Orange's various SPVs have been getting better all the time in terms of hardware and features, but the lack of memory, less-than-great battery life and somewhat clunky hardware have not really drawn us. We liked Orange's ...

Motorola's first MPx was quite exciting in that the company came up with the first Windows Mobile smartphone with a clamshell design. Now the MPx220 is on the scene we have a second clamshell - nobody ...

Some phones from Nokia seem to happen to have digital cameras built in. The cameras get mentioned among a barrage of other features. Not so the 7610, whose camera is its key selling point. You can ...

Dell's early Axims (the X5 series) set the PDA world abuzz because of their low cost, but they were large beasts. A hardware revamp came along for the next round of devices (the X3 series), so ...

The Sendo X has been a long time coming. Announced last November, we've finally got our hands on one of the first samples to hit the UK. What we see isn't necessarily quite what you will ...

Some companies will do anything to get noticed and Nokia is well known for thinking outside the box when it comes to mobile phone design. The company can do the standard 'candy bar' thing par excellence, ...

Thinner and lighter than the rest. These are terms many PDA manufacturers like to assign to their devices, and sometimes they can be misleading. But in the case of the Pocket LOOX 420 they are spot-on. ...

Sony's recently-announced decision to pull out of the PDA market in Europe and the US came as something of a surprise to many PDA users. The company has been a strong partner for PalmSource, and has ...

PalmOne now has two distinct PDA ranges: the Tungstens, aimed primarily at the business user: and the Zires, which are targeted more at consumers. At the top end of the Zire range sits this new Zire ...

Back in the mists of time, this reviewer once worked for a publishing house that regularly dropped laptop computers from a height of one metre onto a hard floor. Almost invariably, they broke. After a while, ...

Mitac is carving out a name for itself as a maker of Pocket PCs. The company's latest Pocket PC does something quite unique - it is the first such PDA with a built-in GPS receiver. Mitac ...

The generally accepted route to obtaining a PDA is to look through lists of the devices available from particular suppliers and make your choice. In doing this you are working with officially imported devices. However the ...

AlphaSmart's Dana Wireless is an interesting beast. It's effectively a large PDA, weighing 910g, with an almost full-sized keyboard; all the main keys are normal size, while function keys and cursor keys are a little smaller. ...

What do you want from a PDA, and what do you want from a phone? From the former, maybe a big screen, plenty of software, good on-board applications for managing your diary and contacts and maybe ...

Hewlett Packard's new Pocket PC-based iPAQ h4150 seems at first glance to have the features to make it a winner, combining small overall size with built-in Bluetooth and wi-fi. The size (70.6 x 13.5 x 113.6mm) ...

Toshiba has a long and fairly distinguished history when it comes to Pocket PC. It has also for some time produced hardware that is available in a number of wireless configurations. Both characteristics continue with the ...

If you fancy a Symbian Series 60 phone, the number of handset makers you can choose between has just doubled, with Siemens' SX1 finally becoming available to buy almost a year after it was first announced. ...

It is not easy to produce a device that functions well as both a phone and a PDA. Many have tried, but few have come as close to success as Handspring has done with the Treo ...

Sony seems to pump out Palm-based PDAs as if its factory is about to be taken away by some off-world daemon and its contents vapourised. Hardly a month goes by without a new device appearing; recently ...

Nobody can accuse Palm of dragging its heels when it comes to upgrading its PDAs, and this is especially true of the Tungsten range. The T2 was only just beginning to feel comfortable in our hands, ...