Mobile devices

Underground Woman’s Review I love my Pebble. Admittedly, I am a watch fanatic. I have a wide variety of watches, ranging from the very basic black Timex to the more stylish Swatch (yes, multiples of those), through to the inherited, classy ladies’ Bulova. I also adore my smartphone. Where I was once entirely disinterested in…

The problem with consumer electronics reviews on monster sites like CNET is that writers never have to pay for their own consumer electronics. Manufacturers provide them for free. Writers test them for a week or two, and then crap out their articles. It’s a perfectly symbiotic relationship. One party needs to evangelize its flashy new…

These days, life on the leading edge of consumer technology is a little like sitting through a student production of Waiting for Godot. The tech press, such as it exists online with its adolescent sense of gravitas, breathlessly anticipates the arrival of a new and highly disruptive widget, preferably from Apple. Instead, it has to…