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Reviewed: Motorola's Droid 2 Smartphone

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August 25, 2010
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Reviewed: Motorola's Droid 2 Smartphone The Droid 2 is a big improvement over its predecessor, but if you take a lot of pictures with your smartphone, you might want to opt for another Droid.
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Windows Phone 7: Microsoft Talks Games at Gamescom According to the buzz at Gamescom in Cologne, all the things that Redmond promised way back last February are going to be ready for launch.
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Samsung's Epic 4G: Killer Multimedia Android Phone The standout of the Galaxy S phones, the Epic 4G offers some enticing features like a physical keyboard, front-facing camera and 4G network support.
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Why the 'Smartphone Wars' Seem So Familiar We've seen this movie before: RIM, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are re-enacting the desktop wars of the '80s and '90s.
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AR.Drone IPhone-controlled Quadrocopter Parrot's $299 AR.Drone kicks iPhone-app control up a notch, turning your iOS device into the primary-nay, the only-way to control this four-propeller, flying gadget. We've been testing the AR.Drone and its free companion app, Free Flight. Here's a taste of the geeky fun we've been having.
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Apple, Verizon Still Working Out iPhone Kinks, Says Analyst Kaufman Bros. analyst predicts that Sprint or T-Mobile may get the iPhone instead of, or in addition to, Verizon.
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Five Ways the Apple Patent Will Improve iPhone and iPad Security Paranoid conspiracy theories about disabling jailbroken devices aside, the recent Apple patent application reveals a variety of innovative remote security capabilities that IT admins can put to use for monitoring and protecting iPhones and iPads.
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Third Time's a Charm: iOS 4.1 Will Finally Fix iPhone 4 A message from Steve Jobs iPhone confirms an iOS update is coming soon, and rumors suggest that it will finally fix the proximity sensor issue in the iPhone 4.
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