Archive for ‘Mobile Phones’

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Nov23

US Copyright Office Gives Cell Phone Users the Right to Take Their Phone to a New Carrier

by todd on November 23rd, 2006 at 10:35 am
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones

GSM users (e.g., those with service from Cingular or T-Mobile) have been able to get their phones unlocked reasonably easily to let them put a SIM card from a different carrier to change their service. CMDA phone users (e.g., those with service from Sprint PCS or Verizon Wireless) don’t have SIM card that contain their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov08

CNET’s Top 6 Business Phones

by todd on November 8th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC/Phone Edition, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

CNET lists their… Top 6 phones for business users 7.7 – Palm Treo 700p 8.0 – Cingular 8525 8.0 – T-Mobile Dash 6.6 – Nextel i930 by Motorola 7.0 – Sprint PCS PPC-6700 7.3 – Nokia E62 It is interesting that half of this list is based on Windows Mobile (Cingular/Sprint devices are based on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep28

Fossil Bluetooth Watch Talks to Your Phone

by todd on September 28th, 2006 at 6:39 am
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones

The USA Today article Bluetooth watches to show who’s calling reports that Fossil and Sony-Ericsson teamed up to create a Bluetooth watch that displays Caller-ID information on the watch and lets you send the call to voice mail if you don’t want to pick up the phone to answer it. It looks like the watch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep18

Syncing Outlook, Google Calendar/Mail, iPod, & Phone

by todd on September 18th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Posted In: Apple, Apple, iPod, Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones

An anonymous blogger posted his/her(?) solution to sync a multitude of software, services, and devices that don’t normally speak to each other (e.g., Outlook and iPod) in a post titled: The Holy Grail of Synchronization: How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld

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Aug23

MSNBC’s Krakow Calls Nokia e62 “Best Smartphone Ever”

by todd on August 23rd, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones

MSNBC’s Gary Krakow says the new quad-band GSM Nokia e62 is the best smartphone ever. The camera-less phone has a QWERTY thumb keyboard and looks like a Motorola Q or stretched out Blackberry. Krakow strikes me as platform agnostic based on past reviews. So, I’m taking his opinion at face value. I wonder, though, how […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug16

Nokia N Series Phones Have Flickr Applications Built-in

by todd on August 16th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones

According to the Flickr news blog, the new Nokia N Series phones have a Flickr upload application built-in. The Flickr site below provides the details. http://www.flickr.com/nokia/ The apparent difference between using this built-in application and emailing the photo to Flickr is that the application allows photographs to be uploaded at its full resolution. Some phone […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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