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Make the Most of a GPS-Enabled Phone

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July 21, 2010
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Location-Based Services: Make the Most of a GPS-Enabled Phone Use location-based apps to simplify your life. You can summon a taxi with Cab4Me, find just what you're craving with Foodspotting, make sure you get the best price with ShopSavvy, and more.
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iPhone 4: Why We've Reconsidered Its Rating Apple's latest version iPhone has many merits, but we've removed it from our chart due to two major flaws.
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Top Bluetooth Headsets The best Bluetooth headsets, such as Jabra's chart-topping Extreme, offer great sound quality and a comfortable fit.
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Apple's iPhone 4 Antenna-gate Timeline Now that Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 4's reception issues (sort of), here's how it all unfolded.
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App: Tinseltown Dreams: The 50's for iPhone Do you dream of producing your own Hollywood movie? And, instead of plunking down cash, playing "match-3" games to fund it? If that's the case, Namco's Tinseltown Dreams for the iPhone is the only way in which your dream can become reality.
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Inside Apple's Once-secret Wireless Lab After Friday morning's Apple press conference about the iPhone 4 and its antenna issues, Apple executives took a small group of journalists (11 all told, including myself) on a tour of the company's wireless-testing facilities.
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Droid X vs. the Droid: Key Differences Emerge Although Motorola's Droid X and Droid smartphones bear similar names, they are very different devices.
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Windows Phone 7 'Preview' Winning Good Reviews The newest release of the Windows Phone 7 software, now on prototype handsets, is getting good reviews.
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Give Your Phone the Power of a Desktop PC Cross-platform apps such as Firefox Portable Edition, OpenOffice.org Portable, and Audacity Portable will give your phone full PC capabilities.
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Syncables 360 Premium Keeps Data Synced on PCs, Macs, and Smartphones Synchronize files and folders among multiple PCs, Macs, and smartphones with the latest Syncables software/service combo?but you do pay a premium for this Premium version.
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Dell Streak: A Smartphone With a Tablet Heart In our first look, an older Android OS, sluggish performance, and some rough edges make the Streak miss its mark.
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Samsung Vibrant: A Standout Multimedia Phone The Samsung Vibrant boasts a gorgeous Super AMOLED display and a bevvy of multimedia features, but some users might be disappointed by the absence of a flash on its camera.
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
The Best Windows 7 DownloadsWe're big fans of Microsoft's latest OS, but we're bigger fans of making Windows better--so we've rounded up the best Windows 7 downloads. They'll let you customize it in any way possible, give it features that Microsoft removed or neglected to include, and more. So get ready to download--you're about to take Windows 7 to a new level.
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