The iPhone isn't the only multimedia mobile on the market. With keyboards, mapping programs, and music players, other smartphones are set to take a bite out of Apple's dominance.
Feeling overloaded by MP3s, JPEGs, and DVDs? Overwhelmed by wires, interfaces, and stacks of CDs? Relax. The right home server can simplify your life; store your movies, music, and photos in one place; and finally introduce your computer to the rest of your living room.
Slim Devices
Squeeze Box $299 (Audio-Only)
This slick-looking box is serious about tunes. [...]
BMW launches a hot pair of asphalt-carving twins. By Bill Heald
Few manufacturers have worked as hard as BMW when it comes to producing new machinery. This latest effort adds a whole new class of bikes to its line, courtesy of a brace of sporting 800s. The F 800 S and its touring partner, the F [...]
Want to create a signature drink? All you need is vodka and a trip down the produce aisle.
By Abigail Aronofsky
Vodka doesn’t have a volatile reputation for nothing. It’s colorless, odorless, and can be made with practically anything from wheat to potatoes to soy and it packs a hefty alcohol content of about 45 percent [...]
Stop harshing your sonic buzz with cheap hearing aids. Here are the latest and greatest headphones for your inner music fan.
Tune in, turn on, and drop out was once an invitation to expand your consciousness through mind-altering drugs. Today it means download tunes, hit the pavement with a portable audio device, and joyfully tune out [...]
The always cuttingedge Honda is going retro. The Shadow Spirit 750 is a stylish V-twin cruiser with a refined, liquid-cooled mill. But instead of state-of-the-art fuel injection, it has a carburetor! While everybody’s doing full disc brakes, the Spirit’s rear brake is a polished drum that looks pirated from a 1970s beater. Instrumentation consists of [...]
Nokia N93i
$NAThe Nokia N93i’s new streamlined design and mirrorlike finish is a massive aesthetic step up from its predecessor, the N93. But the attention to style hasn’t detracted from this device’s status as the best camera phone on the market. It has a 3.2-megapixel camera with a Zeiss lens and image-stabilized video, so your party [...]
The Trophy Phone
LG VX8700 $180/Verizon
If you’re the guy who lays his cell on the table to to jumpstart happy-hour conversation, seek out the LG VX8700. Its brushed-metal body and mirrorlike screen make it a solid runway competitor to the endlessly hyped Motorola KRZR. And similar to the KRZR, this baby is more than just [...]
The Over AchieverMotorizr Z3 $100/T-Mobile
The Motorizr Z3 is the Swiss Army knife of cellphones: Though its individual features are unremarkable, their inclusion in one phone makes the Z3 an exceptionally usefull tool to have in your pocket. This slider model has the protected keypad of a clam shell cell and the slim, lightweight physique of [...]
Thought beer couldn’t get any better? A helping of ice and lime will get you through the dog days. It would seem that messing around with good beer makes about as much sense as slapping a slice of watermelon on your steak. Turns out, tough, that brews like Pacifico, Corona, and Negra Modelo provide the [...]
The Tough GuyCasio G’zOne $100/Verizon
The Nokia N93i’s new streamlined design and mirrorlike finish is a massive aesthetic step up from its predecessor, the N93. But the attention to style hasn’t detracted from this device’s status as the best camera phone on the market. It has a 3.2-megapixel camera with a Zeiss lens and image-stabilized video, [...]
The Pocket-Size DeejaySamsung M620/UpStage $150/Sprint
The Samsung M620/UpStage is a two-faced badass. One side of this water-thin.(0.37 inches thick) candy-bar phone is a standard cell with a small screen and keypad. But flip it over and it’s a sleek, largescreen music and video player with up to two gigabytes of memory and a 1.3-megapixel camera. Thanks [...]
Triumph’s Saturn V blasted onto the scene about two years ago, and this incredibly powerful British steed has now (finally) been graced with a tour package for road trips’ namely, capacious saddlebags and a welldesigned windshield that make rocketing from coast to coast a truly comfortable journey. But while comfort is good, thrust is better, [...]
For those who believe here’s no such thing as too much muscle, the Boss Hoss Super port grafts a 355-horsepower V-8 onto motorcycle chassis and adds appropriate accessories like a heat and fuel tank (with a shape like Pam Anderson’s profile) to create a two-wheeled monster truck. The engine is mated to a two speed [...]