Operation Gadget

Category: Mobile Phones

  • End User Awareness of Bluetooth on the Rise According to Survey

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBargainPDA reports that Bluetooth awareness is growing among individuals in the United States. This may be due to the fact that many laptops and PDAs sold in the last year come with Bluetooth on board. According to the Bluetooth SIG who sponsored the study, awareness of Bluetooth reached 42 percent in…

  • Treo 650 User Experience on Verizon Discussed on Gadgeteer

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA couple of days ago, Julie Strietelmeier of Gadgeteer wrote a piece called The Treo 650 (Can a Smart Phone Become My Main Brain?). The most interesting part of the article is that she discusses using a Treo 650 on Verizon Wireless, where that handset is officially unsupported at the moment. The…

  • Roaming Messenger to Support IM with GPS Functions

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGeekzone reports that a service called Roaming Messenger will incorporate GPS-awareness with instant messaging using the RIM Blackberry 7520. The service is designed for first responders, corporations, and utilities that want to leverage text messaging services in addition to or in lieu of voice. Roaming Messenger claims to provide these capabilities…

  • T-Mobile Sale at Amazon.com Means Sidekick II is Available at the “Lowest Price Ever”

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA little while ago, I saw the following message on the Amazon.com home page: Lowest Price Ever on Sidekick II Get incredible deals on T-Mobile phones and the lowest price ever after rebate on the Sidekick II! The extremely versatile Sidekick II features a built-in camera with flash, full QWERTY keyboard…

  • Have the Security Issues with Sidekick II Helped T-Mobile?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of days ago, Holly Sanders reported in The New York Post that T-Mobile stores in the New York area are selling out of Sidekick II’s in the aftermath of reports of the release of Paris Hilton’s personal information that had been stored on her handheld. Most people writing about…

  • T-Mobile Patches Vulnerabilities in My.T-Mobile.Com

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week I reported that the My.T-Mobile.com Website still had some potentially dangerous vulnerabilities. I concluded this because I was able to repeat some of the HTML and JavaScript modifications to the My.T-Mobile.com login screen illustrated in the article Secret Service Hacker, How Did He Do It? that was published on…

  • T-Mobile Offers Security Tips to Customers, But Doesn’t Remove Automatic Login from Voice Mail

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteT-Mobile released a set of security tips for its customers on Saturday. T-Mobile is suggesting that customers change their passwords every 60 days, but has so far decided to let individual customers decide whether a password should be required to access their voice mail. Here’s what T-Mobile says about voice mail…

  • What’s at Stake as a Result of Recent Mobile Phone Network Security Issues

    Reading Time: 3 minutesA friend of mine at T-Mobile USA got in touch with me yesterday about the recent disclosure of Voice Mail access and Sidekick II personal information disclosure issues that have made news this week. He initially contacted me in a “Yo, why are you all over us like this?” kind of way,…

  • Treo 650 Launched in Europe on Orange and TIM Networks

    Reading Time: < 1 minutepalmOne announced the early-March availability of the Treo 650 in the UK, France, Switzerland, and Italy today. The carriers that will be supporting it initially are Orange and TIM. One interesting aspect of this announcement is the fact that the Treo 650 is part of Orange’s Signature line of phones. Phones…