Category: Mobile Phones
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Twin Treo 650 Purchase Moves Ahead
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy wife and I went ahead and bought two Treo 650s yesterday. I thought a few things about the purchase process were pretty interesting: This was our first purchase of mobile phones from Amazon.com. As such, we experienced a completely self-service purchase process, including filling out credit applications. There was lots of…
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His and Hers Treo 650s?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy wife and I are about ready to make the plunge into a new mobile phone era by each purchasing Treo 650s. To give you a little background on our gadget habits, Kathleen and I are Blackberry users from the Mobitex era. We each had separate TDMA mobile phones at one…
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Siemens Demonstrates Runster, Prototype Mobile Music Application for Exercise
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGizmodo reports that Siemens demonstrated an application called Runster that varies the tempo of music played on a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone based on how quickly the user moves. The idea is to allow the user to listen to songs that are appropriate to the intensity of his or her exercise. The…
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Driver Dies in Alabama While Composing a Text Message on His Mobile Phone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Montgomery Advertiser reports that a 26-year old pickup truck driver from Tennessee was ejected from his vehicle while composing a text message. The accident occurred on Interstate 65 outside of Athens, Alabama. Investigators said that the driver lost control of his truck, which overturned on its way down an embankment.…
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Users Hack Together a Questionable ROM Patch for the H-P iPAQ h6315
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m testing a Hewlett-Packard iPAQ h6315 with service from T-Mobile USA. Overall, I’ve had a very good experience, but I have run into a glitch or two. One problems I’ve seen is that the mobile phone component of the iPAQ will occasionally disconnect itself from the mobile phone network when it…
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Sprint May Issue Update for Treo 650 Next Week
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreoCentral reported that unnamed sources expect Sprint PCS to issue a software update for the Treo 650 next week. The features expected to be included are: fixes for voice breakup and muting problems, patches previously issued for Bluetooth devices like car kits, improvement of non-volatile memory management, improvements to VersaMail. This…
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More Danger / Sidekick II Outage Information
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn his continuing quest for information about the Danger / Sidekick II Server Outage, Martin O’Donnell pointed out the following threads from Hiptop.com: Acknowledgement of the outage, posted this afternoon. One user reported that the system was promised to be back up by 9:00am today, but that didn’t happen. There’s lots…
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Some Sidekick II Users Lose Connection with the Back End at Danger, Inc.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell has a Sidekick II and just sent me the following email: I haven’t received any new email on my Sidekick since 3/5, I just got a text from TMO today [ that was dated ] 3/8 at 11:04: “We apologize for the service interruption. Voice calls and text messages…
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Headsets are Another Reason Bluetooth is Coming into Its Own
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLevi Wallach of Twelve Black Code Monkeys made a good point in a comment he posted to End User Awareness of Bluetooth on the Rise According to Survey. Levi said: I would have to agree with you. I recently went out with some friends for dinner who are not techie at…