhone.

Tags: stream, windows mobile, developers, iphone

9 June 2008, 12:55

Hands-on with the Olympus E-420: Pancake day

Crave One-handed operation is no bother at all, and at 130 by 91 by 53mm, it practically nestles in the palm. The Olympus E-410 was our Editors' Choice of cameras last year, and the E-510 was our travelling companion around CES earlier this year.

Tags: olympus, lens, glass, focal

2 May 2008, 10:15

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4: Top zooming

Crave It's palm-sized, sure, but nearly 35mm at the thickest point. The first thing we thought about the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4 was that it's huge. In today's size zero compact camera world, that's the sort of girth that could earn the TZ4 a trip to fat...

29 April 2008, 10:16

Archos announces GPS, Flash 9, Paramount movie downloads

Crave Safe to say you'll be able to check out Car Tech every week right from the palm of your hand. Last week Archos announced some interesting new additions to its product line, most notably the GPS add-on to the flagship 605 WiFi, which lets you use...

Tags: archos, hand, deal, gps

28 April 2008, 10:13

Hands-on with the Panasonic SDR-S7: A small gift

Crave But even with our big hands it fits snugly into the palm, and includes a second record button should you wish to grip it thumb-forward than thumb at the back. Christmas 1989. This Craver had been good all year, and all we wanted was Batman for the...

16 April 2008, 11:10

Garmin Mobile 10: Direct sat-nav to your smart phone

Crave Only yesterday we were complaining that the Palm Centro didn't have enough oomph for our liking when -- whadda ya know? Garmin Mobile 10 costs around £100 and is designed for smart phones that don't have GPS built in, such as the Palm Centro or...

Tags: garmin, phones, gps, receiver

12 March 2008, 11:29

Palm Centro: Hands-on with the mini Treo 500

Crave Last week Palm launched the Palm Centro in the UK and you'll have to forgive us for mistaking it for the Treo 500 when we first saw it online. Palm tried in vain to convince us that this is aimed at the youth market, which in all fairness has...

Tags: palm, palm os, treo, centro

11 March 2008, 10:33